IMPACT

Physicist Oksana Ostroverkhova discovers a semi-conducting material in organic pigment secreted by wood-eating fungi.

Physicist's discovery on light and pollination can have an impact on the $15 billion bee economy.

The NSF Research Traineeship project on “Risk and Uncertainty Quantification in Marine Science” at OSU is preparing a new generation of natural resource scientists.

Astrophysicist Davide Lazzati and team have confirmed that last fall’s union of two neutron stars caused a short gamma-ray burst.

Biohealth Sciences major Sydney Phu selected for a prestigious bioethics summer internship at the Mayo Clinic.

Biologist suggests an ecological approach to improve human health, comparing a person to an ecosystem in which fighting chronic disease requires bolstering gut microbes.

The blood of schizophrenia patients features genetic material from more types of microorganisms than that of people without the debilitating mental illness.

Mathematician employs statistical models to address uncertainties in climate science.

Biochemist David Hendrix and a team of OSU researchers developed a computer program that illuminates the connections between mutant genetic material and disease.

Mathematician Juan Restrepo was named a 2018 Fellow for the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his mathematical and computational modeling of the ocean.

Professor of Mathematics Malgorzata Peszynska is elected President of the Pacific Northwest Section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Honors biochemistry/biophysics student Delaney Smith receives the 2018 Goldwater scholarship. She is the only Goldwater Scholar from an Oregon institution this year.