OSU graduate student Carrie Newell has discovered that the difference may stem from the relative abundance of tiny shrimp-like zooplankton called mysids, a gray whale delicacy.
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Feast or Famine
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The Zinc Link
When you eat a steaming bowl of tofu and bok choy while sipping a cup of rain-flower tea, you may be doing more than just having dinner. You may also be fighting cancer.
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Teaching Evolution – audio
Paul Farber talks about Charles Darwin’s personal quest to understand life’s most fundamental principles.
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On Red Owl Mountain
In the rural West, geography defines us
Learning the secrets of seed germination is helping an OSU student grow her own career as a physician.
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Fishing for Life
Every spring, the Umatilla people of northeastern Oregon join other Columbia River tribes in celebrating the return of the salmon. Growing up on the reservation in the foothills of the Blue Mountains east of Pendleton, Patrick Luke learned to appreciate the bond between fish and people. When he wasn’t helping to tend the family’s horses, he was fishing with his dad for salmon and steelhead on the Columbia and the Umatilla rivers.