Breakthroughs in Science

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University Advancement at OSU has just introduced new banners around campus that help illustrate stories from the mentor program — “recognizing the relationships that change lives”. In the picture, we show one of the banners which features Dr. Mark Hixon, professor of Zoology, and Robbie Lamb (’08). We asked Dr. Hixon to tell us a […]

Today The Oregonian brought us two stories about the work of the OSAC (Oregon State Arthropod Collection). Part 1 features the work of Jim Young, and his work at the Insect ID Clinic: The deliveries to the Insect ID Clinic at Oregon State University arrive with the same question — what is it? And Young, […]

Those of us who don’t study bugs are just laboring under false illusions, apparently. An excerpt from CBC radio’s Quirks and Quarks program, which is downloadable: “There are plenty of hypotheses about why the dinosaurs went extinct. The most popular is that an asteroid hit the Earth and created a cloud of debris that cooled […]

PNW amphibian experts have found evidence of a fungal scourge in frogs that has previously wiped out amphibian populations around the world–think ebola for frogs. And that’s not all. As reported in a recent Seattle Times article: “…killer fungus is only one of the perils amphibians face today, said Oregon State University biologist Andrew Blaustein, […]

The Oregon State Arthropod Collection lives in Cordley Hall and is part of both the College of Science and the College of Agricultural Science. The curator of the collection is entomologist Chris Marshall, who came to OSU from the Smithsonian and has made great strides to make the collection the largest in the PNW. A […]

From the Sacramento Bee, this is important news: The researcher, Katie Moriarty, a graduate student at Oregon State University, wasn’t looking for wolverines. She was studying martens, a slender brown weasel fond of old-growth forests, at the Sagehen Creek Field Station between Truckee and Sierraville, just west of Highway 89. The work – part of […]

Mark Hixon is one of OSU’s scientists involved in studies of coral reef ecology. He has also been cited as the leading expert in the Western Hemisphere and third in the world, based on journal publications that were most often cited for their scientific significance. Overall, OSU coral reef research programs ranked sixth in the U.S. and […]