Points of Pride
- Officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized Oregon State University's commitment to "green power" with a 2008 Green Power Leadership Award. It is one of 25 organizations, businesses, municipalites and higher education campuses to be so recognized.
- Under OSU's Bridge to Success Program, some 2,400 Oregonians have been approved to receive free tuition and fees for the 2008-2009 school year; about half of those students also qualify for assistance with books and supplies. It is the largest financial aid program of its kind in the state.
- Jee Lee, a senior in Bioresource Research in the College of Agricultural Sciences, was voted Region VI national undergraduate vice president for Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences (MANRRS) in 2007. This is a national organization for minority students.
- The College of Business Arthur Stonehill International Business Exchange Program partners with nine institutions worldwide and is the largest program of its kind in Oregon.
- Six students from Oregon State University received 2008-09 U.S. Student Fulbright awards, a record number for OSU.
- The OSU Robotics Team, operating its "Parallax Quad-Rover" that had been assembled by about 15 OSU students, won the 2008 University Rover Challenge at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah.
- With four minority education offices and six cultural centers, more than any other university in the Pacific Northwest, OSU is committed to helping students learn about all backgrounds while building a larger community that embraces our diversity.
- OSU's College of Veterinary Medicine has begun a unique partnership with the Oregon Humane Society in Portland. Virtually all of the veterinary students at OSU will undergo a rotation working at the society, which also will house a faculty member from the college. By conducting surgeries, diagnoses and other procedures, students will increase the capacity of the shelter by 20 percent, saving hundreds of animals annually.
- In a 2006-07 evaluation of 114 college unions participating in an assessment by Educational Benchmarking Inc., the OSU Memorial Union ranked first in the nation for overall program effectiveness.
- The College of Health and Human Sciences' Movement Studies in Disabilty graduate program is the only such program in the country to have both masters and doctoral training grants in this area of study.
- Armed with the only bachelor of science degree in microbiology in Oregon, about 95 percent of microbiology undergrads are employed in their field or engaged in further studies – graduate, professional, or medicine and allied fields – within three months after they graduate.
- OSU Extended Campus graduated a record 87 students for the 2006-07 academic year, up from the previous record of 71 in 2005-06.
- Samantha Lewis, a senior in the OSU College of Science, won the 2007 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Undergraduate Diversity Mentoring Award, the society's highest honor for undergraduates. She was chosen from a field of hundreds of nominees from around the entire world.
- Forestry graduate student Dan Donato received the 2008 Outstanding Student Research in Ecology Award made by the Ecological Society of America for his studies on post-fire harvests effects on natural vegetation regeneration after the 2002 Biscuit Fire in Southwest Oregon.
- The Department of Design and Human Environment in the College of Health and Human Sciences boasts the only Design and Human Environment doctoral program on the West Coast.
