Kirsten Hill cares for the plants on her 25-acre Cascades foothills farm with the knowledge and sensitivity that most of us reserve for our closest friends.
Author: Nick Houtman
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.
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Beyond Encryption
Although data science and engineering aim to improve our lives — and have done so in many ways — the threat of misuse of our private data and of intrusion into our personal affairs is very real.
In Africa, students learn how fistula survivors turn tragedy into hope.
Julia Bingham launches a study of barnacle biology and culture on the Oregon coast.
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Solar Eclipse 2017
Did you know that the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse will pass directly over Corvallis?
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Soap Makers for Social Justice
Three Oregon State students signed up for a project in the university’s new humanitarian engineering program, the first question was, Have any of you made soap? Nervous laughter broke out when each one said “no.”