It seems like every day we hear about more OSU alumni, faculty and students contributing their professional expertise to help ameliorate the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Some are wetlands experts assessing the environmental implications. Some are veterinarians trying to save and rehabilitate the oil-saturated birds, turtles and other wildlife. Many are fire [...]

By Matt Elliott
STATE Writer
It was a cold, cloudy December evening outside Whitehurst Hall. Campus was nearly deserted. Students had cleared out for home, commencement and parties. As for me, a communications specialist (a fancy term for “writer”) at OSU’s marketing office and a graduate student in the Spears School’s MBA program, I was fresh from [...]