Topic: osu

This article points up OSU as a pioneer in transparent electronics and touts a partnership among the U.S. government, private industry and university research to enable critical innovations for future display technology. For the non-pioneers among us here's what wiki has to say about thin films. Flat screen TV's are clearly the least of it. Beavers, always building stuff....

A quick rundown: Several Beaver swimmers are competing for spots on their respective Olympic teams. From OSUBeavers.com: Omaha, Neb. - Rachael Wahl began her quest to become a member of the United States Olympic swim team by competing in the 100 butterfly, where she finished with a time of 1:01.96 during the preliminaries, Monday. During the preliminaries for the 200 butterfly,...

In honor of Indepence Day, a holliday celebrating the biggest change in our nations history, I have created a list of thirteen changes (one for each of the original colonies) I would love to see at the Corvallis Sports Park. "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." Charles Darwin 1. Redecorate the Sports Pub...leagues are filled with great female players. Both high schools have talented girls programs and OSU has a women's varsity and club tea...

Flickr: popsicle triumph I've almost hit my strawberry wall this season, but notmartha's homemade popsicle looks amazing. Oregonian: OSU students enter solar car in 2,400-mile race A story about Rain Dancer, a solar car designed and built by a group of OSU students....

Remember that bee post I promised you and never delivered? I'm a loser. Anyway, I'm doing a little guest blogging over at the new Gazette-Times blog, Green City. And there you will find... a post about bees. From me. Yes, I poached my own material. Okay, but I'm going to make it up to you right now by posting a few more photos of this swarm being collected outside the G-T offices...year. My husband took these photos and he didn't get this guy's name, but he's a professor from OSU who just came on out and stuck his...

For me, criticism of something can be divided into two general camps: 1) Criticism regarding whether or not the process is working. For example, the utter failure of the U.S. government to maintain the physical infrastructure of the country, as noted by the bridge collapse in Minnesota, the Katrina levees, and what's starting to come out about the state of the infrastructure in Iowa. These are...a practice in general. I bring this up, yes, because of my recent posts regarding the GT and the OSU CoE rankings. In this case, I se...

A few people have asked me why I'm so into this whole OSU College of Engineering ranking thing. One reason is the simple fact that OSU is being disingenuous insofar as they are not necessarily broadcasting the fact that the ranking Ron Adams gives out is determined by... Ron Adams! The other reason - and the ostensible point of this post - is that I care about journalism, and I see the GT as...

In 2007, the OSU Geo Club took a trip to Spain to explore the Pyrenees mountains. Below the slideshow, we've listed some of the highlights from their itinerary... To view this slideshow, click play, then click play again in the new window. Make a Smilebox slideshow June 2: Arrive in Barcelona June 3-4: Tourism in the city (& recovery from jet lag!) June 5: Depart...

"Pauling's thinking was never cramped by traditional disciplinary boundaries. His investigations can be likened, not to a line drawn on a page, but to a drop of ink suffusing outward on the currents of curiosity and the tides of creativity." - Lee Sherman. "Like Looking Over His Shoulder," Terra Magazine. June 2008. We are pleased to announce that the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling...describes the collection, featuring interviews with leading Pauling biographer Tom Hager and OSU historians of science Dr. Paul Farber...

Bumped from the diaries. Many thanks to funk for sharing his thoughts on the game. --Jake Jake asked me to post a few thoughts on the USC game, particularly the atmosphere. Don't know how helpful my comments will be, since this is my first year going to games, but I'll share anyways.For those of you hoping that OSU fans would rally around a new coach and get behind the team, I'm sorry to say...