Sharing Expertise: A Glance at COVID-19 Resources
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit Oregon, faculty in the College of Agricultural Sciences responded by creating trusted...
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Profiles of Progress: Meet Lisa Ballance, Director of OSU’s Marine Mammal Institute
Last fall, Dr. Lisa Ballance took the helm as the new director of the Marine Mammal Institute (MMI) at Oregon State University. Ballance succeeded Bruce Mate, who retired after serving…
Industry Insight: Oregon Potatoes
Video Playtime: 2 minutes. Greg Harris earned his Bachelor of Science in Crop & Soil Science from OSU’s program at Eastern Oregon University in 1997. He later joined Threemile Canyon…
Research, Readers and Reinvention
A look at what surveying our readers taught us about Oregon’s Agricultural Progress. Oregon’s Agricultural Progress (OAP) has a 66-year legacy of award-winning reporting on the research taking place in…
Launching a New Frontier: The Global Hemp Innovation Center
The economic and scientific opportunities with a material that has been illegal for the past 80+ years is nearly immeasurable. “Why ‘Global’?” That’s one of the first questions Dr. Jay…
Pioneering ‘Superhemp’
The ultimate goal is to provide breeders with tools to create what Professor Pat Hayes refers to as “superhemp.” While plant breeding has occurred for thousands of years, the latest…
OSU Collections: Largest Wildlife Specimens
We spent an afternoon capturing footage of the most impressive specimens in our collection. (Behind-the-scenes video above.) More than 250,000 fish are preserved in the basement of Nash Hall at…
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The Legacy of the Land Grant
A historic shift in education and engagement continues to serve our communities. Imagine a country where…
Treat your Christmas tree to vodka? Only if you want to waste it.
As we take a seasonal look at the holiday tradition of Christmas trees and OSU’s…
In Search of the Granted Land
In preparing for the 150th anniversary of Oregon’s land grant university, we found ourselves wondering:…
Station Profile: Research on the Range
It’s more than cattle at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center stations. A flock of…
The Evolution of Beer
The world’s second-oldest beverage keeps on bubbling along. The other day Patrick Hayes invited a…
Oregon’s Land-Grant Legacy Timeline
In 1862, at the height of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln signed the law that…
Update: Researchers Dig Deep into Dry Farming
In 2015, Amy Garrett planted tomatoes, squash, beans, and melons at Oregon State University in…
An Owl, Spotted
Nearly 50 years ago, an OSU student pioneered northern spotted owl research in the Pacific…