Honors Link

When Logan Adams met Stephen Good at an Honors College faculty-student matching reception, it seemed like a perfect match. Logan, an HC ecological engineering and international studies student, who graduated in spring, 2019, was interested in working on water issues for his thesis, and Dr. Good is a hydrology expert in the School of Biological […]

While Honors College microbiology senior Sushumna Canakapalli homebrewed ginger beer, a favorite pastime, it struck her: this could be her honors thesis!   “My microbiology classes, studying genome sequencing – because that’s the way microbiology is going – along with a course on the human microbiome were catalysts. I was making ginger beer, and my […]

  Kitten research? For many people, that probably sounds like an especially cuddly dream. But for Oregon State University Honors College and Animal Science Major Naomi Sakaguchi, it was the basis for her honors thesis.   It all started with an email from the College of Agricultural Sciences that described a research opportunity involving kitten […]

The Oregon State University Honors College and Center for the Humanities have announced the first participants in a jointly-sponsored competitive summer internship program. Honors College students Maia Insinga, Mahal Miles and Mohammed Shakibnia will work with their faculty mentors on collaborative projects designed to enhance their professional skills and development and advance faculty research. Insinga […]

For three days each year, visitors to the Learning Innovation Center can see the dedication and effort of honors students all around them through the annual Honors College Thesis Fair. Honors students completing the thesis within the past year display their work through posters hung in the LINC halls, showcasing years of study culminating in […]

Originally published on iMPACT.  Delaney Smith an Honors College and College of Science senior has been selected for the 2019-20 Fulbright Student Program by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. A biochemistry and biophysics major who is graduating in 2019, Delaney is one of four Oregon State University […]

In order to further the academic and personal connections inherent in the Oregon State University experience, the Honors College recently introduced a new series of talks given by faculty about their research and careers. These talks are designed to foster student-faculty connections and share the importance of research in an honors education – regardless of academic […]

Honors liberal studies and education student Sarah Blum has been competing in local scholarship pageants for years. When she was crowned as Miss Linn-Benton 2019, all of her hard work paid off in a way that’s truly extraordinary. “It was really surreal, honestly, because I’ve been trying really hard for five years to win one […]

On the first annual OSU Day of Giving, the Honors College raised over $31,000 from gifts made by 139 donors. These numbers ranked in the top ten for all OSU units participating in the Day of Giving.   “The Day of Giving was a tremendous, inspiring success for the Honors College and for our entire […]

Ken and Paula Krane had already given a great deal to the Honors College, in a wide range of roles, before deciding to set up a scholarship supporting experiential learning. Their involvement has really been about giving back to the place that has given them a home. Ken and Paula came to Corvallis in 1974, […]