By Nick Engelfried of Hillsboro, Oregon. Nick is a senior at Pacific University, graduating with a degree in Environmental Studies. He describes himself as a clean energy activist and a volunteer for the Cascade Climate Network. At a time when the future of Oregon's only coal plant ? the Boardman facility ? is making Oregonian front-page news, we can draw a lesson from recent events in Kingston, Tennessee. On the 23rd of December, a retaining wall broke at a Tennessee Valley Authority coal plant in Kingston, spilling more than a billion gallons of coal sludge and slurry over 400 acres....

Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 3519 NE 44th off Fremont, 7-9pm. Readers and performers interested in participating should contact Julie Mae Madsen at maemadsen@gmail.com with an expression of interest and sample work.

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Omnilert, maker of e2Campus, the leading emergency notification system for higher education, announced that Pacific University of Forest Grove, Oregon is the first school in the country to integrate their Facebook and Twitter accounts into the e2Campus emergency notification system. This allows Pacific University to send e2Campus alerts automatically and simultaneously to the school's Facebook and [...]

The Pacific University biology professor whose video of a shrimp running on a mini-treadmill became a YouTube sensation two years ago will appear on NBC's "The Today Show" Tuesday morning. David Scholnick, who teaches at Pacific's Forest Grove campus, will appear on the national ...

One of the Pacific ReCycles bikes.(Photo: Pacific University) Back in 1994, the Northeast Portland-based Community Cycling Center helped get Portland's infamous Yellow Bikes program off the ground. The CCC donated bikes to kick-off the program and later became an official co-sponsor. The Yellow Bike program only lasted for about a year before the bikes vanished and [...]