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Agility Robotics, which launched in collaboration with Oregon State University, recently opened a Salem facility to test robotics. But federal funding cuts could threaten the kind of research that led to this invention.

More than 17,000 people in Oregon, Washington and California could almost instantly be living in a floodplain, the researchers found.

“People on the right are reporting less trust in their own primary care provider, less trust in their child’s pediatrician, less trust in the medical staff in an emergency room than those on the political left,” said University of Oregon political scientist Neil O'Brian who conducted the research.

Scientists, researchers and students from several Oregon universities were among the crowd of more than 500 people rallying against federal directives threatening funding for scientific and medical research at the state capitol Friday.

Stop-work orders for research projects are landing at Oregon universities from numerous federal agencies.

Oregon joined with 21 other states to protect funding to universities, especially those involved in medical-related research, from a Trump Administration effort to cut ‘indirect’ costs.

A Washington State University study of 11,000 twins confirms that walkable neighborhoods — with sidewalks, parks, businesses and transit — encourage more walking, improving public health and fostering community connections without requiring extreme urban density.

Federal funding for research projects is a particular worry for the state’s larger public universities, which receive millions of dollars in federal research funding each year.

A University of Oregon study recently found an association between the use of the herbicide glyphosate and infant birth weight and gestational duration.