LIFE@OSU

In February 2007, my research was highlighted in OSU’s Terra Magazine. Of course, I made sure that my mom had a copy. As she looked over the article, she read the caption for the Edward Curtis photograph gracing the cover of the magazine. “Nuktaya?”, she asked, “There wasn’t anyone on the island named Nuktaya. I wonder if they meant, ‘Muktoyuk’, my father?”

Jon Dowd, information technology consultant, felt compelled to step up and do something that mattered — and so he flew to the battle ground state of Ohio to volunteer in the projects of Cleveland for the Obama campaign.

(Note: OSU softball coach Kirk Walker expands on how best to help gay, lesbian, and bisexual athletes and recounts his own experiences in an interview with the Women’s Sports Foundation, founded by Billie Jean King. – Editor)

A television news video report is now available at the end of this commentary on the ancient, 2,000-year-old “Ghost Forest” at Neskowin. Just click!

“Once people realize that diversity is a 21st century life skill and not a politically correct issue, hear them roar and get out of their way!” suggests Terryl Ross.

Twenty-five years ago, Linus Pauling wrote that the development of great nuclear weapons requires that war be given up, for all time - that the forces that can destroy the world must not be used.
This is still the message of the book today, asserts Linda Richards, a graduate student in the History of Science program at OSU.

When I announced to family and friends four years ago that I would be leaving our home in Maine to come to Oregon State University, I received electronic, telephone and in-person high-fives.