Growing up in southwest Portland, Tholanda Newborne was usually the only Black student in her class. She was in elementary school when she got her first perm to straighten her hair. “School was a place where I wanted to adapt. I wanted to fit in,” Tholanda says. “I didn’t feel that I could walk in […]
Addressing critical health issues takes knowledgeable and committed researchers – and funding.
The fifth round of sampling throughout the Corvallis community by TRACE-COVID-19 suggested three people per 1,000 carried the novel coronavirus on those days.
For more than nine years, colleagues Emily Ho and Siew Sun Wong have long supported each other’s success, which will continue as they both take on new roles at Oregon State.
Bray lecturer Camara Jones addresses racism as a public health crisis
On Friday, Oct. 2, the college will host a lecture examining racism as a public health crisis — the latest example of efforts by the college to increase discussion and classroom instruction of the ways racism and race-based disparities affect people’s health.