Wiese and Nall Claim Top Honors at 2017 Bennys
By Athletic Communications Original article here. CORVALLIS, Ore. – Sydney Wiese and Ryan Nall took top honors at the 19th annual Benny’s Tuesday evening at Gill Coliseum. The end-of-the-year celebration commemorated the achievements of Oregon State student-athletes over the course of the 2016-17 academic year. Wiese earned Female Athlete of the Year honors after making […]
Leading for the Future – A Conversation with Honors College Dean Toni Doolen
Toni Doolen’s five-year tenure as the dean of the Honors College has been a period of almost constant change. Since becoming dean in 2012, the college has grown from 600 to 1,200 students and moved twice, ending up in the Learning Innovation Center, OSU’s new world-class facility for teaching and learning. In that time, Toni […]
Starting a New Chapter at West
One would assume I was anxious moving away from home to live in a residence hall. Although I was a tad anxious, my excitement triumphed. I was eager to have a fresh start and meet new people. During START orientation in the summer, I took a tour of the Honors Living-Learning Communities and had my […]
A Career With Honors
When asked to trace the roots of his fascination with science, Honors College Board of Regents member Dr. Kenneth Krane returned to a childhood memory: watching his father repair clocks. Krane grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and his parents owned and operated a clock repair shop. He recalled watching the swing of a clock’s pendulum […]
Living in and Learning from the Age of the Anthropocene
The human geography of land use. Fiction that wrestles with the effects of climate change. Food scarcity in the 21st century. These seemingly disparate topics all have a home in the Honors College colloquium, The Dawn of the Anthropocene. This course tackles the concept of the Anthropocene—an epoch in the current geological age that is […]
Making a Difference: Oregon State Alumnus Creates Medical Internship for HC Students
During her first week as a summer intern at the Michigan Clinical Outcomes Research and Reporting Program, Swechya Banskota was given access to nearly twenty-one years of cardiovascular patient data registries. For the Honors College senior biology major, it was a lot to consider: “The research physicians gave the interns introductions to all of the […]
