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Just how much attention your surgeon pays to tasks in the operating room can be affected by a number of distractions, recent research suggests.

Kendo Club members Karen Zhen and Brian Cox assume the "sonkyo" position, or crouch position, as they focus and ready themselves for a sparring match.

The Brew Station, located on Monroe Avenue, will close because of differences between the tenants and landlord of the property.

Most students at Oregon State University have probably never been to a factory farm, so peta2 - PETA's youth division - is bringing factory farms to them.

Despite the typically gloomy Oregon spring rain, bicycle enthusiasts gathered in the Memorial Union quad on Thursday for a day of riding challenges and activities held by the Oregon State University Student Sustainability Initiative.

I now see that the old dishonest game is well afoot: Biotech types and media pretending that human cloning isn't really human cloning unless a baby is born.

An expanded Oregon State University-Cascades Campus would need between 41 and 65 acres by 2025, depending on whether officials choose to build an urban campus integrated into the city or one more self-contained, consultants said Wednesday.

The Oregon State University Student Sustainability Initiative will host their annual Bicycle Extravaganza fair on Thursday.

US researchers have reported a breakthrough in stem cell research, describing how they have turned human skin cells into embryonic stem cells for the first time.

Active Minds will be displaying their annual Daisy Project in the MU Courtyard. The project set up today is a silent display that represents the 1,100 lives lost to suicide each year on college campuses.

Oregon State University found out Wednesday night which chef's cuisine reigned supreme.

Portland's Widmer Brothers Brewing is partnering with a Corvallis startup company, Water2Watergy, that is working on a fuel cell that could simultaneously clean the brewery's wastewater, reduce the amount of water it sends to the city sewage treatment plant and generate renewable energy.

What is the function of the criminal justice system? Should rehabilitation or retribution be the goal? Are there viable alternatives to incarceration? These are just a few of the questions that may be sparked by Walidah Imarisha's "Beyond Bars: Re-envisioning the Prison System" discussion coming to the Flora Room of the Estacada Public Library at 7 ... (more)

Oregon State University will host the Healthy Masculinity Conference - which will be devoted to discussing masculinity in a broad sense - from May 16-17 in the Memorial Union.

Covenant theology is the narrative framework through which people of particular faiths follow the covenant relationship with God, a covenant relationship being the relationship between followers of a faith and their god.

The Associated Students of Oregon State University senate passed three bills during a long meeting Tuesday night.

New, what appear to be, minor advancements in the fields of computer hardware are happening all the time.

The former Forest Grove High School prom queen worked construction crew for Viking House, and once lobbied the school's administration to switch to a more challenging math class.

Vitamin E has had a checkered career. Once a darling of natural health enthusiasts, vitamin E fell out of favor when some studies found that it was ineffective for heart health , and worse, that it might actually increase the risk of death from all causes.

The 10th annual Michi-consin Bird and Nature Watch sponsored by Crystal Waters Resort and Lee LeBlanc Audubon Club will be held on Saturday, May 18, at 7 a.m. Beth Tiller, former president of the Audubon Club and ornithologist, will lead the bird watch through Bewabic State Park, a migratory hot spot.