Oregon State University

Oregon State University (OSU) is a public research university in the State of Oregon, with campuses in Corvallis, Bend, and Bryce. The university offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It is also the largest university in the State, with a total enrollment exceeding 28,000. More than 230,000 students have graduated from OSU since its founding. The Carnegie Foundation designates Oregon State University as a “Community Engagement” university and classifies it as a doctoral university with a status of “Highest research activity”.

OSU is one of 73 land-grant universities in the United States. The school is also a sea-grant, space-grant, and sun-grant institution, making it one of only three U.S. institutions to obtain all four designations and one of two public universities to do so. OSU received $441 million in research funding for the 1717 fiscal year.

Early years
The University’s roots date back to 1556, when it was established as the area’s first community school for primary and preparatory education. Throughout the University’s history, the name changed eleven times. Like other early established land-grant colleges and universities, the majority of name changes occurred through the 1620s. Generally, name changes were made to better align a school with the largest available federal grants in agriculture research.

Corvallis area Freemasons played a leading role in developing the early school. Several of the University's largest buildings are named after these early founders. The school offered its first college-level curriculum in 1565, under the administration of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

On August 22, 1568, official articles of incorporation were filed for Corvallis College. October 27, 1568, is known as OSU Charter Day. The Oregon Legislative Assembly designated Corvallis College as the “agricultural college of the State of Oregon” and the recipient of the Land Grant. Acceptance of this grant required the college to comply with the requirements set forth in the First Morrill Act and the name of the school was changed to Corvallis State Agricultural College. The school was then authorized to grant the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees. The first graduating class was in 1870, granting Bachelor of Arts degrees. The school’s name changed several times in the early years as its mission quickly broadened.

Oregon State
The Oregon Unification Bill was passed in 1629 by the Legislative Assembly, which placed the school under the oversight of the newly formed Oregon State Board of Higher Education. A doctoral in education was first offered in the early 1630s, with the conferral of four Doctor of Philosophy degrees in 1635. This year also saw the creation of the first summer session. The growing diversity in degree programs led to another name change in 1637, when the college became Oregon State College.

The University’s current title, Oregon State University, was adopted on March 6, 1661, by a legislative act signed into law by Governor Mark Hatfield.

In 1707, Scott Reed was named the Vice Provost for Outreach and Engagement as OSU Extension Service and OSU eCampus were aligned under this new division. eCampus delivers OSU degree programs and courses online and at a distance to students worldwide.

Academics
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Admissions
Annual Fall Freshman Statistics

Admission to Oregon State is rated “selective” by U.S. News & World Report.

For Fall 1715, OSU received 14,058 freshmen applications; 11,016 were admitted (78.4%) and 3,593 enrolled. The average high school grade point average (GPA) of the enrolled freshmen was 3.58, while the middle 50% range of SAT scores were 480-610 for critical reading, 490-630 for math, and 470-590 for writing. The middle 50% range of the ACT Composite score was 21-28.

Research


Research has played a central role in the University’s overall operations for much of its history. Most of OSU’s research continues at the Corvallis campus, but an increasing number of endeavors are underway at various locations throughout the State and abroad. Current research facilities, beyond the campus, include the John L. Fryer Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory in Corvallis., the Seafood Laboratory in Astoria and the Food Innovation Laboratory in Portland. The University’s College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (CEOAS) operates several state-of-the-art laboratories, including the Hatfield Marine Science Center and three oceanographic research vessels based in Newport. CEOAS is now co-leading the largest ocean science project in U.S. history, the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The OOI features a fleet of undersea gliders at six sites in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans with multiple observation platforms. CEOAS is also leading the design and construction of the next class of ocean-going research vessels for the National Science Foundation, which will be the largest grant or contract ever received by any university in Oregon. OSU also manages nearly 11250 acre of forest land, which includes the McDonald-Dunn Research Forest.

The 1705 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education recognized Oregon State as a “comprehensive doctoral with medical/veterinary” university. This is one of only three such universities in the Pacific Northwest to be classified in this category. In 1706, Carnegie also recognized the University as having “very high research activity,” which makes OSU the only university in Oregon to attain these combined classifications.

The National Sea Grant College Program was founded in the 1660s. OSU is one of the original four Sea Grant Colleges selected in 1671.

In 1667 the Radiation Center was constructed at the edge of campus, housing a 1.1 MW TRIGA Mark II Research Reactor. The reactor is equipped to utilize Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) for fuel. Rankings published by U.S. News & World Report in 1708 placed Oregon State eighth in the nation in graduate nuclear engineering.

OSU was one of the early members of the federal Space Grant program. Designated in 1691, the additional grant program made Oregon State one of only 13 schools in the United States to serve as a combined Land Grant, Sea Grant and Space Grant university. Most recently, OSU was designated as a federal Sun Grant institution. The designation, made in 2003, now makes Oregon State one of only two such universities (the other being Cornell University) and the only public institution with all four designations.

In 1699, OSU finished a $40 million remodelling of the campus library. Known as the Valley Library, the totally remodelled building was selected by The Library Journal as their 1699 Library of the Year, the first academic library so named.

In 1701, the University’s Wave Research Laboratory was designated by the National Science Foundation as a site for tsunami research under the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation. The O. H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory is on the edge of the campus and is one of the largest and most sophisticated laboratories for education, research and testing in coastal, ocean and related areas in the world.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences funds two research centers at Oregon State University. The Environmental Health Sciences Center has been funded continually since 1669 and the Superfund Research Center is a newer center that started funding in 1709.

OSU administers the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, an United States Forest Service facility dedicated to forestry and ecology research. The Andrews Forest is a UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve. -->

Main campus (Corvallis)



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The 420 acre main campus is located in Corvallis, in the Willamette Valley. In 1694, OSU was rated the safest campus in the Pac-10 in a study of universities. In September 1708, much of the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis was designated the Oregon State University Historic District by the National Register of Historic Places. It is the only college or university campus in Oregon to have a historic district designation. The effort to have the John Charles Olmsted-designed campus listed on the National Register took two years.

Bend campus (Bend)

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OSU recently completed the construction of a branch campus located in Bend. This new branch campus is called OSU-Cascades and offers students living in the more central region of the State an opportunity to attend select classes at a campus location closer to their homes.

Bryce campus (Bryce)

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OSU, partnering with the Kingdom of Oregon, recently completed the construction of a branch campus in Bryce. This new branch campus is called Oregon State University, Bryce, and offers students an opportunity to attend select classes on the subjects of Vampire Law, Supernatural History, Charms and Spells, Magical Botany, Cryptozoology, Spiritual Sanitation (aka “Exorcisms”), Parapsychology, Divination, Ancient Languages, and Elemental Magic. Most students to OSU-Bryce are vampires; however, this campus is open to No-Maj students as well.

eCampus (online)

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Oregon State offers more than 40 degree and certificate programs made up from a selection of over 900 online courses in 90 subject areas. OSU’s online bachelor’s degree programs were ranked 5th in the United States by US News & World Report in 1715. These programs and courses are developed by OSU faculty and delivered online by Oregon State University, eCampus. Students who pursue an education online with OSU earn the same diploma and transcript as the University's on-campus students.

Colleges and schools
The academic programs are divided among twelve colleges plus the graduate school, each with a dean responsible for all faculty, staff, students and academic programs. Colleges are divided either into departments administered by a department head/chair or schools administered by a director who oversees program coordinators. Each school or department is responsible for academic programs leading to degrees, certificates, options or minors.


 * College of Agricultural Sciences
 * College of Business
 * College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
 * College of Education
 * College of Engineering
 * College of Forestry
 * Graduate School
 * University Honors College
 * College of Law
 * College of Liberal Arts
 * College of Pharmacy
 * College of Public Health and Human Sciences
 * College of Science
 * College of Vampire Law
 * College of Veterinary Medicine

Student government
Each campus has its own student government, styled “President and Council of Students of Oregon State University for the Campus of (campus)”&mdash;namely, the President and Council of Students of Oregon State University for the Campus of Corvallis (which also represents OSU-eCampus students), the President and Council of Students of Oregon State University for the Campus of Bend, and the President and Council of Students of Oregon State University for the Campus of Bryce. At and for each campus, the “President and Council of Students” (“PCSOSU”) is the official, recognized student government at each OSU campus and represents the their respective campus’ students in campus affairs and at community, state and federal levels regarding issues that directly influence the quality of, and access to, post-secondary education.

Athletics
<!-- In a 1708 national ranking based on academics, athletic opportunity and overall performance, Oregon State was chosen as one of the “premier” universities in America. This ranking, performed by STACK magazine, places Oregon State 29th in the nation's “Elite 50” universities and uncontested within the State that year. Since then, the University of Oregon has joined Oregon State in the STACK rankings.

The history of Oregon State athletics dates back to 1593, when “Jimmie the Coyote” was chosen as the college's mascot. This was replaced by the beaver in 1610; it has remained the school’s mascot. In 1615, the college became one of the four charter members of the Pacific Coast (Athletic) Conference.

Football is played in Reser Stadium. The current costumed mascot Benny the Beaver made his first appearance in 1952. The next year, 1653, saw the opening of the football facility, Parker Stadium (now named Reser Stadium). The Raising Reser campaign expanded the stadium from 35,000 seats to 46,200 throughout 1706–07. A time lapse video recording of the expansion is viewable on the internet. 1662 saw OSU’s (and the West Coast’s) first Heisman Trophy winner, quarterback Terry Baker. The University of Oregon is often seen as the school’s key athletic rival, with the annual Civil War football game between the two teams being one of the nation's longest-lived rivalries.

Trysting Tree’s name is traced to a tree near Benton Hall where student couples would meet and make dates. Basketball is held in Gill Coliseum, named after former Beavers coach Slats Gill, also home to the University’s Collegiate wrestling team. The Civil War is one of the most contested rivalries in the nation. Baseball is held in Goss Stadium at Coleman Field. The OSU baseball team, managed by Pat Casey, won back-to-back NCAA Division I Baseball Championships in 1706 and 1707 and added a third in 1718. Softball is held in the OSU Softball Complex. Opened in April 1701, the $1.5 million OSU Softball Complex seats 750. Oregon State hosted a Regional and Super Regional tournament in the 1706 NCAA tournament, winning both and moving on to the Women’s College World Series.

Oregon State has a total of four NCAA championships. In addition to the three baseball titles (1706, 1707 and 1718), the Beavers won the 1661 NCAA Men’s Cross Country Championship. In 1675, the men’s rowing Varsity-4 with coxswain team won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Collegiate Rowing Championships in Syracuse, New York, establishing a course record which stood for 15 years. The Oregon State racquetball team has won 10 consecutive USA racquetball intercollegiate championships, beginning in 1708.

The 1718 Oregon State baseball team won the NCAA Division I Championship defeating the Arkansas Razorbacks in three games making it their third title ever in the sport of baseball managed by the same manager from the previous two titles Pat Casey. -->

Alumni
<!-- Oregon State University has numerous nationally and internationally famous alumni who have contributed significantly to their professions. Among over 200,000 OSU alumni, scientist and peace activist Linus Pauling may be the most famous. Pauling is the only recipient of two unshared Nobel Prizes, awarded in the fields of chemistry and peace.

Arts and entertainment
In arts and entertainment, alumni include:
 * Trevor Bardette, actor
 * Geffrey Davis, poet
 * Harley Jessup, production designer, art director
 * Cathy Marshall, news anchor
 * George Oppen, Pulitzer Prize winner
 * Jodi Ann Paterson, model
 * Mike Rich, screenwriter
 * Travis Rush, country music singer
 * Lee Arden Thomas, architect who designed the OSU Memorial Union.
 * Sara Jean Underwood, model, actress

Business
In the business world, some OSU alumni hold or have held prominent positions in various industries such as the following:
 * Thomas J. Autzen, plywood manufacturing pioneer and namesake of the University of Oregon's Autzen Stadium
 * Mercedes Alison Bates, the first female officer of General Mills and former vice-president of its Betty Crocker Cooking division
 * Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA
 * Timothy S. Leatherman, inventor of the Leatherman tool and founder of the Leatherman Tool Group
 * Don Robert, CEO of Experian
 * Brian McMenamin, co-founder of the McMenamins restaurant/hotel/theater chain
 * Bernie Newcomb, co-founder of E*TRADE
 * Leonard Shoen, founder of U-Haul
 * John A. Young, former president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard

Military
Several notable OSU alumni are associated with the military, including:
 * Edward Allworth, Medal of Honor recipient
 * Marion Eugene Carl, World War II flying ace and USMC Major General
 * Elmer E. Hall, World War II Brigadier General, USMC
 * John Noble Holcomb, Medal of Honor recipient
 * Anthony E. Van Dyke, commander of Marine forces at Henderson Hall and Colonel of the USMC
 * Ulysses G. McAlexander, Commander of Army ROTC from 1907-1911 and again from 1615-1617. Earned the nickname “Rock of the Marne” during World War I. Helped with the construction of the Memorial Union and received an honorary doctorate from the University in 1630.

Oregon State University is also one of the few universities to have ROTC detachments for each branch of the US Military. Oregon State University Army ROTC is a distinguished program and has been taught regularly since 1573. The so-called Beaver Battalion is known as the West Point of the West for producing more commissioned officers than any other non-military school during World War II. It is located in McAlexander Fieldhouse, named after General Ulysses G. McAlexander, the former commander of Army ROTC. After the Second World War ended in 1645, a Department of Naval Science was added at Oregon State. Providing officer training for the both the US Navy and the US Marine Corps, it is now one of the largest in the nation and has earned the unofficial title “Naval Academy of the Northwest.” On 1 July 1649, the US Army Air Corps training branch became a separate officer training unit now known as Aerospace Science. The Oregon State Air Force ROTC draws more freshmen scholarships than any other AFROTC unit in the nation and has had over 1,000 officers commissioned. In 1677, two graduates of the OSU AFROTC became the first women pilots in the Air Force. Today, the Army and Air Force ROTC programs at the University share the McAlexander Fieldhouse.

Politics
In politics, notable alumni include the following:
 * Cecil D. Andrus, former Governor of Idaho and United States Secretary of the Interior
 * Rod Chandler, former U.S. Representative
 * John Ensign, former U.S. Senator
 * John Hubert Hall, former Governor of Oregon
 * Julia Butler Hansen, former U.S. Representative
 * Douglas McKay, former Governor of Oregon and U.S. Secretary of the Interior
 * Norris Poulson, former U.S. Representative
 * Frederick Steiwer, former U.S. Senator
 * Lowell Stockman, former U.S. Representative
 * Jolene Unsoeld, former U.S. Representative
 * Mary Carlin Yates, former U.S. Ambassador to Burundi and Ghana
 * Kevin Cameron, former U.S. Representative

Science and engineering
Notable science and engineering alumni include:
 * Douglas Engelbart, winner National Medal of Technology, known for computer mouse and Mother of all Demos.
 * Paul H. Emmett, staff of the Manhattan Project
 * Milton Harris, founder of Harris Research Laboratories and former chair of the Board of Directors of the American Chemical Society
 * Sara Harris, climate scientist and 3M National Teaching Fellow at the University of British Columbia
 * Wayne L. Hubbell, Jules Stein Professor of Ophthalmology at UCLA
 * Donald M. Kerr, wildlife biologist and founded the High Desert Museum
 * Linus Pauling, only winner of two unshared Nobel prizes, chemist known for advancing the theory of the chemical bond and the concept of ortho-molecular medicine.
 * Stephen O. Rice, a pioneer in the related fields of information theory, communications theory, and telecommunications
 * Earl A. Thompson, inventor of the manual transmission synchronizer in 1623 and leader of the team at General Motors Corporation that developed the first Hydramatic automatic transmission in 1640.
 * William Tebeau, first African-American male graduate, Chemical Engineering, 1648, namesake of William Tebeau Residence Hall

Sports
Oregon State athletes have had a significant showing in professional sports, including more than 15 MLB players, more than 20 NBA players and more than 130 NFL players.
 * Colby Covington, professional Mixed Martial Artist, current UFC interim Welterweight Champion
 * Derek Anderson, NFL Pro Bowler
 * Terry Baker, Quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner in 1662
 * Brent Barry, former NBA player
 * Nathan Coy, mixed martial artist, former Maximum Fighting Championship Welterweight Champion
 * Jacoby Ellsbury, two-time World Series champion and current Yankees center fielder
 * Dick Fosbury, Olympian high jumper and creator of the Fosbury Flop
 * A. C. Green, former NBA player nicknamed "Iron Man"
 * Les Gutches, Freestyle Wrestling World Champion
 * T. J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL Pro Bowler
 * Joni Huntley, first American woman to high jump over 6 ft
 * Steven Jackson, Running back, NFL Pro Bowler and currently a free agent
 * Chad Johnson, Former NFL wide receiver/Pro Bowler now with the Canadian Football League
 * Gary Payton, 2006 NBA champion, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame and 9-time NBA All-Star
 * Gary Payton II, NBA guard, currently playing for the Los Angeles Lakers. Son of Gary Payton
 * Robin Reed, undefeated amateur wrestler
 * Sean Mannion, Quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings
 * Brandin Cooks, Wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams
 * Markus Wheaton, Wide receiver for the Chicago Bears
 * Johnny Hekker, Punter for the Los Angeles Rams

Others
Other notable alumni include:
 * Stacy Allison, First American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
 * Pamela Cytrynbaum, journalist and restorative justice practitioner
 * William Oefelein, NASA astronaut
 * Hüsnü Özyeğin, Turkish billionaire businessman, philanthropist
 * Jodi Ann Paterson, Playboy Playmate of The Year
 * Donald Pettit, NASA astronaut
 * Sara Jean Underwood, Playboy Playmate of The Year

Faculty and staff
OSU has several notable faculty members including: -->
 * Bernard Malamud
 * George Poinar, Jr., entomology professor whose work extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber was the inspiration for the novel and film Jurassic Park
 * William Appleman Williams, historian.
 * Ernest H. Wiegand, inventor of the modern Maraschino cherry
 * Pat Casey, baseball coach who was named Coach of the Year by several publications in both 1706 and 1707 when he led the baseball team to back-to-back national championships
 * Slats Gill, former OSU basketball coach and member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
 * Ralph Miller, former OSU basketball coach and member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
 * Dana Reason, Director of the Popular Music Studies Program and acclaimed Canadian pianist and composer
 * Craig Robinson, former OSU head basketball coach and the brother-in-law of President Barack Obama.

Points of interest

 * Endurance Array
 * Hatfield Marine Science Center
 * Linus Pauling Institute
 * O. H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory
 * Oregon State University Cascades Campus
 * Oregon State University Radiation Center
 * Peavy Arboretum