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Alumni and Friends

Meet Scott Clark, an OSU science alum who built a $30M AI startup

Scott Clark (08) wants artificial intelligence to be powerful — and trustworthy.

Faculty and Staff, Physics, Student Success
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Integrative Biology

Vivian Light: Senior balances biology and volleyball at Oregon State

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Physics

Heidi Schellman elected to National Academy of Sciences

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Events

Conferences boost career prospects for statistics and data science students

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Chemistry

Family Science and Engineering Nights ignite STEM passion across Oregon schools

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Teaching Innovation

How the Learning Assistant Program transforms big classes — and boosts student success

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Teaching Innovation

Course-based undergraduate research at OSU is transforming science education

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Microbiology

Blending art and science: Microbiologist illuminates the hidden world of fish parasites

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Mathematics

‘Impossibility Results in Mathematics’: Lonseth Lecture 2025

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Physics

Marking 100 years of quantum physics — with Oregon State at the forefront of entanglement research

 
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In the news
Health Imaging

Why researchers believe silver nanoparticles could 'revolutionize' medical imaging

KEZI 9 ABC News

OSU researchers discover breakthrough that could advance medical imaging

The Oregonian

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

Capital Press

Delegating grass seed scrutiny to computers

Oregon State University News
May 13

Roy Haggerty named provost and executive vice president at Oregon State University

April 7

Using light to tune silver nanoparticles opens door to better imaging and much more

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