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Meadowlands

Across parts of the West, green meadows have given way to eroding banks like this creek near Izee in Eastern Oregon. The white layer is ash from the eruption of Mount Mazama, which led to the creation of Crater Lake more than 7,000 years ago. (Photo: Gordon Grant)

Can beavers restore this eroded stream channel?

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Lessons in Resilience

Gentle support comes through dance for a fistula survivor and advocate in Soroti, Uganda.

In Africa, students learn how fistula survivors turn tragedy into hope.

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A Market for Barnacles

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Julia Bingham launches a study of barnacle biology and culture on the Oregon coast.

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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.”

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Student researcher works to protect Chilean wildlife

As an Oregon State undergraduate, Katharina-Victoria Perez first traveled to Chile in 2012. She participated in two expeditions into the rugged mountain home of the huemul to set up camera traps.

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School to School

Schools in Kenya have become crucial partners with TAHMO by installing weather stations and collaborating with sister schools in Europe and the United States. In Corvallis, Adams Elementary School installed a Decagon weather station last September and has just started communicating with the St. Scholastica Primary School north of Nairobi.