She focused primarily on animal health, education and public relations. She retired as Director of Community Relations for Kansas City Southern Industries, a transportation and financial services company. Jan’s interests include nature conservation, science education, reading, music and international travel. She spends her volunteer time with Rotary, an international service organization, and The Nature Conservancy. Jan recently became an International Ambassador for The Nature Conservancy. She also belongs to four China-related organizations in Kansas City and is a vice president of the board of the Edgar Snow Memorial Foundation and the Society for Friendship with China.

She has traveled all over the world, including Mongolia, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Europe, Antarctica as well as several African, South and Central American countries. Jan made two trips recently to Zambia to develop a village education project for her Rotary club and District. Jan has deep interests in global wildlife and conservation issues as well as in diverse people and cultures from around the world. The United Nations Association of Greater Kansas City named Jan its 2022 World Citizen, with the award presented by the Mayor of Kansas City. She was also one of 14 MidWest recipients of the Sino-US People's Friendship award presented by the Consul General of the Chicago Consulate of the Peoples Republic of China.

Amy has been on the faculty at Columbia University, Northwestern University - Feinburg School of Medicine, and currently, at Weill Cornell Medical College (now Weill Cornell Medicine). She is active in medical education and currently is co-chair of the Annual Meeting Education Committee for the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) and in the past has served on the Education committees of both United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) and ASCP. Her area of expertise is immunodeficiency related lymphoproliferative diseases, but has expertise in all areas of lymphoid neoplasia and is a frequently invited speaker on these topics. She has approximately 170 peer-reviewed publications.

SigOpt was founded in 2014 and raised over $17M in venture capital from firms like YCombinator, Andreesen Horowitz, and others before being acquired by Intel in November, 2020. Before starting SigOpt, Scott worked in computational science at Yelp, Bloomberg LP, the Joint Genome Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max Planck Institute, and UC Davis. Scott was a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow at Cornell University while earning his PhD in Applied Math and MS in Computer Science. He earned BS degrees in Mathematics, Physics, and Computational Physics from Oregon State University and is a proud fourth generation Beaver. Scott was chosen as one of Forbes' "30 Under 30" in 2016

Megan directs Ocean Exploration Trust and Exploration Vessel Nautilus' outreach and media team and strategy including a suite of at-sea and onshore education programs and partnerships. She designs, implements, and assesses STEM education and workforce development programs as well as a wide-reaching broadcast, media production, and online presence for the annual global ocean exploration campaigns. Her passion is in elevating role models and transforming ocean exploration to make new space for, amplify, and respectfully weave together knowledge from all who are passionate about the ocean, especially those with identities historically marginalized from participation.

A highly skilled technical diver, she is experienced in exploration and field research in tropical and polar climates with extensive experience in remote locations. She is talented in employing digital media, film, photography, and adventure writing. As a featured writer of Mission Blue's 'Young Explorer Series', she is one of the emerging young voices for our ocean. Beyond OSU, she also has a Master’s in Environmental Management and Leadership from Duke University focused on the emerging deep sea mining industry and environmental management of seabed resources.

Megan inspires the next generation of explorers by bringing the excitement of discoveries via these live broadcast expeditions. Her life’s mission remains helping people “fall into fascination with our planet” and use technology to bring people to the “soggy parts of Earth.”

She attended graduate school at Oregon State University earning a M.S. in Statistics and later a second bachelor’s degree in accounting.

Her professional career was as a certified public accountant. She had her own practice in Corvallis for many years and also worked from home for several years before retiring in 2014. Since retiring, she has pursued her hobbies of photography, sewing, travel and gardening. She previously served on the College of Science Advisory Board for the University of Idaho.

She met her husband, Norbert Hartmann, while at Oregon State University. They have been married since 1973 and live on a farm near Monmouth, Oregon.

Parisa is a former Senior Executive with a diverse 30-year career trajectory, having led various global organizations in the MedTech, Medical Device, and Life Sciences sectors crafting product and operations plans to drive organizational growth.

Passionate about customer experience and focused on improving the lives of patients, She is known for driving organizational transformation and navigating challenges within organizations to achieve long-term financial and operational objectives.

She currently serves as the President of TCA LA. Her experience spans working with global public corporations, startups, as well as nonprofits.

Prabu came to OSU in 1983 after completing his M.Sc. in Chemistry from Madras University, India, and earned his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1988. After three years of post-doctoral training at Brown University, he began his pharmaceutical career at Bristol-Myers Squibb in 1991.

Prabu completed his Executive MBA program at Boston University and is a RAC-certified regulatory professional. Before starting Syner-G, he was the Head of CMC Regulatory Affairs at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, MA, and also held positions of increasing responsibility at BMS, Sepracor, Wyeth, and Cubist Pharmaceuticals. He is a member of AAPS, ACS, and RAPS. He served as a volunteer for US Pharmacopeia and was the Chair of a USP Expert Panel.

Prabu is extremely indebted to OSU, his first institution upon arriving in the US, and as a way of giving back, he has contributed to an endowed gift towards the Student Travel Fund in the Department of Chemistry. Prabu lives with his family in Westborough, MA.

After graduation from Oregon State University in 1969, Joel Peterson drove ambulances, travelled around Europe, worked as a research immunologist at the Harold Brunn institute in San Francisco, worked as a clinical lab scientist at Sonoma Valley Hospital and, in his spare time, became a wine writer and wine consultant.

In 1976, Joel founded Ravenswood winery and has shepherded Ravenswood from a small unknown winery producing 327 cases of Zinfandel to a respected, high quality producer of approximately 800,000 cases of red wine. In 2014 Joel returned to his small winery roots, starting the 3,000 case Once and Future winery specializing in hand crafted wines from old vine Vineyards.

Joel was on the Board of Directors for Sonoma County Vintners and is a current member and past president of Sonoma Valley Vintners and Growers Association. He is a founding Board member and former two-time president of Zinfandel Advocates and Producers. Joel was also a Senior Vice President with Constellation Brands. In 2010, Joel was inducted into the Vintner’s Hall of Fame, and in 2012 he was voted as one of the “20 most admired people in the North American wine industry" by Vineyard and Winery Management magazine. The magazine also voted Joel as one of the “20 most admired winemakers in North America” in 2014.

Joel lives in Sonoma, California, is married to Madeleine Deininger and has three amazing and talented children ranging in ages from 25 to 52.

Bob’s leadership has been recognized while having served on OSU boards including Varsity O (now Varsity OSU) and was a founding member of Rebounders, OSU Women’s Basketball Boosters. Currently he is on the Beaver Fan Experience Committee. In the community, he’s a member of the Board of The Corvallis Clinic Foundation having served 15 years, and is a 40-year member of the Greater Corvallis Rotary Club and supporter of Benton County Veterans Memorial. He is a Golden Legion (50+ years) member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.

Dr. Poole was raised in Portland and graduated with a science degree from OSU with honors in 1967. He attended University of Oregon Medical School (OHSU) where he was Magna Cum Laude and received the Gold Headed Cane Award for academic achievement in 1972. He was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha medical honorary. He had an internship at UCLA Harbor General Hospital. In 1977, he completed a urology residency from OHSU. Bob served as chief of urology at Mather AFB in Sacramento prior to starting a urology practice at The Corvallis Clinic in 1979. He received certification by the American Board of Urology. In addition to his medical practice in Corvallis, he was a member of the Oregon Urologic Society, as well as member and past president of the Northwest Urologic Society. Locally, he served as board president of The Corvallis Clinic and Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Staff. He retired in December of 2005.

Having rowed at OSU and competed for three years, Bob developed a love for crew. While the Poole daughters Laura and Lisa were growing up, he focused on them and medicine. He’s had an active relationship with Corvallis Rowing Club since 1998. He has competed in Nike Master World Games, NW Regional Regattas, US National Masters, Canadian National competition and Head of the Charles Regatta. He and his wife Susan (OSU College of Pharmacy ’69) both sweep row and scull. When not on the water, Bob savors family time with his daughters and their families including four grandkids. He and Susan enjoy travel to where ever family wants to meet, especially to their longtime home at Black Butte Ranch and annual Cabo San Lucas stays in the winter. They are supporters of OSU Women’s and Men’s Rowing along with other teams.

Heather graduated with a B.S. in Environmental Toxicology from the University of California, Davis and a Ph.D. in Environmental and Molecular Toxicology from Oregon State University. Heather began her career working as an analytical chemist performing environmental fate studies for pesticide registration.

In pursuit of her passion to help others, Heather sought career opportunities in the biopharmaceutical industry in drug development. Heather has worked at a variety of pharmaceutical companies in the San Francisco Bay Area including Johnson and Johnson and Genentech (Roche) in research, Quality Control and currently heading a Quality Assurance department at Myovant Sciences where she has responsibility for oversight of clinical analytical testing of products in clinical trials and commercial Quality Control.

Heather has previously served as a member of the Younger Chemists Committee and councilor for American Chemical Society. In addition, Heather served as a board member of her neighborhood association.

Heather lives in Oakland, California with her husband, Rodney Prell, also an Oregon State alumnus, and their two adorable rescue dogs—Lexi and Houdini. In her free time Heather enjoys volunteering at the local animal shelter, hiking, knitting, scuba diving and traveling the world.

The successful wire weaving firm is based in Tualatin, Oregon, and specializes in woven wire products for architectural and industrial applications. With more than 55 years of experience in the wire weaving industry, Ron has served as Vice President of Pacific Fence & Wire Co., a major Pacific Northwest chain link fence manufacturer, and cofounder and President of Pacific Fireplace Furnishings, Inc. He has also held facilities engineering positions with FMC (Gunderson) in Portland and with LTV in Dallas.

Ron is also the President of the Northwest Trade Adjustment Assistance Center, a federally funded organization that provides consulting and assistance to companies in the five-state Pacific Northwest region impacted by import competition.

In the mid-1980’s. Ron was a co-owner of the AAA Portland Beaver Baseball Club.

A long-time resident of Lake Oswego, Ron enjoys gardening and running. He periodically participates in marathons and has completed the Boston Marathon twice in recent years. He enjoys his three grown children, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

She attended Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California, where she earned a Doctor of Dental Medicine Degree in 2013. She then completed a general dentistry residency at the Los Angeles V.A. Hospital in conjunction with UCLA School of Dentistry. Drs. Nathan and Luisa Snyder own two successful dental practices in Salem, Oregon: Snyder Family Dentistry and Fairmount Dental Center. They enjoy taking care of their patients and serving their community.

Luisa loves spending time with her family, especially her two children, Patrick Antonio and Isabel Rosalina. She enjoys watching basketball, reading, spending time with family and learning about new cultures. The Snyders are happy to be back in Oregon and are enjoying what the beautiful Pacific Northwest has to offer.

His collaboration on the Smith-Waterman algorithm was a breakthrough. This algorithm revolutionized sequence alignment and is called the “gold standard for gene and protein sequence analysis.” The algorithm is an indispensable tool in bioinformatics, molecular biology, and genetics, impacting medicine, cancer treatment and biofuel development.

Dr. Waterman has been honored with the Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the first fellow of Celera Genomics. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Computational Biology and serves on several editorial boards.

He received the Lifetime Achievement in Science Award in 2020.

Bill received B.S. degrees in Biochemistry/Biophysics and Crop Science from OSU and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He then completed internship, residency, fellowship, and postdoctoral laboratory training at UCSF. In 1994 he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Human Gene Therapy where he established his research laboratory prior to returning to Oregon as Associate Professor of Medicine, Molecular Medicine, and subsequently, Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at OHSU. There, his research focused on principles of membrane protein biogenesis and quality control, the molecular pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis, and small molecule correction of mutant CFTR proteins. He was elected into the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2000 and has published nearly 100 scientific papers.

In 2014 Bill joined the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Bethesda MD, ultimately becoming Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer. At CFF he was responsible for funding hundreds of CF research labs around the world and building a robust venture philanthropy portfolio that brought together scientists, biotech, pharma, and venture partners to develop new life-saving drugs and ultimately a genetic cure for people with CF. Working with both large and small industry groups, he established and help fund dozens of collaborations for CF drug discovery and development, overseeing a total budget of more than $100M per year. He also continued to run a small research laboratory studying fundamental aspects of CFTR folding and trafficking.

He stepped down as CSO in 2022, and returned to his roots in Oregon where he now lives on a small Douglas Fir tree farm in Salem. When he is not working in his garden, orchard, or young forest, he continues independent consulting activities to help develop cures for rare genetic diseases.