David Ji and his research team have captured atmospheric carbon dioxide — a greenhouse gas — and used it to make an advanced, high-value material for energy-storage devices that power everything from defibrillators to hybrid electric cars.
A new graduate emphasis in nuclear forensics is being launched in OSU’s Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics with funding from Homeland Security.
Intensive studies of soil, water, air, growth, decomposition and human impacts, especially climate change, have been extended for another six years, thanks to a $6.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
In the north tower of the 500,000-square-foot, LEED Platinum-certified building, investigators from Oregon State occupy seven of the 26 third- and fourth-floor research modules. Many of OSU’s Portland-based pharmaceutical sciences researchers, filling more than 9,000 square feet of research space, have joint appointments with OHSU, and are involved in collaborative projects with investigators from the Knight Cancer Institute and the OHSU Center for Spatial Systems Biomedicine in areas of investigation such as nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems.
Citizen science, like many broader impacts activities, is rewarding, but comes with its own set of challenges. Many researchers shirk at the idea of using inexperienced individuals as data collectors, knowing that the ways in which volunteers may approach the natural world can be vastly different from that of scientists, leading to skewed data and rendering activities useless.
OSU is in the final stages for the acquisition of a web-based, electronic research administration system that will allow you all to craft, edit, submit, track and archive your compliance documents.