by The Beaver Caucus | Mar 31, 2016 | News
CORVALLIS — An Oregon State University researcher and his wife have pledged an $800,000 fellowship endowment to support graduate students at OSU’s Marine Mammal Institute. Bruce Mate, a marine mammal researcher who directs the institute, and his wife Mary Lou...
by The Beaver Caucus | Mar 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
In 2005, the Oregon State Legislature passed an innovative bill to create seed funding for university-based discoveries that have commercial applications. It’s a way of using the tremendous intellectual property developed at Oregon’s public universities to...
by The Beaver Caucus | Mar 5, 2016 | Blog
MARCH 5, 2016 BY NATALIE SEPT “Earlier this year, the Oregon State Legislature strongly supported the reauthorization of the University Venture Development Fund (UVDF). This fund was developed in 2001, and is an innovative way to ensure that great ideas benefit the...
by The Beaver Caucus | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog
Thank you so much for all of your support, energy and time devoted to the future of higher education in our state. Together we helped the legislature see the importance of innovation with the University Venture Development Fund; the economic impact of the upcoming...
by The Beaver Caucus | Feb 1, 2016 | Issue
Since 2007, the University Venture Development Fund (UVDF) has helped to convert the research conducted at Oregon’s public universities into new businesses while providing student experiential education. Over the last six years universities have raised nearly $8...
