Points of Pride
- Kaichang Li, an OSU professor who invented a non-toxic adhesive for production of wood composite panels, was recognized with a 2007 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. The honor was made by the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., the White House and the Environmental Protection Agency, which sponsors this program that honors innovators who have helped reduce waste or toxins in manufacturing processes.
- 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.
- Dawn Wright, an OSU professor of geosciences, has been named 2007 Oregon Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. An OSU faculty member since 1995, Wright is a marine and coastal geography expert so passionate about her subject area that she's known as "Deepsea Dawn." Her popular web site with links to many interactive features can be found at http://dusk.geo.orst.edu.
- 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.
- Just before her death in 2007 at age 102, noted Oregon philanthropist Hallie Ford gave a gift of $8 million to the College of Health and Human Sciences to establish the Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families and appoint and endowed director.
- OSU alumna Becky Dudney, a Madras High School teacher, in 2008 was awarded a scholarship to attend the Freedom Writers Institute in Long Beach, Calif.
- Alan Acock has received the 2007 Ernest G. Osborn Award at the annual meeting of the National Council on Family Relations. Named for one of the founders of the family field, the Osborne Award is given biannually (and only when merited) for excellence in the teaching of family studies. http://www.hhs.oregonstate.edu/faculty-staff/userinfo.php?id=1
- 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.
- 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.
- Linus Pauling (B.S., Chemical Engineering, 1922) is the only person ever to win two individual Nobel Prizes in separate categories: Chemistry in 1954 and Peace in 1962.
- Six students from Oregon State University received 2008-09 U.S. Student Fulbright awards, a record number for OSU.
- 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.
- Professors Peter J. Bottomley and David D. Myrold earned the Soil Science Society of America's 2007 Soil Science Research Award. The award is presented annually for outstanding contributions to soil science through education, national and international service, and research.
- OSU Extended Campus won several national awards from the University Continuing Education Association in 2007, including the distinguished “Distance Learning Non-Credit Course Award” for the online course Human Resource Skills for Pharmacists, a collaboration with the College of Pharmacy, and three marketing/publication awards.
- Kevin Ahern, a senior instructor in Biochemistry and Biophysics and a leader in making OSU an excellent place for undergraduates preparing for health science related careers, is the recipient of the 2007 Medical Research Foundation of Oregon Mentor Award. The award is given for outstanding leadership and support of health research, education or the advancement of health care.
- OSU faculty and staff authors and an alumnus are consistently recognized by the Oregon Book Awards, presented annually by Literary Arts. Tracy Daugherty, professor and chair of the Department of English at OSU, has won the Oregon Book Award three times, including the Ken Kesey Award for the Novel in 2004 for “Axeman’s Jazz.” Daugherty also received a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, one of just 27 meted out to writers and poets throughout the United States.
- In 2008 OSU's James Carrington, a professor of botany and plant pathology and a pioneer in the study of "small RNA" in genetic regulation, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and also received a prestigious MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health to provide long-term support for his research.
