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Beaver Eclips - News about OSU June 23, 2009 Subscribe or unsubscribe to Eclips Education helps erase pain When Jesus Jaime-Diaz looks in the mirror he sees pain and blunders. "I also see self-determination," he said. "And eventually, at the end of it, I see peace." A Hermiston High School dropout, it took the death of his little brother in 2002 to motivate him to seek higher education. "If it wasn't for that loss and the painful event, I wouldn't have gone to college," said Jaime-Diaz, who graduated from Oregon State University on Saturday. Also: • Master of logistics: Grads get diplomas at ceremony • Supporters recognized for helping graduates through college career • A closer look at a few grads • OSU 'Ecampus' online degree graduates top 150 for 2009 Happiness at Oregon State University I am a 58 year old man who has spent most of my life working and supporting a family. I spent a good deal of that time yearning to study philosophy. When my last daughter graduated from high school last fall I applied and was accepted to a masters program in philosophy at Oregon State University. I have just completed my first year. OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center to host SeaFest on June 27 Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center will host its seventh annual SeaFest celebration on Saturday in Newport. This annual festival combines hands-on activities, displays, tours and education revolving around the marine sciences. The event begins at 10 a.m. at the center's waterfront campus on Yaquina Bay, adjacent to the Oregon Coast Aquarium just south of the Highway 101 bridge. Man with Oregon ties photographs aftermath of Iran's disputed election A man with strong Oregon ties is in Tehran photographing the aftermath of the Iranian election. He has asked The Oregonian not to identify him out of concerns for his safety. ... The man - a native of Slovakia and graduate of South Salem High School and an Oregon State University alum - this week sent his collection of powerful images to The Oregonian, saying he wants people to see what's unfolding on the streets of the Iranian capital. Also: • OSU grad shares images of Iran protests
MORE NEWS • Public invited to celebrate centennial of Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center • OSU creates online map of day trip ideas • The dirt on testing soil for lead • OSU professor illuminates Polish pop art • Tunnels should stretch strawberry season • Senator John Ensign: 'I Had an Affair' • OSU club takes honors for reusable water bottle venture • Audio: OPB' "Think Out Loud" in Newport: Wave Energy • 'Missing link' fossil suggests birds ARE descended from dinosaurs after all • Close monitoring may help troubled teen girls avoid pregnancy • Oregon State University has state's first college campus historic district • Oregon case puts reliability of science itself on trial • Oregon colleges expand vineyard and wine programs • Clinic can help healthy grins begin • Discovery raises new doubts about dinosaur-bird links • Scientists make breakthrough in assessing marine phytoplankton health • What's causing pines to turn color on Black Butte? • Largest toxicology animal study ever challenges traditional thinking • GUEST VIEWPOINT: Song of the whales • OSU student to meet Nobel laureates in Germany • Oregon State University student earns year's worth of tuition for diversity essay • OSU honors state's family businesses • Old shingles make new roads • Hatchery fish may hurt efforts to sustain wild salmon runs • Hatchery fish: Fit to eat, not to survive • Watering down the fishery gene pool • OSU names foreign language chair • Supervolcano may be brewing beneath Mount St Helens • Crabbers collaborate with OSU researchers to monitor ocean temperature, hypoxia • Oregon goes on alert for destructive mussel and other invasives • Abrupt global warming could shift monsoon patterns, cut agricultural output • Study: State policies contributing to decline in corporate income tax collections • Businesses taxed more, people still taxed most in Oregon • A 'time bomb' for world wheat crop • Teen program reaps surprise drop in pregnancy • Growing possibilities • Simple game predicts kindergartners' achievement, helps them learn • "Reaching Higher Ground": Tsunami preparedness videos online • OSU historian releases book on medicine, health care in early Christianity • Oregon higher education: Invest as if we had a future • Iraqis to visit Oregon to learn about 'green' building • School program cuts problem behaviors in fifth graders in half • OSU Baja team wins major race	MORE SPORTS • Upgrade set for OSU's Valley Football Center • Landmark gets a makeover • Bob De Carolis to be inducted into Hall of Fame • Coaches of minor sports at Oregon State optimistic, despite athletic department's funding issues • Sports teams' all-you-can-eat tickets a hit FOOTBALL • Beavers will be without receiver Dunn; Astoria's Poyer will take his place in camp • Ross returns to Beavers • Riley adjusts OSU football roster • Mike Riley named to AFCA post • Practice set for August's camp BASEBALL • Wong gets what he wants from Colorado • Gunderson relishes memories of Omaha • Beavers have four baseball players drafted • Rockies select OSU's Wong • Peavey, Santos facing decisions MEN'S GOLF • Peterson all-West Region
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