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Undergraduate Students
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Therapeutic Horticulture
Healing Through Nature: Studying Therapeutic Horticulture
Ranann Blatter blends her love of working with people and natural world as a student of Therapeutic Horticulture.
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Recent Graduate Profile
Horticulture alumnus Aaron McLaughlin works in all facets of horticultural production as a Propagation Grower at Bailey Nurseries.

Grow healthy food and essential plants, design and create sustainable landscapes, and discover how plants improve people’s lives and livelihoods in the Department of Horticulture.

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Our food and farming programs solve problems and create opportunities for farmers and horticultural industries in Oregon and the nation.

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Our programs in environmental management of natural and built environments combine horticultural, restoration, and social sciences to enhance lives and livelihoods.

News

Portlanders add bee crisis to area's honey-do list
Scientists at the OSU Honey Bee Lab have been focusing on two factors in particular (KOIN)
Fruit fly prediction has farmers anxious
Researchers at Oregon State University are predicting record levels of the invasive pest (Spokesman-Review)
Trapping the spotted wing drosophila
Entomologists who are working with the spotted wing drosophila are trying to refine their monitoring techniques (Good Fruit Grower)
Researchers study unleashing wasp to crush stink bug invasion
A team of researchers at Oregon State University is trying to make sure a species of stink bug doesn’t overtake Oregon. (KATU)
Azaleas, rhododendrons face severe threat from lace bugs
Experts at the OSU Extension Service are not as optimistic as Stewart about controlling the aggressive lace bug. (Oregonian)
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Events

May
28
Social parasitism by the Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis)
Presented by: Ellen Topitzhofer Part of the combined...
May
28
Sinapis alba: A Potential Oilseed Rotation Crop for the Willamette Valley
Presented by: Alyssa Duval Part of the combined...
May
29
Hyslop Field Day
May
30
Perspectives on the Future Roles of US Land Grant Universities in Plant Breeding
Plant Breeding is widely acknowledged as a critical...
Jun
04
Contributions of Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria and Archaea to Nitrification in Forest Soils
Presented by: Xinda Lu Part of the combined graduate...