Honors Link

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 […]

The Oregon State University Honors College has named Dr. Belinda A. Batten from the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Dr. Melissa Cheyney from the School of Language, Culture and Society as the 2020 Honors College Eminent Professors. These annual awards recognize faculty members for outstanding teaching, research and service to the Honors […]

As I am nearing the end of my college career, one thing keeps popping up in my mind: finding a job. I have spent many hours updating my resume, revising my cover letters, and then revising them yet again before sending them off to various job applications. While this may sound daunting or tiring, it […]

The Oregon State University Honors College is proud to announce that junior honors biochemistry and molecular biology student Cora White has been selected to attend the 2019 Michigan Clinical Outcomes Research and Reporting Program (MCORRP) summer internship. Each year, one honors student is selected from a competitive pool of applicants to receive a scholarship in […]

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 […]

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 […]

Cows, engineering, and polymers. These three words written on an interviewer’s notecard keep myself centered around where I’ve been, where I am currently, and where I want to go in life. Growing up in a small coastal town in northern California, I had hardly ever heard of Chemical Engineering before my senior year of high […]

Small classes. One-on-one relationships with faculty. A more personal college experience. They’re big reasons why many prospective students choose OSU-Cascades or apply to the Oregon State University Honors College. What many students don’t know is they can do both. The first Honors College cohort at OSU-Cascades started in fall 2017 and has since grown to […]

Gertrude Villaverde ’19 knew she wanted to be an engineer and chose OSU-Cascades for its signature program in energy systems engineering. The multidisciplinary program fit her interest in sustainability and addressing climate change. She joined the first freshman class when the Bend campus expanded to a four-year university in 2015. Two years later, when the […]