Oregon State University News

A team of scientists many from Oregon and with connections to the Oregon coast have made a discovery that uses radiometric krypton to successfully date ice from the Antarctic which will then allow more insight into the various ice ages of the Earth.

The Southern Oregon University United Nations Club will host speaker Ray Seidler, a retired Oregon State University professor and former biosafety research scientist with the Environmental Protection Agency, at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27, at the SOU Stevenson Union Rogue River Room, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd. Seidler and local farmers will speak about the ... (more)

The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services will present a three-day virtual preconference designed to inform and inspire attendees to "just say yes" to developing or expanding scholarly communication programs on their own campuses and to identify content recruitment opportunities for library-supported publishing and ... (more)

On April 18th, the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls celebrated the completion of two major renewable energy projects, making it the first university in North America to generate all of its own electricity and heat on campus.

The team taking ice cores on Taylor Glacier in Antarctica. A new dating method may allow scientists to date air bubbles in ice samples back to 1.5 million years.

Rockwood is both the poorest and most culturally rich neighborhood in Gresham. For those reasons, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon and partners are working on a project that helps people in Rockwood learn to grow their own vegetables and prepare nutritious and inexpensive meals for their families.

Radioactive krypton could help researchers track down the world's oldest ice, filling a crucial gap in Earth's climate history.

Warren Washington is an internationally recognized expert on atmospheric science and climate research.

For your information: MNT accounts were not affected by the recent Heartbleed bug, as we were not running a vulnerable version of OpenSSL.

It's official, sort of, Oregon State University scientists believe the mites found at McKay Elementary have the potential to bite humans, but the results are not conclusive.

Christine D'Arcy's abrupt and controversial firing from the Oregon Arts Commission last fall prompted five of nine commissioners to resign.

Liz Dent has been named chief of the Oregon Department of Forestry's State Forests Division.

Guns on university campuses have become a hot debate in Oregon and around the country.

Handling frozen fish caused nearly half of all injuries aboard commercial freezer-trawlers and about a quarter of the injuries on freezer-longliner vessels operating off the coast of Alaska, new research from Oregon State University shows.

The bride-to-be is a graduate student at Oregon State University. Her fiance is a medical student at the University of Arkansas.

Curtis Tigard is older than four of the stars on the American flag. New Mexico and Arizona weren't states yet when he was born in 1909.

Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer on Earth thanks to its use in plant life.

President of a fraternity, perhaps, or the school debate club, but rare is the teenager who wishes to take on the responsibilities of a neighborhood association president.

A new project at Oregon State University is aiming to create a definitive historical archive of craft beer's history and impact in Oregon.

A new project at Oregon State University is aiming to create a definitive historical archive of craft beer's history and impact in Oregon.