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Health and Biotechnology

Human cells' remodeling abilities may be key to how cancer spreads

Human cells have tremendous power to mechanically change their surroundings, opening the door to new insights including how cancer spreads.

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Climate and Oceans

Battling climate change: Ecologist and a network of volunteers monitor ocean pH levels

Ecologist Francis Chan has been monitoring pH levels off the Oregon coast, whose waters are world hotspot for ocean acidification.

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Events

Gilfillan Lecture: Catalyzing the transformation of science learning

Physics Professor Corinne Manogue will present the College of Science 2018 F.A. Gilfillan Memorial Lecture on April 5.

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Biochemistry & Biophysics

Biophysicist solves molecular motor mystery

Biophysicists discover a motor protein that expands understanding of the evolution and design principle of motor proteins.

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Mathematics

Mathematician explains how populations handle random disturbances

Mathematicians predict population dynamics for species after multiple disturbance events caused by global climate change.

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Events

Distinguished biochemist speaks on diversity in science and academia

Distinguished Caltech biochemist Bil Clemons visits campus to present a research seminar and lead an open discussion on diversity in science and academia.

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Health and Biotechnology

Dirt-dwelling microbe produces potential anti-melanoma weapon

A type of soil-dwelling bacterium produces molecules that induce death in melanoma cells, according to research by chemist Sandra Loesgen.

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Faculty and Staff

Oregon State statisticians in Hyderabad, India

Statisticians from Oregon State University are in Hyderabad, India for the 2017 International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Conference.

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Research

The significance of OSU's sea-, space-, sun- and land-grant designations

Oregon State University is one of only two universities in the country with Land-, Sea-, Space- and Sun-Grant designations.

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Research

150 years of science for sea and space

Science at Oregon State University has been a trailblazer since OSU's designation as a land-grant college in 1868.

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Alumni and Friends

Physics alumnus involved in historic astrophysics discoveries

Physics alumnus Shane Larson is part of the LIGO team behind the revolutionary astronomy discovery of the merger of two neutron stars.

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Faculty and Staff

Scientist elected AAAS Fellow for distinguished contributions to coastal ecology

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced Sally D. Hacker, professor of integrative biology, as a 2017 Fellow last week.