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Healthy People Student Research

Vital contributions

When Angelica Grizzle started college, her idea of research was scientists in lab coats looking into microscopes. When she found out that there were opportunities for undergraduate students to work with young kids on school readiness research, she jumped at the opportunity.

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Healthy Planet Stewardship

Contraceptive vaccine under study for elephants and horses

The first lesson the elephants taught Ursula Bechert was that they had a sense of humor.

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Healthy Planet Stewardship

Chasing the canine connection

When Cristina Eisenberg and her family moved to Montana in 1994, they received a warm welcome from their neighbors. On the first night in their new log cabin, they were greeted by the sonorous howls of nearby wolves.

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Healthy People

Natural compounds, chemotherapeutic drugs, may become partners in cancer therapy

Research in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University suggests that some natural food compounds, which previously have been studied for their ability to prevent cancer, may be able to play a more significant role in treating it – working side-by-side with the conventional drugs that are now used in chemotherapy.

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Earth Healthy People Inquiry Student Research

Bridging the Nuclear Divide

Nothing could have prepared Linda Richards for her visit to the Navajo Nation in 1986. The landscape was littered with piles of uranium debris. Signs warning of radioactive contamination were hung on playgrounds and living areas. The water wasn’t safe to drink. Families were living in homes made of radioactive materials.

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Healthy People Innovation

24/7 Checkup

A new chapter in high-tech medicine is being written by electrical engineers at Oregon State University.