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Archive for January 18th, 2008

Vitamin E trials not so much

Posted by The College of Science at OSU on January 18, 2008

Balz Frei, the Director of the Linus Pauling Institute (which will share the new science center with our chemistry faculty), and a member of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, has this to add to the ongoing debate on the efficacy of Vitamin E:

http://www.functionalingredientsmag.com/fimag/articleDisplay.asp?strArticleId=1577&strSite=FFNSite

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What to ants and juicy berries have in common, you ask?

Posted by The College of Science at OSU on January 18, 2008

Dr. George Poinar, Jr., a member of our Department of Zoology, has come out with this answer, circulating today. George is known as the world’s authority on the nematodes that parasitize insects.

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/01/16_ants.shtml

Our Department of Zoology was ranked sixth in the nation in the last report by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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