Employee Profile

Kristi King is assistant director, Our Little Village and Student Engagement CCAMPIS (Child Care Access Means Parents in School) co-coordinator

What originally brought you to OSU?

Cardinal poses with Amphorn Sriyapai, dean of Kasetsart's Faculty of Sports and Health Science, who nominated him for his honorary doctorate. Sriyapai has also previously been a visiting scholar at OSU. 

Gorilla sighting in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda. 

Rachael Fahrenbach is the director of international programs in Oregon State University’s College of Forestry. She recently traveled to Rwanda and Uganda to begin the process of building a study abroad program there for OSU students.

Promotional image from Moana 2 ©Disney. Moana is holding a piece of pottery modeled after Lapita pottery from ancient Oceania.

“Moana 2,” Disney’s latest animated blockbuster that smashed Thanksgiving box office records, tells the story of a young Pacific Islander girl empowered to sail the seas and lead her people in exploring far-off islands, accompanied by the demigod Maui and her trusty sidekicks, Heihei the rooster and Pua the pig. 

10 Questions With… Olin Hannum, associate director of bands at Oregon State University.

What is the piece of music or composer that first really captivated you as a kid?

I can't really remember one thing sticking out from when I was a kid, but when I was in high school I was obsessed with West Coast punk. Bands like The Offspring, No Use For A Name, Green Day, Lagwagon, etc. dominated my listening time.

What makes you passionate about higher education?

Sunil Khanna is a professor and director of the Center for Global Health in Oregon State University’s College of Health. He also leads the center’s Botswana Global Health Initiative, which takes undergraduate and graduate students from across OSU to Botswana every year, where they gain hands-on experience in community health and cross-cultural training.

Kate Stafford on the ice in Alaska, holding a hydrophone to record underwater sound. 

Kate Stafford is an associate professor and principal investigator of the Marine Mammal Bioacoustics and Ecology Lab, part of the Marine Mammal Institute at Hatfield Marine Science Center. Her research focuses on the use of passive acoustic monitoring in the ocean to study marine mammals, at the intersection of animal behavior and biological and physical oceanography. She spends part of each year in the northernmost tip of Alaska. 

Taylor Hersh taking a photo while doing field work on an unrelated project near Dominica. Photo by Ellen Jacobs. 

Oregon State University researcher Taylor Hersh has been named one of five women in science awardees by L’Oreal USA for 2024, a recognition that also comes with a $60,000 grant to pursue further research and public engagement.

Students learn about parts of a plant in English in one of the classes Colomer observed in Honduras.

Soria Colomer is an associate professor of bilingual education in Oregon State University’s College of Education. She is also the inaugural Patricia Valian Reser Faculty Scholar of Education for a three-year term, and traveled twice in the past year to work with bilingual teachers in Honduras. 

Where were you working? 
Copán Ruinas in Honduras. It’s named for the nearby Copán ruins, a major Mayan archaeological site.