I read some great news that will no doubt excite track and field enthusiasts. The Oregon State University Beavers are set to bring back the sport over twenty years after it was cut for budgetary reasons in 1988. According to the Daily Barometer, “OSU will build a track and field facility that is expected to be available for use in 2010. Along with the new track facility, there are plans for the expansion of the women’s track and field program as well as the eventual reintroduction of the men’s program. The facility will be located next to the softball field on Western Boulevard. The initial facility will hold seating for 1,500 and will also hold large areas for spectators to stand during events.”
OSU has a long-history with a successful track and field program. The men’s teams won the NCAA championship in 1961. Also Richard “Dick” Fosbury (men’s track and field, 1968-70) revolutionized the event of high jumping, with his back-first style. “The Fosbury Flop” helped him win an Olympic gold medal while still in college, and he won two NCAA Championships in the event for Oregon State. Fosbury is currently serving as the World Olympians Association President.
Supplies of Imitation Crab which is also known as Real Imitation Crab, Artificial Crab and my personal favorite: Krab; are currently dwindling due to a shortage of Alaskan Pollock and other highly available white fleshed fish. Krab is made from Surimi, which is a slurry of whitefish such as Alaskan Pollack that is refined for imitation seafood products.
A shortage of Alaskan pollock and other white-fleshed fish from around the globe has created a supply crisis among manufacturers of surimi, the processed fish protein used to make imitation crab and other shellfish-flavored products.
Jae Park, a professor at Oregon State University’s Seafood Laboratory in Astoria, is working with fellow researchers to find a solution.
Surimi prices have more than doubled in the last two years, according to Park, surimi researcher and consultant to the surimi products industry.
“Fish landings around the world are down, and some seafood processors also are choosing to produce more pollock fillets - especially for the European market - instead of supplying raw material for the manufacture of surimi,” Park said. “This crisis is not going to go away soon. Even if the U.S. pollock situation gets better next year, fish landings of warm-water species in Southeast Asia are down almost 40 percent from five years ago.”
In all seriousness, Krab and other imitation derivatives of Surimi are very important for the food supply because they are great sources of inexpensive protein.
Yesterday a group of about forty high school/Independent counselors from the Pacific Northwest and beyond who are on the Pacific Northwest Association of College Admission Counseling College Tour stopped at OSU to get a feel for our campus. I was able to run around behind them and shoot some footage…Enjoy!
On my gorgeously sunny drive to campus this morning I heard a great story on NPR about OSU Alumnus, Joshua Mater, a US Army Captain. Mater was recently wounded in Iraq when a rocket exploded near him in May.
Capt. Joshua Mater, now stationed at Fort Bragg, has gathered about 200 engineering textbooks donated by the faculty at Oregon State.
They’re intended to help students at Dhi Qar University in southern Iraq learn how to construct roads, provide electricity and build bridges. The school has 10,000 students, one of the largest in the nation.
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Ron Adams, dean of the College of Engineering, said the texts were worth about $20,000, and they’re of recent vintage.
“The specific request was for 21st century textbooks,” he said.
It goes without saying that well trained engineers will make a huge difference as Iraq sets to the task of rebuilding itself. Just goes to show, that Land Grant service before self attitude, never fades! Kudos to Capt. Mater, keep up the good work.
The vaunted OSU Chamber Choir took another tour through Europe (specifically Germany) this summer. I have been following the action via their Germany Tour Blog which contains great pictures and video of their journey. You can also view a newspaper article in German about one of their performances. Any of you German speakers out there care to translate?
Here are a couple of my favorite OSU Chamber Choir cuts (click to listen then open with your favorite music player):
The primary focus of the Bilingüe program is to provide OSU information in Spanish to Spanish speaking families so that they can better support their student through the journey to college. The Bilingüe program mirrors the parent program that is offered in English during every START session. Two of our Admissions folks, Lizbeth Campos and Alicia Ortega, were able to take a camera along to document some of the Bilingüe experience.
Sorry the video is grainy. I set Alicia and Liz up with a cruddy camera. If you click on the link to the video above, you can watch it in high quality on Youtube.com…Which helps.
Cruising through some OSU content on Youtube I came across a profile for “oregonstatemarketing“. They’ve got some awesome video content on their page. My personal favs are:
Great post from the folks over at Teaching Tips.com. They have put together a 101 item list of scholarships that are available to folks who intend to go into teaching.
No matter what profession you choose to go into, college can be a big financial burden. Luckily, there are thousands of scholarships out there to help lighten that load and cover at least some of the huge expense of going to college. While there are many general scholarships out there for students who apply, those in the teaching field can have a chance at getting some specialty scholarships as well. Here’s a list of 101 scholarships designed just to help teachers pay their way through college and get some help afterwards.
In case you are looking for a great place to become a teacher, you should check out OSU’s Double Degree Program!
Over the last week and a half or so the Oregon State Media Department has been hosting 18 high school students in conjunction with the Oregonian Newspaper for the Minority Journalism Camp.
The Oregonian and Oregon State University have been conducting the Minority Journalism Camp on the college campus this week. The camp involves weeklong instruction as well as an opportunity to publish as working journalists.
The 18 students this year will create the usual newspaper, but this year they also went digital, creating this blog including posts, video and photos to chronicle their experiences.
I have been keeping up to date with the happenings at the camp through the Journalism Camp 2008 Blog. If you haven’t had a chance to, read through it. There are some touching, humorous and personal stories that the students and counselors have posted; also, wonderful multimedia stories about the Corvallis and OSU Community. My personal favorite is the coverage of the Corvallis music scene by Kerina Blanchard and Annika Wolters.
Great work, team! I hope to be reading you all very soon!! If we here at the blog can get a PDF copy of the PRIDE (the newspaper the students produced) we will be happy to post it here.
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