by The Beaver Caucus | Jan 1, 2016 | Issue
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 benefit all...
by The Beaver Caucus | Jan 1, 2016 | Issue
Nearly 10 years ago, the Oregon State Legislature began divesting from higher education. The recession that took so much funding away from state government services was Until last year, Oregon had seen a significant divestment in higher education since the 2007...
by The Beaver Caucus | Dec 28, 2015 | Blog
Eric Mortenson – Capital Press – Selina Heppell is the first woman to head Oregon State University’s fisheries and wildlife department. Selina Heppell, a conservation biologist, is the new head of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon...
by The Beaver Caucus | Dec 11, 2015 | Blog
James Day – Corvallis Gazette Times – Oregon State University is known for its cutting-edge programs in engineering, agriculture, energy and marine science. The school reeled in $285 million in research funding in 2014. So who was the star of the OSU...
by The Beaver Caucus | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog
Sophia McDonald Bennett – The Atlantic Monthly – Michael Mazourek and Dan Barber can trace the roots of their unusual partnership to a winter squash.A few years ago, Mazourek, a vegetable breeder and professor of plant science at Cornell University, went...
