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Microbiology

Microbiologist receives $1.94 million grant to study connection between autism, microbiome

OSU microbiologist Maude David is part of a $1.94 million grant to look for possible connections between the human microbiome and autism spectrum disorder.

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Students

Biology and biochemistry seniors, graduate students, alumna win NSF fellowship for outstanding research

Four College of Science students and alumni have received prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards in 2019.

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Students

Physics, mathematics and biochemistry students named Goldwater Scholars

College of Science launches three of four OSU winners of the prestigious 2019 Goldwater Scholarship.

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Marine Science

Localized efforts to save coral reefs won’t be enough, new study suggests

A National Science Foundation study suggests that localized attempts to curb pollution won’t save coral reefs without a worldwide effort to reduce global warming.

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Faculty and Staff

Two distinguished professors share their impacts in science

Faculty members who have received one of the university’s top honors will offer Distinguished University Professor lectures on May 13.

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Research

New diffractometer opens door to discovery

In its first week, Oregon State’s new diffractometer has already generated data for eight publishable articles in peer-reviewed science journals.

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Faculty and Staff

Matt Andrews to serve as Nebraska’s EPSCoR Director

Matt Andrews, Executive Associate Dean in the College of Science, is the new Director of NSF EPSCoR and NIH Institutional Development Award for the state of Nebraska.

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Biochemistry & Biophysics

Liver, colon cancer cells thwarted by compounds derived from hops

The hops plant produces a compound that thwarts cancer cells, and two key derivatives of the compound are even more effective.

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Biomedical Science

Microbes that live in fishes’ slimy mucus coating could lead chemists to new antibiotic drugs

Chemist Sandra Loesgen has been working to identify the next generation of antibiotics from the microbes associated with marine and freshwater fishes.

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Chemistry

Gilfillan Lecture: Scientific discoveries from the alphabet soup of nuclear waste

Renowned inorganic chemist May Nyman presents the 2019 Gilfillan Memorial Lecture, “Scientific Discoveries from the Alphabet Soup of Nuclear Waste.”

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Integrative Biology

Coral cell biologist named 2019 Distinguished Professor

An internationally recognized leader in coral symbiosis cell biology, Virginia Weis was named a 2019 Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University.

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Biomedical Science

Research paves way for new source for leukemia drug

Chemists patent a method for making anti-leukemia compounds that until now have only been available via an Asian tree.