Month: May 2011

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Healthy People Student Research

Good Impressions

Call it gut instinct, intuition, street smarts or sixth sense. Good poker players need it. Success in business, politics and athletics demands it. Psychologists call it emotional intelligence, but unlike the myriad tests available to assess verbal and quantitative intelligence, a well-validated test for emotional intelligence has yet to be established, according to Frank Bernieri, an associate professor in the Oregon State University Department of Psychology.

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Earth Healthy People Healthy Planet

One Less Child

Oregon vineyard

If you’re concerned about sustainable living, you probably pay close attention to your “carbon footprint.” We all have one: the amount of climate changing carbon we emit to the atmosphere through our energy intensive lifestyles. Some of us even calculate our household’s footprint with one of the many carbon calculators available online.

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Innovation Student Research

Building a Better Student

When undergraduate students do hands-on research with eminent professors on projects that matter, everyone wins.

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Healthy Planet Innovation Student Research

How Do You Know That?

As an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University in the 1970s, I immersed myself in learning about my field of choice, oceanography. I spent plenty of time in class studying the leading texts of the day. But my real education came from first-hand research experiences.

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Healthy People

The Birth-Weight Factor

mong the questions you may be asked someday by doctors who prescribe your medications is one that few people can probably answer: What was your birth weight?

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Healthy Economy Healthy People Innovation

The Gamma and the Beta

Fast, accurate, affordable detection of radiation — whether it’s from Japan’s damaged Fukushima plant, long-buried waste at Hanford’s WWII weapons site, or secret underground testing by rogue nations — is a pressing need internationally.