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THE PROMISE OF ORGAN PRESERVATION

The ability to replace organs on demand could save or improve millions of lives around the world each year.

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Advantage Healthy Economy

Small World

Game-changing technology sometimes comes in small packages. For example, with two magnets and a lightbulb filament — a package thinner than a deck of cards — Joe Beckman and a team of Oregon State University collaborators may revolutionize the mass spectrometry (aka, “mass spec”) industry. Their device amplifies the sensitivity and precision of technology that is the workhorse of chemistry labs. And it requires minimal retooling of existing equipment.

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Advantage Healthy Economy Innovation

Partnership Advances the Cutting Edge

As partners in Oregon State’s Advantage program, Blount International is working with OSU researchers to advance the state of the art in saw technologies for agriculture, construction and landscaping in addition to forestry.

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Healthy Economy Innovation

Seedbed for Startups

Methane-powered engines. Autonomous helicopters. Online shopping assistants. Electricity from wastewater. These new products and the business opportunities they generate are in the pipeline at Oregon State University’s Advantage Accelerator.

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Healthy Economy Innovation

Seeing the Light

Oregon scientists and startups have joined forces to create the next generation of “Low-E” window technology.

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Healthy Economy Innovation

Balancing Work and Family

Babies don’t wait for you to get your master’s degree. They arrive on their own schedules and change your life. Drew Arnold learned that lesson when he became a father. He also found that sleep comes in a distant third to family and education.