It’s that fabulous time of the year again…PRIDE WEEK! This year’s PRIDE theme, Powered by Rainbow, cleverly plays off of OSU’s Powered by Orange campaign. OSU’s PRIDE is a celebration of our LGBTQQIA (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Questioning Intersex Ally) community. PRIDE kicked off yesterday with a very delicious brunch that celebrated the beginning [...]
April 7th has been dedicated to nature’s engineer, the amazing BEAVER! Today is a very special day here on campus because the beaver is OSU’s official fierce mascot. April 7th was chosen as International Beaver Day because it is the birthday of the late Dorothy Richards of Little Falls, New York who studied beavers for [...]
With the ringing of 2011, come the good old New Year’s resolutions. It seems as though the majority of people out there are sticking to tradition and committing to either losing weight or getting back in shape. With that said, Dixon Recreation Center is buzzing with patrons working to achieve their goals. What draws students [...]
While these college of Forestry professors may not have invented ”Duct Tape,” they may very well end up changing the glue behind the idea. Recently Kaichang Li, a professor of wood science and engineering, and his postdoctoral research associate, Anlong Li, made an incidental discovery in a wood products lab at Oregon State University. Together they created a new [...]
Oregon State University has been named a Best Buy School in the upcoming edition of “The Fiske Guide to Colleges†for 2011. The revised and updated 2011 edition features more than 300 colleges and universities, and names 45 institutions – 21 public and 24 private – as Best Buys. These institutions fall into the inexpensive [...]
On June 1st OSU broke ground on the much anticipated expansion projects to the Dixon Recreational facilities. These projects include building a new Outdoor Recreational Complex as well as renovating the current McAlexander Fieldhouse. The Outdoor Recreation Complex project will take the place of the existing intramural playfield located between 26th and 30th Streets and between the [...]
From the OSU Alumni Association: Saturday May 22 is a day for Beavers to get together and get busy helping. Alumni, students and friends of OSU will work together in more than a dozen cities during the annual OSUAA day of service. Beaver alumni will be helping out in 13 cities around the U.S. including [...]
The always charismatic Chad Ochocinco, graced viewers with yet another magically performance on Monday night’s Dancing with the Stars. Ochocino, is better known around Oregon State as Chad Johnson, a major player during the 2000 football season which ended with a Fiesta Bowl victory. If you’ve missed any Dancing with the Stars episodes, don’t worry, [...]
POTUS and the First Family attended the OSU vs. George Washington game to root on the OSU Men’s Basketball Team. If you’ve been living under a rock, OSU Men’s Head Basketball Coach Craig Robinson is the brother of First Lady Michele Obama. From the Huffington Post: President Obama attended today’s Oregon State-George Washington University basketball [...]
The Morrison Bridge in Portland is lit up in Orange for Civil War week. Pretty striking if I do say so myself! From the Daily Barometer: Also helping to aid in the lighting costs was Pat Reser, the co-chair of The Campaign for OSU. “By lighting the Morrison Bridge, OSU hopes to capture imagination and [...]
