News and impact

Mi Cabello Mi Salud PDX! eleva y fortalece a las mujeres de color

The conference uses hair topics as a platform to promote healthy eating and active living.

Chris Branam | Oct 7, 2020 | News story

Latino youths create music to share science and cope with challenges

The COVID Corridos workshop provided an opportunity to create music and share it in an innovative way through a digital platform.

Kym Pokorny | Oct 2, 2020 | News story

OSU Extension mobilizes across Western Oregon to support wildfire livestock evacuations

Volunteers, 4-H youths and staff respond quickly to care for displaced animals

Chris Branam | Sep 11, 2020 | News story

OSU Extension brings food preservation tips to Bi-Mart

The Extension-designed posters hang in appropriate aisles – canning, hunting, drying – in the employee-owned chain’s 80 stores in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

Kym Pokorny | Jul 16, 2020 | News story

Honey bee lives shortened after exposure to two widely used pesticides

Beekeepers and environmental groups have raised concerns about the negative effects of these insecticides in recent years.

Chris Branam | Jun 16, 2020 | News story