The industrial design version of turning lemons into lemonade: After an oak tree collapsed on the University of Oregon campus, destroying the Provost's car, the school harvested the oak and handed it off to their product design students, tasking them with turning the wood into useable furniture pieces.
"It makes me feel much better about my car that it went to serve the educational mission of the institution," said UO Provost James Bean.
Oregon local news affiliate KEZI has a brief (and alas, unembeddable) video on the story here.