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Honors College senior Ammara Molvi’s commitment to community engagement has inspired her during her years at Oregon State University and will continues to motivate her as she looks to the future. A pre-med public health major, Ammara hopes to one day become a pediatric emergency room physician and work toward health equity locally and internationally.  […]

Honors mechanical engineering student Rachel McAfee was recently awarded the Department of Defense SMART scholarship — a recognition that provides funding for two to five years of education at any level (undergraduate through Ph.D.), including full tuition and a living stipend. The award also gives Rachel the opportunity to participate in additional internships with the […]

This year, the Oregon State University Honors College is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Since the college’s founding in 1995, over 2,000 students have graduated with honors baccalaureate degrees, each of them embarking on professional and personal journeys representing the full range of the OSU alumni experience. It all started, though, with Joe Voje, whose 1996 […]

Honors College natural resources student Zach Mize is a stunning example of what undergraduates can accomplish outside of the classroom. Zach, a student at Oregon State University – Cascades, participated in a Research Education for Undergraduates (REU) program at California State University, Monterey Bay during the summer of 2018. This experience culminated in co-authoring a paper […]

Sometimes, if you’re lucky, there are relationships that accompany you through every stage of life. This has been true for Oregon State Honors College graduates Brandon Togioka and Bory Kea. Friends when they were kids and now colleagues at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), they have remained close through experiences both shared and […]

Every student comes to the Honors College with their own unique perspectives, talents and interests, ready to develop and explore. They share experiences through classes, research, the honors thesis and other activities while forging their individual paths. But their financial situations are their own. This year in the Honors College, about 36% of students have […]

On February 19, 2020, Dean Toni Doolen gave her second annual State of the Honors College address, providing updates and insights to honors alumni, current students, family members and supporters of the college. In it, she portrayed a college that is serving more and more students each year by remaining grounded in its core values […]

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 […]

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, […]

Yes, that Yoda. Mohammed Shakibnia says the Jedi Master was known for being a wise paragon of virtue, “but he wasn’t infallible. He made mistakes, and acknowledging them is really what true wisdom is about.” Mohammed is writing his honors thesis on the socio-political aspects of “Star Wars” and how science fiction can help us […]