LIFE@OSU

Kate Peterson went to NYC in February to watch her terrier, Happy McGee, compete at the Westminster Dog Show.

Noller’s science is firmly rooted in Oregon soil, rather than deep space, but he has inherited his father’s belief that art and science are complementary.

Elizabeth Budd was born to swim, but history and sexism prevented her for years from achieving her dreams.

Professor Michael Harte led a group of on an exploratory trip to Antarctica in December.

Leigh Ann Starcevich is both a statistician and a singer and musician for Turkish band Ala Nar.

During the week, Elizabeth Gire is a post-doctoral physics education researcher at Oregon State University. But come the weekend, Gire can be found on the dance floor, perfecting one of the world’s most sensuous and elegant dances.

When she was 11-years-old, Holly Swisher decided that getting a PhD in math would be the most fun, challenging career she could imagine. And although she wasn’t fully aware of gender issues at the time, she had a sense that girls didn’t usually pursue careers in math. “I felt very fierce competitiveness with guys at [...]

Bob O’Malley, a senior research assistant in Botany and Plant Pathology, is broadening the participation in one of his life’s passions, the ancient Chinese game of Go.

Back in the late 1960s, in Ed Taylor’s minerals classes at Oregon State, Terry Toedtemeier found a “fascinating beauty” in the microscopic chemical and physical manifestations of rocks. “I never really understood it,” said the curator of photography at the Portland Art Museum. “Something about that sense of order, that regularity, that predictability you can observe with your hands and your eyes. It came naturally for me, especially the aesthetics.”

Native American flutist and Oregon State University music instructor Jan Michael Looking Wolf Reibach contemplates a career that includes 12 albums, two DVDs, and more than 23 award nominations. “Awards are nice, but they don’t really mean anything,” he says, reaching out his colorfully tattooed arm to stroke the head of his dog, a miniature Chihuahua.