Editor's note: This story appeared in truncated form in the Barometer's June 2024 print issue.
In 1772, Lord Botetourt, an English transplant to the American colony of Virginia, announced to the student...
The sensory motor cortex, a slice of brain dedicated to sensing and moving different parts of your body, is topologically divided; the nerves that control and sense your right leg are found in a very certain...
As construction on the new Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts at Oregon State University comes to a close and its doors approach opening, the Student Fee Committee passed a decision package...
The fee bills presented to the Associated Students of Oregon State University’s Senate from the Student Fee Committee that passed Feb. 21 are now on ASOSU President Carissa O’Donnell’s desk to approve...
A torrential rain floods the forest floor as heavy raindrops throw themselves through canopies of leafy limbs and thunder brews overhead, preparing to strike.
White lightning snakes through the charged...
In their final meeting, the Student Fee Committee voted to reject the proposal for a fee-funded student wage increase and approved other proposals, like increasing the amount of student tickets for athletics.
According...
Most bees don’t really look like bees. In fact, the Pollinator Health Lab at Oregon State University has boxes upon boxes of specimens that look more like gnats or beetles than bees.
Linc Best, director...
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With the message “This machine kills fascists” stuck to the front of his guitar, your first idea...
In 2015, during a severe drought in Washington, John Henning, a courtesy professor in the Oregon State University Department of Crop and Soil Science, noticed something interesting happening to the hop...
Moss-laden trees rise out of a mattress of pine needles and ferns. A distant fog blurs the end of the hiking path and the air is dense with the smell of damp soil. Overhead, still branches move and the...
Class is starting in a few minutes and you are pressed for breakfast.
Luckily, a basket of muffins sits out on your table. You grab one and as you rush out the door, take a big bite, wrapper and all.
The...
The supermarket only has so many types of rice.
For Oregon State University’s many students with a multicultural or underrepresented cultural background, there is no guarantee that local supermarkets...
