From Where I Sit: How not to answer a really important call

He was probably thinking, “I finally get time to answer these questions and it turns out there’s an idiot running my alma mater’s alumni magazine.”


Alumni Profile: Proud young engineering alumna is already a successful mentor

“When you go to an interview people are always telling you, ‘We love OSU graduates.’ It’s nice to hear that.”


Who chooses whom in Beaver Nation?

30.5% of OSU pharmacy majors who choose a Beaver choose a fellow pharmacy major.


Ed Said: Moving moments and a bull named Satan’s Sister

We asked President Ray to talk about encounters with alumni.


Making it count

Business school grad pledges $3 million for scholarships


On a fast roll

OSU-Cascades grad battles to quick entrepreneurial victory with War Scooters


A fairy-tale job

Alum leads Portland creature team for NBC’s ‘Grimm,’ in which beaver creatures wear Beaver gear


In her spare time …

Recent chemical engineering grad has a demanding job making life-saving vaccines. On the side, she’s an NFL cheerleader.


Beaver compounding pharmacy handed forward

Kate Ross James’ clients include police dogs and hospice patients, toddlers and calico cats, marathon runners and menopausal women.


Alumnus turns dream into successful boarding school for troubled boys

Shivering in an old homesteader’s cabin on the side of an Idaho mountain, Andy Sapp, ’97, wondered where he would find the money to cover the first payment …


Portland Rally in the Square boosts Beavers

Friday’s (Sept. 16) OSU rally in downtown Portland drew a large and enthusiastic crowd, as documented on Oregon Live and Flickr.


Mr. Best Places: He’s the best at showing people what’s best

He uses science and a bit of whimsy to, as he says, “add quality to data.”


A joyful gift of wisdom

Robert Johnson gets a lot of strange looks when he tells his friends what he does in Ken Hedberg’s lab.


New trainer a familiar face

Ariko Iso, a 1993 OSU graduate, was hired away from the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers this summer to be OSU’s head football athletic trainer.


Director’s Cut: An authentic sense of coming home

As I walk around this magnificent campus and visit with people, I am filled with wonderful memories.


Two alumni leading university outreach

From the Fall 2011 Oregon Stater After two national searches, OSU President Ed Ray this summer selected a pair of Oregon State alumni with roots in Oregon and broad experience off campus to lead the university’s two major communications and outreach organizations. Oregon civic leader Steven J. Clark, president and publisher of the Portland Tribune [...]


From Where I Sit: It’s good to be authentic about who we are

… the slick soles of the loafers led to a spectacular, tailbone-whomping fall that knocked the breath out of me and left me writhing on the floor to the soothing tones of “Smoke on the Water.”


Starkers, Leggett receive top honors from association

Bond and Barte Starker, co-owners of Corvallis-based Starker Forests Inc., received the OSUAA’s highest award.


OSU wrestlers continue to have strong world presence

Beaver wrestlers in Istanbul will add to one of the highest international profiles among Beaver sports, one that dates back to Robin Reed winning a gold medal and Chet Newton a silver in the 1924 Olympics.


Boston-based alumnus enjoys the challenge of handling big accounts for P & G

Company buy-outs and four or five job eliminations over the years have sent him from Pacific Rim countries to San Diego and now, with Procter & Gamble, to Boston and a chance to explore the East Coast.


Scholarships help graduate students dig deep into field

“I’m the one in the car who suddenly yells, ‘Pull over, pull over – I’ve got to go look at that soil!’”


New trustees, chair selected for foundation

Four new members have been elected to the OSU Foundation Board of Trustees.


University community loses Popovich, Wheeler, Poirot

Milosh Popovich, Sam Wheeler and Jim Poirot leave strong legacies at OSU.


OSU Alumni Association steps up its Portland presence

Portland-area alumni of Oregon State University will find it easier than ever to connect with each other and with the university as the OSU Alumni Association doubles its full-time alumni relations presence in Oregon’s largest metropolitan area. The greater Portland area is home to nearly 50,000 Beaver alumni and supporters, and the alumni association has [...]


Straight to the clouds

Young OSU grads’ cloud computing company rocketed from startup to acquisition target in almost no time