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The College of Science is proud to announce that 41 science students have received summer undergraduate research awards.

Congratulations to the following faculty for receiving promotions and /or tenure for the 2019-2020 academic year.

If there is one thing that Mai Sakuragi has learned during her time at Oregon State University, it is that, with passion and hard work, even seemingly impossible goals can be achieved.

How are devastating plant diseases spread? Is there a better way to predict HIV prevalence in a city? How can we detect toxic algae blooms before they occur? And which of the thousands of metal-organic frameworks can be used for storing and separating gases, like CO2 from industrial plants? Four faculty members received College of Science Research and Innovation Seed (SciRIS-II) awards this February to pursue answers to these questions over the course of the next year.

The Science Research and Innovation Seed awards were given to four multidisciplinary research teams working on cancer diagnostics and materials science.

The College of Science celebrated research and administrative excellence at its 2019 Fall Faculty and Staff Awards ceremony.

The Physics Department launched a fully online version of the Introductory Algebra-based Physics series.

Two College of Science graduate students have received prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology awards in 2019.

Mathematics Professor Juan Restrepo has been elected a 2019 Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Pioneering climate scientist and alumnus Warren Washington to present the 2019 Distinguished Lecture on October 11, 2019.

Edward and Janet Chen along with John Donnelly, on behalf of the Wei Family Foundation, will receive the College of Science Distinguished Service Award for their extraordinary commitment to the university and institution.

Physicist Bo Sun had a breakthrough discovery that remove bottlenecks to making more effective metastatic cancer treatments a reality with tremendous social impact.