IMPACT

The College of Science highlights successes from 2017-18 from groundbreaking research on ocean acidification and earthquake forecasting to dangers affecting coral reefs.

Justin Hall (Ph.D. ’10) is excited to return to Oregon State University and give back to the community that helped jumpstart his success at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.

Congratulations to these science faculty and administrators who received 2018 Faculty and Staff Awards for administrative and research excellence!

Congratulations to doctoral students Jesse Howe, Ashley Pica and Jesse Laney on receiving 2018 ARCS Foundation Oregon scholarships!

The College of Science awarded 38 SURE Science awards of $5,500 to each student to conduct summer research in 2018.

OSU has launched a new mentoring program to strengthen faculty and students relationships, with the goal of improving student retention and graduation rates.

The second Genetic Code Expansion (GCE) Conference accelerated fundamental research into the biology of life as well as drug discovery and material science.

Biochemistry graduate student Nathan Jespersen receives 2018 MacVicar Scholar Award for his impact on animal health and welfare.

What is the common denominator between isolating strawberry DNA, building Knex vehicles, spalting wood and probing sea anemone symbiosis?

A medical school aspirant, Biochemistry and pre-med Honors student Trisha Chau is deeply interested in helping underserved populations internationally and has undertaken volunteer work in Puerto Rico and Indonesia.

Biophysicist Elisar Barbar and team have discovered that the intrinsically disordered state of the protein ASCIZ, a key transcription factor within cells, plays a major role in regulating production of the protein LC8.

Biochemist and biophysicist David Hendrix and collaborators have used deep learning to decipher which ribonucleic acids have the potential to encode proteins.