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The Oregon State University Honors College has announced the 2022 Honors College Eminent Professors and Mentor. Robert Drummond, a senior instructor in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film, is the Margaret and Thomas Meehan Eminent Professor and Randall Milstein, a senior instructor in the College of Science and the College of Earth, Ocean, and […]

April 27, 2022, was Oregon State University’s third annual Day of Giving, “Dam Proud Day,” and the Honors College raised $51,839, the eighth most on campus among the more than 50 participating units. Eighty-nine donors made gifts, exceeding the college’s goal of 75 for the day, and the total contributions surpassed the money raised in […]

Honors College Dean Toni Doolen delivered the fourth annual State of the Honors College address on March 10, 2022, to a Zoom audience of about 65 alumni, faculty and staff, family members and current students. As in past years, Toni organized her presentation around the priorities outlined in the 2020-2025 Honors College Strategic Plan (linked […]

Oregon State University Honors College junior and chemical engineering major James Ho was inspired by chemistry when he arrived at OSU, and his passion for it has not stopped growing since.  Originally from Las Vegas, Nevada, James had to adjust to Corvallis and Oregon State, but has since found it to be a great place […]

A common perception of any honors program is that it’s an exclusive group of privileged students from elite high schools with high GPAs and stellar test scores. But that’s not the reality of the Honors College at Oregon State. It never has been. What the Honors College is about, says Dean Toni Doolen, is much […]

From research opportunities and experiential learning, to its network of connections to outside organizations, the Oregon State University Honors College prides itself on its ability to provide an undergraduate experience that transcends boundaries. But how much can one student accomplish in just four short years? With a growing list of extracurriculars and a resume already […]

Across the U.S., there are approximately three men for every one woman majoring in economics, and that ratio has remained the same for over two decades. Second-year Oregon State University Honors College student and public relations officer of the OSU College of Liberal Arts Economics Club, Julia Notz, however, is determined to pave the way […]

This story was originally published on November 17, 2021, by Oregon State University’s College of Engineering. No question about it, Alex Saccente was going to study art when she went to college. Art was her passion, and she’d been painting and sketching for years. At the start of her senior year in high school, Saccente […]

The path to Kathleen Burrows’ dream job has spanned thousands of miles, from Oregon to Germany, to Albania and beyond, crossing oceans and cultures. At each step along the way, the Oregon State Honors College alumna has worked to provide students and teachers alike with the language skills needed to achieve success in school and […]

Rising sea levels and declining marine populations have had alarm bells ringing in the science community for years, and today, news stories abound with warnings of marine heatwaves, ocean acidification and expanding low-oxygen zones. When it comes to examining the climate crisis deep below the surface, though, one Oregon State professor has decided to dive […]