Saving the Honey Bee: Inside the OSU Honey Bee Lab
If you’ve seen honey bees in the news recently, it probably wasn’t good news. Terms like “honey bee decline” and “colony collapse disorder” have made global headlines. These terms describe…
A New Normal
Research, teaching and outreach continues during the COVID-19 crisis When Oregon State University closed its buildings statewide in mid-March to help limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Dave Stone…
Sharing Expertise: A Glance at COVID-19 Resources
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit Oregon, faculty in the College of Agricultural Sciences responded by creating trusted resources for the public. Victory for Gardening For decades, the Oregon State University…
O Christmas tree, how lovely is thy research
OSU expert helps keep Oregon No. 1 in the nation for holiday evergreens There are no picture-perfect Christmas trees at Oregon State University’s North Willamette Research and Extension Center. That’s…
Industry Insight: Oregon Potatoes
Video Playtime: 2 minutes. Greg Harris earned his Bachelor of Science in Crop & Soil Science from OSU’s program at Eastern Oregon University in 1997. He later joined Threemile Canyon…
Keeping it Green, Naturally
Oregon State University’s turfgrass program is a national leader in researching alternatives to chemically treating golf courses for disease. Forty years after the release of the classic golf comedy Caddyshack,…
Launching a New Frontier: The Global Hemp Innovation Center
The economic and scientific opportunities with a material that has been illegal for the past 80+ years is nearly immeasurable. “Why ‘Global’?” That’s one of the first questions Dr. Jay…
Bringing Hazelnuts Back From the Brink: Chapter 3
Working with germplasm from around the world, OSU breeder Shawn Mehlenbacher turns disaster into opportunity for Oregon’s now-thriving hazelnut industry. Late each fall, Shawn Mehlenbacher plants hazelnut trees at the…
Bringing Hazelnuts Back From the Brink: Chapter 2
Oregon hazelnut growers begin to benefit from the blight-resistant trees bred by OSU’s Shawn Mehlenbacher. In the field, in the lab, or travelling the world, Shawn Mehlenbacher concentrates on a…
Bringing Hazelnuts Back From the Brink: Chapter 1
Shawn Mehlenbacher arrives at OSU to find the Oregon hazelnut industry defenseless against eastern filbert blight. In the fall of 1986, plant breeder Shawn Mehlenbacher arrived at Oregon State University….