From left, Don Neubaum, Susie Brubaker-Cole, Susana Rivera-Mills and James Cassidy formed a panel discussing success and collaboration during University Day. Date: Sept. 18, 2012. Photo: Theresa Hogue, OSU News & Research Communcations

Success through collaboration was the key to this year’s University Day 2012 celebration, which took place on campus Sept. 18. Instead of the usual keynote speaker, a panel of OSU leaders shared their thoughts on “Succeeding Together.”

Led by James Cassidy, senior instructor with the Department of Crop and Soil Science, the panelists included Susie Brubaker-Cole, associate provost for Academic Success and Engagement, Susana Rivera-Mills, associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts, and Don Neubaum, associate dean for Research and Faculty Development.

The panelists discussed everything from carefully choosing your co-workers to learning to adjust to a new culture by depending on collaboration, to the pros and cons of electronic communication in a busy world.

President Ed Ray talked about some of the last year’s successes, including a steady stream of research funding and a highly successful capital campaign, and both attendees and external audience members from OSU’s other branches and Extension and Research stations participated in a prize drawing that included hotel stays in Portland, passes to OSU sporting events, and many opportunities to sample some of Oregon’s best cheeses and beverages.

As always, a large portion of the event was taken up with the honoring of this year’s University Day award winners (see list below). The celebration was followed by an outdoor barbecue lunch of pulled pork sandwiches and sunburgers, and then an Expo in the CH2M HILL Alumni Center featuring booths representing OSU’s colleges, departments and resources.

President Ed Ray addresses a crowd of around 500 faculty and staff members during the 2012 University Day celebration. Photo: Theresa Hogue.

Additionally, a Gatekeeper Suicide Awareness Training was held following the buffet lunch, and the grand opening of the Student Success Center was held in the afternoon.

University Day award winners:

The Student Learning and Success Teamwork: The Department of Agricultural Education and General Agriculture. Members include Greg Thompson, Jonathan Velez, Kellie Strawn, Misty Lambert and Kristopher Elliott.

The Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award: Chunhuei Chi, an associate professor in the School of Biological and Population Health Sciences with the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

The Herbert F. Frolander Graduate Teaching Assistant Award: Kate Boersma, a graduate student in the department of zoology with the College of Science.

The Promising Scholar Award: Kelly Benoit-Bird, associate professor in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences.

The OSU Award for Outstanding Service to Persons with Disabilities: Alicia Dixon-Ibarra, a doctoral candidate in Exercise and Sports Science.

The OSU Exemplary Employee Award: Chris Sullivan, lead Computational Scientist at the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, and Kelley Kendall, nurse practitioner with Student Health Services.

The University Professional Development Award: Adry Clark, assistant director for Career Services.

The Karel J. H. Murphy Professional Faculty Leadership and Service Award: Ferne Simendinger, Graduate Coordinator for the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering.

The OSU Professional Faculty Excellence Award: Charles Sears, Manger of Research Computing in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences.

The Outreach and Engagement Award: Patty Skinkis, assistant professor and viticulture extension specialist in the Department of Horticulture.

The International Service Award: Ping-Hung Hsieh, associate professor with the College of Business.

The OSU Academic Advising Award: Brenda Sallee, head advisor in the College of Business.

The Dar Reese Excellence in Advising Award: Kim Hannigan, a clinical assistant professor in the School of Biological and Population Health Sciences in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

The Outstanding Faculty Research Assistant Award: Ann Morey-Ross, senior faculty research assistant, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences.

The OSU Industry Partnering Award: Brian Paul, professor in the School of Mechanical Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering in the College of Engineering.

The OSU Faculty Innovator Award: Richard Peterson, professor in the School of Mechanical Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering in the College of Engineering (given posthumously and presented to his wife, Bonnie Bailey).

The OSU Faculty Teaching Excellence Award: Peter Betjemann, associate professor of English the College of Liberal Arts.

The D. Curtis Mumford Faculty Service Award: Joanne Sorte, senior instructor in the School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences with the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

The Elizabeth P. Ritchie Distinguished Professor Award: Ronald Reuter, an associate professor of Natural Resources at OSU-Cascades in Bend.

The OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award: Goran Jovanovic, professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering.

Beaver Champion Award: Denise Lach, director of the School of Public Policy in the College of Liberal Arts, and Mike Bailey, professor of Computer Science in the College of Engineering.

Hundreds gathered at LaSells Stewart Center to celebrate University Day. (photo: Theresa Hogue)

Oregon State University kicked off  the school year on Sept. 22 with its annual University Day celebration, a chance to socialize, learn more about the university, and honor some of its best and brightest faculty and staff.

A reception featuring local food with an OSU connection was followed by a keynote address by Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, a veterinarian who’s appeared on the Animal Planet show “Emergency Vets.” He emphasized the importance educators have on the lives of students.

“My mother was an educator and she wouldn’t give up on kids,” he said. “She was tireless. We don’t get tons of money but we can internalize the rewards we get.”

President Ed Ray highlighted OSU’s success in attracting high achieving, diverse students to campus, and increasing the number of faculty, the amount of endowed positions, and the boom in new buildings on campus.

“I think I can say today that if you look around at Oregon State University and you are not proud of your part in what is going on, then you are not paying attention,” he said. (Click here to see the full text of Ray’s speech)

During the event, Ray and Faculty Senate President Jack Higginbotham recognized the achievements of more than two dozen leading faculty and staff  with some of the university’s most prestigious awards.

This year’s award recipients are:

Beaver Champion Award: Chris Bell, professor and associate head of the School of  Civil and Construction Engineering, and Kim McAlexander, head advisor for the College of Public Health and Human Science.

The Student Learning and Success Teamwork Award: C2C (Close to the Customer) marketing faculty in the College of Business. Members include Michelle Barnhart, Colleen Bee, Nikki Brown, Mark Elton, Hal Koenig, Keven Malkewitz, Jim McAlexander and Amanda Terhes.

The Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award: Brent Steel, a professor in political science with the College of Liberal Arts.

The OSU Academic Advising Award: Mary Ann Matzke, academic adviser in the College of Science.

The Herbert F. Frolander Graduate Teaching Assistant Award: Kaitlin Bonner, a graduate student in the Department of Zoology.

The Promising Scholar Award: Alan Fern, associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

The OSU Impact Award for Outstanding Scholarship: Rick Settersten, professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences.

The OSU Award for Outstanding Service to Persons with Disabilities: Dan Larson, associate director of operations and facilities with University Housing and Dining Services.

The OSU Exemplary Employee Award: Carrie Giese, coordinator of sexual assault prevention and education with Student Health Services and Rob Chitwood, biological sciences research technician with the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife.

The Karel J. H. Murphy Professional Faculty Leadership and Service Award: Michelle Mahana, executive assistant to the dean of the College of Public Health and Human Science.

The Outreach and Engagement Award: Paul Kopperman, professor in the Department of History.

The OSU Professional Faculty Excellence Award: Nancee Hunter, director of education at the Hatfield Marine Science Center for the Oregon Sea Grant College Program.

The International Service Award: William Warnes, associate professor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering .

The Dar Reese Excellence in Advising Award: Carmen Steggell, an associate professor in the Department of Design and Human Environment.

The OSU Faculty Teaching Excellence Award: Donald Neubaum, associate professor of management in the College of Business.

The D. Curtis Mumford Faculty Service Award: Daniel Arp, professor of botany and plant pathology and dean of the Honors College.

The Richard M. Bressler Senior Faculty Teaching Award: Janet Lee, a professor in Women Studies.

The Elizabeth P. Ritchie Distinguished Professor Award: Milo Koretsky, an associate professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering.

The OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award: Robert Duncan, Rohm Professor in Oceanography and associate dean of the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences.

~ Theresa Hogue

Let me use the few minutes I have to take stock of where we are.

When I came to OSU in 2003 – and I know many of you are familiar with this story– budgets were being cut and the mood was a little grim.  When I set out to meet with faculty, well-meaning folks warned me, “You know, a lot of faculty members are a little depressed.”

And I said to the faculty, when I met with them, “You know, given everything that’s going on, if you’re not a little depressed, you’re not paying attention.”

Well, I think I can say today that if you look around at Oregon State University and you are not proud of your part in what is going on, then you are not paying attention!

And I know you are all paying attention.

When we adopted our Strategic Plan in 2003 and began planning The Campaign for OSU, one of the things we talked about was the importance of doing our part to prepare OSU for the future so we could better serve Oregon and the world.

The evidence is that collectively we are doing this well despite the challenges we face.  Let me give you some examples.

We said it was essential we help keep Oregon’s best and brightest students in Oregon.

Well, over the last three years OSU has been enrolling more top-ranked Portland area students than any university anywhere.  This fall we were more than twice as successful as the second place school.

We made the same order of commitment when it came to diversity, and we have increased the percentage of minority students every year.

We are also much more international than we were.  We have more out of state students.  More graduate students.

Many of you will remember conversations about how essential it was that the University and Foundation and Alumni Association collaborate more effectively so that OSU could get up to speed with our contemporaries in fundraising.  This was crucial if our aspirations for OSU’s future were ever going to be realized.

Well, the success there has been really gratifying.  At the end of August we were at $743 million toward our reset goal of $850 million.  The success of this first-ever capital campaign has been remarkable. In particular, over the last year we have focused on increasing endowed faculty positions through the Campaign. We have more doubled the number of endowed faculty positions since the campaign started, and our total now stands at 95.  In this spirit, I am pleased to announce today that Allyn Ford, the head of Roseburg Forest Products, and his wife Cheryl Ramberg-Ford, have just made a $5 million commitment to endow the Dean’s position in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University. This is the second endowed deanship created during the Campaign for OSU.

And the OSU Foundation is now regarded as one of the real leaders among similar organizations nationally.

The numbers I think you should focus on and feel especially good about are these:

•    As of last spring, over 57,000 households have contributed to the Campaign.  Incidentally, this includes many faculty and staff, both current and emeritus. And

•    More than one-third of all Campaign gifts have been from donors making their first contribution to OSU!  That’s extraordinary, and it says a lot about the ability of the Foundation, the Alumni Association, and our volunteers to get more people on board and your ability to garner support for the important work you do here.

The news has been equally good for our research program.  We have routinely set records, and last year – when many of our peers were down significantly – we held our own at $262 million.

We talked about positioning OSU to make greater contributions to Oregon’s economic and social prosperity.  Here again, we’ve made great strides:

•    In Oceanography and other disciplines, we are now leading major national multi-year research initiatives in critical areas like climate change and ocean wave energy.

•    We have secured 89 U.S. & Foreign Patents and executed 156 licenses in the last 4 years.  Some of these discoveries, such as transparent electronics (HP) and soy-based laminate glues, could become entire new industries.

•    And we have established 10 startups based on OSU funded research, with approximately $140M raised and 175 jobs created so far.

As you all know, thanks to the generosity of our alumni and friends we are also transforming the campus physically with new facilities and renovated classrooms.

In sum, working together we are doing a lot to help strengthen OSU as a vibrant, growing institution able to pursue its mission passionately and effectively.  You should be very proud indeed.

I know there has been a cost to this.  Many people in this community have worked, and continue to work, at nearly an unsustainable pace and the sense of community that is so important in the history and fabric of this great place has been strained.

In my speech later this Fall to the Faculty Senate I will outline some of the steps we are taking to address this issue.  Let me highlight just a few of them.

For starters, we are adding new faculty, with 30 new tenure track positions added this year.  We will soon announce plans for adding additional new faculty.  We have also provided funds to add sections to so-called bottleneck courses.

We will moderate our enrollment growth rate and focus on recruiting entering classes that are increasing diverse and include the best and brightest students.

We are taking internal actions, including adding an ombudsperson and acting to address bullying on campus.

The Campus Business Centers are already helping streamline operations, and we are working diligently at the system level to make sure the new status for the university system translates into more operating freedom and flexibility on campuses.

We have come through a very bad economy in solid financial shape.  More importantly, we have been able to maintain our momentum and stick carefully to our Strategic Plan.  This is a credit to everyone in the community.

When we see the continuity of outstanding students and faculty who study and learn here; the students and faculty who join us this fall; and our graduates – our alumni – who represent this university in the world, we should be very proud.

When we celebrate the accomplishments of our colleagues, as we will shortly, we should be very proud.

This University is engaged in a continuing, evolving statement about our responsibility and opportunity to serve the state and nation and world.  We are all privileged to have a part in that mission. And the statement we are making together is profound and wonderful.

Thank you, and have a great year.

~ Ed Ray

Click here for a list of University Day staff and faculty awards.

President Ed Ray addressed the assembled OSU community with some very good news. His speech is reprinted below the photo slideshow.

President Ray’s University Day 2010 address

It is a pleasure to welcome you to this year’s University Day celebration.

There is something fitting, I believe, in starting each school year – and this is my eighth at OSU – by celebrating our colleagues’ achievements and contributions. It is a wonderful reminder of our collective purpose and illustrates the extent to which we are surrounded by excellence in teaching, research, outreach and service.

Let me extend my congratulations to all those recognized today. These are well-deserved honors and meaningful examples of all that is great about Oregon State University.

As we open this academic year, we are coming through a difficult stretch for both our country and this institution. If the nation’s recovery from the recession continues to be slow and uncertain, there is little uncertainty about Oregon’s circumstances. Our state faces serious budget shortfalls for the next few years. As they have in the past, these will affect us here.

Despite these challenges, I believe Oregon State University enters this year in a financially sound position. I will detail our financial situation at greater length in my remarks to the Faculty Senate next month. For now let me just say that hard work and shared sacrifice by everyone associated with OSU has been effective. The basic message I delivered last June regarding our ability to weather difficult financial conditions in the state still holds, despite further deterioration in the state revenue picture.

As a community, however, we need to do a better job of looking after each other. When I speak to the Faculty Senate I will describe some of the actions we will take immediately to improve conditions for all of us and for our community. There will be opportunities for each of you to make a difference this school year, too, though efforts like the Charitable Fund Drive and the OSU Food Drive. Those efforts brought in nearly $127,000 and 253 tons of food last year, respectively, and are so critical to members of the university and greater Corvallis communities. When those efforts get underway, I encourage each of you who can to consider taking part.

As we begin the 2010 school year, it’s great to note that those two charitable successes are part of a foundation of remarkable recent achievements and trends that promise continued progress for the months ahead. Let me detail a few.

The Campaign for OSU

Some of you will recall the 2007 University Day, when I spoke to you on the eve of the public announcement of The Campaign for OSU and reported we had raised over $300 million in the quiet phase, toward an ambitious goal of $625 million dollars by June of 2011.

It seemed a large amount. The target was a long way off and the time short, especially considering this was OSU’s first university-wide fundraising effort.

Today it is an enormous pleasure to tell you we are just over $615 million with nearly a year to go, a milestone we reached despite the unsettled economy.

This accomplishment, which should make everyone associated with OSU proud, is a shared one.

* We have received extraordinary leadership from our volunteers and seen pace-setting generosity from our donors.
* This generosity has included many of you and your colleagues. In fact, over 2,700 current and former OSU employees have given more than $10.5 million to the campaign, with gifts ranging from $25 for the KidSpirit Program to $1 million for an endowed professorship in Liberal Arts!
* The work of the OSU Foundation and the Alumni Association has been – and remains – exemplary. Our future is demonstrably brighter because the Foundation and Association are much stronger, and we are all working together much better!
* Members of the administration and the Deans have worked tirelessly as well, and achievements like the Hallie Ford Center, Linus Pauling Science Center, Kelley Engineering Center, Student Success Center, Kearney Hall, and the just-announced Austin business building are just the most visible examples of the improvements they helped generate.

Ultimately, the success of The Campaign for OSU is a vote of confidence in all of you and your peers. Our donors are investing in OSU’s faculty and students! Theirs is a profound endorsement of your role – and OSU’s place – in the lives of Oregonians and Oregon’s communities and businesses.

I am reminded of Balz Frei’s remarks at the groundbreaking for the new Linus Pauling Science Center. He called the process of securing the necessary gifts a great adventure and thanked Mike Goodwin for the experience!

It has been a great adventure – and an essential one. I think therefore you can expect further announcements about our goal and the duration of our campaign.

Success, as they say, has its consequences!

Research

Simply put, we have enjoyed performance in the research enterprise equal to our success in the campaign. In fact, I believe the two results are connected, as donors see OSU demonstrating its ability to solve problems and generate innovations that lead to new products, businesses, jobs and social vitality.

The outlines may well known to some of you, but for those of you who may have missed them over the summer, consider this:

* Last year’s total of $275 million in research grants and contracts represents another record and a doubling of research performance over the past 10 years.
* The benefits of this research become more tangible every year. For instance, Home Dialysis Plus, an OSU start-up company, just landed $50 million in venture capital funding, the largest such early investment in Oregon history.
* Likewise, the number of discoveries emerging from OSU that show real promise for improving human health and our understanding of key natural processes rises steadily.

Speaking to a group of Portland area alumni CEO’s two weeks ago, our new Vice President for Research, Rick Spinrad, said OSU was now in the “big leagues” as a research institution, with future opportunities to match. That fact was underscored by the recently released Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac, which this fall for the first time included OSU in its list of America’s top research universities in external funding.

Student Experience

The signs of growth and success are equally encouraging in the classroom and in extra-curricular areas.

OSU students continue to enjoy success, whether it is once again dominating international Baja Car and Mars Rover competitions or winning admission, as Honors College student Marsha Lampi did, to a summer internship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, where she was one of 24 students selected from around the world.

We had two students selected for Fulbright Scholarships, and this fall welcome 15 new National Merit Scholars – an OSU record.

We are developing state-of-the-art classrooms and teaching innovations in physics, biology, and other disciplines.

We will add new faculty, including 15 new positions in critically important disciplines in the Arts and Sciences.

Oregon’s best and brightest students are noticing. For the last three years, the Oregonian reports, we have been the leading choice for the Portland area’s top students. This year, we more than doubled up on the second place school, which I expect left them green with envy.

Nor is it just Oregon high school students. Our enrollment has grown dramatically the past two years, so that we are projecting nearly 24,000 students at the opening of school this year. We have higher proportions of foreign students and out-of-state students.

In Bend, where our OSU-Cascades campus is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, we have also seen steady enrollment growth to close to 700 students and increasing levels of institutional stability, direction, and collaboration. The University of Oregon will transition out of Cascades this fall, and OSU will be the sole provider of education for this rapidly growing and increasingly important and appreciated branch campus.

And speaking of OSU Cascades, Vice President Becky Johnson and her faculty and staff couldn’t be here today, but did want to share a few thoughts with you.”

We are also better able to support students’ aspirations. We have exceeded our $100 million campaign goal for scholarships and fellowships. And prestigious organizations such as ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) now support OSU students with outside funds. We are one of only 48 institutions in the country that receive funds from ARCS, and they just added another four outstanding engineering doctoral students to the four they began supporting in 2008.

Faculty Initiatives

Thanks to our faculty, the undergraduate experience is increasingly marked by excellence. Allow me to highlight a few examples:

* Our head advisors, registrar, and information technology people have been hard at work bringing a new advising system online. The system, Degree Works, will substantially benefit students and allow our dedicated advisors to offer much higher-order guidance.
* Last year we launched a website and related activities to boost awareness of and opportunities for undergraduate research, one of the distinct advantages we can offer our students.

And, at its June meeting the Faculty Senate unanimously approved a set of Learning Goals for Graduates. These goals encompass all aspects of undergraduate academic and co-curricular experience. I am deeply grateful to the Senate and its president, Leslie Burns, for their hard work and persistence on this important issue. In Dr. Burns words, these Learning Goals should “become the thread that ties together OSU’s undergraduate experience.”

As I tell entering students every year, OSU offers them incredible opportunities for engagement and discovery. The Faculty Senate’s action promises to contribute substantially to making these opportunities more tangible and accessible to all our students.

Individual faculty members continue to win awards and recognition, which contributes to OSU’s scholarly vitality, raises our visibility, and increases our ability to act in our signature areas and promote educational excellence across the curriculum.

Conclusion

Let me close by referencing a recent event that illustrates the many ways people here work to advance OSU.

This summer OSU hosted 286 high-achieving students from around the world for the first International Baccalaureate World Student Conference ever held in the continental U.S. Michele Sandlin in the Admissions Office worked tirelessly with her colleagues to win the right to host this event and to organize it.

As you know, IB students are among the most motivated and hardest working secondary school students, regardless of their country of residence. In this case, 12 countries were represented and students were linked around the world electronically.

OSU received great visibility as a global university – and a gratifying number of prospective students have expressed interest as a result.

At the end of the conference, during presentations, an American student recounted an incident a few days earlier with her issues team.

These teams were multi-cultural, multi-national cohorts that worked on global challenges. Many of the students on them had competed to come here because in-country funds were so limited.

Her team, the American student related, was walking back to McNary Hall when one of the team members started walking with his arms fully outspread and his face turned upward.

“Are you OK,” she asked him worriedly.

“I feel so free,” he responded. “Just to walk in the open with green grass, beautiful buildings, and I’m on my way to eat wonderful food, as much as I want and so many choices.”

It is good to remind ourselves how much OSU can – and does – offer to people who look to us for education, inspiration, and opportunity.

Thank you for your contributions toward those worthy and noble goals and for being here with all of us today to celebrate the new school year and some special and well deserving colleagues.

~

Emeritus faculty arrive at the LaSells Stewart Center to celebrate University Day. (photo: Theresa Hogue)

The campus may be buzzing this week as Fall term begins, but last week on campus was just as jam-packed. Thursday we celebrated University Days, and Friday we celebrated the coming Linus Pauling Science Center.

Oregon State honored the service of more than two dozen leading faculty and staff members with some of its most prestigious annual awards as part of University Day, the annual kick-off of the new school year.

The awards were formally presented on Sept. 23 at a University Day-eve banquet, and were also honored during a Sept. 24 presentation in LaSells Stewart Center as part of University Day events.

This year’s award recipients are:

Beaver Champion Award: Amas Aduviri, Director of College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) and Lynda Ciuffetti, Professor of Botany and Plant Pathology.

The Student Learning and Success Teamwork Award: College of Liberal Arts’ Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures Spanish instructors and professors – Loren Chavarria, Juan Antonio Trujillo and Susana Rivera-Mills.

Faculty Senate President Paul Doescher helps kick off University Day. (photo: Theresa Hogue)

The Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award: Carol Mallory-Smith, a Professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Science with the College of Agricultural Sciences.

The OSU Academic Advising Award: Polly Jeneva, Head Adviser for Student Services in the College of Liberal Arts.

The Outstanding Faculty Research Assistant Award: Brian Arbogast, a Senior Faculty Research Assistant in the Department of Chemistry with the College of Science.

The Herbert F. Frolander Graduate Teaching Assistant Award: Sarah Eddy, a PhD student in the Department of Zoology with the College of Science.

The OSU Award for Outstanding Service to Persons with Disabilitie: The late David Bradford, a recent masters graduate from the Department of Geosciences.

The OSU Exemplary Employee Award: Michelle Eck, Academic Advisor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering in the College of Engineering, and Sue Hall, an accountant in the payroll office with Business Affairs.

The Karel J. H. Murphy Professional Faculty Leadership and Service Award: Kate Halischak, Director of the Academics for Student Athletes Office.

Balz Frei, Director of the Linus Pauling Institute, speaks to the crowd gathered to celebration the construction launch of the Linus Pauling Science Center Sept. 25 at Oregon State. (photo: Larry Pribyl)

The University Professional Development Award: Janet Webster, Head Librarian at the Marilyn Potts Guin Library with the Oregon State University Libraries.

The OSU Extended Education Faculty Achievement Award: Melodie Putnam, Extension Plant Pathologist in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology with the College of Agricultural Sciences.

The OSU Professional Faculty Excellence Award: Joey Carson in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Science.

International Service Award: Sunil Khanna, Associate Professor of Anthropology with the College of Liberal Arts, is this year’s recipient.

The Dar Reese Excellence in Advising Award: James Kiser, an Instructor in the Department of Forest Engineering, Resources & Management in the College of Forestry

The OSU Faculty Teaching Excellence Award: Sarah Henderson, an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science with the College of Liberal Arts.

The D. Curtis Mumford Faculty Service Award: Sally Bowman, Assistant Program Leader with Extension Family and Community Development and Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences with the College of Health and Human Sciences.

The Richard M. Bressler Senior Faculty Teaching Award: Shoichi Kumura, a Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering with the College of Engineering.

The Elizabeth P. Ritchie Distinguished Professor Award: Bradley Cardinal, a Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences with the College of Health and Human Sciences.

The OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award: David Williams, Director of the NIEHS Marine/Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center.

The Promising Scholar Award: Jamie Kruzic, Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering in the College of Engineering.

The OSU Impact Award for Outstanding Scholarship: David Kim and J. David Porter, Associate Professors with the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering with the College of Engineering.

For information, go to http://oregonstate.edu/events/universityday.