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It’s very likely an uncommon experience for undergraduate research to have findings pertinent to the development of genetic diseases and cancer. For fourth-year honors biochemistry and biophysics student Mark Geisler, though, that’s just another day in the lab. “I’ve been working in Michael Freitag’s lab in Biochemistry and Biophysics for two and a half years […]

Originally published on Synergies. An internship could be located just 10 minutes from campus, but Emily Burney would rather travel to the equator, some 4,000 miles away. As a wide-eyed high school senior, Emily learned about international internships while on a tour of Oregon State’s campus. She was intrigued, and four years later she made her international dream a reality with an internship […]

It was a family’s real-world issue with their well that inspired Julianne Robinson’s thesis project – and inspired one of the biggest lessons the honors ecological engineering major took from her research experience: the importance of human interaction. This was something her teachers and mentors had been telling her all along. “I had an engineering […]

Hamza Molvi is not only a fifth-year Honors College student double-majoring in marketing and Business Information Systems, he is also the photographer and designer behind Honors College social media and many HC print pieces and publications. But this past summer, he found himself in an unusual new role that had him taking photos of dogs […]

  On October 2, 2018, when “Driver vs. Driver 2” premieres on the Golf Channel, viewers will see 14 finalists pitch their designs for Wilson’s next golf driver to a panel of expert judges. These designer-entrepreneurs — chosen from an open call in which hundreds of ideas were submitted — include investors, engineers, product designers, […]

As a summer intern at the Mayo Clinic, Honors College student Sydney Phu spent 10 weeks in Rochester, Minnesota researching regenerative medicine ethics. She is the first student from Oregon State to be accepted into this prestigious Summer Undergraduate Program in Biomedical Ethics Research. (Read more about Sydney’s background and path to the internship at […]

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 […]

  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 […]