OSU Admissions Blog

Creating and running their own business is the dream of many people. At OSU, our students are doing just that.

A recent article in USA Today shows the shift of younger Americans away from a corporate existence to one of personal creativity and risk. This motivation isn’t new and neither is it a [...]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected OSU’s Hindsdale Tsunami Wave Lab as the host site for tsunami research in the United States.
NSF funded tsunami research will be hosted by OSU, and visiting faculty and students will have an opportunity to utilize the largest tsunami wave lab in the world.
Click for video of one such [...]

The OSU Admissions office will be closed for an office-wide training on January 4th. The Campus Visitor Center next door will be operating as usual so students and families that wish to tour OSU can still do so.
We’ll do our best to catch up on the email and phone calls when we reopen on [...]

From the GT:
Oregon State University’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps’ (AFROTC) Silver Talons Drill teams earned two awards for their color guard and precision marching routine at the Albany Veterans’ Day parade on Nov. 11.
Oregon State University’s Air Force ROTC four-man special operations drill team conducted the color guard service, commanded by Cadet Adam [...]

From The Barometer:
In a few days, international health sophomore Tim Harris will leave for a trip to Centenary, Zimbabwe, where he will volunteer at St. Albert’s Mission Hospital for three weeks of winter break.
The idea was born after Harris heard a Sept. 28 lecture from Darrell Ward, an associate director of cancer communications at Ohio [...]

UPDATE!!! Just found a blog that Bill Oefelein, pilot of the recent space shuttle mission is conducting about the mission.
Discovery’s seven astronauts are among the most culturally diverse of any space shuttle crew. There are two African-Americans, an astronaut of Indian descent, the soon-to-be first Swede in space, a British-born mission specialist, an Alaskan and [...]

Included here are some snippets of information concerning the enrollments of students at Oregon State University for the Fall term 2006. These were distributed by Kate Peterson, Assistant Provost for Enrollment Management and Rebecca A. Sanderson, Interim Director of Institutional Research & Director of Student Affairs Research and Evaluation:
The overall enrollment headcount increased [...]