Island Food Safety: Wheels Up & Down in American Samoa
by Dave Stone, Associate Dean of International Programs In November, I had the opportunity to travel to American Samoa for the first time. This overlooked island is an unincorporated territory…
The Evolution of Discovery
How the engine of research spurs the endless pursuit of understanding By Heidi Happonen Sometimes scientific research can feel like laundry. It’s never really done. The goalpost is always moving…
OUR GLOBAL REACH
Expanding experiential learning from the classroom to the world By Heidi Happonen Every summer, students in the College of Agricultural Sciences have the unique opportunity to explore the world with…
Uncharted Waters
SHARK RESEARCH IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST By Ben Davis Doctoral student Jessica Schulte checks the bait cooler. Fist-sized chunks of salmon are halfway thawed, and hungry sharks await below. The…
Exploring the Hidden World: Benthic Animal Research in Agricultural Channels of Oregon
By Ben Davis Rahiza De Thomas puts on fishing waders and climbs down into the water—an agricultural channel, only a foot deep and a few feet wide—that cuts between a…
Actionable Research with Meaningful Impact/Investigación aplicada con impacto significativo
The following story is available in both English and Spanish using the drop down icons below. The goal is to facilitate the diffusion of this collaborative work to those communities…
LEAVING LEGACIES ACROSS OREGON
The Oregon landscape is a quiltwork of crop fields and orchards, lush forests and high deserts, jagged mountain peaks and deep river valleys. Land that has been farmed, built upon,…
Learning While Serving in Puerto Rico
By Elizabeth Lopez, Botany & Plant Pathology major, Class of 2024 Gio Soto is an undergraduate student in Crop and Soil science who participated in a recent service-learning trip to…
Oregon State Researcher Leads International Effort to Protect Basking Sharks in Ireland
By Heidi Happonen, Photos courtesy of Dr. Alexandra G. McInturf Dr. Alexandra (Alex) G. McInturf is a postdoctoral fellow with the Big Fish Lab at the Hatfield Marine Science Center…
Charting a sustainable future
A journey across the college to reveal our embedded sustainability By Heidi Happonen According to the Oregon state legislature, in defining the Oregon Sustainability Act of 2001, sustainability is defined…