LIFE@OSU

Athletes who happen to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual ask everyone to respect their privacy and value your teammates.

Student life on “the other side of the railroad tracks” is “just as good if not better” than the rest of campus when it comes to real life skills. That’s the message delivered by five student athletes and a coach to members of the Faculty Senate earlier this month.

No “eye of newt and toe of frog” for Anita Guerrini’s gurgling caldron this Halloween. Discover more by clicking here.

Oregon State’s commitment to “green power” has earned the university the 2008 Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

“Have fun,” exhorts Kevin Ahern to a visitor leaving his office in Agriculture and Life Sciences.
And with those two words, Ahern, senior instructor in biochemistry, summarizes the message that has brought him high accolades and his students high accomplishments.
Co-winner of the 2008 Beaver Champion Award for outstanding effort and achievement of the highest quality, Ahern blends a zest for life with modern technology to help students overcome their fears of biochemistry and, at the same time, find their passions.

If you’re older, imagine square dancers. Younger? Try hip-hop break dancing. Either way, when partners dart into the center of the circle to do their moves and grooves, they are not unlike spinner dolphins feeding in ocean waters, according to new images recently captured by an Oregon State University marine ecologist.

President Ed Ray has conferred the honorary title of “emeritus” upon seven Oregon State faculty members, including Thayne Dutson, recently retired longtime dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences.

New trees planted at a rate of up to 50 per year throughout campus have led the Arbor Day Foundation to designate Oregon State one of nine “Tree Campus USA” sites in the country.

As a transfer student, Carmen Halstead had yet to define her academic direction, but her passion for literature was evident. Halstead was particularly inspired by the female characters invented by D.H. Lawrence and the applicability of Lawrence’s themes to current discussions on the differences and similarities between genders.

“Once people realize that diversity is a 21st century life skill and not a politically correct issue, hear them roar and get out of their way!” suggests Terryl Ross.