Researchers at Oregon State University’s Conflict Ecology Lab, led by Jamon Van Den Hoek, use satellite imagery to analyze destruction from armed conflicts, helping track urban damage and environmental impacts in regions such as Iran and the Gaza Strip.
The Oregon State University College of Liberal Arts launched a new linguistics minor in fall 2025, created by Adéla Hall and Adam Schwartz, giving students interdisciplinary tools to analyze language, communication and culture across fields.
During a visit to Ho Chi Minh City, OSU's President Jayathi Murthy discussed expanding AI education and semiconductor partnerships in Vietnam. She emphasized that applied AI research could help students for future technology careers
Hannah Ford studied abroad through the OSU College of Business Stonehill Exchange Program, exploring Vienna and solo traveling to 13 countries while adapting to a new academic culture and gaining independence and a global perspective.
OSU’s researchers Jane Lubchenco, Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Jenna Sullivan-Stack, Vanessa Constant, Ana Spalding coordinate global researchers to provide a framework guiding the U.N.’s High Seas Treaty in marine protected areas implementation
OSU graduate student Giulia Wood became OSU’s first Marshall Scholar, earning funding to pursue a Ph.D. in England after her krill research in Antarctica, advancing marine science and women’s leadership in oceanography
OSU and Wildlife Conservation Society of Guatemala researchers used camera-trap and DNA metabarcoding of scat to reveal how predators partitioning prey vertically help reduce competition in the Maya Biosphere Reserve rainforests
Ten OSU students joined the university’s first study abroad program in Bhutan, learning rural life, sustainable agriculture through immersive fieldwork, farm stays, and instruction from local faculty at the Royal University of Bhutan
OSU archaeologist Loren Davis led a study of Idaho stone tools indicating the first Americans arrived over 20,000 years ago via a Pacific coastal route from Northeast Asia, with ties to Paleolithic cultures in Japan.
Oregon State University leads COLDEX, a global effort using radar to search Antarctica for ice over one million years old, mapping hidden landscapes to identify stable regions that preserve Earth’s ancient climate history.
