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Due to a lack of funds, students receiving the Oregon Opportunity Grant were supposed to each lose $80 worth of funding for spring term. Part-time students would have seen a loss of $40. However, more than 3,400 OSU students won't feel the pinch this spring because OSU alumni and friends have made up the difference.

Six OSU alumnae, ranging from former undergraduates to a Ph.D. recipient were awarded Fulbright awards for the 2008-2009 academic year and are using the financial gift to carry out research and teaching around the world. The Fulbright program grants scholarships to U.

The small town of Maupin, located in Eastern Oregon, has been experiencing a large number of earthquakes over the past two years, and OSU researchers are trying to figure out why. There have been around 350 earthquakes since December 2006. While most of them go unnoticed except by the seismometers, around 15 have reached a magnitude strong enough to be felt by the surrounding community, according to Jochen Braunmiller, research assistant for the OSU College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS).

In America, recycling remains one of the most unappreciated services largely overlooked by young adults whose views of a fast-paced lifestyle don't equate with the environmental standards of the twenty-first century. By reducing the amount of material we use, reusing clean products and recycling our waste, we could improve the life for future generations.