Nick Houtman is director of research communications at OSU and edits Terra, a world of research and creativity at Oregon State University. He has experience in weekly and daily print journalism and university science writing. A native Californian, he lived in Wisconsin and Maine before arriving in Corvallis in 2005.
Immigrants and other minority cultures should have the right to maintain their traditions, languages and practices. And we should learn not just to tolerate differences, but to be open to and affirming of them.
Annual Research Report 2016
A flying disc may prompt a new form of therapy.
My first and strongest impression from this past year on the job centers on our Oregon State faculty. Quite simply, they are fearless — fearless in tackling some of our planet’s most pressing problems.
Despite punishing winds, temperature swings, drought and flood, seeds take root and plants thrive across the Northwest. Flora of Oregon, Volume 1, includes these and other images of some of the state’s most spectacular floral landscapes.
In 2015, Portland photographer Joni Kabana traveled to Uganda where she documented a project to make goat-milk soap by survivors of obstetric fistula.