“Entrepreneurship isn’t just for business students. It’s for students in agriculture, science, engineering and all others. It’s as fundamental as math, reading and writing.”
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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Hiding Man — The Art of Story
Daugherty is a Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University. To his task, he brings both analytical insight and personal relationship. He was Barthelme’s graduate student at the University of Houston and opens the story with an experience that contains echoes of Barthelme’s own development as a writer in the same city.
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Climate by the Numbers
You can’t just walk into the data center in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS). The sign on the door says you need a pass card. There should be another sign too: Caution, planetary experiments in progress.
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Power Surge
Nuclear power tends to stir strong feelings, both pro and con. New engineering approaches address issues such as waste, operating safety and proliferation and underscore the potential for nuclear to raise living standards while reducing carbon emissions.
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Salmon on the run
For a second year in a row, commercial salmon boats in California and Oregon will either retool for another fishery or travel north.
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Baby Blue
See it for yourself, the first baby blue whale ever caught on film.