Winter 2020 Week 9 – Monday Message
HC Announcements and Events NEW! Professional Development Opportunity this Wednesday! Join the HC and Career Development Center for a Resume Workshop this Wednesday, March 4 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. in LINC 360. Come learn tips and tricks and participate in a resume review to craft a memorable resume for your dream summer internship or job! Please be prepared […]
Winter 2020 Week 6 – Monday Message
HC Announcements and Events NEW! Additional TheSIS Stage 1: Plan Workshops addedThe Honors College Thesis Success in Stages (TheSIS) guide is designed to support students as they work toward completion of their HC thesis. The first stage in this process, Plan, provides an introduction to the thesis requirements and an outline of thesis resources for […]
Helping people care: A passion for science leads to student-created podcast
Amid the sound of piercing electronic beeps — and a mechanical kind of wheezing white noise — a researcher speaks: “So imagine your baby is sick. You think it could be a kidney problem. The nearest hospital is a day’s drive away.” Listeners travel into this scenario as the undergraduate scientist begins listing the challenges […]
Winter 2020 Week 5 – Monday Message
HC Announcements and Events NEW! HCSA Food Drive running now! Look for activities all February HCSA is participating in OSU’s annual food drive! Every year during the month of February the university comes together and plans a wide variety of food and fund-raising activities to help the hungry. Proceeds from the OSU Corvallis campus benefit […]
Prestigious research internship opens new possibilities for double-major science student
Senior Michael Kupperman loves to do research at the crossroads of mathematics and biology – a deep interest the honors student has explored as a double-major in the College of Science and in a prestigious summer internship. Kupperman will graduate in June with honors degrees in mathematics and biochemistry and minors in chemistry and history. With his […]
Winter 2020 Week 2 – Monday Message
HC Announcements and Events NEW! Honors College Study Groups Sign Up- Winter 2020!Winter study groups are available and open for sign up until noon, Wednesday, January 15! If you are hoping to get a head start on coursework, including preparation for midterms, then this is the resource for you! Study groups are a great way to connect with […]
Winter 2020 Week 1 – Monday Message
HC Announcements and Events NEW! TheSIS Stage 1: Plan WorkshopThe Honors College Thesis Success in Stages (TheSIS) guide is designed to support students as they work toward completion of their HC thesis. The first stage in this process, Plan, provides an introduction to the thesis requirements and an outline of thesis resources for students. This […]
Lessons from dog camp
This August, the nearly 20,000 square feet of OSU’s James E. Oldfield Animal Teaching Facility was filled with conversations, commands, laughter and the occasional bark or yip — the signature sounds of the organized chaos known to children and their family dogs as Do As I Do (DAID) camp. For two weeks, eight child-dog pairs […]
Access is Central to the Mission of Oregon State – and the Honors College
The Honors College is proving that exclusivity doesn’t produce excellence, inclusion does. When Oregon State University was established in 1868, higher education was a privilege only for the well-to-do. At the time, the of education for all people was a revolutionary concept. More than 150 years later, that mission of access, along with a stronger […]
¡Bienvenidos al Honors College!
Student ambassador Esther Vega has a simple, yet powerful way to connect with some of the parents she meets on campus tours and at college fairs: she speaks to them in Spanish. “These parents just want to be heard and listened to,” she says. “It’s just so much more comfortable for them. And to me, […]