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Healthy Planet Student Research

The Mythbuster

OSU graduate student Jesse Abrams interviewed ranchers, homeowners, business people and local officials to understand changes unfolding in Wallowa County.

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Healthy Economy

OSU Scholars Archive Ranks Among World’s Best

Achieving its highest ratings yet in January 2010, OSU came in fourth nationally and 16th internationally on Web-o-Metrics Institutional Repository rankings.

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From Margin to Mainstream

When California-based Amy’s Kitchen opened a plant in Southern Oregon in 2006, the Oregon Department of Agriculture called it “a large feather in Oregon’s organic cap.” The nation’s largest producer of organic frozen foods, from complete meals to pizza, now employs about 700 full-time workers in White City. Its success is a sign that, over the last decade, organics have morphed from counterculture to mainstream.

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No More Dentures

As soon as the story was out last winter, Chrissa Kioussi’s phone started to ring. People offered to send her their teeth or to volunteer in her study of tooth development.

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“Freakishly Excited To Learn”

Something about César Chávez grabbed Gabriel’s imagination and wouldn’t let go.

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Healthy Planet

Redrawing the Map

Maps of Oregon’s territorial sea are due for an upgrade.