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Could a bioscience incubator be in OSU-Cascades’ future?

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Bend’s bioscience industry growing up

Boosters want to see incubator at OSU-Cascades

By Kathleen McLaughlin / The Bulletin

Published Jun 5, 2016 at 12:01AM

The people who started Central Oregon’s first two bioscience companies were drawn by the outdoors, rather than the presence of a research institution.

And perhaps because of that, Bend Research Inc. and Grace Bio-Labs lacked nearby industry peers in their early years.

Bend Research founders Harry Lonsdale and Richard Baker arrived in Tumalo in the mid-1970s.  Read more…

Jeff Gautschi and OSU Cascades featured in Bend Bulletin

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OSU-Cascades faculty members are working hard to bring science students more opportunities to apply concepts learned in the classroom.

Using undergraduate students to conduct research is an up-and-coming trend at OSU-Cascades that has slowly garnered more funding opportunities over the past few years.

Traditionally, most university research is conducted by tenure-track professors and graduate students. But OSU-Cascades doesn’t have graduate students in science, and many within the Oregon State University system say bringing undergraduates into research projects benefits everyone.  Read more…