IMPACT

Teaching faculty in the College of Science working to increase access, equity and inclusion in STEM education can create change by collaborating with a supportive community. The the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Inclusive Excellence grant creates a resource for enhancing STEM pedagogy.

The College of Science is committed to community service and fostering science literacy. Our recently launched Strategic Plan prioritizes impactful contributions at local, national and global levels. Across our seven departments, we are actively implementing outreach initiatives that align with our mission of engagement and societal impact. Last year, the College actively supported community-focused events, such as Discovery Days, Juntos Family Day and many others.

Eleanor Feingold, a statistical geneticist and associate dean with nearly 20 years of leadership experience at the University of Pittsburgh, has been named dean of Oregon State University’s College of Science. She will start Oct. 31.

The College of Science congratulates 17 faculty on receiving promotions and/or tenure this year.

Four-dimensional tissue self-assembly, integrated river health and ultra-tiny spectrometers: The 2022 College of Science Research and Innovation Seed (SciRIS) award recipients will use collaboration to fill critical knowledge gaps across numerous scientific disciplines to drive real-world impact.

The College of Science gathered on Feb. 22 to recognize and celebrate our high-achieving faculty and staff at the 2023 Combined Awards Ceremony. The evening celebrates the best in the college, from excellence in teaching and advising, service and administration to inclusive excellence, to outstanding achievements in research. During the teaching, advising and mentoring portion of the evening, many of the awards were determined based on student nominations.

A team of Oregon State University researchers have received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to identify, model, predict, track and mitigate the effects of future pandemics.

The College of Science is excited to welcome eight new faculty members this fall. They bring diverse expertise in gravitational wave astronomy, applied topology, organometallic compounds, age-dependent diseases and more.

The College of Science gathered yesterday on February 22 to recognize academic and teaching excellence of our esteemed faculty and staff at the College's 2021-22 Combined Awards Ceremony. The first half of the ceremony celebrated exceptional research and administration.

The College of Science gathers to recognize excellence at the 2021-22 Teaching and Advising Awards.

The College of Science community gathered on Friday, November 12, 2021, for the 2021 Alumni Awards, recognizing alumni who stand out in their accomplishments across industry, philanthropy and research.

Oregon State funds more high-impact undergraduate research experiences than any other university in the state.

Genomics pioneer Michael Waterman (Mathematics ’64, ’66) receives the 2021 Lifetime Achievement in Science Award for his remarkable accomplishments that have brought honor, distinction and visibility to Oregon State University.

The College of Science will graduate 670 undergraduate students with baccalaureate degrees in 2020-21, including 68 Honors graduates.

In recognition of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, held on February 11, we acknowledge the women faculty, students and alumnae of the OSU College of Science.

Genomics pioneer Dr. Michael Waterman (’64, ’66) has received the William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics. Waterman, a distinguished College of Science alumnus, is widely regarded as a trailblazer in computational biology. His work in the 1980s formed one of the theoretical cornerstones for many DNA mapping and sequencing projects, including the Human Genome Project.

Team-based Rapid Assessment of Community-Level Coronavirus Epidemics, or TRACE-COVID-19, was launched by OSU in April 2020 with door-to-door sampling in Corvallis and expanded to other cities around the state while also adding a wastewater testing component. In December, OSU received a $2 million grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to create a national TRACE Center that will expand the OSU’s COVID-19 public health project to other states.

The College of Science is proud to announce that 41 science students have received summer undergraduate research awards.

Congratulations to the following faculty for receiving promotions and /or tenure for the 2019-2020 academic year.

The College of Science celebrated research and administrative excellence at its 2019 Fall Faculty and Staff Awards ceremony.

Congratulations 2019 SURE Science Scholars!

Inspirational teachers and advisors honored at the Winter 2019 Teaching and Advising Awards in the College of Science.

The College of Science launches Innovation Days, a series of workshops for faculty to spur innovation and entrepreneurship.

The College of Science highlights successes from 2017-18 from groundbreaking research on ocean acidification and earthquake forecasting to dangers affecting coral reefs.

Congratulations to these science faculty and administrators who received 2018 Faculty and Staff Awards for administrative and research excellence!

The College of Science awarded 38 SURE Science awards of $5,500 to each student to conduct summer research in 2018.

OSU has launched a new mentoring program to strengthen faculty and students relationships, with the goal of improving student retention and graduation rates.

What is the common denominator between isolating strawberry DNA, building Knex vehicles, spalting wood and probing sea anemone symbiosis?

Science faculty awarded prestigious HHMI grant to develop culturally inclusive pedagogies in STEM programs.

The College of Science congratulates 20 faculty on receiving promotions and/or tenure for the 2017-18 academic year.

Math and biology professors named 2018 OSU Advance Faculty Fellows to advance diversity and equity in STEM fields.

Science programs have guided the evolution of research and education at OSU since its 1868 land grant designation.

Oregon State’s online and on campus environmental sciences bachelor program is setting high standards for excellence.

The College of Science is proud to have pioneered many “firsts” in its 150-year history.

Science at Oregon State University has been a trailblazer since OSU's designation as a land-grant college in 1868.

The College of Science is proud to announce its 2017 Alumni Award recipients.