Academic Report of College of Agricultural Sciences

AgSci’s Principles and Practices embrace behaviors to increase diversity and inclusivity in faculty, staff and students. These Principles and Practices are actively shared across the university and are a standard part of the culture of AgSci.

http://agsci.oregonstate.edu/node/261

The taskforce delivered a series of recommendations to the Oregon legislature on how to help the state’s honey bees, native bees and other pollinators.

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/bridges/osu-research-zeroes-critical-factors-honey-bee-health

Fisheries and Wildlife Graduate Student Association actively engages online students with campus-based colleagues in activities, symposia, and professional development opportunities.

AgSci invested in creating a college-wide web team to develop new, consistent designs, navigation, and content management system that are fully integrated, mobile, and aligned with OSU’s branding.

AgSci’s flagship research publication, Oregon’s Agricultural Progress, launched two new versions in 2014—an app for tablets and a fully responsive mobile website—to reach an ever-expanding mobile audience with news and features about agricultural sciences.

http://oregonprogress.oregonstate.edu/

The Bridges to Prosperity webpage was expanded to include more that 80 success stories geared for use with legislators and decision-makers from around the state.

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/bridges/oregon-agricultural-experiment-station

In a recent study led by Paul Jepson, director of OSU’s Integrated Plant Protection Center, researchers surveyed crop production in five African countries, and found a number of health and environmental concerns due to inefficient pesticide usage. The researchers are sharing their findings in an effort to educate the farmers on safe and sustainable application practices.

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/news/release/2014/02/osu-finds-widespread-pesticide-risks-west-africa

Team-Tox, in Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, provides professional development beyond the formal EMT curriculum. In 2014, Team-Tox set up grade-school level demonstrations, experiments, and resources for teachers, reaching over 700 K-12 students.

•  Received an EPA grant to conduct the first-ever comprehensive in vivo toxicity studies of flame retardants.
•  Recognized in Toxicological Sciences for their ground-breaking work using the embryonic zebrafish model to  evaluate the 1,060 compounds identified as hazardous by the EPA.
•  Received EPA grant to study System toxicological approaches to define flame retardant adverse outcome pathways

http://emt.oregonstate.edu/roberttanguay

In 2014, improved varieties of wheat, barley, hazelnuts, tomatoes, and ornamental shrubs were among the new releases from the college’s plant breeding programs.

http://plantbreeding.oregonstate.edu/