October 31st, 2018
Recognizing research and administrative excellence
Congratulations to these science faculty and administrators who received 2018 Faculty and Staff Awards for administrative and research excellence!
Congratulations to these science faculty and administrators who received 2018 Faculty and Staff Awards for administrative and research excellence!
The College of Science congratulates Courtney Rae Armour, the first graduate student to receive the Larry W. Martin & Joyce B. O’Neill Endowed Fellowship.
Oregon State microbiologists have made a key advance toward understanding which of the trillions of gut microbes may play important roles in how humans and […]
The second Genetic Code Expansion (GCE) Conference accelerated fundamental research into the biology of life as well as drug discovery and material science.
Biophysicist Elisar Barbar and team have discovered that the intrinsically disordered state of the protein ASCIZ, a key transcription factor within cells, plays a major […]
OSU biophysicist Weihong Qiu has solved a longstanding puzzle concerning the design of molecular motors, paving the way toward new cancer therapies.
Nearly 400 scientists and acclaimed science writer Ed Yong will participate in the 9th International Symbiosis Society Congress at OSU.
Biochemist Adrian Gombart discovered nanofiber-based wound dressings loaded with vitamin D spur production of an antimicrobial peptide, a key step to battling surgical site infections.
BioHealth Sciences major Coby Cates founded and presided over the national award-winning Pre-SOMA (Student Osteopathic Medical Association) club.
Biohealth Sciences major Sydney Phu selected for a prestigious bioethics summer internship at the Mayo Clinic.
Biologist suggests an ecological approach to improve human health, comparing a person to an ecosystem in which fighting chronic disease requires bolstering gut microbes.
The blood of schizophrenia patients features genetic material from more types of microorganisms than that of people without the debilitating mental illness.
OSU statisticians were awarded a four-year $770K NIH grant to innovate statistical methods to study the human microbiome and its role in human health.
The College of Science welcomes Maude David and spouse Kenton Hokanson, who joined the Department of Microbiology in January.
Human cells have tremendous power to mechanically change their surroundings, opening the door to new insights including how cancer spreads.
Chemistry graduate student Elizabeth Kaweesa has played a role in the discovery of a bacterium that kills melanoma cells.
Microbiologists advance the fight against drug resistance, crafting a compound that genetically neutralizes a pathogen’s ability to thwart antibiotics.
A type of soil-dwelling bacterium produces molecules that induce death in melanoma cells, according to research by chemist Sandra Loesgen.
Oregon State University is one of only two universities in the country with Land-, Sea-, Space- and Sun-Grant designations.
Science at Oregon State University has been a trailblazer since OSU’s designation as a land-grant college in 1868.
