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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Oregon Newsletter for Thursday May 08, 2025 ( 3 items )  

Oregon Health & Science University: Discovering How Sleep, the Internal Body Clock are Connected to Cardiovascular Disease
PORTLAND, Oregon, May 8 -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news: * * * Discovering how sleep, the internal body clock are connected to cardiovascular disease OHSU's Saurabh Thosar studies sleep, heart disease By Erik Robinson Saurabh Thosar, Ph.D., is discovering how sleep tugs at the heart. More specifically, he's a sleep scientist at Oregon Health & Science University whose background in occupational therapy and cardiac rehabilitation inspires him to learn how c  more

Oregon State: New Chip Uses AI to Shrink Large Language Models' Energy Footprint by 50%
CORVALLIS, Oregon, May 8 -- Oregon State University issued the following news release: * * * New chip uses AI to shrink large language models' energy footprint by 50% CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University College of Engineering researchers have developed a more efficient chip as an antidote to the vast amounts of electricity consumed by large-language-model artificial intelligence applications like Gemini and GPT-4. "We have designed and fabricated a new chip that consumes half the energ  more

Oregon State: Warming Climate Making Fine Particulate Matter From Wildfires More Deadly and Expensive
CORVALLIS, Oregon, May 8 -- Oregon State University issued the following news release: * * * Warming climate making fine particulate matter from wildfires more deadly and expensive CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists say human-caused climate change led to 15,000 additional deaths from wildfire air pollution in the continental United States during the 15-year period ending in 2020. About 35% of the additional deaths attributed to climate change occurred in 2020, the year of the historic Labor Day fi  more