Honors Link

Oregon State University researchers conduct groundbreaking work, innovating and driving science forward with each new discovery. However, it’s one thing to do the research – it’s entirely another to communicate the results to a broad audience. That’s where senior honors Biochemistry and Molecular Biology student Victor “Tori” Puoci comes in. Tori is spending his summer […]

Honors mechanical engineering student Rachel McAfee began undergraduate research in the very first term of her first year. Now, two years and a conference publication later, she’ll spend the summer at the US Army Research Laboratory working on laser defense weapon technology research. “I was very fortunate to meet my research advisor, Dr. Joshua Gess, […]

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 […]

Honors graduate Brett Stoddard is no stranger to developing ideas and companies. This summer, he’ll continue to create new opportunities by co-founding a startup in the medical technology space.   “I got into entrepreneurship my sophomore year of undergrad,” Brett says. “I was working on RFID soil moisture sensors in the Openly Published Environmental Sensing […]

This summer, honors computer science student Phillip Mestas will be returning to Google for his second internship with the company. “I got connected with Google by just applying online,” Phillip says. “I submitted an application, not thinking anything would come from it, but to my surprise I got a call back.”   Phillip previously worked […]

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 […]

  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 […]