The Oregon Humane Society, however, announced with some fanfare that the 10-month-old tabby cat was expected Monday to be the 30,000th pet spayed or neutered through its Spay & Save program since the society opened its Holman Medical Center 3 1/2 years ago.

“We were expecting it to take six” years, Kris Otteman, OHS director of shelter medicine said in a news release. “Every pet we spay or neuter brings us one step closer to the solving the huge problem of pet overpopulation.”

Source: David Bernell, 541-737-6281; david.bernell@oregontate.edu

The following release is online at: http://bit.ly/iIGGYH

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, who faces the challenge of leading Oregon’s economic recovery, will deliver the annual Gov. Tom McCall Memorial Lecture at Oregon State University on Wednesday, May 25.

His talk, “Challenge to Change,” begins at 7 p.m. in LaSells Stewart Center. It is free and open to the public.

In his lecture, Kitzhaber will outline how Oregon is taking a different path than the rest of the nation to revitalize its economy by focusing on sustainability and innovation. He will discuss what he calls “the Oregon example” – a way to create a vibrant future by focusing on clean energy and green jobs, while transforming systems such as healthcare and education.

Kitzhaber, 64, is the 37th governor of Oregon. He previously served as governor from 1995 to 2003, and became the first person to be elected to the office three times when he was re-elected to a third term in 2010.

He moved with his family to Oregon at age 11, and graduated from South Eugene High School in 1965. After earning his bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College, he returned to Oregon to study medicine at the University of Oregon Medical School (now OHSU). Upon becoming a doctor, he practiced emergency room medicine in Roseburg from 1974 to 1988.

Kitzhaber’s interest in health care public policy, the livelihoods of rural Oregonians and Oregon’s natural heritage compelled him to seek public service. He first won election to the Oregon Legislature in 1978, and served a term in the Oregon House of Representatives. In 1980, he won election to the Oregon State Senate, and served three terms.

The OSU lectureship is named after Tom McCall, who was Oregon’s governor from 1967-75.

This will be Kitzhaber’s second appearance in this lecture series, which continues a tradition of Oregon governors speaking in the series. Other governors who delivered the lecture while in office have included Ted Kulongoski, 2003; Kitzhaber, 1995; and Barbara Roberts, 1991. Former Gov. Bob Straub delivered the 1989 lecture, and U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden spoke in 1996.

Notable speakers from different careers have included Washington Post columnists David Broder and William Raspberry; CBS journalists Terry Drinkwater, Richard Threlkeld and Betsy Aaron; Oregon political analyst Floyd McKay; Dennis Dimick of National Geographic magazine; and environmental law attorney and activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The McCall Lecture is presented by the OSU College of Liberal Arts.

By Christina Williams

Sustianable Business Oregon

The Associated Press

By: Theresa Hogue, 541-737-0786
Source: Brandon Trelstad, 541-737-3307

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CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University has been named the Pacific-10 Conference champion in the EPA Green Power Partnership’s 2010-11 College and University Green Power Challenge.

OSU purchased more renewable energy than any other school in the Pac-10 (now the Pac-12), with 51,595,400 kilowatt hours of green power purchased and used. OSU has been the Pac-10 champion every year since the 2007-08 school year.

“We’re glad to see the competition heating up as more and more colleges and universities join the Green Power Challenge,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. “This year’s schools used more than 1.5 billion kilowatt hours of green power, cutting harmful emissions from our air, protecting health and driving demand in the clean energy market.”

Two other Oregon schools made the EPA’s list, including Southern Oregon University, which used 33,300,047 kWh, and Lewis and Clark College, which used 12,375,821 kWh.

This year’s challenge participation increased to 69 competing institutions, representing 31 different conferences nationwide. The challenge’s total annual green power usage of more than 1.5 billion kWh has the equivalent environmental impact of avoiding the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the annual electricity use of more than 132,000 homes.

OSU was also just named in the Princeton Review’s annual Green Guide to Colleges.

For more information on OSU’s focus on sustainability, see www.poweredbyorange.com and http://oregonstate.edu/sustainability/

More information on the winners of EPA’s College and University Green Power Challenge can be found at http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/initiatives/cu_challenge.htm

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Published 05/07/2011

(Corvallis, Oregon) – Images of Earth’s coastal region are being beamed straight into a lab at Corvallis, Oregon’s Oregon State University, helping scientists monitor a variety of events in that ecosystem from a brand new vantage point, including things like plankton blooms or even oil spills (above: image of the Columbia River from the imaging system).

More details of the project will be part of an upcoming issue of the American Geophysical Union journal, EOS, but much of this – including the images – can be found on an OSU website about the project.

To read the complete article click here.

Oregon State University has been selected to host the records and database of the Oregon Century Farm & Ranch Program, which contains century and sesquicentennial farm and ranch applications.

The Oregon Century Farm & Ranch Program was established in 1958 to honor the state’s rich agricultural heritage by awarding farm and ranch families with sesquicentennial and century-long connections to the land. To date, 1,117 families have formally received the “Century” designation and 22 families have received the “Sesquicentennial” award.  

Larry Landis, the university archivist at OSU, says the records paint a picture about the way agriculture has shaped Oregon.

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John Foyston/Special to The Oregonian Professor Tom Shellhammer of OSU's Fermentation Science program watches Joe Hortnagl attach the steam line to the heat exchanger that roasts the barley in the mini-malter's kilning cycle

By Special to The Oregonian

A group of Oregon State University engineering students didn’t wait to graduate before endowing their alma mater: For their senior project, they designed and built an innovative barley malter that allows OSU to now teach every step of brewing, from barley field and hop yard to bottling line.

“It’s the bread machine of barley malters,” said professor Pat Hayes of OSU’s Crop and Soil Science department. The malter, which looks a bit like a half-ton stainless steel rocket motor, automates and consolidates the task of steeping, germinating and kilning barley to make barley malt.

Graduate student and team leader Joe Hortnagl and mechanical engineering seniors Aaron Mason, Tyler Froemming, Eric Sunderland and Curtis Barnard designed and built a machine into which you can pour raw barley, set the computer and come back in about a week to shovel out as much as 300 pounds of fragrant, toasty, Grape-Nuts-tasting barley malt.

In reality, it’s a bit more fussy than that, but the students’ flexible and affordable rig has piqued the interest of commercial maltsters and food companies that use sprouted grain.

Malted barley is the essential backbone of beer. The sprouted, toasted seed contains the enzymes and starches that yeast turns into sugars and alcohol. Because it can be kilned to precise degrees of color and roast, maltsters make dozens of styles and colors of malt, from pale Vienna malt to the roasted black patent malt that makes Guinness opaque. Beer recipes often call for several types of malt, and brewers use it by the hundredweight or the ton — after water, malt is beer’s main ingredient.

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Thomas Boyd/The Oregonian Jim Owen, an Oregon State University researcher, retrieves a radio control helicopter after a test flight Thursday at J. Frank Schmidt & Son Nursery in Boring.

BORING — It’s enough to bring out the inner radio-control geek in anyone who sees it. Buzzing like a swarm of bees, a six-rotor helicopter revs to life and vaults straight up, rising quickly above thousands of potted trees at J. Frank Schmidt & Son Nursery.

It’s only about three feet across and its spindly legs make it look like a flying spider, but this is no toy. Loaded on board is sophisticated GPS technology that sends it to pre-programmed points and maintains a constant altitude of 25 meters, slightly more than 80 feet. Dangling from its abdomen is a digital camera. A swiveling housing keeps the camera level even if the craft pitches in the wind.

Pilot Heather Stoven, an Oregon State University research assistant who learned to fly the machine three days ago, flips a switch and takes a series of photographs of the trees below.

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SALEM — Leaders defended the efficiency of Oregon’s public universities and their professors during a legislative hearing Tuesday on an audit that raises questions about how professors spend their time.

Lawmakers expressed no alarm over the audit findings and took no action.

The Oregon Audits Division released a report Tuesday that concluded the Oregon University System does not track how much time professors spend in the classroom. The report also said the system spends less than a fifth of its budget on instruction.

The system cannot find ways to use professors more efficiently without a better grasp of how much time they spend on instruction, research and service, Gary Blackmer, director of the Secretary of State’s audits division, told a joint legislative audits committee.

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Surely, this can’t be the best way to run Oregon’s university system.

The Legislature can take tuition money that students and families pay and spend it on something other than education. The Legislature can even swipe the interest.

There’s more. The Legislature gives Oregon universities less money per student than in all but five other states. The level of state support has dropped by some 16 percent for the 20 years ending in 2009.

And then the Legislature goes on to dictate the size of tuition and how the schools should spend their money in hundreds of line items.

Add it up. The Legislature gives Oregon’s higher education less and less, can take tuition students and families are forced to pay more of and then tells the university system how to spend a lot of the money that is left.

That is bad. Very bad.

The Oregon Secretary of State’s Office released a report this week on faculty efficiency in the Oregon University System. There was a legislative hearing on the audit today.

Now, we don’t dispute that there are more than likely ways in which the university system could use its faculty more efficiently. The audit states that faculty workload and student demand for courses is not comprehensively tracked.

Oversight is an important role for the Legislature. It could spend hours, even months, debating how much time faculty should spend teaching and doing research and the advantages and disadvantages of having graduate students teach many courses.

Instead of doing that, let’s talk about what the Legislature can do now. Pass Senate Bill 242.

SB 242 would give Oregon’s colleges and universities more autonomy to set and spend tuition and manage programs. The Legislature would still get to set performance goals for the system. It could set benchmarks for things like time to graduate, affordability, access for Oregon students and degrees. It could even, if it wanted, ask the university system to better track faculty workload and student demand for courses. Schools would still have to follow Oregon laws on openness, ethics and auditing.

Most importantly, the money paid for education would go toward education. That’s something more fundamental than that efficiency study. It is putting money where Oregon families intend it, not where the Legislature wants it. Call your legislator and ask what they are going to do to get SB 242 out of subcommittee and up for a vote.

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The Oregon State University Extension Service is 100 years old. Gov. John Kitzhaber commemorated that birthday recently by proclaiming a special day in its honor. The news release noted the OSU off-campus education outreach program results in faculty working in every county in Oregon. 

“Extension is perhaps best known for its 4-H clubs for youths, its Master Gardener training and its assistance to the state’s agricultural producers,” said the governor’s release. “But it also educates low-income Oregonians about proper nutrition, teaches forest owners how to manage their land and helps people improve watersheds. It trains home canners to preserve food safely, helps senior citizens stay healthy, shows aspiring small farmers how to get started and publishes how-to guides on everything from controlling aphids on roses to maintaining a septic tank.”

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Source: Shelley Curtis, 541-737-5534, shelley.curtis@oregonstate.edu

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The work of 17 artists will be showcased in the Oregon State University College of Agricultural Sciences’ 29th annual “Art About Agriculture” exhibition May 6–27 in the Giustina Gallery in LaSells Stewart Center.

“This year’s exhibition presents art by visual artists who draw, paint, photograph and sculpt,” said Shelley Curtis, curator. “Through their work they offer us understanding into values and deeper meaning of our region’s salient natural resources.”

The theme for the exhibit is “Ways into the Region.”

Another showing of the art is scheduled in Medford June 17 through July 29 at the Rogue Gallery and Art Center, 40 S. Bartlett St. A public reception at the Medford showing is Friday, June 17, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Rogue Gallery.

Judges Keith Achepohl from Eugene, an emeritus professor of art at the University of Iowa, and Marsha Matthews, Portland, director of public services for the Oregon Historical Society, will award more than $4,000 to chosen artists.

Artists are:

•     Albany: Gale Everett, Bobbie Jansen

•     Ashland: Bruce Allen Bayard, Betty LaDuke

•     Baker City: Phillip John Charette, Paul Hoelscher

•     Beaverton: Leslie Wu

•     Corvallis: Karla Chambers, Louie Paul

•     Portland: Katherine Ace, Melissa Basey, Lisa Caballero, Jeff Leake, Paula Rebsom, David Schell, Kentree Speirs

•     Vancouver, Wash.: Carson Legree

Note to Editors: Photographs of the following artwork are available at: http://eescphotos.extension.oregonstate.edu/11ArtAboutAg

•     “Showers,” an oil alkyd w/mixed media work by Katherine Ace of Portland, is among 40 works by 17 artists in the 2011 OSU College of Agricultural Sciences Art About Agriculture exhibit.

•     “Oregon Green Bean Harvest,” a painting on routed plywood by Betty LaDuke of Ashland, is among 40 works by 17 artists in the 2011 OSU College of Agricultural Sciences Art About Agriculture exhibit.

•     “Choosing Stones, Lost Lake,” an oil painting on canvas by Leslie Wu of Beaverton, is among 40 works by 17 artists in the 2011 OSU College of Agricultural Sciences Art About Agriculture exhibit.

Contact: Beverly Law, 541-77-6111 or bev.law@oregonstate.edu

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CORVALLIS, Ore. – A research group has concluded that forests and other terrestrial ecosystems in the lower 48 states can sequester up to 40 percent of the nation’s fossil fuel carbon emissions, a larger amount than previously estimated – unless a drought or other major disturbance occurs.

Widespread droughts, such as those that occurred in 2002 and 2006, can cut the amount of carbon sequestered by about 20 percent, the scientists concluded in a recent study that was supported by the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy. 

The research, published by scientists from 35 institutions in the journal Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, was based on satellite measurements and dozens of environmental observation sites in the AmeriFlux network. Not all of this data had previously been incorporated into earlier estimates, and the new study provides one of the most accurate assessments to date of the nation’s carbon balance.

“With this data it appears that our forests and other vegetation can sequester as much as 40 percent of the carbon emissions in the lower 48 states,” said Beverly Law, a co-author of the study, professor in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University, and science team chair of the AmeriFlux network. 

“That’s substantially higher than some previous estimates, which indicated these ecosystems could take up the equivalent of only about 30 percent of emissions or less,” Law said. “There’s still some uncertainty in these data, but it does appear that the terrestrial carbon sink is higher than believed in earlier studies.”

However, the scientists cautioned that major disturbances, such as droughts, wildfires and hurricanes, can all affect the amount of carbon sequestered in a given year. Large droughts that happened twice in the U.S. in the past decade reduced the carbon sink about 20 percent, compared to a normal year. 

“With climate change, we may get more extreme or frequent weather events in the future than we had before,” Law said. “About half of the United States was affected by the major droughts in 2002 and 2006, which were unusually severe in their spatial extent and severity. And we’re now learning that this can have significant effects on the amount of carbon sequestered in a given year.”

Carbon dioxide, when released by the burning of fossil fuels, forest fires, or other activities, is a major “greenhouse gas” and factor in global warming. But vegetation, mostly in the form of growing evergreen and deciduous forests, can play an important role in absorbing some of the excess carbon dioxide. 

Such information is important to understand global climate issues and develop policies, the researchers noted. This study examined the carbon budget in the U.S. from 2001 to 2006. Also playing a key role in the analysis was the PRISM climate database at OSU, a sophisticated system to monitor weather on a very localized and specific basis.

The period from 2001-06, the researchers noted, had some catastrophic and unusual events, not the least of which was Hurricane Katrina and the massive destruction it caused. It also factored in the 2002 Biscuit Fire in southwest Oregon, one of the largest forest fires in modern U.S. history. 

The research found that the temperate forests in the eastern U.S. absorbed carbon mainly because of forest regrowth following the abandonment of agricultural lands, while some areas of the Pacific Northwest assimilated carbon during much of the year because of the region’s mild climate.

Crop lands were not considered in determining the annual magnitude of the U.S. terrestrial carbon sink, because the carbon they absorb each year during growth will be soon released when the crops are harvested or their biomass burned. 

“Our results show that U.S. ecosystems play an important role in slowing down the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” the researchers wrote in their conclusion. “The dominant sources of the recent interannual variation included extreme climate events (e.g., drought) and disturbances (e.g., wildfires, hurricanes).”

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Editor’s Note: A digital image of some conifer needles is available to illustrate this story, at http://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonstateuniversity/5618972325/in/photostream

About the OSU College of Forestry:  For a century, the College of Forestry has been a world class center of teaching, learning and research. It offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs in sustaining ecosystems, managing forests and manufacturing wood products; conducts basic and applied research on the nature and use of forests; and operates 14,000 acres of college forests.

By David Sarasohn, the Oregonian

In July 2009, Sonny Ramaswamy arrived as dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State.

    The next Monday, he was told to cut $10 million from his budget.

    Nothing beats an Oregon welcome.

    Now, in an even less hospitable budgetary time, he’s looking at another agricultural famine. Three service programs out of Oregon State — the Oregon Extension Service, the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Forest Research Laboratory — face a budget cut of almost 19 percent. It’s a considerably larger cut than even the rest of higher ed, and the shrugging suggestion that universities can just raise tuition doesn’t even apply to these programs.

    “So many of the services they provide really are targeted to people who need help,” says Ed Ray, OSU president. “You can start charging rural folks for agricultural help, and for being in 4-H, but they don’t have any money.”

    Which is more or less the point.

    In rural Oregon, the recession didn’t start in 2008, but somewhere closer to 1982. Those counties have the highest unemployment levels, and outsized hunger rates, often in the middle of some of the richest land in the world. The three programs — supporters tend to refer to them collectively as “the Statewides,” a verbal password indicating not just knowing the programs but valuing them — are efforts to provide some support, and some connection, to those parts of Oregon.

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Campus Recycling Outreach Coordinator Andrea Norris (right) presents a trophy made out of reused materials to McNary Hall Treasurer Jeff Robideau (left), the prize for the residence hall recycling competition. (Photo: Shelly Clark)

Courtesy of: KVAL.com

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University has retained its top spot in the state for RecycleMania, an annual, nationwide recycling competition between universities.

By recycling and composting a total of 483,449 pounds during the 10-week competition (Jan. 23 through April 2), OSU nabbed first place, while claiming the RecycleMania Civil War title over the University of Oregon by recycling and composting 5.5 pounds more per person.

OSU also beat its own 2010 totals, recycling and composting 67,831 pounds more – a 23 percent increase – and sending 201,158 fewer pounds of materials to the landfill, a 17 percent decrease over the previous year.

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Signatories include:

• Ken Patchett, General Manager, Facebook Data Center;
• Margaret Kirkpatrick, VP & General Counsel, NW Natural;
• Sandi McDonough, President & CEO, Portland Business Alliance;
• Charley Miller, President Miller Lumber Company;
• Carol Dillin, VP Customers and Economic Development PGE;
• Mark Edlen, Sr. Executive, Gerding Edlen Development;
• Bill Thorndike, President & CEO, Medford Fabrication

That’s the time when many of the most selective colleges respond to their applicants, with letters either thick — containing details of how to respond to offers of admission, sometimes including literal confetti — or thin (Thanks for playing, now go away). Getting into some of these colleges may require high school seniors to be Superman, but to get the gist of the letter, X-ray vision isn’t necessary.

For Oregon higher education, reading the signals from last week — when Gov. John Kitzhaber testified before the legislature about his education vision — isn’t quite as easy. As usual, when people talk about the importance of Oregon’s universities, they tend to lay it on fairly thick; when it comes to actual support, things tend to run pretty thin.

For the full article: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/index.ssf/2011/04/higher_eds_trail_through_thick.html

SPOKANE — The federal government has awarded a $20 million grant to universities in Washington, Oregon and Idaho that is designed to ensure that wheat farming in the Pacific Northwest will survive climate change. 

The five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will study the relationship between climate change and cereal crops, primarily winter wheat. Wheat is the No. 1 export through the Port of Portland, the largest wheat-export harbor in the United States. 

The study will focus on northeastern Oregon, southeastern Washington and Idaho’s panhandle. The area produces some of the nation’s highest yields of winter wheat, which is worth more than $1 billion per year. The vast majority is exported. 

“This research is important because our climate is changing, and agriculture is probably the sector that is most affected by variations in climate,” said Susan Capalbo, an Oregon State University agricultural economist. Washington State University, the University of Idaho and the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service are also involved. 

Researchers will use computer models to study how different farming techniques affect yields, water usage, nutrient levels, greenhouse gas emissions and the removal of carbon dioxide from the air. 

Farming can contribute to greenhouse emissions in several ways. Tractors and combines emit carbon dioxide, as does the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizer and the tillage of soil, which helps decompose organic matter. 

Scientists will also ask growers about their management strategies and costs, to help evaluate the likelihood of farmers adopting new techniques. 

Farmers won’t be willing to change unless the benefits outweigh the costs, Capalbo said. 

“Agriculture has traditionally been looked at in terms of maximizing net returns or minimizing costs,” she said. “But we need to look at managing the ecosystem so it’s resilient to change and sustainable in the long run.” 

The region to be studied is made up of different microclimates, but in general has cold, wet winters and warm-to-hot, dry summers. Scientists predict that summers will become drier and longer in parts of the region. More precipitation may fall as rain instead of snow. 

The average annual temperature in the Pacific Northwest increased 1.4 degrees during the 20th century, scientists said. It is expected to increase 3 to 10 degrees by 2100. 

– The Associated Press

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Published: Friday, January 21, 2011, 7:17 PM 

 ”Oregon public universities are pretty much on track to bring the next generation of Oregonians to education levels never before enjoyed in this state,” said George Pernsteiner, chancellor of the Oregon University System. ”If we lose that momentum, it will be hard to get back.”

And the university system will lose momentum, he said, if it is forced to keep operating as a state agency with restrictions on how it manages, spends and raises money.

He and Ed Ray, president of Oregon State University, argued universities deserve the kind of independence the state’s 17 community colleges enjoy, as proposed in Senate Bill 242, since universities are getting less money from the state. Adjusting for inflation, state funding for the universities dropped 16 percent over the two decades ending in 2009 while enrollment climbed by 27 percent.

“The university system is subject to the controls of thousands, thousands, of budget line items imposed by state government even though only a minority of the funds received by the universities come from the state,” Pernsteiner said.

For the full article: http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2011/01/oregon_university_system_can_s.html

 Excerpts from: For Oregon higher Ed, signs of higher interest - David Sarasohn, The Oregonian

 “Higher education’s first priority in Salem is a restructuring that would end its status as a state agency, giving universities more control over their tuition revenue and more freedom in spending their money. But in one of the country’s lowest-ranking states in state money spent per student, money is also an inescapable issue.”

For the full article: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/index.ssf/2011/01/for_oregon_higher_ed_signs_of.html

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“The state cannot afford a risky bet like this,” said Lane Community College student president Mario Parker-Milligan, who also is the OSA board chairman. “Especially when it does nothing to guarantee an affordable college education for Oregonians.”

For the full article: Student organization opposes UO proposal

The gift will provide endowments for the center’s director and an additional professor, along with two programmatic funds to support the center’s research and outreach, including a fund focused on childhood obesity.

The gift also will create an endowed fellowship fund for graduate students who want to study, research and advance the health and nutritional benefits of whole grain foods. A final portion of the gift will allow the university to renovate the food research laboratory in Milam Hall where faculty and students will study whole grain foods and ways to promote healthy eating behavior.

Bob and Charlee Moore started Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods in 1978 in an historic flour mill near Oregon City, with a mission to promote healthier diets loaded with whole grains. Now based in Milwaukie, the company is a leader in providing whole grain natural foods to international markets.

The gift qualifies for the OSU Provost’s Faculty Match Program, an initiative to encourage donor investments in endowed faculty positions that help advance priorities identified in the university’s strategic plan. Over five years the match will provide an additional $675,000 to launch the Moore Family Center.

The donation also delivered a nice boost to OSU’s fundraising campaign, which has now raised more than $659 million. The university’s goal is to raise $850 million.

Courtesy of: Portland Business Journal – by Suzanne Stevens , Web editor

Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 1:30pm PST