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Discoveries and news in research, student success, faculty engagement and alumni accomplishments.

IMPACT Fall 2024 now available 
IMPACT Fall 2024 Cover has a genetically expanded protein on it in honor of the GCE4All Center
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Graduate students

10 Questions With... Vaishnavi Padaki, microbiology Ph.D. candidate

10 Questions With… Vaishnavi Padaki, fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in microbiology, who will be defending her thesis in April. Padaki has created mixed-media artwork for part of her thesis which is on display March 31-April 16 in the Strand Gallery in Strand Ag Hall on the Corvallis campus.

Faculty and Staff, Physics, Student Success
Sophie Krueger (right) plays on the newly revived women's polo team when she's not studying biohealth.
Students

OSU Polo Club is back in the saddle this year

With green bushes behind her, Natalie Donato smiles as she reveals her blue "Vibrant Ocean" license plate.
Students

Award-winning biology student modernizes shark research using digital art techniques

An undergraduate researcher wears an Oregon State lab coat in the lab, surrounded by equipment including a microscope and vials.
Students

Undergraduate researcher studies autoimmune disease to improve lives

A collection of booths at the 2022 Health Professions Fair looking to connect students to medical schools.
Students

Jumpstart your healthcare career at OSU’s Health Professions Fair!

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Events

Celebrating excellence in research: 2025 College of Science Awards

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Events

Celebrating inclusive excellence, administration, service and performance: 2025 College of Science Awards

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Events

Celebrating excellence in teaching & advising: 2025 College of Science Awards

Intrinsically disordered proteins
Biochemistry & Biophysics

2025 Gilfillan Lecture: "Beyond the fold: How disordered proteins control movement, viruses and gene expression"

Microscopic view of glowing bacteria
Microbiology

‘Lessons from the squid-vibrio symbiosis’: Berg Lecture 2025

 
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The Oregonian

Get first bite at Oregon’s new shark-infested license plate

Capital Press

Delegating grass seed scrutiny to computers

The Corvallis Advocate

OSU’s Xavier Siemens Wins Coveted Bruno Rossi Prize, Uncovered Binary Supermassive Black Hole Evidence

Space Daily

New nanocrystals offer potential for faster energy-efficient computing

Oregon State University News
January 3

New nanocrystals a key step toward more efficient optical computing and memory

December 12

New chemical structures developed at Oregon State show vastly improved carbon capture ability

December 3

Chemical structure’s carbon capture ability doubled by Oregon State University research

October 28

Surf and Turf: Oregon State researchers to study feeding seaweed to cattle