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Cascadia Roulette « Terra Magazine
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A world of research at Oregon State University. The odds are good that a major earthquake will strike the Pacific Northwest in the near future. We're overdue, says Robert Yeats. Posted on January 25th, 2011. Bob Yeats would like you to know he cannot predict earthquakes. He is not prophetic. He claims no association with the supernatural. He can’t tell you when disaster will strike. Robert Yeats has led public workshops in earthquake-prone areas around the world. Yeats has crafted a good portion of his c...
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OSU Stories | Tera Stegner: Serving with purpose
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Features and highlights from across Beaver Nation. August 1st, 2014. Tera Stegner: Serving with purpose. Tera Stegner has a heart for the elderly in Corvallis, the college town she’s come to know and love since transferring to Oregon State her junior year to study gerontology, part of the Human Development and Family Sciences program in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences. Grace Center is a day-facility for elderly and/or disabled adults who live at home, with family, or in an adult foster ho...
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OSU Stories | corvallis
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Features and highlights from across Beaver Nation. Distinguished professor: Burnett breaks barriers, helps students overcome them. Distinguished professor: Clark raises awareness of climate change impacts. Randhawa makes lasting impact at Oregon State. Subscribe to RSS Feed.
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OSU Stories | Mohamed Shaker: The importance of history
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Features and highlights from across Beaver Nation. June 9th, 2015. Mohamed Shaker: The importance of history. Mohamed Shaker is both an international student and an Oregonian. Between being born in Singapore and graduating from high school in the United Arab Emirates, he attended elementary and middle school in Beaverton. He says coming back to Oregon to pursue higher education was not a difficult decision. The 20th century Middle East is something I’ve always been interested in, he says. His supervisor ...
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OSU Stories | Taking Initiative
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Features and highlights from across Beaver Nation. May 19th, 2015. Corvallis native Claire McMorris pursues a leadership path. When Claire McMorris lists everything she’s involved in on the Oregon State campus, it’s hard to believe she’s just a sophomore. I’ve been really lucky, she says with a bright smile. But then she backtracks. I think a lot of it is that I take the initiative to find the opportunities. McMorris has. She interned for state Sen. Sara Gelser’s campaign last summer, where she s...Despi...
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OSU Stories | Understanding ALS
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Features and highlights from across Beaver Nation. August 29th, 2014. Says he’s not opposed to the idea of dumping a bucket of ice water on his head to support the ALS Association. In fact, the University Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics puts himself through a similar experience every time he goes whitewater rafting, a favorite hobby outside the lab and classroom. He is glad the viral ice bucket challenge is raising awareness about ALS to the general public. I always tell those peop...
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An Evolutionary Tale « Terra Magazine
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A world of research at Oregon State University. Stress leads to genetic changes in laboratory worms. Posted on June 11th, 2013. A tiny worm is wiggling its way toward our understanding of evolution and the genetics of aging. We know that mutations in DNA enable organisms to evolve. But how? Jeremy Northway, an undergraduate in the Oregon State University Honors College, is intent on using this worm, known as C. elegans. To find answers. Few animals are as tough or as unassuming. Specimens of. All Honors ...
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OSU Stories | Carpooling fosters community
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Features and highlights from across Beaver Nation. July 14th, 2015. Sleepy eyes watch telephone wires dip and fall along Interstate 5 southbound. As the sun rises through the fog, the minivan passes evergreen trees, homes and farms. It’s just another Wednesday, and four early-rising souls have set out on their way from a Park and Ride lot in Tigard toward the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis. The carpoolers sip coffee and green smoothies while they chat about the evening before and the day ahe...
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OSU Stories | OSU en Español
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Features and highlights from across Beaver Nation. La participación es el tema de la experiencia de Esmeralda Flores en la Universidad del Estado de Oregón. Sin el programa CAMP, no lo podría […]. Zandro Lerma: hacer cambios positivos. Los ojos de Zandro Lerma se iluminan cuando habla de su Cadillac Coupe de Ville 1967. Algún día lo pintará de negro, dejará el interior […]. Joyce Madriz apenas puede recordar un momento de su vida en el que no quisiera ser bióloga marina. Bienvenido a la familia. Joseph O...
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OSU Stories | Dawn Phillips: Nourishing health
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Features and highlights from across Beaver Nation. June 4th, 2015. Dawn Phillips: Nourishing health. Dawn Phillips struggled academically before transferring to Oregon State University. She knew the program she’d chosen Nutrition and Dietetics in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences would be difficult, but she was not deterred. I didn’t want to study something easy, Phillips says. I wanted to do something that I could wake up to every day and love. Phillips worked full-time service jobs for a ...
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