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Materials Science

Alloying materials of different structures offers new tool for controlling properties

New research into the largely unstudied area of heterostructural alloys could lead to better semiconductors, advances in pharmaceuticals and improved metallic glasses for industrial applications.

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Integrative Biology

Biologist part of $14 million NSF program for improved genomic tools

Biologist Virginia Weis is one of eight researchers selected for a new $14 million NSF program for enabling discovery through genomic tools.

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Mathematics

Mathematician Dan Rockwell's passion for teaching hooks students

Mathematics instructor Daniel Rockwell is featured in a new series highlighting successful teaching on campus.

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Marine Science

Marine reserves can mitigate effects of climate change

Marine biologist Jane Lubchenco and an international team of scientists have found that marine reserves can help protect the planet from global warming.

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Events

International astrophysics conference on campus

The Department of Physics hosted an international workshop on the physics and observations of supernovae and other cosmic explosive phenomena.

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Physics

Physicist nets Rising Researcher Award

Physicist Matt Graham was awarded a 2017 SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing Rising Researcher award, one of only ten scientists recognized across the country.

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Integrative Biology

Marine ecologist finds highly acidified ocean water along the West Coast

A three-year survey of the California Current System found persistent, highly acidified water throughout this ecologically critical nearshore habitat.

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Faculty and Staff

Faculty excellence: Promotions and Tenure, 2017

The College of Science congratulates 18 faculty who received promotions and/or tenure for the 2016-17 academic year.

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Students

Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence in Science

Thirty-four science majors presented their research at the Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence event sponsored by the Division of Undergraduate Studies.

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Faculty and Staff

Phi Beta Kappa student awards for best instructor and best mentor go to science faculty

Congratulations to senior chemistry instructor Daniel Myles and biochemistry and biophysics professor Kevin Ahern for winning the very first Oregon State Phi Beta Kappa Society student awards!

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Events

Renowned ecologist to present lecture on nature and conservation

Dr. Harry W. Greene, an ecologist at Cornell University, will present the second annual Robert M. Storm Distinguished Lecture May 31, 2017.

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Events

Oregon State biochemist to give public lecture on the 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Corvallis Public Library presents a public lecture on the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine by Viviana Perez, assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics.