Global News Archive
Oregon State University’s College of Forestry hosted two Ukrainian forest scientists as part of
the BridgeUSA Ukrainian Academic Fellows Program.
OSU professor Jamon Van Den Hoek was interviewed on CNN Newsroom to discuss Israel's siege on Gaza and the data he's collected through satellite imagery on damage to the area
OSU students reflect on how their time abroad reshaped their identities and routines, learning that home isn’t quite the same after experiencing life in another culture.
Grace Burleson combined mechanical engineering and anthropology master’s study at OSU to help her
understand how cultural context shapes design. She now leads the Burleson Global Design Group.
OSU Courtesy Professor, Dr. Dawn Wright, was selected by The U.S. Department of State to serve as one of the new U.S. Science Envoys in 2024.
INTO and Oregon State University have introduced a new and innovative employment program for foreign students. Through the “Jump Start” program, the students will be able to get jobs even before coming to the university’s campus in the US.
President Murthy seeks engagement with research institutions in India, stating, “OSU has an interest in sustainability, clean energy, climate... They play out differently in Oregon and India but much of the science is common. I am trying to make connections with like-minded institutions on research and teaching and education to see if we can find common ground and find a path forward together.”
OSU President Jayathi Murthy, an alumna of IIT Kanpur, was the chief guest at this year’s 2024 graduation convocation at the Kanpur, India campus. As a part of her speech, President Murthy encouraged the graduates, stating, “The world will offer you competing narratives about who you are and what you’re worth. It’s in your power to choose the narrative of your life and to write your own story.”
Two years ago, Oregon created a grant program that covers tuition and living expenses for members of Oregon’s federally recognized tribes. But education leaders, students and mentors say concerns over U.S. university failures in honoring Indigenous cultures, along with the concerns that tribal students won’t return home after earning a degree, can pose challenges to enrollment in higher education.
An Oregon State University study found evidence that Indigenous groups in the Pacific Northwest were intentionally harvesting edible camas bulbs at optimal stages of the plant’s maturation as far back as 3,500 years ago.
Oregon State University has placed four in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for the 2024-25 academic year, giving OSU 52 Fulbrighters over the past 11 years. Oregon State’s latest selections are Emma Baughman of Portland, Mohnish Judge of Lake Oswego, Aubreyanna Olsen of Salem and Camden Schmidt of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Western scientists and land managers have become increasingly cognizant of cultural burning but its extent and purpose are generally absent from fire modeling research. Oregon State University researchers have teamed with the Karuk Tribe to create a novel computer simulation model that showcases Indigenous fire stewardship’s role in forest ecosystem health.
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.