A world of research at Oregon State University

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Rock ‘n’ Roll

Post author By Nick Houtman
Post date August 3, 2017

The whole-body-vibration motion platform in Assistant Professor Jay Kim's lab at Oregon State University. (Photo: Theresa Hogue)

Jay Kim aims to improve health for drivers and equipment operators

Tags back pain, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, occupational health, vibration

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Medicine and the State

Post author By Nick Houtman
Post date May 25, 2017

Students and spectators line the room during an 18th century dissection of a cadaver. Such demonstrations were commonly used to teach anatomy at universities.

Historians shed light on science, illness and government

Tags anatomy, health, health care, History, medicine, science policy

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A Sense for Starch

Post author By Nick Houtman
Post date February 11, 2017

Terra story about taste research with faculty, Juyun Lim, and graduate students Alexa Pullicin and Julie Colvin. Food Science and Technology, Center for Sensory and Consumer Research, College of Agrcultural Sciences

Food scientists discover potential new taste

Tags Food Science and Technology, sensory, starch, taste

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E Pluribus Unum?

Post author By Nick Houtman
Post date October 12, 2016

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.

Tags Culture, diversity, immigration

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Interrogating the Silence

Patti Duncan’s journey has been guided by deep, sometimes disturbing questions. How and why are the voices of birth mothers often erased from these stories? Why have so many women been silenced?