OSU’s History of Science Program congratulates three of our graduate student veterans this term, as they advanced to candidacy during Week 10. They now have the vaunted status of “ABD,” which either means “all but dissertation” or “anything but dissertation,” depending on how you look at it It was a pleasure to be part of [...]
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A Chronicle of the School Cafeteria
Monday, October 1st, 2012by Tracy Jamison* “There ain’t no such thing as free lunch…” Economics in eight words, El Paso Herald-Post (June 27, 1938) Recently, when the first lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the new school lunch nutrition guidelines, there were some critiques that the current administration had overstepped their bounds and become [...]
On the Codependence of Humans and Honey Bees
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012Ph.D. student Brenda Kellar has been working on the history of honey bee migration along with human beings in the United States. Her article “Honeybees Across America,” began as a research presentation to the Oregon Beekeepers’ Association, and now has been picked up by the Los Angeles County Beekeepers Association. She shows how at critical [...]
100 Years of Putting Knowledge to Work
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011by Laura Cray* The Oregon Extension Service was established July 24, 1911 to extend the knowledge of Oregon’s Land Grant University to the rest of the state. Over the past century, hundreds of Extension agents have worked tirelessly to support that mission by engaging even the most rural of Oregon’s citizens in improving their lives [...]
