Teeny little steps / Lee Sherman -- The mythbuster : forestry graduate student digs into Wallowa County's history / Nick Houtman -- Gene stalker : DNA fingerprints reveal clues to ancestry and illicit hunting of cetaceans / Lee Sherman -- Secret slaughter -- Paying for pavement : vehicle mileage fee could replace the gas tax / Nick Houtman -- Living on the fault : picture of a collision foreshadows disaster / Nick Houtman -- Tools of the trade : gramene database spurs quiet revolution in crop genetics / Nick Houtman -- Where chemistry meets compassion : examining the biological roots of empathy / Lee Sherman -- Biases and barriers : pharmacist battles myths about chronic pain / Lee Sherman -- Preview of coming attractions -- Fending off a fruit menace -- Oceanographer to take research helm -- Reserve for rockfish -- OSU ScholarsArchive ranks among world's best -- Global ocean -- Guarding human health : diseases cross barriers from animals to people.