Monday Message

In the Honors College, students are globally conscious and actively strive to be good global citizens. Below, five of the several HC students who were recognized with the Global Consciousness Award this past year and represented the Honors College at the Global Beavers Gala in the spring are highlighted. The award, from the OSU Global […]

A year ago, unexpectedly looking for a job, Honors College alumna Meadow Clendenin found herself sitting in front of a Toyota interview panel explaining what set her apart from the thickstack of other candidates. The answer? Her Honors College thesis, written 20 years before.“It jumped off my resume because I didn’t have experience working in […]

Rain won’t stop the HC from celebrating spring! A quick location change from lawn to indoor event space and the fun was back on track. Students, staff and faculty enjoyed good food, good company, board games and a photo booth! As is tradition at the HC spring picnic we recognized outstanding students for their dedication […]

  Casey Collins will graduate with her bachelor’s degree in Nutrition – Dietetics on June 16. As an honors student, Casey collaborated with nutrition faculty, a fellow student and Oregon State Ecampus to create an interactive video that explains changes to the nutrition label. What led you to choose your degree?  “I had heard somewhere […]

By Srila Nayak Jesse Rodriguez isn’t your average student by most measures. An Honors student triple majoring in mathematics, physics and nuclear engineering, he has sometimes worked his way through 10 classes per term and excelled in them. While an unending stream of mathematics and physics classes may well intimidate even students with high academic […]

Looking back on his gut decision in high school to major in physics after taking a class in it, graduating senior Abe Teklu remains somewhat mystified. “I guess I was just really confident,” he laughs. Abe grew up around numbers and changing locations, moving from Ethiopia to Arizona at age six when his father got […]

Honors biohealth sciences junior Sidney Phu aspires to be an optometrist and will take one step closer to realizing her ambition this summer. She was accepted to Mayo Clinic’s prestigious Summer Undergraduate Program in Biomedical Ethics Research (SURP) in Rochester, Minnesota, for a 10-week internship. The program offers students the opportunity to work alongside scientists […]

Faculty who take on administrative roles face challenges in balancing their work with continued engagement in research and teaching. But for HC Associate Dean Tara Williams, an expert in medieval studies in the School of Writing, Literature and Film, it was the challenge of teaching and introducing people to a topic unfamiliar to many that […]

The 2018 HC thesis fair was a huge success. Thesis posters were on display throughout the Learning Innovation Center (LInC) and the hallways were buzzing with excitement over this year’s projects. Congratulations to all HC graduates. All photos from the thesis fair are posted here. A full list of thesis titles, authors and mentors and […]

Moving away from home for the first time at 18 years old was undoubtedly one of the most nerve-wracking and stressful times of my life so far. I was worried about living with someone I had only met and spoken to a handful of times, making other friends, and just surviving on my own in […]