Stunning images of rare zooplankton garner worldwide citizen input.
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Terra+ Spring 2015
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Taking a Quick Scan
We can learn a lot by going back in time, but scientific methods for looking at the past can take, well, a lot of time. Ancient ash, pollen and chemical changes in ocean sediment cores give us glimpses into a long-gone world, but they also provide clues to our future. And yet, analyzing these cores takes weeks, if not months — until now.
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Engaging In Opportunity Creation
Years of knitting together a network of strategic partnerships have shown me that focusing mostly on proposal writing can limit your research horizons. If you’re trying to build something big, engaging more broadly in what I call “opportunity creation” may be something to think about.
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On the Ground with Kevin Ahern
Making connections and advocating for students who seek real-world research practice is Kevin Ahern’s focus as the university’s director of undergraduate research.
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Chain of Mentorship
When you tell people you work in a cryopreservation lab, it sounds like you’re in a sci-fi movie. But the students who work for Oregon State bioengineering professor Adam Higgins say there’s nothing fictitious about the learning they’ve acquired as part of his broader-impact program.
In December 2013, the Office for Research Development was launchede with the goal of establishing a framework to catalyze the competitiveness of faculty researchers in winning funding for their research. The creation of the office was driven by a task force of visionary faculty recognizing the need for someone to facilitate the development of large-scale proposals, institutionalize our “lessons learned,” position OSU to compete successfully on large-scale opportunities, foresee and create new opportunities for large-scale research, and make interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary research an institutional priority.