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Events

ScienceSpeak: Career Q&A with physics alumnus

Physics alumnus Shane Larson will discuss his career and his work with the LIGO project in a Q&A with science students.

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Alumni and Friends

Physics alumnus to speak on discovery of gravitational waves

Physics alumnus Shane Larson (B.S. '91) will return to Corvallis to discuss the most important physics discovery of the century.

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Faculty and Staff

Oregon Academy of Science honors three faculty

Three science faculty were honored by the Oregon Academy of Science for outstanding contributions to science and higher education in science and mathematics.

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Faculty and Staff

Science faculty sweep General Research Fund awards

Professors across mathematics, physics and chemistry have received Oregon State University’s General Research Fund (GRF) awards this year.

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Faculty and Staff

2016 Winter Teaching & Advising Awards

The College of Science celebrated our 2016 Winter Teaching and Advising awards on January 12.

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Physics

Better than honey?

Oksana Ostroverkhova is developing a formula with blue dyes to stimulate the blue photoreceptor in bees, attracting them to fertile clover fields during pollination.

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Alumni and Friends

Making us proud

Alumna Carolyn Hennig ('64) remembers long years of struggling to pay for her science education which is what inspired her to establish an endowed scholarship.

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Faculty and Staff

Faculty Highlight: Afua Nyarko

Growing up in a “curiosity-driven environment," Afua Nyarko excelled in science and mathematics enough to study biochemistry at one of Ghana’s top science universities.

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Alumni and Friends

Celebrating excellence in science: 2015 Alumni Awards

The College of Science is proud to honor three distinguished alumni who are living a life of science and making a difference: David Vernier (’76) for the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Christine Vernier for the Distinguished Service Award and Stephen Meyers ('06, '09) for the Young Alumni Award.

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Faculty and Staff

Physics professor named APS Fellow

Janet Tate, Dr. Russ and Dolores Gorman Faculty Scholar and physics professor, has been elected an American Physical Society Fellow.

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Faculty and Staff

Science scores big on University Day 2015

Science faculty and students nabbed top honors at 2015 University Day, an annual tradition of ushering in the academic year by honoring extraordinary accomplishments.

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Physics

APS conference for undergraduate women in physics

The Oregon State University Physics Department hosted the American Physical Society Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics January 15-17, 2016.