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Data, AI and Robotics

Data Science

Data science is a key area of growth because it is highly relevant, we have an obligation, we have key strengths and there is opportunity.

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Physics

Better than honey?

Oksana Ostroverkhova is developing a formula with blue dyes to stimulate the blue photoreceptor in bees, attracting them to fertile clover fields during pollination.

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Faculty and Staff

A Day in the Life

May Nyman, chemistry professor and mother of three, juggles teaching, research and service that extend widely beyond 40 hours a week.

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Faculty and Staff

Faculty Highlight: Afua Nyarko

Growing up in a “curiosity-driven environment," Afua Nyarko excelled in science and mathematics enough to study biochemistry at one of Ghana’s top science universities.

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Faculty and Staff

Chemistry professor elected 2015 AAAS Fellow

Chemistry professor Walter Loveland has been elected a 2015 Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.

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News

Get out of the lab: OMSI Science Communication Fellowships

OSU will host a cohort of OMSI Science Communication Fellowship program in the spring of 2016.

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News

NSF administrator presents: A Dialogue on Graduate Education

Dean Evasius, NSF Division Director of Graduate Education, will present, “A Dialogue on Graduate Education at the National Science Foundation” October 20.

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News

OSU awarded Phi Beta Kappa chapter

Oregon State University has been awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation's oldest scholastic honorary, founded in 1776.

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Faculty and Staff

Physics professor named APS Fellow

Janet Tate, Dr. Russ and Dolores Gorman Faculty Scholar and physics professor, has been elected an American Physical Society Fellow.

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Chemistry

Materials chemist awarded nearly $800K in NSF grants

Chemistry professor Mas Subramanian and his team will embark on highly significant scientific research and discovery after receiving two prestigious NSF grants totalling nearly $800K.

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Biochemistry & Biophysics

Genetic coding research receives $1.83 million in federal funding

Ryan Mehl has received two NSF and NIH grants to explore using genetic code expansion to change how we can use and study proteins.

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Biochemistry & Biophysics

BB fall picnic connects new students and faculty

The Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics welcomed ushered in fall term with a department picnic last week, attracting more than 100 faculty and students.