#Oregon State University

[materialsscienceandengineering]

What if a common element rather than scarce, expensive ones was a key component in electric car batteries? A collaboration co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher is hoping to spark a green battery revolution by showing that iron instead of cobalt and nickel can be used as a cathode material in lithium-ion batteries. The findings, published today in Science Advances, are important for multiple reasons, Oregon State's Xiulei "David" Ji notes. "We've transformed the reactivity of iron metal, the cheapest metal commodity," he said. "Our electrode can offer a higher energy density than the state-of-the-art cathode materials in electric vehicles. And since we use iron, whose cost can be less than a dollar per kilogram -- a small fraction of nickel and cobalt, which are indispensable in current high-energy lithium-ion batteries -- the cost of our batteries is potentially much lower."

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[reakain]

They built new housing for graduate students that costs more in rent than what they pay graduate student workers, and have spent the entirety of bargaining only offering a pay increase that is less than inflation has been and refusing to engage. Please go ahead and contact the university to ask why they wont pay the graduate students a living wage when they have record breaking enrollment and continue to decrease the number of graduate teaching assistants and instructors available to students (aka making the ration of teachers to students worse). If you're an alumni, ask them where tf they're spending all their donation funds. Many graduate student workspaces have nonpotable water, rats, and cockroaches among other issues.

[theodorenussphotography]

A gray fox I photographed on the western edge of the OSU campus

[boogiefts]

UCLA VS OREGON FOOTBALL GAME

SHOT ON OLYMPUS & KODAKGOLD200

[starry-eyed-butch]

I wish anyone in my real face to face life cared about this—

I got two A’s, A-, B+ for the quarter. I think that should get me on the Deans’ List again. My second quarter, I got honor roll. First quarter was Deans’ list. A good first year I hope I can keep up with. Fingers crossed I can transfer stores and reduce the stress from work.

[gorrus]

[workingflooff]

Ugh I hate when ppl get dogs that don’t suit their lifestyle/get a dog when their lifestyle doesn’t suit one

I am referencing when I went on a college visit today and ran into three dogs that were extremely reactive/aggressive and being handled by college students way over their head/obviously not giving the dog enough attention.

I am hesitant to say anyone should even get a service dog in training in college nevertheless a pet that can’t/shouldn’t be brought everywhere and doesn’t have to be trained to a standard.

On the bright side, multiple bystanders commented on how good Finn did and how he’s very well-trained in those interactions so that made me happy :>

[ilostsomethinginthewoods]

My once on a blue moon life update:

I’m committed to Oregon State University! Honestly, I’m more nervous about the roommate bit then the academic bit.

[beatrack92]

Adael Scatena (Oregon State)

2023 Pac-12 Championships (Walnut, CA)

[stephstars08]

I’m going to start watching Oregon St. football for two reasons.

1.) They are doing really good and are a ranked team.

2.) That was the college Adley went to so duh of course I’m going to root for them. 🙄

[materialsscienceandengineering]

An Oregon State University researcher has helped create a new 3D printing approach for shape-changing materials that are likened to muscles, opening the door for improved applications in robotics as well as biomedical and energy devices. The liquid crystalline elastomer structures printed by Devin Roach of the OSU College of Engineering and collaborators can crawl, fold and snap directly after printing. "LCEs are basically soft motors," said Roach, assistant professor of mechanical engineering. "Since they're soft, unlike regular motors, they work great with our inherently soft bodies. So they can be used as implantable medical devices, for example, to deliver drugs at targeted locations, as stents for procedures in target areas, or as urethral implants that help with incontinence."

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[homeisaplaceinthehills]

Snowshoeing through Ponderosa pine timber, Fremont National Forest

 Original Collection: Gerald W. Williams Collection Item Number: WilliamsG:NF6 USFS 225768

[elenitrack]

Kaylee Mitchell (Oregon State)

2023 NCAA Championships (Austin)

[smallcitybombreport]

[hellofromuranus]

New research led by Oregon State University climate scientists published this week in Nature analyzed the chemistry of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica to track global temperature and precipitation, as well as atmospheric changes, about 17,000 years ago, when huge swarms of icebergs broke off the coastal edge of the Laurentide Ice Sheet that covered much of North America.

When the ice surged into the Atlantic Ocean through the Hudson Strait, it triggered abrupt shifts in ocean currents, monsoon rainfall and drought patterns, as well as atmospheric concentrations of methane, but some of the climate impacts didn’t happen where and when they might have been expected. 

[starry-eyed-butch]

I got Dean’s List again, just got my certificate in the mail today. 🧡