Saliva key to AI-assisted, non-invasive home monitoring method to improve epilepsy care


CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University are poised to use saliva to make a personalized-medicine breakthrough for people with epilepsy thanks to a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University are poised to use saliva to make a personalized-medicine breakthrough for people with epilepsy thanks to a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.


The OSU team had already demonstrat ... Read more

Oregon State University receives $5.5 million to help grow m


Oregon State University’s Global Hemp Innovation Center will receive $5.5 million during the next five years to research new food, beverage and biobased industrial product uses of industrial hemp.

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Protecting surf breaks mitigates climate change, helps coast


CORVALLIS, Ore. – Safeguarding places to hang ten and shoot the curl is an opportunity to simultaneously mitigate climate change, fuel tourism and help surrounding ecosystems, new research has shown.

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Oregon State names new finance and administration leader


Carla Ho’a, an established leader with more than three decades of experience in higher education finance, has been named the next vice president for finance and administration at Oregon State University.

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Lonely people tend to have more nightmares, Oregon State University research shows


CORVALLIS, Ore. – People who are lonely are more apt to have bad dreams than people who aren’t, according to a collaboration that included an Oregon State University scientist.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – People who are lonely are more apt to have bad dreams, according to a collaboration that included an Oregon State University scientist.


The findings are important because both loneliness and sleep disorders are serious public health issues, said OSU’s Colin Hesse. They are connected to increased risk of ... Read more

Scientists studying impact of painting wind turbine blade bl


Oregon State University researchers are part of a team looking at reducing bird collision risks with wind turbines by painting a single blade of the turbine black.

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Bicycle rolling-stop laws don’t lead to unsafe behavior by


CORVALLIS, Ore. – Laws that let bicyclists treat stop signs as yield signs lead neither riders nor motorists to act unsafely, according to a groundbreaking Oregon State University study.

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OSU researchers complete electrical mapping project critical


A nearly 20-year effort to map the electrical properties of Earth’s crust and mantle across the contiguous United States, viewed as critical to protecting the electrical grid during extreme solar storms and against damage from electromagnet ... Read more