OREGON CITY, Ore., Sept. 27 -- Clackamas Community College issued the following news: Clackamas Community College's Small Business Development Center offers a variety of resources to help businesses start, grow or thrive. It provides classes and courses to help take a business to the next level, as well as confidential, one-on-one business counseling for free. Upcoming course offerings: Going into Business * Oct. 3, Nov. 7 or Dec. 5 * 6:30-9:20 p.m. * Cost: Free For those thinking about s  more

BOZEMAN, Montana, Oct. 4 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- Montana State University issued the following news: The work of a Montana State University professor examining the economic impacts of colony collapse disorder among commercial honeybees was published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists last month. Randy Rucker, a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics in the MSU College of Agriculture, began looking into colony collapse disorde  more

SALEM, Oregon, Oct. 4 -- Gov. Kate Brown, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: Today, to address the growing public health threat of the vaping-related illness that has resulted in two deaths in Oregon and over a thousand cases of lung injury nationwide, Governor Kate Brown issued Executive Order 19-09 , directing state agencies to enact a temporary ban on the sale of flavored vaping products, as well as other sources or additives as they are identified in cases of vaping-related lung i  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 4 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news release: * * * - NIH names OHSU among 20 teams focused on improving research and treatment of rare diseases * * * Oregon Health & Science University will lead a new consortium of researchers focused on improving treatment for people with disorders associated with chronic elevations of the amino acid phenylalanine in their blood. The rare group of conditions are known by a tongue-t  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 2 -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news release: * * * - Multi-disciplinary team will accelerate understanding of causes, new treatment options; Matching gift campaign expands further innovation * * * Medical reports of what is today known as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, date back to the 18th century. Over the past 60 years, medications and interventions have been identified and utilized to treat the condition, which af  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 1 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news release: * * * - Clinical trial for OHSU's HydroVax vaccine platform to start in 2020 * * * A hydrogen peroxide-based vaccine technology that's already being tested to fight West Nile Virus will now also be studied to combat the tropical disease yellow fever. Oregon Health & Science University spinoff Najit Technologies, Inc., of Beaverton, Oregon, will test a yellow fever version  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 4 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news release: * * * - Discovery could lead to development of new drugs to treat inflammation, artery disease, cancer and more * * * For the first time, researchers have observed at the molecular level how a protein associated with numerous health problems works. The discovery - which could one day inspire new drugs to treat inflammation, coronary artery disease, cancer, multiple sclero  more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, Oct. 3 [TNSgrantsresearch] -- Oregon State University issued the following news: An autonomous systems expert at Oregon State University is helping to lead an effort to build research infrastructure for the safety, performance and security of driverless cars, supported by a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, a collaborative effort with the University of Pennsylvania and Clemson University, will put one-tenth-scale autonomous cars into the h  more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, Oct. 2 [TNSgrantsresearch] -- Oregon State University issued the following news: Oregon State University's Global Hemp Innovation Center has received a $1 million gift to explore hemp genomics, research that can grow understanding of how hemp may be used in health and nutrition products, textiles and construction materials. The gift to the OSU Foundation was provided by Oregon CBD, a hemp seed research and development company. The Global Hemp Innovation Center was launched   more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, Oct. 5 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- Oregon State University issued the following news: The brains of people with congenital deafness may be rewiring themselves in ways that affect how those people learn, suggesting a need to develop new teaching techniques tailored toward those who have never been able to hear. Published today in Nature Scientific Reports, the findings by an Oregon State University research collaboration make the case that a protein mutation that causes profound   more

CORVALLIS, Oregon, Oct. 1 -- Oregon State University issued the following news: Pioneering climate scientist Warren Washington, who received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Oregon State University, will give this year's OSU College of Science Distinguished Lecture on Friday, Oct. 11. Washington's presentation, titled "The Historic Development of Climate Models and Geoengineering of the Earth's Climate," will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Construction and Engineering Hall at the LaSells St  more

OLYMPIA, Washington, Sept. 25 -- The Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission issued the following news release: The public utility commissions of California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington are pleased to announce that Colorado has joined the Joint Action Framework on Climate Change (JAFCC) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the fight against climate change. The expanded JAFCC MOU brings together the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Public Utilities Commission   more