Her work will continue to inspire research in the new Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families at OSU.
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Her work will continue to inspire research in the new Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families at OSU.
Youth development focuses on the positive, but the most vulnerable still face long odds.
For Melissa Cheyney, data collection begins with a home visit.
The traditions of native cultures — making reed baskets, eating wild foods, participating in sweat lodges — sustained people for centuries. Now those cultures are threatened by contamination. Researchers from the Umatilla reservation and OSU show why.
Food is only the most obvious way contaminants enter the human body.
Balz Frei leads the Linus Pauling Institute’s drive to understand how micronutrients affect genes and health.