James and Jacquizz Rodgers are scheduled to open the annual Kaleidoscope of Colleges and Cultures (KCC) on Saturday, April 18th with a keynote address.
KCC is an annual event designed to assist students, especially those in underrepresented groups including first-generation and low-income, to better understand what college, college academics and the college search process is all [...]
From Brett McFarlane, Head Adviser in the College of Engineering:
Applications are now available for the 2009-20010 MECOP/CECOP Internship Program.
Applications are DUE BY APRIL 10.
http://mecop.oregonstate.edu/apps/index.html
If you have specific questions about the MECOP/CECOP program you may contact them directly at:
MECOP Office
118 Covell Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-2409
(541) 737-9595
mecop@engr.orst.edu
Best of luck to all applicants!
-bv
OSU alumnae Senator Margaret Carter was honored by Portland Community College last week. From the press release:
The Skill Center will now be called the Margaret Carter Skill Center. The program takes a hands-on approach to learning and applied skill training. Programs include classes in life-skill education, technology and computer literacy, employment exploration concepts and [...]
The College Sustainability Report Card for 2008 has Oregon State University listed as one of the Top 25 leaders in campus sustainability. This annual report is published by the Sustainable Endowments Institute. From their Executive Summary:
The College Sustainability Report Card is the only comparative evaluation of campus and endowment sustainability activities at colleges [...]
I get energized working at place where things that will impact our near and distant future are being studied.
-bv
From the OSU News Service:
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Conservation biology research at Oregon State University has been ranked in a new survey as the best of 315 such programs in the United States and Canada.
The rankings, done for [...]
6-4-3 double play to end the Super Regional(Props to the Oregonian)
This kid knows who is still #1 (again, thanks to the Oregonian)
If you are a Beaver Believer, you already know this. The Oregon State University Beaver baseball team punched their third straight ticket to the College World Series in Omaha, [...]
This op-ed provides some history and context to the legacy of one of the most influential alumni from Oregon State University.
From the Salem-News:
Scientist’s legacy held back by state legislators
JEANINE STICE
May 28, 2007
Linus Pauling is the only man to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes: one in chemistry in 1954 and the Peace Prize in [...]
Another approval, this time at the federal level, has been attained to move closer to creating a wave energy system off the Oregon Coast. Oregon State University researchers are working with an Irish company to begin testing electric-generating wave bouys off the Oregon Coast at Reedsport.
Click this link to see more details of the [...]
Read the post...Oregon State University hosted the 1st Annual African American Youth Leadership Conference on April 18th.
The goals of the conference were:
To promote positive yourth development in African/African American youth and multicultural youth of African descent by:
-Raising awareness on how to achieve personal goals
-Emphasizing the value of education
-Empowering future leadership (responsibility)
-Establishing a sense of community
-Increasing [...]
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