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16 unusual facts about Oregon State University


Alexandre Yokochi

Dr. Alex Yokochi now resides in USA as a teacher in Oregon State University.

After the completion of his degree, he joined the chemistry faculty at Oregon State University where he was a research professor working in the area of chemical crystallography.

Bob Glenn

In 1919, after graduating from Michigan, Glenn was hired as an instructor in civil engineering at the Engineering School of the Oregon State Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) in Corvallis, Oregon.

Bradie James

He was the sixth middle/inside linebacker taken, behind Nick Barnett of Oregon State, Kawika Mitchell of South Florida, Gerald Hayes of Pittsburgh, Cie Grant of Ohio State, and Angelo Crowell of Virginia.

Brook Glacier

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2006) after Edward J. Brook, Professor of Geosciences, Oregon State University; U.S. Antarctic Project investigator of Antarctic paleoclimate in numerous field seasons from 1988; Chair, U.S. National Ice Core Working Group for use of Antarctic ice cores for research purposes, 2004–05.

CALO

The available technologies were developed by research teams at SRI International, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Rochester, the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Oregon State University, the University of Southern California, and Stanford University.

Darni M Daud

Then undertook a master's degree in Inter-cultural Communications at New York University, and a Phd in Higher Education at Oregon State University.

David Amaglobeli

In 1998 he graduated with a diploma in economics from Tbilisi State University and in 2001 he received the degree of Master of Science in Economics from Oregon State University.

INTO University Partnerships

In July 2008, INTO announced that it had signed its first agreement in the United States, to operate a foundation year programme for Oregon State University.

John A. Young

He received his BS degree in electrical engineering in 1953 from Oregon State University, later receiving an MBA degree from Stanford University.

Mary Carlin Yates

Yates earned her BA in English from Oregon State University and earned a Master's in Comparative East West Humanities from New York University, where she pursued her doctoral studies in Asian Affairs.

Oregon Executive MBA

Formerly a partnership of Oregon State University, Portland State University, and University of Oregon, Oregon Executive MBA is now solely a program of the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business.

Pamela Matson

She completed her M.S. from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at the University of Indiana, her PhD in Forest Ecology from Oregon State University, and did postdoctoral research at the University of North Carolina.

Robert Whittaker

s under Whittaker include Walter Westman, Robert Peet (now at University of North Carolina), Susan Bratton (now at Baylor University), Thomas Wentworth (now at North Carolina State University), Owen Sholes (now at Assumption College), Mark Wilson (now at Oregon State University), Linda Olsvig-Whittaker (now at the Israel Nature and Parks Authority) and Kerry Woods (now at Bennington College).

SAR11 clade

A recent study by researchers of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Oregon State University, seems to indicate that SAR11 could be the ancestor of mitochondria existing in most eukaryotic cells.

Sonny Ramaswamy

In 2009, Ramaswamy was appointed as the Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University and Director of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station.


Ampache

Its original author, Scott Kveton went on to create the OSUOSL at Oregon State University and passed off Developmental lead to Karl Vollmer who has been responsible for it since early 2003.

Andrews Forest

The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, commonly referred to as Andrews Forest, is located near Blue River, Oregon, USA, and is managed cooperatively by the United States Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station, Oregon State University, and the Willamette National Forest.

Art Heyman

In the National third-place game, Heyman completed his college career when Duke defeated Oregon State (who had Heisman Trophy winner Terry Baker) 85-63.

Boletus zelleri

The specific epithet zelleri was chosen by Murrill to honor Professor Sanford Myron Zeller, mycologist at Oregon State University.

Bonnie C. Templeton

She left endowments to Oregon State University to support graduate student research and maintenance of the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology's teaching collection.

Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon

The largest employers are no longer the lumber mills but Oregon State University in Corvallis, which is about six miles from Philomath, and a Hewlett-Packard center involved in engineering ink-jet components.

Dryinus grimaldii

The three additional specimens are part of the private amber collection maintained by George Poinar, Jr. from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, USA.

George Wuerch

Debra Wuerch has three daughters, Julie Loughlin who goes to Oregon State University, Jessica Loughlin who goes to Northwest University, and Caroline Wuerch.

James George Arbuthnot

James ("Jimmy") George Arbuthnot (born Nebraska 31 December 1883; died Placer, California 2 December 1964) was the head college wrestling coach of the Oregon State Beavers wrestling team at Oregon State University from 1911–1917 and in 1920.

Jamie Burke

He attended Oregon State University, where, along with baseball, he also played for the school's football team playing the position of kicker.

Jeff McInerney

McInerney subsequently served as an assistant coach at Troy University, Georgia Southern University, the University of Tulsa, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Oregon State University, Duke University, the University of Southern California and the University of Rhode Island.

Kevin Gunderson

Kevin Gunderson (born September 16, 1984 in Portland, Oregon) is a Minor League Baseball pitcher who played for the Oregon State Beavers of Oregon State University before being drafted by the Atlanta Braves.

Maraschino cherry

Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of horticulture at Oregon State University, developed the modern method of manufacturing maraschino cherries using a brine solution rather than alcohol.

Mike Rich

A graduate of Oregon State University's College of Business, Rich began his media career as a news reporter for a Portland radio station, KINK.

Oregon Forest Resources Institute

The others are ex officio: the dean of Oregon State University College of Forestry and a public representative appointed by the president of the Oregon State Senate and speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives.

Paleoleishmania

The amber specimen is currently residing in the Poinar Amber Collection housed at the Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.

Rufous Hummingbird

In 2005, a research team led by Dr. Douglas Warrick of Oregon State University used trained rufous hummingbirds in a study to determine the mechanics of hummingbird hovering.

Umpqua Research Company

URC is an industrial affiliate of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI), which brings together investigators from the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Portland State University, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and private industry.