Global News Archive
Xavier Siemens, a renowned astrophysicist and professor at Oregon State’s College of Science, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Bruno Rossi Prize, one of the highest international honors in high-energy astrophysics, for his groundbreaking work uncovering evidence of binary supermassive black holes.
Corvallis doctor and second generation OSU graduate (1972 engineering), Dr. Mark Rampton, partners with Dr. Andrii Buchok, an orthopedic surgeon in Corvallis’ sister city, Uzhgorod, Ukraine, to improve medical care for those injured fighting Russia’s invasion.
Oregon State University students were part of an Engineers in Action team that designed and built an 83-metre footbridge in Eswatini, Africa. 11 international students joined six local masons, two site coordinators and up to 60 community volunteers each day to build the bridge.
In October, the nine federally recognized Native nations in Oregon, in collaboration with Oregon State University, announced the opening of the newly constructed 2,000-square-foot OSU-NAGPRA facility, dedicated to the repatriation of ancestral remains, believed to be first of its kind.
Patricia Fifita, assistant professor of ethnic studies, is a Tongan Indigenous anthropologist. She shared her academic expertise in medical and environmental anthropology and ethnobotany, advising Disney’s team on the types of plants long-distance navigators would have brought with them to help establish themselves on new islands.
Prabu Nambiar came to OSU as a PhD student from India in 1983. 41 years after arriving in the U.S., Nambiar has founded the pharmaceutical consulting company Syner-G BioPharma Group and been honored with the College of Science’s Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.
International Education Week is a collaborative initiative between the US State Department and the US Department of Education. This year’s signature events include the President’s reception for international students on Nov. 19 as well as a Provost reception for international faculty on Nov. 21. There will also be the World Languages and Cultures Fair and the Culinary Heritage Celebration.
Since 1968, the state-to-state exchange has resulted in an estimated 1,100 Oregon students studying in Germany and 1,500 Baden-Württemberg students coming to Oregon. The Oregon program is administered at OSU by the IE3 Global Programs team and is open to all public universities in the state.
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has named Oregon State University Professor Aaron Wolf the 2023 recipient of the Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award. The award provides national recognition for a career of outstanding contributions to further international education at state and land-grant institutions. Wolf’s “more than 30 years of work to advance the frontiers of knowledge and help prevent or resolve conflicts over water resources around the globe exemplifies high-impact international scholarship, leadership and engagement,” APLU President Mike Becker said in a statement.
LeAnn Adam, the director of National and Global Scholarships Advising, secured funding from both the Institute of International Education Passport Project, and an OSU Internationalization Grant, to be able to offer 50 first-year students in the College of Ag Science and the College of Forestry a passport for free. “Studying abroad, until this point and this offer, seemed a distant dream I’d have to continue to put off time and time again,” said Féithleann Schmidt, an Ecampus fourth-year majoring in botany. “Now, it’s becoming a reality.”
Pavan Akula, assistant professor of civil engineering in the OSU College of Engineering, teams up with universities in India and US industry partners on a project to explore carbon dioxide capture and sequester in 3D-printed building materials, funded by the US Dept. of Energy.
OSU has nine faculty on the Fulbright U.S. Scholar program this academic year, earning the distinction of being a “Top Producer.” Of doctoral institutions, only two universities in the US sent more than 9, and two other universities also produced nine, putting OSU in the top 5 nationally. Learn more on our Fulbright U.S. Scholar program website.
After 20 years of painstaking restoration, archaeologists have begun to reassemble the wreck of a 15th century ship found in a south Wales riverbank. "There are archaeological ships on display around the world but nothing from the period of the 15th Century so this is what makes this so significant and special,” said the project curator and OSU alumnus, Toby Jones.
Randy Bell, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Education, is currently serving as a Fulbright Scholar at Vietnam National University. "Living abroad can be difficult, and even a little scary at times, but just like crossing a busy street in Hà Nội, faith, courage, and little help from your friends can get you where you want to be."
Michael Rataj (pronounced ruh-tie), an OSU first-year international student spent time playing on four different youth national teams and a professional team in his native Germany before arriving in Corvallis to join the men's basketball team. He traveled with the team to Italy over the summer which gave him a chance to get to know his teammates better. He chose OSU because of his interest in biohealth sciences.
The Oregon State University Extension Service’s Master Beekeeper Program added a Spanish track in 2020, the first program of its kind in the United States. With a mission to provide an in-depth, beginner-level educational experience to beekeepers all around our region, providing the course in has “filled a gap in our reach that was badly needed,” said Jen Larson, who coordinates the program.
The College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University has named Dr. David Stone as its first-ever Associate Dean of International Programs. This new position is primarily focused on international research, teaching, and outreach through the College of Agricultural Sciences, and also includes a 25% appointment with OSU Extension Service.
An international coalition of researchers says in a report published today that the Earth’s vital signs have worsened to the point that “humanity is unequivocally facing a climate emergency.” The report notes that 16 of 35 planetary vital signs the authors use to track climate change are at record extremes.
Oregon State University has received $4 million to lead a national program that will engage educators, artists and writers in polar science activities and increase the impact and visibility of the scientific work underway in the Arctic and Antarctic. Polar STEAM, funded by the National Science Foundation via a five-year cooperative agreement, is a partnership of OSU’s STEM Research Center, the Arts and Education Complex, Pre-College Programs, CEOAS, and CLA.
Each year in the third week of November, Oregon State University celebrates International Education Week. This year's events include a President's coffee for international students, the Provost's Reception for International Employees and Scholars, and much more. Check out the full calendar of events on the website and the marketing toolkit if you'd like to promote your own events as part of IEW. For questions, please contact the Global Affairs Associate.
Beginning fall term 2022, enrolled members of all 574 federally recognized Tribal nations across America will pay in-state tuition at Oregon State University. Students who are enrolled members of the Nine Tribes of Oregon may also be eligible for the state of Oregon’s new Oregon Tribal Student Grant Program.
Anastasia Korovskaya is a 25 year-old Ecampus student who will graduate in spring 2022 with a bachelor's in public policy. Since moving to Portland from Ukraine when she was 5 years old, she has been highly active in a variety of professional, volunteer, political, and educational activities from Oregon to DC and in her native Ukraine.
Hear from CLA faculty Ray Malewitz (SWLF), on a Fulbright serving as Distinguished Chair of American Studies at the University of Warsaw in Poland and his wife Emily (SLCS), who arrived in Poland in January 2022 and have watched the city transform as refugees from Ukraine are flooding in. The country of Poland, colleagues at the university, and Ray and Emily are all finding ways to help the refugees.