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Horse Farms to Tree Farms: Studying the Relationship Between Land Management...
If you wander forests of the Oregon Coast Range you might encounter a strange sight: exclosures made of timber and steel-braided wire, standing in a clear-cut forest. These exclosures, which stand...
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Dirt: It’s under all of us!
We depend on the humble soil beneath our feet to grow the cotton in our shirts, feed the world with fruits and vegetables, and growing all the commodities necessary to make beer and whisky alike! Given...
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Corals need someone in their corner
Katherine holding all nine of the coral species she is studying for one chapter of her dissertation. Climate change has begun to show its effects around the world in the form of warming temperatures,...
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Happy New Year 2017!
Happy New Year from all of us at Inspiration Dissemination! It’s been a great year with fantastic guests on our program. We’ll be back on the air January 15th with Joe Donovan, who’s working on his MFA...
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Why do we care? An examination of pop culture icons.
Celebrities are the center of modern pop culture in the U.S. and around the world. We look to these people for clues about what to wear, what music to listen to, where to spend our money, and even what...
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Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds
Panorama of the whitebark pine seedling at the Dorena Genetic Resource Center (USFS) Did you know that whitebark pine is the highest elevation tree here in the Pacific Northwest? If you have driven the...
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Diving for Discovery
Jon and others looking at the way that light passes through an obsidian artifact Jon Krier was six-years-old when he found his first skull. He was on a walk with his mother in Wales, Alaska where his...
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A very Hungry Caterpillar, a very Tenacious Scientist
Tyria jacobaeae (cinnabar moth) caterpillars chowing down on Senecio triangularis at Marys Peak summer 2014 Tyria jacobaeae (cinnabar moth) adult Photographer: Eric Coombs Our...
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No strings attached. Why some students need help, and how others provide...
When was the last time you helped someone? Do you hold the door open for the person behind you when you enter a building? Have you picked a stranded friend up at the airport recently? Would you let...
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History repeated…but more interesting
Hiking Colca Canyon in Peru Following a devastating period of violence during Pablo Escobar’s reign, Colombia has become one of the safest countries in South America. In rural Alaska, “mammoth hunters”...
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Searching for viruses that make plants sick
Ripening sweet cherries in Mosier, Oregon. Photo credit: Lauri Lutes When plants get sick, they can’t be treated or cured in the same way as people who receive medicine for an illness. Plants require...
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Just keep swimming or don’t! Curiously following Zebrafish
People often think of science as focusing on very specific questions or rigorous hypothesis testing. However, some of the most exciting advancements were the result of general curiosity of seemingly...
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Beetle-Seq: Inferring the Phylogeny of Clivinini
“Species Scape” by Francis Fawcett. A digital version of the original design drawn by Francis Fawcett and prepared by Quentin Wheeler. We humans are far outnumbered by organisms that are much smaller...
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Elucidating protein structure with crystals
Kelsey in the lab pipetting one of her many buffers! Proteins are the workhorse molecules of the cell, contributing to diverse processes such as eyesight, food breakdown, and disabling of pathogens....
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Keeping Oregon Forests Green: What Swiss Needle Cast Disease is Teaching Us...
I’ll never forget driving through the steep and windy I5 corridor of the Klamath Mountains when I moved to Oregon. Wet roads bordered by thick fog with protruding trees that were lusciously green....
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Bone marrow transplants save lives, but can it keep our bones strong?
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. This phrase is often helpful when fighting adversity, but it does not hold true for patients suffering from diseases such as leukemia, tuberculosis, and...
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Motor proteins—and people—can change directionality
It took three years of adventures after college—including stints as a ski instructor, barista and a commercial chemist—before Andrew Popchock knew that he wanted to return to the lab to pursue a PhD at...
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Heliconia: plants with personality
Orange-hatted Dusty Gannon’ (my hummingbird name) visiting Heliconia tortuosa In the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, first year graduate student Dusty Gannon is studying how Heliconia...
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Do you trust others, as much as they trust you?
My mother told me never to judge a book by its cover, but our brains do this tens if not hundreds of times a day. Research has shown that seeing a face for just 1/10 second allows enough time for...
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“Willed Women”: Studying Medieval Literature at OSU
An image of the second nun from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales When asked to trace her love of literature to its origins, Emily McLemore returns to her babyhood. “My dad started reading to me from the day...
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