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Camps Build Confidence and Sharpen Minds

From Corvallis labs to Newport tidepools to Salem campgrounds, OSU experts are challenging K-12 kids to stretch their thinking and deepen their understanding of the natural and built environments.

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Healthy Economy Innovation Student Research

Eat Locally, Market Globally

“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.”

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Healthy People

No Barriers

OSU engineer Katharine Hunter-Zaworski designs mass-transit equipment that makes travel not only more accessible but also more dignified.

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Healthy Planet Innovation

Sustainable Supply Chains

Recycling isn’t just for consumers. Manufacturers are finding competitive advantages in what is known as “end-of-life product management,” says OSU business professor Zhaohui Wu.

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Healthy Economy Innovation

Wired Fantasies

There’s a cyber-equivalent of souping up your car inside and out: “modding.” It’s part of the DIY (“do it yourself”) computer culture. Instead of gutting and customizing your ride, you’re modifying your PC.

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Football as Product

The bottom line was that those running the NFL could no longer take football’s powerful appeal for granted, and they feared losing an entire generation of lifetime football fans (and that generation once lost might spawn another, then another).