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Events

Hooking rural students' interest in STEM with a fish!

Clad in beaver-orange tees, 55 high-schoolers from rural Oregon attended a two-day sleepover camp this summer to tour campus, learn about financial aid options, imagine college life—and dissect a salmon.

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Students

Prestigious awards and research internships for math and physics students

Mathematics and physics undergraduate students win awards, participate in research internships in top national labs.

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Faculty and Staff

Welcoming a new dean of science

The College of Science welcomes its new dean Roy Haggerty, who recently served as Associate Vice President for Research at OSU.

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Integrative Biology

Ancient flowers discovered from 100-million-year-old tree

T-Rex bulling its way through a forest likely dislodged flowers 100 million years ago. Today those fossilized flowers have revealed a new species of tree.

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Microbiology

Cooperate or cheat? For bacteria, depends on available food

Microbes that produce important secretions can suffer a blow to their own fitness for supplying non-producing “cheater” bacteria when certain nutrients are limited.

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Integrative Biology

Size matters, and so do temperature and habitat, to scavengers and the carcasses they eat

Carrion, the decaying flesh of dead animals, is a key nutrient for vertebrates worldwide but little is known about how the interplay works. Until now.

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Physics

OMSI recruits fall cohort in earth and space science

The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry is recruiting its fall 2017 cohort of Science Communication Fellows targeting faculty and student researchers in Earth and/or Space Science.

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Events

Share your research: Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium

The 2017 Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium invites all undergraduates to show off their research in lightning talks and poster sessions on September 14.

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Events

As the sky darkens, science will shine during Total Eclipse at OSU

The OSU150 Space Grant Festival: A Total Eclipse Experience will draw tens of thousands to Corvallis for the epic solar eclipse on August 21.

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Statistics

Statistics researchers at JSM 2017

Statistics faculty and students participate in the Joint Statistical Meetings 2017 in Baltimore, July 29-August 3.

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Students

A summer of mathematical research

Ten students from institutions across the country have gathered for the prestigious Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program in Mathematics.

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Statistics

Students experience a summer of state-of-the-art data science research

Two new Research Experiences for Undergraduates in the field of statistics are training students in cutting-edge data analytics and computational skills essential to interdisciplinary research.