Tuesday, April 18, 2017

OSU Today

Today in the News Media is a synopsis of some of the most prominent coverage of OSU people and programs. Inclusion of any item constitutes neither an endorsement nor a critique, but rather is intended only to make the OSU community aware of significant items in the media.
Report: ‘New era’ of wildfires in West demands new tactics (KTVZ)
Current wildfire policy can’t adequately protect people, homes and ecosystems from the longer, hotter fire seasons climate change is causing, according to a report co-authored by an Oregon State University professor and published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
OSU-Cascades student housing and dining complex wins national innovator award (My Central Oregon)
The newly opened residential and dining halls on the Oregon State University – Cascades campus in Bend were recently recognized at the InterFace Student Housing Conference with an Innovator award for Best New Development. (see also KTVZ)
Study examines how pregnancy risk factors affect outcomes of home and birthing center deliveries (News-Medical)
However, women with some other risk factors, a breech baby and some other cases of vaginal birth after cesarean or VBAC, may face an increased risk of poor outcomes for themselves or their babies, researchers at Oregon State University have found. The study is believed to be the first to examine these risks and the outcomes. About 2 percent of all births in the U.S., and about 4 percent in Oregon, occur at home or in a birth center, rather than in a hospital setting.
Small Beauties (Terra)
In a collaboration with The Arts Center in Corvallis, Jerri Bartholomew is bringing her two worlds together, culminating in April in a show — Microbiomes: To see the unseen.
OSU pushes follow-up shots (Democrat-Herald)
Oregon State University officials are calling on students to come to the Memorial Union to get shots for meningococcal disease in an effort ...

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