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An Oregon State student is organizing a campus-wide campaign in response to the recent suicide of a Rutgers University student whose sexual orientation was exposed by a roommate.

The combined efforts of Oregon State University Campus Recycling and da Vinci Days organizers helped divert an estimated one ton of waste from area landfills generated by the popular Corvallis festival.

A new study, which includes lead author John Becker-Blease of OSU, has determined that female executives are more than twice as likely to leave their jobs – voluntarily and involuntarily – as men.

OSU students and staff turned the MU quad into a Bollywood film scene Friday when more than 70 people participated in a flash mob dance to showcase the university's diversity efforts.

Two diversity advocates will speak Friday at Oregon State University on the impact diversity and inclusion has on the economy.

An OSU researcher analyzing chemical contamination in the Gulf of Mexico has found elevated levels of "polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons," or PAHs, persist despite recent capping of the leak.

Open source solutions to information technology issues in government offices at the local, state, federal and international level are the subject of the upcoming GOSCON conference.

At Oregon State University, freshmen have an opportunity to take special courses designed to help them get oriented to campus – using themes that include pop culture and social media.

A new study has determined that teenagers who have abortions are no more likely to become depressed or have low self-esteem than their peers whose pregnancies do not end in abortion.

Oregon State University, along with partners University of Washington and University of Idaho, will lead a new Department of Interior "Climate Science Center" that will be housed at OSU.

Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland was awash in a sea of orange on Friday, Sept. 17, when Oregon State University held a special "OSU Rally in the Square" event.

More than 35 years after Oregon began one of the nation’s most ambitious land use planning programs, a new study suggests it’s still difficult to demonstrate that it has accomplished one of its goals.

Oregon State University and the OSU Bookstore have joined forces to provide some relief for textbook costs.

Bolstered by a large incoming class and its successful Bridge to Success financial aid program, Oregon State University is set to welcome more than 23,000 students this fall term.

The Oregon State University Press has published the debut novel of Portland author Brian Doyle, "Mink River," which also is the Press's first venture into publishing original fiction.

The Corvallis Fire Department is teaming with OSU housing staff on a demonstration of fire safety Monday, when two mock dorm rooms will be burned near McNary Hall.

A survey of Oregon hospices, done by OSU researchers and published in the Hastings Report, found that more than half don't participate to any degree in Oregon's Death with Dignity Act.

Fluid Images, an Oregon-based business developed by OSU alumnus Bob Johnson that builds the world’s largest film cranes, is being honored by Oregon State University.

A new study of young women found that those with sexual partners who were “very” in favor of birth control were more than twice as likely to use an effective method of birth control consistently.

The school year is upon us and parents sending their kids off for the first time can increase their chance for success by improving their nutrition, activity and "school readiness."

A one-day symposium in Eugene on Sept. 10 will bring together policy experts and ocean scientists to discuss climate change impacts on the world's oceans and whether new policies are needed.

While the scientific and economic evidence for combating environmental destruction may give us compelling reasons for acting, Kathleen Dean Moore argues that there are also powerful moral reasons to act.

OSU researchers are getting closer to understanding how skin cancer begins, identifying adjacent cells that act as "co-conspirators" in the genesis of hard-to-treat melanoma.

Scientists from OSU and China have identified a series of potentially harmful compounds in the smoke emitted from a "roasting" process used to recycle electronic waste.

A new study has confirmed that children exposed to disasters are more prone to emotional problems, and that many of those children may already have experiencied some form of abuse.

Hathai Sangsupan and Arthur Bass of Oregon State University have been awarded Fulbright Student Program scholarships.

The Sierra Club has released its “Cool Schools” rankings based on the ‘greenness’ of participating universities, and Oregon State has the highest green ranking in the state, and is listed as 24th in the nation.

The director of OSU's internationally known Linus Pauling Institute offers his own regimen of vitamins and supplements, which includes some standards - and a few surprises.

Some Oregonians are reporting purchasing cooked shrimp at the coast that actually glow in the dark, but the luminescence - which comes from marine bacteria - is actually harmless.

Lamborn Family Vineyards in Napa Valley is receiving OSU’s “Orange Spotlight” award, which highlights businesses and organizations either operated by Oregon State alums and faculty or who employ a large number of Oregon State graduates.