IMPACT

Ph.D. student Nicole Hams selected as Western Representative to the National Black Graduate Student Association, the nation’s largest interdisciplinary graduate organization for students of African descent.

Science faculty received $18.7 million in research grants and awards in FY17, the second highest year since FY2013 and a 54% increase from last year.

Biochemists develop a novel method to overcome major challenges in the study of the otoferlin protein and its role in human deafness.

Oregon State microbiologists have suggested a new paradigm for the study of microbiomes—one that has key implications for medical care.

The College of Science is delighted to announce a record-breaking total of more than $7.5 million in scholarships awarded for 2017-18 to both current and incoming science students!

Clad in beaver-orange tees, 55 high-schoolers from rural Oregon attended a two-day sleepover camp this summer to tour campus, learn about financial aid options, imagine college life—and dissect a salmon.

Mathematics and physics undergraduate students win awards, participate in research internships in top national labs.

The College of Science welcomes its new dean Roy Haggerty, who recently served as Associate Vice President for Research at OSU.

Microbes that produce important secretions can suffer a blow to their own fitness for supplying non-producing “cheater” bacteria when certain nutrients are limited.

T-Rex bulling its way through a forest likely dislodged flowers 100 million years ago. Today those fossilized flowers have revealed a new species of tree.

The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry is recruiting its fall 2017 cohort of Science Communication Fellows targeting faculty and student researchers in Earth and/or Space Science.

Carrion, the decaying flesh of dead animals, is a key nutrient for vertebrates worldwide but little is known about how the interplay works. Until now.