Coverage of the Opportunities for Housing, Resources & Assistance shelter’s fourth anniversary in Ashland notes the OHSU School of Nursing Street Nursing Team is among the organizations that support residents of the 52-room facility.

In a story about how high temperatures affect the brain, Shaun Morrison, Ph.D., explains that becoming distracted and irritable in the heat is one of the brain’s coping responses, saying if you can’t get cool, your brain will “make you feel even more uncomfortable so that finding the thing you need to survive will become all consuming.”

In a story about how high temperatures affect the brain, Shaun Morrison, Ph.D., explains that becoming distracted and irritable in the heat is one of the brain’s coping responses, saying if you can’t get cool, your brain will “make you feel even more uncomfortable so that finding the thing you need to survive will become all consuming.”

David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., discusses how he co-invented and commercialized the biomedical imaging technology optical coherence tomography at the launch of Northwestern University’s Center for Engineering in Vision and Ophthalmology. He notes the technology needs to be commercialized to have an impact, saying, “We’re not motivated by greed. We’re motivated by a desire to help our patients. That requires commercialization.”

OHSU nursing student Jessica Calvillo Mendoza is receiving an Umatilla Electric Cooperative scholarship.

In a story about safety improvements in downtown Portland, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler mentions the Portland Police Bureau’s collaboration with OHSU data scientists to reduce vehicle theft.

Tech Transfer eNews covers OHSU Tech Transfer’s creatorship model for encouraging innovations in science and technology. Arvin Paranjpe, says, “The pivotal change in the whole approach came when we formalized the idea of creator — you do not just have to be an inventor. The IP disclosure form in 2015 might have called them a ‘contributor,’ and then we refined the terminology to line up with the IP policy.”

The new OHSU Preventive Medicine Residency Program, which OHSU is launching in partnership with CareOregon, is among the topics discussed during an audio interview with CareOregon CEO Eric Hunter, M.B.A.

The OHSU Knight Cardiovascular Institute is participating in an American Heart Association initiative to address recurrent pericarditis, or inflammation of the sac-like structure that protects the heart.

OPB’s Think Out Loud hosts retired OHSU neurologist Daniel Gibbs, M.D., and his wife, Lois Seed, as they talk about Dr. Gibbs’ own diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and preview a public screening of a new documentary at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, June 22, in the OHSU Auditorium. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Joseph Quinn, M.D.