Oregon State University News

" Dead zones ", massive Oceanic low-oxygen zones, near shore, are areas that have become so oxygen-starved that most animals flee or die.

A city street car rolls across the Portland State University campus where educators will gather on Thursday to discuss ways to improve the Oregon University System's student retention rate.

Oregon State University scientists say they've solved a quest that has gone on for thousands of years -- they've created a near-perfect, safe blue pigment.

Former UO President Dave Frohnmayer lays out a smart, powerful case for allowing Oregon's three research universities to act as public corporations Inside Oregon's beleaguered university system, the biennial let-down that is the legislative budget process is known as waiting for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin.

A cat that died Nov. 7 is the first feline fatality from H1N1 flu, tests have confirmed.

For scientists, the thousandth microbial genome is just the start. Scientists want to sequence thousands of microbial genomes from across the tree of life.

In the first study of its kind, a variation in the hormone/neurotransmitter oxytocin's receptor was linked to a person's ability to infer the mental state of others.

An accidental discovery in a laboratory at Oregon State University has apparently solved a quest that over thousands of years has absorbed the energies of ancient Egyptians, the Han dynasty in China, Mayan cultures and of a near-perfect blue pigment.

Students at Forest Grove High School listen to a recruiter from Western Oregon University talk about programs and scholarships that can help them go to college.

Threats of rain and scudding clouds accompanied attendees to the Master Gardener's Winter Dreams/Summer Gardens conference last Saturday, held for the first time in Medford's new RCC/SOU Higher Education Center.

Kris Kerstiens, a Lewis & Clark College graduate student, died on Saturday, Oct.

Enrollment in Oregon's seven public universities hit a record 91,580 students this fall, but fewer of the new students are freshmen, officials announced today.

Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been routinely underestimating the age of many specimens by 200 to 600 percent.

MONMOUTH - Western Oregon University's enrollment hit another record high this year with 5,654 students, 305 more than a year ago.

It's a tougher sell getting volunteers for the winter sessions of Whale Watch Week than it is for the more balmy spring event.

Their analysis of penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that they say challenges the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been routinely underestimating the age of many specimens by 200 to 600 percent.

Three Oregon soldiers' jobs put them at center of tragedy Published: November 10.

Oregon State University is organizing its 11 colleges under four divisions for greater efficiency and focus.

The new leader of the Oregon environmental movement's political arm says the state's environmentalists need to get "bigger, badder, tougher and smarter" if they want to make a difference in Salem.

Oregon's upcoming census could mean another seat in congress. Who's killing Rudolph? Gimme A Break Earl Blumenauer's bill pays people to ride their bikes to work, but not everyone's cashing in yet.