This page gathers blog posts of the major stories from the Spring 2011 issue of the Oregon Stater magazine, which was printed by the OSU Alumni Association and sent on April 4, 2011 to alumni and friends of OSU.
It does not include all of the content from the print version of magazine. Full content of the most recent issue – in both Flex Page and PDF formats – is available at www.osualum.com/stater.
The Stater’s main mission in all of its forms is to foster stronger connections among OSU alumni and between the alumni and the university.
Production and mailing costs of the print version of the Stater, and of the three online versions – this blog, the Flex Page Stater and the PDFs – are underwritten mainly through the generosity of dues-paying members of the OSU Alumni Association, with substantial assistance from the OSU Foundation. Membership in the alumni association is open to all; information on joining is available at www.osualum.com/membership. Donors can also support the magazine directly by giving to the Oregon Stater Fund through the Campaign for OSU at the OSU Foundation.
STORIES FROM THE SPRING 2011 ISSUE:
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Students are on the front lines of patient care at the OSU College of Pharmacy’s Portland campus.
Tagged: healthy living, pharmacy, Portland, research
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Replacement of OSU’s four main cultural centers will start with a dramatic new Native American Cultural Center
Tagged: Campaign for OSU, diversity, giving back, Native Americans, students
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A booming University Honors College is at the center of OSU’s increasingly intense – and successful – effort to enroll more high-achieving students
Tagged: It's OK to brag a little, students, University Honors College
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Young OSU grads’ cloud computing company rocketed from startup to acquisition target in almost no time
Tagged: alumni, engineering, technology
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“Paying attention to the root causes of both success and failure in leadership positions can be very instructive.”
Tagged: business, Ed Said, President Ed Ray
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Education Hall looks oddly bare these days, like a genteel old woman caught in the garden in her corset and bloomers.
Tagged: buildings, Campaign for OSU, College of Education
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“She had a transcendent quality about her,” Bill recalled. “She could talk the birds out of the trees and they’d follow her around the garden.”
Tagged: buildings, College of Education, giving back
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There’s no precedent anywhere in the United States for how to fund such a structure.
Tagged: earthquakes, research, science, tsunamis
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Robert Yeats, a professor emeritus of geology at OSU who has been mapping fault lines for 40 years, said that if people didn’t already get the message from recent disasters in Sumatra and Chile, they should pay attention now.
Tagged: earthquakes, research, science, tsunamis
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The cheese work is part of a broader endeavor by OSU to boost its support of Oregon’s food entrepreneurs. Beer brewers, winemakers and cheese makers are among the beneficiaries of the initiative.
Tagged: business, Campaign for OSU, food, giving back, technology
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Despite the economy and despite Oregon’s higher education governance and funding structure, which can defy logic regardless of one’s political leanings, OSU is a booming place. Which is all good but not without consequences.
Tagged: Campaign for OSU, From Where I Sit, humor, Oregon Stater
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It is no surprise … that Oregon Staters turn out in big numbers and do amazing things.
Tagged: Director's Cut, OSUAA, service
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Excuse me for feeling superia
To the life forms we know as ____.
‘Cause in each tiny cell
There is no organelle
To be found in their tiny interia.
Tagged: alumni, Pop Quiz, science
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“We want to provide an environment that encourages learning outside the classroom, and one key element is to have spaces where students can work together as a team,” Kleinsorge said.
Tagged: buildings, business, Campaign for OSU, giving back
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Friends and supporters of OSU headed to the annual Destination OSU celebration in Rancho Mirage, Calif., this spring to celebrate the university and to honor alumni for service to the university.
Tagged: alum, awards, Campaign for OSU, It's OK to brag a little, OSUAA
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A $600,000 gift establishes a major literary prize and brings attention to OSU’s MFA program.
Tagged: awards, books, Campaign for OSU, giving back, Liberal arts
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(From the Spring 2011 Oregon Stater) A $5 million gift from two of the world’s most prominent advocates for whole grains and healthy eating will launch a new research and outreach center in OSU’s College of Health and Human Sciences focused on whole grain foods nutrition, while federal grants of $2.9 million for aging research [...]
Tagged: Campaign for OSU, giving back, healthy living, HHS, nutrition
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Our feature this time concerns how buildings at OSU have gotten their names. An informed walk across campus reveals that this was done differently during various periods of OSU history.
Tagged: Back in the Day, buildings
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Back in the 1970s, an up-and-coming young comedian named Steve Martin advised his audiences, “Let’s get small.” In a manner of speaking, Oregon State has taken Martin’s advice and prospered with it.
Tagged: baseball, basketball, cross country, football, sports
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It’s a bridge from the playing fields and gyms of campus to the boardrooms of Portland and beyond.
Tagged: alumni, Beaver athletics
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Construction on an addition to the Sports Performance Center that would include practice courts and office space for the men’s basketball and women’s basketball programs could begin as early as this summer.
Tagged: basketball, Beaver athletics, volleyball
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Oregon State’s wrestling program is hoping to reach two big goals – one on the mat, one off the mat – at just about the same time.
Tagged: basf, giving back, wrestling
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As a zoology student at OSU, Hash volunteered at Chintimini Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Corvallis and later at the zoo to discover which branch of zoology she was interested in.
Tagged: alumni, animals, Portland
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OSU joins 49 other U.S. universities that hold both, and is one of only 23 land grant institutions to hold the double honor.
Tagged: It's OK to brag a little
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It fits in the back of a pickup and looks like a hobby helicopter …
Tagged: forestry, research
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