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Kevin Ahern has been honored to serve at OSU in almost every possible capacity. An OSU alum, he received his Ph.D. in Biochemsitry/Biophysics in 1986. During his OSU career, he has been a graduate student, a post-doctoral fellow, a business manager, an instructor, a senior instructor, a head advisor, the Director for Undergraduate Research and a Professor of Biochemistry/Biophysics.
I was hired in 1984 to teach in the Physical Activity Course Program (PAC). I also taught two pedagogy courses in Exercise Science and helped with supervision. In 1992, I took over direction of the PAC Program. I retired from full time work in 2013, when the program had grown to include 70 instructors and a yearly enrollment of over 80,000 students. My greatest joys were hiring excellent instructors and watching them work their magic with students. I also took pride in putting together a very complex schedule of classes. I started teaching in the Faculty Staff Fitness Program in 1985, and I still teach one class each term.
I teach and carry out research in the Atmospheric Sciences at OSU, having started out in the Atmospheric Sciences Department and then moving to the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. My research has long been focused on the atmosphere of Mars, using computer modeling and analysis of spacecraft data to improve our understanding of this fascinating planet.
The majority of Belinda's OSU career has been assisting new students. She began in the Office of Admissions as a customer service representative before becoming an admissions evaluator in 1997. She spent the next 11 years admitting both undergraduate and graduate applicants. Since 2008 she has worked in the Graduate School admitting international graduate applicants. In addition, for the last 5 years she has volunteered for the OSU Extension Service as a Master Food Preserver.
Sherm Bloomer is the Associate Vice President of Budget and Resource Planning for the Office of Budget and Fiscal Planning, and Professor of Geology and Geophysics. Reporting both to the Vice President for Finance and Administration and the Provost, Sherm oversees development of the university’s Education and General Funds (E&G) budget, provision of University-wide fiscal planning support, development of tuition rate projections and recommendations for University senior leadership, and budget management and reporting. Prior to his current role he served as dean for the College of Science. A respected geologist with 22 years of teaching undergraduate and graduate students, Sherm holds a BS in Geology from Rice University and a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of California at San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His Executive Assistant is Laurie Henry.
Bill Boggess is professor and Executive Associate Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University. He served as Interim Dean of the College from July 2008 to August 2009 and as President of the OSU Faculty Senate in 2006. Before moving to the Dean’s Office, he served 11 years as Head of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Oregon State University. Prior to joining Oregon State University,Bill spent 16 years on the faculty at the University of Florida where he was involved in greater Everglades research. His research interests include interactions between agriculture and the environment and economic dimensions and indicators of ecosystem health. Bill currently serves on the National Research Council’s Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress and was an inaugural Food System Leadership Institute Fellow. He previously served on the Oregon Governor’s Council of Economic Advisers, the State Of Oregon Environment Report Science Panel, and was active in the design of the Oregon Conservation Reserve Board Enhancement Program. Bill has a Ph.D. in Economics from Iowa State University. An avid biker, Bill makes his home in Corvallis.
I began my career at OSU in June of 1980 as a Receptionist in the former Ag and Resource Economics department.
In the late 1980's, I assisted during the creation and implementation of a computer unit for the OSU Extension Service, currently known as the Extension Computing Technology Unit (ECTU). In 2018 my role expanded when I was given the opportunity to support Community Network customers across campus while continuing to support the Extension Service.
In 2019, I received the Director's Coin for Excellence which is awarded to Extension personnel who have displayed excellence in support of the Outreach and Engagement's mission or have distinguished themselves in an exemplary manner.
I've enjoyed my 40 years at OSU. I'm thankful for my friendships, and the learning opportunities. I've worked with many amazing, talented OSU employees, and have many fond memories.
Thank you for the recognition. It has been a pleasure!
I have served the producers of Central and Eastern Oregon since July 1989 as an Area Extension Agronomist out of the Crook County Extension office in Prineville. Extension work has focused on working with Central Oregon Hay Growers' Assoc., Oregon Hay and Forage Assoc. (OHFA)., C.O. Forage Seminar, Oregon Hay King Contest, OHFA Fall Forage Seminar, Living on a Few Acres Expo, and forage, cereal, and irrigation management education for Ag producers, large and small acreage. Research has focused on irrigated forage and cereal species and varieties, and soil fertility and fertilizer recommendations. Present Extension project with colleagues in OR/WA/ID is an Inland Pasture Calendar, which describes irrigated and dryland pasture plant and root growth, every two weeks of calendar year, in every major land resource area (MLRA), east of the Cascade mountains.
Bella Bose works in the areas of Error Correcting Codes, Parallel Computing and Computer Networks. He has advised and graduated 30 Ph.D. students and 37 M.S. students. He has served as the Associate Director/Associate Head of the School of EECS from 2003 to 2018 and also served as the Interim Head of the school twice (2014-2015 and 2017-2018). He is a Fellow of IEEE and also ACM, the leading professional societies in EECS.
Dr. Bothwell is an associate professor of bioengineering whose research strives "towards a socially just engineering profession: interrogating engineering culture; feminist theory that centers intersectionality; critical disability theory; professional engineering ethics and social responsibility; [and] institutional transformation." Among her many achievements in both engineering and equity, Dr. Bothwell received the CoNECD 2018 Best Paper award for her paper titled, "Advancing the College of Engineering Strategic Goal of Becoming a National Model of Inclusivity and Collaboration."
Professor Jeanne Brandt provides community education on behalf of OSU Extension Service in the areas of healthy aging, healthy homes and food safety including providing popular hands-on opportunities in food preservation throughout the metro area.
Gigi Bruce started her career at OSU in the spring of 1990. She has worked in several units on campus including Summer Session, OSU Conference Services, Continuing Higher Education, Academic Affairs, and currently, the Office of the Provost. She has often commented that she has the best job at OSU - one where she can contribute to many of the University's priorities and where she works with brilliant and caring colleagues. Gigi loves the University and is an avid Beavers fan.
I started in 1984 as a clerical assistant at the Radiation Center. I found opportunities along the way to progressively increase my responsibilities and duties. In 2010 I retired from the Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Center Departments, having served as the Business Manager for 21 years. I have continued working since my retirement at a position with Oregon NASA Space Grant as the Program Manager. I have worked with a lot of great people over the years, and I feel that I have been truly blessed by my experiences.
Dr. Marlan Carlson, professor of music and music director of the Corvallis-OSU Symphony orchestra is the Otwell Endowed Chair for University Orchestras. Carlson holds the Doctorate of Musical Arts and the Artists's Diploma from the Eastman School of Music and has been both a Fulbright Scholar and a Danforth Fellow. His professional career has included principal viola in the Heidelberg Staedtisches Orchester, the London Symphony and the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra. From 1988 through 1990 Carlson served as resident director of the Oregon Study Abroad Center in Stuttgart, Germany. During that time, he conducted the Hohenheim Wind Ensemble and played in the Stuttgart Bach Orchestra. In the course of his career at OSU, Carlson served as chair of the music department for 17 years, as well as resident director of study abroad programs in London, England; Cologne, Germany; Siena, Italy; Angers, France and Vienna, Austria. In 2000, Carlson was presented with the International Service Award by Oregon State University and the Excellence Award by the College of Liberal Arts Advisory Council. Following several enthusiastically acclaimed concerts in 2001 in Zhengzhou, China, Maestro Carlson returned to China several times over the next ten years to conduct professional symphony orchestras in a number of cities, including Shanghai and Tianjin. In June of 2007, Carlson and three Russian-American pianists recorded a CD in the studios of Radio Moscow with the Russian National Philharmonic. The CD includes concerti of Glazunov, Scriabin and Tchaikovsky, and was released by classicalrecords.ru in December of 2007.
Angela Carlson studied flute, piano and harpsichord at the University of Idaho, the University of Wisconsin, the Guildhall School of Music in London, and the Aspen School of Music. She served as opera preview lecturer for the Linn-Benton Opera Guild over two decades and as accompanist for many local and OSU music events during the past forty years. With her husband Marlan she co-founded the Music a la Carte series in the fall of 1969. She currently devotes most of her time to teaching music theory and literature at OSU, and enjoys writing program notes for the Corvallis-OSU Symphony orchestra and serving on the board of Chamber Music Corvallis.
Mina Carson teaches courses in United States social and cultural history, in particular the Progressive and New Deal eras, women in the twentieth century, American families, and gay and lesbian movements. Her newest course, the history of psychotherapy, focuses on psychotherapeutic theories and practices in Western Europe and the United States. Carson is also a musician, having been one of those "girls with guitars" since junior high school in the 1960s. She collaborated with Dr. Susan Shaw of the OSU Women Studies program and Dr. Tisa Lewis of the Montreat (N.C.) College Social Science faculty on Girls Rock: Fifty Years of Women Making Music (University Press of Kentucky, 2004), a multifaceted venture with film and publication components. They are currently editing a short film, Loud!, on the first Rock and Roll Camp for Girls.
Pat Casey won 900 games at Oregon State as the Beavers' head coach from 1995-2018, guiding the program to National Championships in 2006, 2007 and 2018 and five Pac-10/12 titles. More than 20 of his players went to play at the MLB level and more than 100 were drafted by MLB organizations. Casey was named the National Coach of the Year in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2017 and 2018. He led the Beavers to the postseason 12 times, and made it to the College World Series in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2017 and 2018.
Jo Ann Casselberry worked most of years at the English Language Institute doing bookkeeping and grant accounting. She now works in the Finance section of the University Administrative Business Center.
I am a marine geologist and volcanologist studying submarine volcanoes and hydrothermal vents, using high-resolution seafloor mapping, instrumental monitoring, and visual observations from remotely operated vehicles and submersibles.
The purpose of my work as professor has been to provide leadership in research, teaching and outreach on the physiology, ecology, and management of seed crops. These efforts have focused on the development of science-based management practices for seed crops and on increasing our understanding of the underlying biological processes limiting greater economic and environmental efficiency of seed production. These practices have been widely adopted and are now the standard in Oregon and elsewhere around the world. In recent years, I have had the great pleasure to serve in several administrative roles in the department.
My research involved pharmacokinetics, bio-pharmaceutics, pharmaceutics and drug formulation. I was the major advisor to 23 PhD students and 17 Master's Students as well as being the Graduate Council Representative to over 60 graduate students while also serving on over 100 graduate student committees. Seventy peer-reviewed papers of mine were published along with 82 abstracts. Also ten non-peer reviewed publications are in print; one is still being cited. I have been awarded 7 US patents and 2 international patents that have generated significant resources to Oregon State. I was awarded Professor of the Year once and taught a popular writing intensive course for 20 years, the science of Cosmetics. The course was full within an hour of it being available for enrollment each term it was taught.
Ciuffetti's major research interest is in the area of host-pathogen interactions, specifically, interactions involving fungal pathogens. She is primarily interested in the investigation of the genetic and molecular elements that control pathogenicity. Identification and characterization of the genes that are involved in pathogenicity and host specificity, and the mechanism of susceptibility and resistance are the focus of her current research efforts.
As Assistant Dean of Academic Programs for the past 7 years, Dr. Diebel has led the College of Agricultural Science's academic programs office with distinction, gaining a reputation across campus for innovation, accountability and, most of all, excellent support for our students in their educational and professional development. Diebel will soon return to teaching as a Professor of Applied Economics.
My research has focused on the area of machine learning to which I have contributed several new algorithms and problem settings. I have also pursued a long series of collaborations with OSU faculty across campus in the areas of ecology and natural resource management. I have supervised 23 PhD and 28 MS students and published more than 200 refereed papers. I have also served as PI on several large research projects funded by NSF, DARPA, and several other funding agencies and companies totaling over $48M.
Jon received his PhD. In Philosophy in 1987 and M.A. in Psychology in 2019. He created OSU's first internet course, InterQuest, in 1994, now in its 104th consecutive term on the web and recipient of national awards. Jon directed the international Philosophy and Computing conferences at OSU 2001-2005, led development of OSU"s virtual worlds Beaver Island, Rippleville, and Virtual Dog for research, and published peer-reviewed articles on academic integrity and intuition. He created Technology Across the Curriculum to support faculty using technology. Jon taught critical thinking and active learning workshops for faculty in Yemen and Transylvania. Jon is Principle Investigator of The Geometry of Learning and served as Faculty Senate President in 2018. Jon's new joy is his grandson Aspen born to his daughter Quincy in April 2020. Asked to reflect on his three and one-half decades at OSU Jon replies, "I learn therefore I become."
An electrician at OSU
Traci Durrell-Khalife (French, '84) worked at Printing & Mailing Services 1987-1996, then at Department of Zoology (now Integrative Biology) from 1998 to present. She provides support for the IB graduate program and academic aspects of the department, from editing the schedule of classes to requisitioning textbooks, as well as being the departmental event planner. In 2016, Traci received the Gladys Valley Award for Exemplary Administrative Support from the College of Science. She enjoys being part of the vibrant Oregon State community.
I have had the privilege of working on fruit juice quality and authenticity for most of my OSU career. First with Ron Wrolstad in Food Science and Technology and most recently with Balz Frei at Linus Pauling Institute. My recent work has focused on two things- the nutritional quality and properties of fruit products and the authenticity of pomegranate products.
Dr. Gene Eakin has worked part-time or full-time in the Counseling Academic Unit since the summer of 1990. He is the School Counseling Program Lead in the College of Education and has dedicated his life to preparing the next generation of school counselors. Gene is also the Advocacy Chair of the Oregon School Counselor Association and the team leader of the Oregon College and Career Readiness Thought Leaders.
Dan started at OSU as an Extension specialist and was the first Mace Professor of Watchable Wildlife; he became Department Head in 2001. He trained 22 M.S., 3 Ph.D. and 2 Post-docs with a wildlife habitat and population ecology research program. Dan as received 6 national teaching awards, and a national extension award. Dan currently serves as Past-President of OSU Faculty Senate, and served as Chair of both the APLU Fish and Wildlife Section and Board on Natural Resources.
Gary Ferngren is Professor of History at Oregon State University, where he has taught ancient history (Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome) since 1970. He has received many university awards for his teaching: Elizabeth P. Ritchie Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1974; Sandy and Elva Sanders Eminent Professor, University Honors College, 2011; and Professor of the History of Medicine, Department of History of Medicine, I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, 2014-2018. He was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion in Cambridge, England. His publications include The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition (Taylor and Francis, 2001); Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction (Johns Hopkins UP, 2002, 2017); Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity (JHUP, 2008); Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction (JHUP, 2014); and (with Ekaterina Lomperis) Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion (JHUP, 2017).
Finch works on inverse problems, particularly those arising in medical imaging. He has worked on x-ray computed tomography and vector tomography. He is currently working on problems arising in the medical imaging technique called thermoacoustic tomography and other forms of hybrid imaging.
Kay Fischer is a Senior Faculty Research Assistant in the College of Veterinary Medicine, provides technical assistance in histology, image analysis, and electron microscopy. Ms. Fischer has a M.S. degree in Biology from Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, and has been associated with the Core since 1995. Previously she was employed by the College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University in the Image Analysis Laboratory, where she gained valuable experience in the techniques involving morphologic evaluation of tissues. Ms. Fischer is highly accomplished in preparing tissue for light and transmission (TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). As an operator of these respective microscopes, she possesses excellent photographic skills, and is well-versed in immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization techniques.
I started at OSU in August 1989 and have served the College of Engineering for my entire OSU career. I have worked with the Schools of Civil & Construction Engineering and Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering providing accounting support, including in my current position as an Accountant 2 in the Business & Engineering Business Center. I have received the “My Favorite Colleague†staff award and the College of Engineering Classified Staff award. It has been a privilege to serve OSU for over 30 years.
Laurie started out working in the Deans office in the College of Liberal Arts, she then moved on to the College of Liberal Arts Advising Office. In April of 1995, Laurie started her adventure with OSU Extension Service in Linn County. There she has acted as office support for Extension program and is the departmental computer administrator, web page editor, and production coordinator for the monthly newspaper put out by Linn County Extension.
My research is focused on understanding the mechanisms and significance of biological (circadian) clocks, which regulate processes from gene expression to behavior. My projects integrate genetic, biochemical, and physiological experiments with current genomic approaches
Joan is a linguistic anthropologist who has been teaching courses on language and culture at OSU since 1989. Her commitment to intercultural understanding motivated her to lead study abroad programs on five different occasions to France, Italy and Ecuador. Her research has focused on minority language use and, more recently, on alternative food systems. This latter subject led her to create the Food in Culture and Social Justice program with several of her colleagues across campus.
For the first 21 years of my OSU career, I worked in Student Media/Orange Media Network as Assistant Director. In this position I advised the advertising students for The Daily Barometer, the Beaver Yearbook Editor and Business Manager, and the Prism Editor. I also oversaw production of the OSU Directory.
I served on the College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers (CNBAM) board of directors for seven years including president for two years.
I received the JoAnn Daughtee Distinguished Service Award from CNBAM and the Newspaper Advertising Educator of the Year award from the Newspaper Association of America.
For the past four years, I have worked as the Administrative Program Assistant/Specialist for Precollege Programs and the SMILE Program. I provide program support for youth outreach and enrichment programs to K-12 students, human resources and fiscal support, and operations management.
I am also a proud OSU alumnae.
I received a B.S. in Forest Products Business Management from the University of Idaho in 1990 and a PhD in 1994 from Virginia Tech, specializing in Forest Products Marketing. Career happenings I am most proud of: Co-author of the textbook Strategic Marketing in the Global Forest Industries, now available via OSU Open Access; six study abroad courses to various parts of Europe; lead role in creation of two refereed journals – Journal of Forest Products Business Research, and BioProducts Business; close collaboration with friends/colleagues in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Australia, Canada, Finland, Mexico, Norway, and Slovenia; leading the Department of Wood Science & Engineering since 2017. All this made possible by Krista Hansen who raised two amazing boys (Rami & Niko) and managed all aspects of our lives outside of OSU.
I've worked my whole career at OSU with UIT in the Administrative Computing team in Enterprise Computing Services. In my time at OSU, I've been lead analyst for Banner Financial Aid and Human Resources/Payroll and worked on countless projects and migrations of Banner systems. I've also implemented several enterprise level systems such as Banner Citrix environment, the original Data warehouse, Statewide Dual enrollment OFAX system, Nolij document imaging, EVALs, EmpCenter time and attendance and BennyHire.
Kathryn Higley’s fields of interest include environmental transport and fate of radionuclides, radioecology, radiochemistry, radiation dose assessment, neutron activation analysis, nuclear emergency response, and environmental regulations. She has held both reactor operator and senior reactor operator’s licenses, and is a former reactor supervisor for the Reed College TRIGA reactor. Higley has been at Oregon State University since 1994 teaching undergraduate and graduate classes on radioecology, dosimetry, radiation protection, radiochemistry, and radiation biology.
I started my service at OSU in 1995 at the Old Heating Plant located next to McAlexander Field House . In 2007 OSU embarked on the creation of a new energy center which I had the privilege to participate in the design, construction and commissioning of. In 2012 I accepted the position of Lead Co-generation Engineer. My focus since that time has been to operate and maintain a reliable Co-Generation plant and to form a highly skilled and cohesive team of operators to guide this plant into the future.
During my forty years at OSU I have watched my College grow from the School of Oceanography to the College of Oceanography, then COAS, then CEOAS. My primary role has always been research, with a minor in teaching and a growing but never dominant role in service to my research community and at a national level with the Navy, Army and many cross-agency programs. The most heart-warming outcomes of my time at OSU have been to be part of the growth of a world class program in nearshore oceanography and engineering, and to be part of the education of a great group of young graduate students who have carried on to leadership roles in the world while continuing their connections with me and OSU. I have traveled a great deal in my career but was always grateful to return home to OSU.
I am a Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences, and hold the Jo Anne Leonard Petersen Endowed Chair in Gerontology and Family Studies. In my previous role as founding Director of the Center for Healthy Aging Research I am proud that I brought heightened attention and research activity in aging sciences to OSU. I have over 100 peer-reviewed publications in social and psychological areas of adult development and aging. In addition to being awarded federal and foundation-sponsored research grants, I led a large National Science Foundation interdisciplinary graduate education and research training grant (IGERT) program for graduate students in aging sciences that impacted the career trajectories of 27 doctoral students over six years. I was awarded OSU's Mumford Award for Faculty Service in 2016 having served in many roles, the most recent being School Head in the School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences.
Ip has published articles on various topics, including the origins of Communism, Chinese perspectives on democracy, intellectual-peasant relationship, Communist political culture, gender and female appearance, etc. Her book, entitled Intellectuals in Revolutionary China 1921-1949: Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates, was published in 2005. Currently, she is working on two book projects. Entitled Self and its Transcendence: Buddhism and Modern Chinese Subjectivity, the first project analyzes the lives and writings of a few prominent Buddhist historical agents in modern China. This book will argue for the relevance of Buddhism as a transcendental religion for modern individuals, whose lives, aspirations and values, as many experts see them, were highly secularized. Her second book project tackles a topic beyond the China field. Entitled Religion, Subjectivity and the Making of History: Buddhist Activism in a Comparative Perspective, it explores Buddhism, reinvented in Thailand, Vietnam and the “contact zone” between cultures, as a contemporary mode of activism challenging transnational capital.
Jane Ishmael teaches pharmacology to students in the Doctor of Pharmacy (Pham.D.) degree program and specializes in the action of drugs in the central nervous system. Jane’s research interests are closely aligned with the drug discovery efforts in the College of Pharmacy. With a focus on brain tumors, her laboratory studies the action of new chemical structures with anti-cancer potential that have arisen in nature and may inspire future drug development.
I came to OSU in the early 70s as a graduate student in Ocean Engineering, married my wife Karen, the Ocean Engineering secretary and OSU graduate, and came back in 1994 as OSU's Marine Superintendent. Our daughter Elizabeth graduated from OSU in 2005 with a degree in Environmental Science. In 2006 I retired as Marine Superintendent but continued in various capacities including as Technical Advisor to OSU's Regional Class Research Vessel project. I continue, part time, to support OSU Ship Operations.
Kauffman discovered the remarkable carbon-holding power of mangroves and other tropical wetlands while he was studying typhoon damage in Micronesia more than a decade ago. He and his research team share their field work with leeches, disease-carrying insects and other dangers. His research focuses on the interactions of ecosystems, land use, and climate change in wetlands and tropical forests (current emphasis is on mangroves and other coastal ecosystems, tropical swamp forests, and riparian zones). His team also researches riparian ecology and restoration, pproaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation as well as natural and human disturbances on ecosystem structure and function.
Nancy Kershaw is the OSU Extension Faculty member in Tillamook County Oregon for 4-H Youth Development and Family & Community Health programs. She coordinates the 4-H Youth Development program, the Oregon Family Nutrition Program and teaches classes in nutrition, financial management and food preservation. She is also a 4-H sewing leader. Nancy started her career with OSU in Washington County as the 4-H agent and moved to Tillamook County in 1987.
I deeply appreciate the many interactions with faculty and staff and the relationships that they have fostered through my roles as a member of the faculty, Chemistry Department Chair, and Associate Dean in the College of Science. Collaborators across the University have helped to create a stimulating environment in which to discover and study new materials and their properties. I highly value work with colleagues in the NSF Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry, Materials Synthesis and Characterization Facility, Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Institute, and the Electron Microscope and NMR Facilities. Work with ecosVC, OSU Advantage, and the regional innovation ecosystem has catalyzed many successes in training a new generation of innovators and translating basic research to new startup companies. Lastly, I do hope that students have found our time together to be enabling and empowering and of some value beyond OSU.
My work at Oregon State University has always been in the Crop and Soil Science Department, previously Crop Science Department. Within the Department I worked for the Hyslop Crop Science Field Research Laboratory, the Wheat Breeding Program and most recently the Seed Certification Program. Each job holds many good memories of people and activities.
Born a Beaver, I Am a Beaver, Will Die a Beaver- My life started on the edge of the OSU campus at the Good Samaritan Hospital when it was located on Harrison Blvd. Grew up on campus as my father, Art Koski, was on faculty between 1950-1984. I've been honored to work at OSU Student Health Services providing healthcare to our students in time of physical and emotional need. As I look forward to retirement on 1/1/21, it has been surreal experience to live through the COVID-19 pandemic. After retirement, I will live in Corvallis and continue to root for Beaver academics and sports teams until it's time to leave this world. GO BEAVERS!!!
My research has focussed on measurement of ocean currents, both at sea and from shore. I have helped plan and contributed to numerous experiments in coastal physical oceanography, and to some larger scale studies including the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), TOGA COARE (Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment). I've been privileged to travel to Easter Island, Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, Mauritius, South Africa, Chile, Panama, Wales, for research. Recently I have been Principal Investigator for the OSU component of NANOOS (Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems), a NOAA-funded umbrella effort to provide real-time information about the ocean to scientists, planners, fishermen, and other ocean users.
Human activity has caused extensive changes in the rates of inputs of various nutrient and toxic elements to many natural ecosystems, often with dramatic effects on the functioning of those ecosystems. Lajtha's lab studies the changes in biogeochemical cycling, and the effects on the vegetative community, that has arisen from human activities. Most of her current research is focused in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, which is OSU’s LTER site. They have established DIRT (Detrital Input and Removal Treatment) plots to examine the effects of changing detrital quality and quantity on soil organic matter stabilization, C balance, and nutrient cycling and availability, and they are working with other emerging DIRT sites in the U.S. and in Europe on cross-site comparisons.
Landgren's focuses on Christmas tree breeding, tree growth and culturing integrated pest and farm management. Chal has been growing Christmas trees since 1982 on his small family farm. The farm is on the 3rd crop rotation, second market cycle and is constantly engaged in answering new questions about growing trees. He has been with OSU since 1980 in Forestry/Administration roles and began at NWREC in 2008.
I am a lab manager and a Senior Faculty Research Assistant II in Forest Biotechnology Laboratory (FBL) and the Tree Biosafety and Genomics Research Cooperative in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at OSU. My research work focus on developing efficient and reliable regeneration and transformation systems and protocols to genetically engineer poplar, sweetgum, and eucalypt trees; Altering reproductive pathways to engineer sterile plants and control flowering time in trees; Producing semi-dwarfism in transgenic poplar trees; Conducting functional genomics research. As FBL manager, I am responsible for ensuring smooth functioning of the laboratory. I precisely schedules multiple tasks for a variety of research projects to ensure each project is in progress. I have been an author or co-author on 53 peer review publications. I supervised hundreds of student workers and graduate students at OSU. Working with students is one of the most gratifying parts of my work
Prof. Mario Edgardo Magaña joined OSU because he saw a great potential to conduct interdisciplinary research within and outside the College of Engineering. He has been involved in research projects with colleagues from microbiology, civil engineering and within electrical and computer engineering. In the last 5 years he has focused on solving problems related to wave energy conversion to electricity and to innovative transceiver design of computing devices to maximize data transfer over wireless channels.
I am a concert pianist and professor in the Department of Music. I will see you tonight from the stage at The LaSells Stewart Center, performing Beethoven's Triple Concerto with The OSU-Corvallis Symphony. My OSU career: 25 years of teaching students, performing hundreds of concerts, directing the piano program, and working to build a thriving culture of the arts at OSU.
OSU has provided me with a wealth of opportunities to teach and do research in optical physics. Over my 30 years, I have built new optical tools with eager young students, written a quantum mechanics textbook with faculty colleagues, and explored London museums with Honors students. The daily joy of working here has made 30 years go by in a heartbeat. To top it all off, we get to live in a great small town. Thanks.
Tom Miller is a faculty member in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering, He teaches and does research in structural engineering. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Wood Science and Engineering. Finally, Tom has been the faculty advisor to the American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter for over 15 years, and finds the greatest joy in working with students informally in this way.
Thirty-five years flies by quickly! In 1984, I came to what was then the College of Oceanography because I met some great potential colleagues, and because the collaborative culture here fit my style of work. That proved to be a good decision, and over the years together we built a strong program in my field - learning about the present and future from records of past climate change. OSU has become a leader in this area, known around the world for its faculty, its facilities, and its results, and it has become a magnet for great students. The reasons are as they were long ago – great colleagues and a collaborative culture that brings out the best in everyone. I hope OSU will preserve and build on that culture, which will advance our mission in the future as it has in the past.
My primary responsibilities over the years has been in Civil and Construction Engineering (CCE). I originally came from UofO ('85) and was in grad school in CCE, then hired as a faculty research assistant after receiving my MS in Engineering. I soon moved into computer support for the department. Currently, I maintain the Windows desktop environment for the College of Engineering. I also maintain our print services for the college. Some of the facilities I work with are the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Facility, Institute For Natural Resources and Pacific Marine Energy Center, among others. My job is rewarding in many ways, but my greatest joy is the student employees that work with me. Seeing them take on new challenges and grow, and become successful IT administrators themselves, has been a rich experience. I appreciate the opportunities OSU has given me and my family over the years. Go Beavs!
John Moreau was a field technician for many years stationed at the Andrews Forest with continuing responsibilities for climate and other environmental monitoring activities and periodic special projects, which regularly took him to many sites throughout the Forest and nearby research properties.
Moum is a 2014 Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and a 2014 recipient of the Henry Stommel Research Award, granted to researchers in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the advancement of the understanding of the dynamics and physics of the ocean. He was honored "for fundamental research on quantifying and modeling vertical mixing in the ocean." An expert in small-scale ocean mixing, Moum works with the Ocean Mixing Group at OSU. His research includes: long-term measurements of mixing at the Equator intended to elucidate mixing's role in seasonal and interannual variations in equatorial surface temperatures; studies of giant nonlinear internal waves; exploring form drag in the ocean (analogous to atmospheric mountain drag which extracts momentum from the atmosphere's boundary layer) so this phenomenon can be incorporated into ocean circulation models.
Kim's research has been focused on the ecology and habitat associations of seabirds, specifically using modeling and habitat data to better understand and help resolve wildlife conservation and management issues. She has studied the nest-site characteristics, stand and landscape associations, abundance, and nesting behavior of forest birds and seabirds of the Pacific, including Marbled Murrelets, Long-billed Murrelets, Caspian Terns, and a variety of species in forests of the Pacific Northwest and at mixed seabird colonies in the Bering Sea. She has published more than 50 scientific papers on her research.
I am a big fan of Extension and proud to support the programs it brings to our communities. A highlight every year is assisting with the annual Clatsop County Chick Cam (the incubation, hatch and brooding of chicks livestreamed to our website). My job has lead me into my Master Gardener and 4-H Leader volunteer roles and in 2014 I received the Classified Staff of the Year Award.
I have been very fortunate to work for Oregon State University for 40 years. I have had many great supervisors that gave me the opportunity to grow and advance. It has been a wonderful experience. I've seen many changes and progress. I currently work with a wonderful group in Equal Opportunity and Access and appreciate each one. Thank you OSU for allowing me to work here!
June is a micropaleontologist who works in the College of Earth, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences as a Senior Faculty Research Assistant. She uses microfossils in ocean sediment cores to help work out how ocean temperatures have changed over tens of thousands of years. June has also worked in OSU’s Core Repository, archiving and sampling cores used by researchers around the world.
Todd Palmer's fields of interest include: numerical techniques for radiation transport and diffusion, reactor physics, general numerical methods, Monte Carlo methods, radiation transport in stochastic mixtures, and computational fluid dynamics. Prior to Oregon State, Palmer served as a physicist, defense sciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1991-1994). While at Oregon State, Palmer has served as a consultant to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Siemens Nuclear Power Corporation.
I started with OSU in Int'l Research & Development as the Assistant to the Director, Assoc Director, and Asst Director. After five years, I moved to The LaSells Stewart Center, where I was the Operations Manager, then Assistant to the Director, which included managing OSU Conference Services. After 13 years, due to budget cuts, I moved to the Western Center for Community College Development in the College of Education, where I was the Asst to the Director, then Asst Director. After nine years, the grant ended and I moved to the Research Office, where I am currently the Lead Assistant Grant and Contract Officer. I married an OSU Alum have raised three children while here at OSU, and all three attended OSU! OSU is a great institution and I've worked with and learned from many fine people.
My work has been focused in three main areas. Earlier on, I spent several years arranging and describing the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, and creating digital exhibits that highlight specific themes within the collection. I am also the founder, editor and publisher of the Pauling Blog, which has been active since 2008. I administer the SCARC Oral History Program and have conducted over 200 oral history interviews myself, mostly with people connected to OSU. As part of this, I directed the OSU 150 Oral History Project, which is the largest initiative of its sort ever carried out at OSU, and possibly the largest state-wide. I have also facilitated the selection, digitization, description and online release of more than 20,000 historic photographs and 500 films held in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center.
I started with OSU Extension in 1979 as an area livestock-forage Extension Agent. I worked with farm and ranch clientele on beef, sheep, swine and forage education and research programs. In 1989 I became the staff chair of the Polk County OSU Extension Office. In 1996, I started as a Regional Livestock-Forage Extension Specialist for the northern Willamette Valley and also Extension Swine Specialist for Oregon. I continued in that position until my retirement in November of 2018. Then I began an academic wage appointment to work on special projects and answer clientele questions which continues to the present day.
My noteworthy accomplishments during my time at OSU include: developing a comprehensive pasture management guide for Western Oregon based on years of research and conducting selenium fertilization research which led to Oregon being the first state to approve the use of selenium as a fertilizer amendment on pasture and hay fields.
Pohjanpelto works on the theory and applications of generalized symmetries of differential equations. He has studied the structure of symmetries of the electromagnetic field and applied symmetries in the construction of conservation laws and classification of group invariant solutions. He has also used variational bicomplexes to study the correspondence of generalized symmetries of equations in physical and potential formulation.
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It's been an honor and privilege to work at OSU for over 40 years. Special thanks to the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (Department of Oceanography, when I started) for making the journey so interesting and fulfilling.
I am the Head Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, where I advise all of our undergraduate students in our two degrees. I also am the Assistant to the Director of the Applied Economics Graduate Program. I am in charge of scheduling classes, ordering textbooks, updating the catalog. I would also like to note that I am a second generation to the 25 Year Club. My mother was honored in 1997.
Greg Rorrer’s expertise is in biochemical engineering with applications in nanotechnology and renewable energy. His current research focuses on understanding the unique metabolic capacities of photosynthetic organisms in engineered systems for production of bioactive metabolites, nanostructured materials, and biofuels. Model organisms include biomineralizing microalgae (diatoms) and cell cultures derived from marine seaweeds.
A soil scientist by training, Dr. Roseberg’s entire career has been spent at branch agricultural experiment stations. In addition to improving production methods of traditional Oregon crops, his research has focused on developing alternative and new crops that have the potential to use less irrigation water and other inputs, including new crops that could replace imported or non-renewable raw materials. Examples include teff, euphorbia, Russian dandelion, camelina, and grindelia.
I began at OSU as an Instructor of Theatre Arts in Fall of 1994, teaching a wide variety of courses but specializing in performance subjects such as acting and directing. Over the next 20 or so years I directed somewhere around 40 shows for OSU (favorites include The Pirates of Penzance, Love's Labor's Lost, Buried Child, and Fences) as well acting in others (Assassins, The Merchant of Venice) and serving as the faculty advisor on many, many student-directed one-act and full length productions. Outside of OSU I've acted for the Willamette Stage Company here in Corvallis (A Walk in the Words, Heroes) and Bag ‘n' Baggage in Hillsboro (A Christmas Carol, Death of a Salesman). I have been serving in various school and college administrative roles since 2011. I take great joy in the opportunities I've been given to grow and celebrate the visual and performing arts at Oregon State.
Marjorie Sandor’s teaching and research interests include the literary uncanny and myth in American fiction. She has written four books, including the recently released memoir, The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction (May 2011, Arcade Publishing). In 2015, St. Martins Press published her edited anthology, The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows, an international compilation of literary short stories ranging from the deeply unsettling to the possibly supernatural. Her own most recent story collection, Portrait of my Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime: Stories (Sarabande Books), won the 2004 National Jewish Book Award in Fiction, and her book of essays, The Night Gardener (The Lyons Press), won the 2000 Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction. Her work has twice appeared in Best American Short Stories, as well as in the Pushcart Prize XIII, and other anthologies. Her debut novel, The Secret Music at Tordesillas, is the inaugural winner of the Tuscarora Award for Historical Fiction, and will be published in early 2020 by Hidden River Press.
Teresa started as a Faculty Research Assistant in the Botany and Plant Pathology department work on diseases of small fruit (berries). Later the reserach branched out to include tree fruits, apples and pears and some vegetable crops. Many years later she started working with Al Soeldner to learn electron micorscopy. When Mr Soeldner retired Teresa moved into the Electron Microscope Facility. This work is very rewaring,educational and challenging.
Ted was first hired as a Laborer in the Physical Plant where he worked for his first 5 years at OSU. He then became a Groundskeeper for the Landscape Department where he has worked for 20 years. Ted feels fortunate to be able to work outside every day with great co-workers who share his passion for creating a magnificent campus landscape.
Spatafora's research is focused on evolutionary biology of fungi with emphases in phylogenetics and comparative genomics across a diversity of taxonomic and ecological systems. There are currently four main focus areas, all of which seek to use genome-scale data and phylogenetic methodology to address questions in fungal evolutionary biology. He served a five-year term as the faculty athletics representative which represents the interests of the faculty and administration in matters relating to intercollegiate athletics. Spatafora also served as OSU's representative to the Pacific-10 Conference Council, and as a delegate to NCAA meetings.
My career at OSU has been primarily about teaching, and sharing German culture - writ large and small - with both students and the broader public, as recognized with the Officer's Cross of the German Order of Merit awarded me by the President of Germany in 2002. When I retired in 2011, I had taught over 12,000 students (and continue teaching in the School of MIME, and at Genentech). I was a pioneer in distance teaching, with OPB. In addition to hosting, I was a producer/distributor of 1000s of hours of landmark news, entertainment, sports, and documentary for U.S.-German television, culminating in producer credits on three feature films, each show-casing a giant of German culture: Bonhoeffer, Luther, and Schweitzer. The work was all the more fulfilling because my three children earned part of their German minors under my tutelage, and my wife, Tammy, worked at my side on most of the international productions.
Prasad Tadepalli is an expert in Artificial Intelligence (AI) with more than 100 publications in prestigious conferences and journals. His research interests and contributions span a wide spectrum including machine learning, natural language processing, sequential decision making, and probabilistic inference with potential applications to areas such as medicine, emergency planning, information retrieval, and machine translation. He helped build one of the strongest research programs in AI in the country at Oregon State University. More recently he has been leading the creation of a new interdisciplinary graduate program in AI.
I have worked with so many talented students and colleagues during my career! My research team has studied the physics of energy-relevant electronic materials and produced some of the lowest-resistance p-type transparent conductors, highly absorbent solar radiation absorbers and developed new metastable semiconductor alloys.
I have loved teaching students from the introductory to the graduate level and have been especially excited about getting undergraduates involved in research. Our physics department has a wonderful curriculum called “Paradigms in Physics†that implements active-learning strategies. I was a co-PI on the original program and continue to teach as it evolves into its 3rd decade.
I am proudest of the achievements of my many students who are now senior scientists in government labs and high tech industries, professors at higher-education institutions, school teachers and entrepreneurs. OSU has been a great place for all of us!
As Associate Provost for Ecampus, Lisa Templeton leads a team dedicated to making OSU's online programs among the very best in the country. Ecampus encompasses the University's top-ranked degree programs delivered online in partnership with OSU’s colleges. Partnering with more than 800 Oregon State faculty members and offering award-winning instructional design and multimedia support, the unit provides online students with access to vital resources like academic success counseling, OSU Libraries, exam proctoring and free tutoring. Ecampus also provides marketing and enrollment services for colleges, researches new online technologies and pedagogies, and advances the development of open educational resources. Lisa received her bachelor's degree from the Ohio State University, an Ed.M in Adult Education from Oregon State University, and a certificate from the Institute for Leadership in Online Education from the Online Learning Consortium and Penn State University.
Janine is a Professor in the Microbiology Department and served OSU as an Associate Dean from 2002-2013. She is recognized as an expert practitioner in college teaching effectiveness and student learning assessment. Janine developed award winning pedagogical methods in her courses, and is recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the prestigious Oregon Professor of the Year (Carnegie Foundation). Her research focus is microbial technology, with her innovative efforts patented and successfully launched through technology transfer efforts.
manage the operations, maintenance and repairs of the university's co-generation facility. first started work it was as a boiler operator on the graveyard shift which was located at the old heat plant across from goss stadium move up from operator to coordinator. then i was offered the supervisor position. In 2003 i started pushing upper management for a new plant and in 2009 the energy center came on line. fully operational in 2010. electrical production was limited to 5.5 MW's, 2017 i presented an idea to Mike Green with the installation of a condensing steam turbine that project in under way now. At present we generate 50-60% of OSU usage. that will increase making it a no brainer. the crew i work with is the best at what they do. .
His research is directed toward understanding the plant immune response and its manipulation by microbial pathogens with the objective of providing opportunities for novel, cost-effective, and safe methods for controlling plant disease. He has had the enormous pleasure of sharing research experiences and teaching at OSU for the past 25 years and is profoundly appreciative of the opportunity to conduct these activities at such a wonderful institution with so many exceptional people.