IB News Briefs

IB News Briefs

04/21/25 – IB faculty provide hands-on research experience in high-enrollment series

04/15/25 – Itchung Cheung co-led a student trip to Aruba

04/01/25 – Natalie Donato receives prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

03/25/25 – What truly matters to biology undergrad Natalie Donato is hands-on experiences

03/06/25 – Matt Waterhouse chases his passion while helping others

02/26/25 – Biology undergrad, Natalie Donato, designed new Vibrant Ocean license plate

01/14/25 – Jamie Cornelius to discuss coping strategies of birds in this era of rapid climate change

01/08/25 – Sarah Henkel collaborated on the latest Oregon Climate Assessment

12/11/24 – Integrative Biology outreach efforts 2023-24

11/15/24 – Cordley Hall is now a state-of-the-art science building

11/12/24 – Dee Denver and Brenna Prevelige led OSU students on a study abroad program to Nepal

10/01/24 – Nyazia Sajdah-Bey shares her perspective on Black scientists creating their own space in marine science

07/23/24 – Sarah Gravem says the loss of kelp forests is like a forest with no trees

07/03/24 – The Cornelius Lab collects data on songbirds to understand how wildfire smoke affects them

06/04/24 – Sally Hacker, Bruce Menge and Zech Meunier investigate rocky shore communities

05/29/24 – Menge Lab investigates ecological communities' response to climate change

05/23/24 – Dee Denver receives fellowship for biodiversity-Buddhism interface

05/09/24 – Kirsten Grorud-Colvert and Jenna Sullivan-Stack Discuss Ocean Biodiversity

04/24/24 – Bruce Menge comments on the meaning of "keystone species"

04/16/24 – Manon Vezinet assisted the Cornelius Lab with data collection on songbirds

04/15/24 – Bruce Menge weighs in on organism die-off linked to equivalent of underwater cold snap

03/28/24 – IB's marine biology students gain hands-on experience

03/21/24 – Sally Hacker works with agencies to develop coastal dune management guidebooks

03/21/24 – Denver Lab finds biotool may also infect and kill non-target native gastropod species

02/22/24 – Zoology undergrad Camrie Smith lives the motto: Don’t just study science. Do science.

02/06/24 – Inclusive Excellence Award recipient, Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, will share practical ways to promote inclusivity in science

11/17/23 – Dee Denver to lead new three-week study abroad opportunity in Nepal

11/18/22 – Hike with a scientist: Seeking the secrets of Oregon’s mysterious rain beetles in Corvallis

11/17/22 – Climate Change Research on Dungeness Crab featured on KATU

08/12/22 – Harm from blue light exposure rises with age, OSU research suggests

07/26/22 – Scientist who helped inspire Jurassic Park reveals 30 million year-old microcosm trapped in amber

07/11/22 – Jamie Cornelius songbird research featured in OPB, KOIN

06/29/22 – Marine Protected Area research covered by the Conversation and the Smithsonian

06/23/22 – OSU Scientists Win $1M+ for Ocean Studies

06/23/22 – Seven Remarkable OSU Faculty Members

06/20/22 – KUOW covers second-year Ph.D. student’s marine research

05/19/22 – New Study: More and Better U.S. Marine Protected Areas Needed to Protect Key Ecosystems

04/29/22 – The role of DNA research in society

04/18/22 – Research on intertidal zone ecosystems reported in Hakai magazine

03/31/22 – Hike with a scientist: Oregon dunes of Bob Straub hold secrets in the sand

03/01/22 – Hakai magazine features research exploring how climate change is affecting crab catching in the Pacific Northwest

02/22/22 – Hundreds of new native bees species added to Oregon database

02/01/22 – Research on the ocean’s changing climate covered in KOIN and Newsweek

01/18/22 – Fish hatchery developments featured on KOIN and Science Daily

01/11/22 – OSU: Study shows Oregon Coast 'subtly destabilized by the pressures of climate change'

11/18/21 – OSU study yields a first in fossil research: Seeds sprouting from an amber-encased pine cone

10/26/21 – How the 'Dune' science-fiction saga parallels the real science of Oregon's dunes

10/11/21 – ‘Mystery spider’ stirs curiosity among C.O. residents; biologist provides its identity

09/13/21 – Ocean hypoxia off Pacific Northwest coast more troubling than ever, experts say

08/03/21 – Low-flow research on Colorado River sheds light on eventual new normal for Grand Canyon

08/01/21 – Ktoo reports on sea star research shedding light on kelp forests’ decline

07/26/21 – Ancient, newly identified 'mammoth weevil' used huge 'trunk' to fight for mates

07/26/21 – This year's hypoxia season has come far earlier than usual

06/23/21 – Ant trapped in ancient amber with parasitic mushroom stuck in its butt

06/22/21 – Reports on The Providence Journal, Science Daily, Albany Democrat-Herald and The Corvallis Advocate say Rhode Island's rarest frog may not be so rare

06/21/21 – Congratulations to IB's award recipients

06/09/21 – Class of 2021: Who was there for you?

06/08/21 – In Show of Hope, 2021-2022 OSU Gilman and Freeman-ASIA Scholars Make Plans to Study Abroad Despite Uncertainty

06/02/21 – Bob Mason named Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development

05/26/21 – Meet Biden's trailblazing climate science adviser

05/25/21 – Oregon State University research shows two invasive beachgrasses are hybridizing

05/18/21 – Researcher predicts another dead zone off Oregon's coast

04/27/21 – What Can 26,000 Snakes Teach Us About Climate Change?

04/21/21 – Kay Holekamp delivered 2021 Robert M. Storm Distinguished Lecture

02/23/21 – Saving Oregon’s rocky coast: Checking in on the sea stars

02/17/21 – A rare bird sighting doesn’t lead to seeing more kinds of rare birds

01/04/21 – New flower from 100 million years ago brings fresh holiday beauty to 2020

12/29/20 – Dave Lytle and his team received the SERDP Project of the Year Award

11/30/20 – Ben Dalziel's team receives $2 million grant to expand TRACE-COVID-19 nationally

06/25/20 – Corvallis’ Own Snake Scientist Talks Snake Sex, and More

02/18/20 – Primitive bee in amber reveals its 100 million-year-old apoid wasp lineage

02/06/20 – An Ecologist Organizes the World

02/03/20 – Congratulations to Jane Lubchenco on receiving the inaugural Mary Sears Medal

01/27/20 – DeFazio talks of science and policy mix at OSU

01/09/20 – Bob Mason's research on snake sex covered by the Gazette Times

12/19/19 – ‘Listening to the Crabs’

10/25/19 – Oregon State scientists tout ocean protection progress

10/17/19 – Daily exposure to blue light may accelerate aging, even if it doesn't reach your eyes

10/10/19 – You’ve Heard of Water Bears, but How About These Ancient Mold Pigs?

09/26/19 – Less than 3 percent of the ocean is 'highly protected'

09/16/19 – We worked for the NOAA. Political appointees can’t overrule scientists.

09/09/19 – Feeling Crabby: Why are Dungeness crabs washing up on Oregon beaches this summer?

07/30/19 – We've Only Really Protected 2 Percent of the Ocean

07/24/19 – Three IB graduate students are finalists for Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program

07/16/19 – Oregon’s Eelgrass Is Disappearing, With Potentially Big Impacts

07/03/19 – Zech Meunier and Kamron Kayhani win NSF fellowships for outstanding research

07/02/19 – Commencement: A day for reflecting and looking to the future

07/02/19 – Anne Devan-Song receives AAUW International Fellowship

06/17/19 – This Town Comes Alive Once a Year, as Thousands of Snakes Mate

06/12/19 – IB presents awards at 2019 spring picnic

06/12/19 – OSU professor, alumnus urge new 'new narrative' for oceans

05/16/19 – Patricia Brennan presented Robert M. Storm Distinguished Lecture

05/06/19 – The Senate Should Reject Trump’s NOAA Nominee

05/06/19 – Claire Couch is Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine's 2019 MacVicar Award recipient

04/29/19 – Honors College Names Bob Mason and Jim Liburdy 2019 Eminent Professors

04/16/19 – Prehistoric Whodunit: New Technique Identifies What Killed Ancient Animals

03/26/19 – Oregon State’s renowned marine ecologist to speak at 150th annual commencement in June

03/12/19 – Person to Person: Congested cities with subways increase the transmission of flu

03/04/19 – Reflections In A Tide Pool: OPB Spotlights Jane Lubchenco

02/19/19 – Vanessa Constant receives Ecological Society of America’s 2019 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award

02/13/19 – Mosquitoes that carry malaria may have been doing so 100 million years ago

02/04/19 – Jaga Giebultowicz Named the 2018 Honors College Meehan Eminent Mentor

02/04/19 – Marine scientists to use artificial intelligence, “big data” to locate and predict crime at sea

01/23/19 – The Paleobiologist Who Inspired the Science in ‘Jurassic Park’

01/10/19 – Garter Snakes Used to Be All Over Portland. Where Did They Go?

12/11/18 – OSU study: Blood-sucking flies around 100 million years

10/24/18 – Brian Tanis wins Wood Award from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

09/20/18 – Oregon Now Has A Hypoxia Season, Just Like A Wildfire Season

09/20/18 – TEDxSGH "How the fruit fly helped to understand your biological clock"

08/20/18 – Two IB researchers receive NSF postdoctoral fellowships

07/24/18 – This aquatic grass could help shellfish threatened by ocean acidification

07/24/18 – The mathematics of flu

07/03/18 – Ocean science agency chief floats removing ‘climate’ from mission statement and focusing on trade deficit

07/02/18 – Biology major, Milan Sengthep talks about what she loves about being a science student at OSU

07/02/18 – Starfish Baby Boom makes Oregon Public Broadcast

06/12/18 – Interviews with WIC Seminar Alumni: Nate Kirk

06/07/18 – Integrative Biology presents 2018 awards

06/04/18 – This saltwater trout evolved to live in freshwater—in just 100 years

05/29/18 – OSU Biologist Advocates Ecological Approach to Improving Human Health

04/12/18 – A Drop in the Ocean?

03/21/18 – ESA Selects 2018 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients

03/05/18 – The World Has Two Years to Meet Marine Protection Goal. Can It Be Done?

03/01/18 – USGS and NASA Team Up to Help Scientists Study the “Social Networks” of Wildlife

02/22/18 – The Oregon Ocean Acid Test

02/19/18 – Sea star wasting unusually high at Haystack Rock

02/19/18 – Oregon's science superstars: A look at a few of the state's top research minds

02/01/18 – Caitlin Magel Eelgrass Research makes it to Oregon Public Broadcast

11/20/17 – Congratulations to Sally Hacker on being elected Fellow of AAAS

11/08/17 – Because diversity matters: Science students attend 2017 SACNAS conference

10/23/17 – Chris Marshall hunts for a new species of rain beetle

10/09/17 – The Ocean’s Low-Oxygen Dead Zones Are Getting Worse, Just Like Wildfires

10/09/17 – Scientists to Granting Agencies: ‘Transformative’ Research Unrealistic to Predict

10/04/17 – Welcome to the 2017-18 academic year!

09/22/17 – Big questions need big answers. That's our strong suit.

09/21/17 – "Chasing Coral" documentary film and panel discussion

08/28/17 – Biology & Zoology undergrads receive $288,600 in scholarships

08/22/17 – Exquisite flowers from a prehistoric tree have been discovered preserved in amber

08/22/17 – Kyle Coblentz wins award at recent ESA meeting

08/07/17 – Size matters, and so do temperature and habitat, to scavengers and the carcasses they eat

07/27/17 – Unusual ocean phenomena happening along Oregon coast

07/17/17 – Seafloor survey done for potential offshore renewable energy projects

06/20/17 – Congratulations, Class of 2017!

06/13/17 – OSU researcher part of $14 million NSF program for improved genomic tools

06/08/17 – West Coast waters on acid trip; fishing industry in peril

06/07/17 – Marine reserves can serve as buffer to effects of climate change, study suggests

06/01/17 – Acidified ocean water widespread along North American West Coast

05/08/17 – Galapagos Research Locates Triggerfish As Key Predator In Food Web

05/08/17 – Researchers identify evidence of oldest orchid fossil on record

05/02/17 – Harry Greene presented the Robert M. Storm Distinguished Lecture

05/01/17 – Ocean acidification and the future of Oregon’s coastal ocean speaker set

05/01/17 – Connecting the dots: OSU researchers unravel mystery of beetle not seen in 30 years

04/27/17 – IB participates in "Science Worth Spreading"

04/18/17 – Inspiration Dissemination

04/05/17 – Vivid Science celebrates its 2000th Tweet!

04/05/17 – Bob Mason delivers F.A. Gilfillan Memorial Lecture

02/16/17 – Ebola Study Shows How ‘Superspreaders’ Can Prolong An Outbreak

01/26/17 – Strange Bug gets a Spotlight on VOA News

01/11/17 – Do Ocean Preserves Actually Work?

12/12/16 – Diving Beetle, First Found in Bathtub, Rediscovered 30 Years Later

12/12/16 – REEF Unveils New Lionfish Reporting App

12/05/16 – Save the Pacific Bluefin Tuna

11/30/16 – Marine incentives programs work to address multiple ocean threats

11/29/16 – IB Open House 2016

11/29/16 – IB Open House

11/28/16 – Scientist and Fishermen - working together to improve West Coast fisheries

11/22/16 – Rockfish siblings shed new light on how offspring diffuse and disperse

11/21/16 – History Makers 2016: Dr. Jane Lubchenco

11/17/16 – Bacteria May Help Control Lesion Nematodes

11/17/16 – OSU scientists release findings in global kelp ecosystem study

11/03/16 – Celebrate the Art of Teaching Science

10/27/16 – Bob Mason has been elected 2016 President-Elect of the Faculty Senate

10/24/16 – Offspring from fat fish on deep reefs help keep shallower populations afloat

10/13/16 – What has millions of eyes but can't see, and even more legs but can't walk?

10/12/16 – Oregon State researchers discover ancient wingless wasp species encased in prehistoric amber

10/05/16 – IB kicks off the new academic year

10/03/16 – IB faculty and their guests celebrate at University Day dinner

10/03/16 – First European green crab in Washington’s Salish Sea

09/12/16 – Ex-NOAA boss on how politics resembles shark diving

08/22/16 – Beetles pollinated orchids millions of year ago, fossil evidence shows

08/08/16 – OSU adaptation of free biology textbook may annually save students $100K

07/20/16 – Scared out of its skin, ancient insect escaped sticky doom

06/20/16 – Nate Kirk named Honors College Professor of the Year

06/20/16 – Andy Bouwma receives Excellence in Innovation Award

06/20/16 – IB names 2016 Castor canadensis award recipients

06/16/16 – Congratulations, Class of 2016!

06/07/16 – Eddies enhance survival of coral reef fish in sub-tropical waters

05/17/16 – Narcisse snake dens a wonder of the natural world

05/16/16 – Dams cause trouble for aquatic insects

05/12/16 – In A Snake Orgy, Ejaculate Can Get Expensive

05/11/16 – The Bionic Woman of Good Science

05/10/16 – The TEDification of the Large Lecture

05/10/16 – In Narcisse, Around 75,000 Snakes Are Waking Up From a Nap

05/09/16 – Baby Starfish Along the West Coast featured in the Christian Science Monitor

05/05/16 – After shocking die-off, Oregon sea stars stage an epic comeback

04/27/16 – IB hosted an open house on Sunday, May 1

04/26/16 – Exploring Oregon's ocean at Listening to the Land

04/08/16 – Florida Lionfish War Heats Up

04/07/16 – Waters off North America's west coast affected by climate change

04/05/16 – As ocean acidification threatens the West Coast, a quest to stop it

03/30/16 – What the man who inspired Jurassic Park's science thinks about the future of wildlife research

03/11/16 – Lubchenco receives Linus Pauling Legacy Award

03/11/16 – Inaugural Robert M. Storm Distinguished Lecture

03/09/16 – Teaching Marine Biology Writing in the Field: An Interview with Sally Hacker

03/08/16 – Are Hatcheries Helping, or Hurting, Wild Fish Populations?

03/08/16 – OSU partners on $3.2 million study to probe a costly potato pest

03/01/16 – Effect of Hatcheries on Fish

02/24/16 – New Species of Prehistoric Flower Discovered Preserved in Amber

02/18/16 – How different are wild salmon from farm salmon? A lot, DNA shows.

02/03/16 – Protecting our oceans must be priority for president, Congress

01/25/16 – Jen Olarra wins Boedtker Award for Undergraduate Advising

01/25/16 – Get out and study abroad for new experiences, perspectives

01/13/16 – IB Celebrates Grand Opening of the "Biosphere"

01/11/16 – Origins of the Black Death

01/07/16 – Ice crawler's last stand

12/21/15 – How cities and citizens will lead in climate solutions

12/16/15 – Vivid Science celebrates its 1000th Tweet!

12/07/15 – Four IB researchers featured in Corvallis Advocate

12/03/15 – Big Year in OSU Research Dollars, Accomplishments

12/03/15 – Research is fine in 'a year of summer' for Tualatin High graduate Lindsey Ferguson

11/23/15 – Ocean protections drift behind those on land, but science can help

11/16/15 – Scuba divers take on invasive lionfish

10/26/15 – Owl pellets bridge ancient and modern ecosystems

08/24/15 – First-Ever Salamander in Amber Found in Caribbean

08/24/15 – Record year for research funding

06/29/15 – College of Science IMPACT Spring 2015

06/16/15 – IB hosts 2015 graduation breakfast

06/11/15 – The Amber Sarcophagus: Dinosaurs, Disease, and Drugs—and the Scientist Behind Jurassic Park

06/04/15 – Elusive Equity: Oregon State tackles the persistent bias inhibiting women in STEM fields

06/03/15 – Purple Beer Launched to Save Sea Stars

06/03/15 – IB presents annual Castor canadensis awards

06/03/15 – 66 IB Undergraduates Receive College of Science Scholarships

05/20/15 – Amber-encased plant could be oldest known grass: Specimen may also preserve a Cretaceous-aged hallucinogen

05/20/15 – Rogue supports higher ed with new Oregon craft beers for PSU, OSU

05/06/15 – Snail Genetic Variation Associated With Resistance to Schistosomiasis

04/21/15 – Butterfly eyespots deflect predation

03/26/15 – Lubchenco wins international conservation award

03/18/15 – Rogue Brewery inspired by OSU Science!

03/04/15 – Why Monarch Butterflies Need a Helping Hand

03/04/15 – Don't shake: Snakes are good for your garden

02/23/15 – Lab studies coral, anemones

02/19/15 – OSU study: Ocean changes may help - or hurt - fisheries

02/05/15 – Deb Lutterschmidt wins Independent Investigator Award

01/29/15 – Nearly $1.5 million in scholarships awarded to science students

01/29/15 – Doug Warrick Featured in Science News

01/29/15 – The IB Biology Major comes out on top for students studying abroad

01/27/15 – Fast and furious: The real lives of swallows

01/09/15 – Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them

12/08/14 – UO, OSU professors Geri Richmond and Jane Lubchenco are new U.S. science envoys -- science roundup extra

11/26/14 – Dr. Darren T. Lerner named new director of UH Sea Grant

11/26/14 – Wren Patton -- Understanding and Protecting a Changing Ocean

11/11/14 – Cordley Hall's got bugs in the building

10/28/14 – Lubchenco receives World Academy of Sciences Medal

10/20/14 – Jane Lubchenco receives Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication

09/16/14 – National Geographic Garter Snake Video

09/08/14 – Oregon spotted frog to be protected as threatened

08/12/14 – Jane Lubchenco receives ESA's Eminent Ecologist Award.

08/11/14 – Andy Blaustein named Fellow of the Ecological Society of America

07/08/14 – IB welcomes Lindsay Biga as A&P Instructor

07/07/14 – Kristen Milligan wins D. Curtis Mumford Faculty Service Award

06/18/14 – Mason Lab Garter Snake Research in Manitoba

06/14/14 – Tracking sea star wasting disease

06/10/14 – IB holds annual spring picnic & announces Castor canadensis award recipients

06/04/14 – Biology & Zoology Undergraduates Win 2014 College of Science Scholarships

05/27/14 – Dee Denver named new Director of MCB graduate program

05/27/14 – Paleobiology class takes field trip to John Day Fossil Beds

05/08/14 – Adam Chouinard receives Outstanding Teaching Assistant award

04/29/14 – Department raises over $2000 for local Food Drive

04/25/14 – Two recent IB grads hired at Purdue

01/01/14 – Ancient Flowers discovered by George Poinar

03/06/13 – Robbie Lamb receives Fulbright