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WOOLLY
MAMMOTH
BONE

SPIDER
HARP PLASTICS-TO-FUEL

WE LOVE MAKING BIG

BREAKTHROUGHS.

ESPECIALLY ONES THAT COME OUT OF THE BLUE.

NEWLY
DISCOVERED Innovation is embedded into our DNA. But we also blur the lines between science,
BLUE
PIGMENT Oregon State does more research than the arts and the humanities. From a large-
the other six public universities in Oregon scale model intended to understand how
combined, earning a record $471 million spiders sense vibrations, our collaborative
in research funding in 2022. And even as researchers created a new musical
an undergraduate, you can join in. Every instrument, the spider harp. And a
year, more than 2,000 undergraduates work chemistry professor researching materials
alongside faculty researchers or develop for electronics applications ended up
projects of their own. producing the first new blue pigment in
200 years. Not only do our artists create
Oregon State is known for engineering
and scientific breakthroughs, like one paintings using this dazzling new blue,
of the first robots to stand and walk Crayola made it into a new crayon: Bluetiful.
on two legs, a contact lens that can Bright ideas. Unexpected discoveries.
monitor blood glucose levels and a They’re just waiting for you to come up
novel use of the chemical process with them.
pyrolysis to convert plastic waste into
alternative fuels.

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