{"id":733,"date":"2020-04-22T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/?p=733"},"modified":"2020-04-22T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:16:11","slug":"student-profile-joshua-stump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2020\/04\/22\/student-profile-joshua-stump\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Profile: Joshua Stump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Major: Renewable Materials<\/a>; Year: Senior<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renewable Materials senior Joshua Stump is hungry for international experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He landed at Oregon State after earning a Jazz Piano Performance degree from Arizona State University and spending five years in the United States Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMusic was my passion growing up, but my first experience in college was a hard lesson for me about what happens when you don\u2019t take education seriously,\u201d Stump says. \u201cWith mounting student debt hanging over my head, I joined the Navy to jump start my life financially.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After five years, he was ready to move on to the next stage and decided to follow an interest of his since childhood: sustainability and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always had enormous respect for nature and other forms of life,\u201d says Stump, \u201cMy dad took me to Mount Rainier National Park as a child, and that made a huge impression on me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After researching degrees at Oregon State, Stump chose the renewable materials program, which he knew would lead him toward a career promoting the use of natural solutions for products we use every day, including sustainable building practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stump completed an internship with Boise Cascade during summer 2018. He\u2019s also an apprentice piano restorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his Navy service, Stump traveled to Australia and several Asian countries. He has not visited Europe yet, even though he is extremely interested in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have always been very interested in German culture,\u201d Stump says. \u201cI have family heritage there, and I have always been fascinated with their work ethic and interest in art and music. I think Germany would be an amazing place to live.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is planning to participate in the short-term, faculty-led Alpine Europe program. The program, offered through the college’s Office of International Programs<\/a>, takes students to the European Alps and provides a holistic view of the sustainable wood products industry. He is also interested in completing an internship focused on piano restoration in Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am hoping to combine my interests,\u201d Stump says. \u201cPlaying piano has been what has defined me since childhood, and I would love to focus on alternatives for soundboards in pianos. They are made exclusively with Sitka spruce. With Sitka forests disappearing due to climate change, I want to help find alternatives for soundboards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stump says he would love to live in Europe someday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy dream is to build a completely self-sustaining home,\u201d Stump says. \u201cI would spend my time repairing and tuning pianos and use my free time to engaging in environmental activism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A version of this story appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of\u00a0<\/em>Focus on Forestry, the alumni magazine of the Oregon State University College of Forestry. Learn more about College of Forestry research facilities and collaborations.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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