For the first time, three Oregon State University students have received Oregon Consular Corps scholarships in the same year, a recognition of their achievements and goals in international policy and foreign relations.
Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey has been named Oregon State University’s 2026 recipient of the Stone Award for Literary Achievement.
Oregon State has been named a Total Worker Health® Affiliate with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a designation that recognizes the broad range of health-related resources already available to employees as well as OSU’s plans to better integrate and promote worker health and safety going forward.
Nikki Gold, an undergraduate health student at Oregon State University and U.S. Navy veteran, was named the 2025 National Student Veteran of the Year by Student Veterans of America. Selected from a pool of more than 600,000 student veterans nationwide, Gold is the first openly LGBTQ+ veteran to receive this honor.
Oregon State University has earned its third Carnegie Community Engagement Classification — a national designation that recognizes OSU’s deep and ongoing commitment to serving communities throughout Oregon and beyond.
The 2026 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration kicks off with the Peace Breakfast on Monday, Jan. 19, and concludes with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service on Saturday, Jan. 31. This year marks the 44th anniversary of the commemoration event.
Oregon State University will host a comprehensive evaluation visit for renewal of its accreditation by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities this spring. The site visit will be at OSU-Cascades in Bend on April 7 and at the Corvallis campus April 8-10 as part of the regularly scheduled year seven Evaluation of Institutional Effectiveness process. During the visit, an evaluation team will hold a series of meetings and forums with faculty, staff, students, administrators and members of the OSU Board of Trustees.
When Giulia Wood was 22, she did something few other undergraduate students have done. She spent five months in Antarctica studying juvenile krill with Oregon State University Professor Kim Bernard’s all-women research team. For Wood, it was one of many extraordinary opportunities during her academic journey, and in December, she learned she’d be taking yet another huge leap, this time to Liverpool, England.
