Research

‘No prospect for getting bored’: Anna Jolles wins college’s top research award

Pictured: Anna Jolles tracks bighorn sheep in the Mojave Desert for a reserach project on parasites and pathogens of desert bighorn. 

Anna Jolles, professor of epidemiology at the Oregon State University Gary R. Carlson, MD, College of Veterinary Medicine, grew up mostly in Germany. But at the age of 15, her dad, a university academic, took a new job at a university in South Africa.

Bugs in the system: meet the scientists tracking mosquito-borne diseases in Oregon

Matt Hutchinson from the Baker County Vector Control District prepares to set mosquito traps in the Baker Valley. 

Baker County in eastern Oregon has a mosquito problem. 

“We get plenty of mosquitoes, that’s for sure,” said Matt Hutchinson, manager of the Baker Valley Vector Control District (BVVCD), in Baker City, Oregon.