{"id":3005,"date":"2026-02-01T16:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:05:32","slug":"mimicking-the-body-to-help-mother-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/2026\/02\/01\/mimicking-the-body-to-help-mother-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimicking the Body to Help Mother Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Climate change driven by global warming is a highly debated topic in today\u2019s world. However, what we can be sure of is that certain gases cause changes to our environment and are often referred to as \u201cgreenhouse gases\u201d. A large scientific effort has been made to capture these gases and turn it into things with less environment impact. One particular way is by creating molecules that mimic our bodies natural mechanisms. This is called biomimetic science and is the topic of our guest\u2019s research, Bella Mc Coll   <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2150\/files\/2026\/02\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"318\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2150\/files\/2026\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2150\/files\/2026\/02\/image.png 318w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2150\/files\/2026\/02\/image-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Bella is a third-year PhD student researching under Dr. Addison Desnoyer, in the Department of Chemistry here at OSU. Bella is an Oregon native and comes to us from Beaverton. Outside of the lab Bella has many interests particularly those involving the fiber arts. These interests have allowed her to come up with research ideas that uses her scientific mind to help answer questions for her creative mind.   <br><br>Tune into KBVR 88.7 FM at 7 pm PST on February 1st to hear Bella talk about how growing up in a natural medicine house inspired her to find the harmony between science and nature.    <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written by E Hernandez<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change driven by global warming is a highly debated topic in today\u2019s world. However, what we can be sure of is that certain gases cause changes to our environment and are often referred to as \u201cgreenhouse gases\u201d. A large scientific effort has been made to capture these gases and turn it into things with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}