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Proteins run the show (except when they unfold and cause cataracts)
Your eye lenses host one of the highest concentrated proteins in your entire body. The protein under investigation is called crystallin and the investigator is called Heather Forsythe. Heather is a...
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What ties the Panama Canal, squeaky swing sets, and the Smithsonian together?...
Have you ever wondered why you see birds in some places and not in others? Or why you see a certain species in one place and not in a different one? Birds have wings enabling them to fly so surely we...
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Giving therapy-resistant cancer cells a taste of their own medicine
The use of chemotherapy to fight various forms of cancer in the human body has been a successful method for decades, but what happens when it fails? This question strikes a personal note for Martin...
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Monkeying around in the lab to find a good egg
In vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment is a procedure in which a woman’s mature eggs are removed via surgery, combined with sperm in a petri dish in a lab, and then the fertilized egg is placed in the...
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Over sixty years digging and we’re still finding new ‘dirt’ on HJ Andrews
One kilometer. Or roughly ten football fields. That’s the extent of the area over which Karla Jarecke, a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Forestry’s Department of Forest, Ecosystems & Society can...
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Tsunami Surfing and the Giant Snot
Sam Harry’s research is filled with bizarre scientific instruments and massive contraptions in an effort to bring large natural events into the laboratory setting. Sam Harry, second year PhD...
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You don’t look your age: pruning young forests to mimic old-growth forest
“I’m always looking at the age of the forest, looking for fish, assessing the light levels. Once you’ve studied it, you can’t ignore it.” Allison Swartz, a PhD student in the Forest Ecosystems and...
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Finding the Tipping Point
Sustainable Fishing – A Case Study of Cooperation We are really good at catching fishing. While the number of fish being commercially caught is ranges from 4-55%, the fact-of-the-matter is that...
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Putting years and years of established theory to the test
A lot of the concepts that scientists use to justify why things are the way they are, are devised solely based on theory. Some theoretical concepts have been established for so long that they are...
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Cultures of collaboration in forest management
Meredith Jacobson is a Master’s student in the Forest, Ecosystems and Society Department of OSU’s College of Forestry who studies collaborative partnerships in forest management. She describes her...
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Robots! A Story of Engineering and Biology
Meet Nathan Justus, a Robotics Engineer at Oregon State University. “I never thought I’d end up in graduate school funded by grape lobbyists,” says Nathan Justus, a robotics engineer at OSU, “but here...
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Climate change, carbon, roots vs shoots, and why soil is more than just dirt
For starters, soil and dirt are not the same thing (contrary to my own belief). First of all, dirt is in fact soil that has been removed from its intended location. For example, the stuff on your...
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Robots without boarders: from Morocco to France to Germany to Oregon State
Amine Gaizi is a masters student working on a degree in Electronics and Embedded systems. As an exchange student from France, Amine is studying in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering...
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Work Your Body, Work Your Brain
Regular exercise can increase your muscle strength, decrease the risk of health complications like high blood pressure and diabetes, but most importantly it can do wonders for our happiness. This link...
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Swimming with Salmon(ids)
Dams, bears, and anglers aren’t the only challenges that salmon face as they undergo their journeys from their mountain river birthplaces to the Pacific Ocean and back again. Timber harvests,...
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Fitness for Life: Sport psychology and the motivations behind healthy lifestyles
For graduate teaching assistant Alex Szarabajko, being part of the team teaching the 3,000-plus students who take Lifetime Fitness for Health (HHS 231) every term is not just a job. “It’s the last...
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Not all robots are hard and made of metal…
Picture a robot. Seriously, close your eyes for 30 seconds and picture a robot in your head. Ok, most of you probably didn’t do it but if you had, my guess is that you would have pictured something...
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Working with Dungeness crab fishermen to get a ‘sense’ of low-oxygen...
Linus tidepooling at Yaquina Head, Oregon Coast. Linus Stoltz is a graduate student in the Marine Resource Management Master’s Program through the College of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences,...
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Finding a place in policy: where do the scientists fit in?
Somewhere, in a local government meeting, an idea is proposed, a policy brief is written, some voting occurs, paperwork is pushed around, money is allocated, and a new highway is built. In the same...
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A blade of seagrass is a powerful thing
Even though seagrasses occupy less than 0.2% of the world’s oceans, they account for more than 10% of all carbon trapped in the sea. In a world and time where we are producing more carbon than we...
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