OSU Collections: Largest Wildlife Specimens
We spent an afternoon capturing footage of the most impressive specimens in our collection. (Behind-the-scenes video above.) More than 250,000 fish are preserved in the basement of Nash Hall at…
Depth of Field: A Set-and-Forget Water Sampler
The OPEnSampler, created by OSU’s Openly Published Environmental Lab, autonomously collects and stores research-grade samples of water or wastewater in the field. 24 airtight containers have valves that seal as…
Research, Readers and Reinvention
A look at what surveying our readers taught us about Oregon’s Agricultural Progress. Oregon’s Agricultural Progress (OAP) has a 66-year legacy of award-winning reporting on the research taking place in…
Treat your Christmas tree to vodka? Only if you want to waste it.
As we take a seasonal look at the holiday tradition of Christmas trees and OSU’s history of supporting Oregon’s Christmas tree industry, we thought we might share a few snapshots…
Collected Curiosities
In the spirit of the Halloween season, Peter Konstantinidis, curator of vertebrate collections at Oregon State University, takes us on a tour of deep-sea fish—and a few scare-inducing mammals and other…
Oregon’s Land-Grant Legacy Timeline
In 1862, at the height of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln signed the law that created the nation’s first land-grant colleges. This is the story of Oregon’s land-grant university and…
In Search of the Granted Land
In preparing for the 150th anniversary of Oregon’s land grant university, we found ourselves wondering: where’s the land that was granted? Like many people, we’d assumed that the land that…
Underground Mystery
Are cemeteries polluting soil and water? Cynthia Beal walks through a shower of sunlight streaming through the branches of Doug-firs at Rest Lawn Memorial Park. Next to her, leaning against…
The Legacy of the Land Grant
A historic shift in education and engagement continues to serve our communities. Imagine a country where enemy combatants terrorize citizens at home and at work; where civil hostilities tear apart families;…