HOMECOMING 2015 32 A week of pageantry, music and fun included a new carnival on the MU Quad. >> CONTENTS

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2 << OREGON STATER OSU’S FOREST ON THE HILL LEGACY ON CANVAS 20 Cover story: Že McDonald Research Forest has a 26 Artist Erik Sandgren honors fascinating namesake and a wide variety of uses. his father and the university.

INSIDE HOOPS ITALIAN STYLE 4 Editor’s letter: Let’s take a walk and look around 50 Summer road trip leaves teammates 6 Letters: Reaction to fall issue; Curtis Tigard ’30 is 106; more on the with stronger bonds, souvenir masks. practice babies 8 Ed said: Facing up to campus racism 10 What do you know? You’ll be buzzing in thought over this one 12 Campus news: Points of pride; Dean Bray to step down; another enrollment record; much more 36 Terra: Opening students’ eyes with stories about art 40 Making a difference: A celebration of generosity 42 Director’s letter: Memories of family and a welcoming Beaver Nation 44 ‡e association: Alumni honored; Jubilee set; new staff hired 48 Sports: Two father-son basketball duos; from the Air Force to the soccer pitch; Reser and Valley Football Center upgrades under way 56 Of note: New life members; Beavers to remember; alumna at arms; one darn cute baby

On the cover: Researcher Amy Barry searches for birds in the McDonald-Dunn Research Forest. Story on page 20. (Photo by Hannah O’Leary)

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WINTER 2016 >> 3 A short walk is all it takes About 10 years ago, not long after I left a newspaper career to come edit the Oregon Stater, I received some powerful advice: “When you’re having a bad day at the office — if you find yourself wondering why you’re here — take a walk and pay attention.” It seldom takes longer than a couple hundred yards for that to work. My office is upstairs at the CH2M HILL Alumni Center. Nearby are huge student park- ing lots; a complex of residence halls; the Beth Ray Center for Academic Support, and the beautiful Centro Cultural César Chávez. Reser Stadium and Gill Coliseum are across the street. Beyond them is the Sports Performance Center, where varsity athletes train. Students are everywhere: Heading to or from class, studying as they walk. Trudg- LETTER EDITOR’S ing sleepy-eyed toward pre-dawn workouts (or limping back from them with ice bags taped to shins or knees or shoulders). Leaning into the wind and rain, hands in

LETTER >> EDITOR’S pockets, hurrying toward the upper campus. Sitting romantically close together on a fog-shrouded bench in an otherwise empty Parker Plaza, quietly sipping hot drinks. When I pay attention, I’m reminded of how much less pressure there was on us as we headed toward graduation in 1978, confident that our degrees would get us jobs we loved. Mine did. OSU students paid $246 a term for resident tuition and fees when I was a senior; this year — despite OSU ranking as one of 44 bargain universities in North America — it’s $3,336 a term. A year’s room and board in Bloss costs them more than $12,000; in 1977 Bloss residents paid about $1,500. During my college years, without even filling out an application I could get a summer job pulling boards on a green chain and make enough money to cover a year at OSU. Today’s students would have to make something like $70 an hour to do that. I don’t know how much of this they know as I pass them on my restorative strolls, but they don’t seem to hold a grudge. Out of 20 of them I’ll get a dozen quiet but smiling nods, several friendly greetings and, if one is an ROTC cadet in uniform, a crisp “Good morning, sir!” I return to my office reminded that we don’t publish the Oregon Stater just for kicks. We do it in the belief that if we show you what’s happening here, you’ll want to remain connected. We hope you’ll be moved to lend a hand — to convince your sharp young nephew or niece to give OSU a look, to tell your representatives with letters and votes that you want better support for public higher education, and yes —and I make no apologies for this — to give, when possible, of your time and treasure. If you don’t see why that might be worthwhile, give me a call while classes are in session. You can stop by and we’ll go for a walk. q — Kevin Miller ’78, editor

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ecampus.oregonstate.edu 800-667-1465 Proud of OSU & alumna OSU’s practice babies that also lived with us. It was pretty arti- ficial as about 10 of us divided up running I want to congratulate you for the article In the fall of 1944, I enrolled in the School the house. on Dr. SreyRam Kuy (fall issue). I am very of Home Economics at OSC. My focus was The highlight was taking care of Frank- proud of her and of OSU for the support early childhood development, and I fully ie; we were charged with doing each you gave this young lady. I would like to expected one day to spend the required task the same way, so he knew what LETTERS see more articles which demonstrate the six weeks in a Home Management to expect even if we did not. In addition work OSU does to champion and support House, including a period as caregiver to running the house, we had to plan amazing young people like her. I can’t of a baby or toddler from The Children’s >> guest meals at which we were graded on think of a better way to demonstrate Farm Home. But my engineering-student everything from the food and service to your mission to promote economic, so- boyfriend and I got married during my table manners. Our guests were usually cial, cultural and environmental progress. sophomore year. faculty members. When we give as many people as possible After time out for military service for This is one of my funniest memories the opportunity to succeed and con- (my husband) Ed and time off for me to of practice house: (Remember, we are tribute to the good of all society, we all have our first child, we returned to finish being graded on our deportment.) Our benefit immeasurably. our degrees at OSC. Because I was al- guests this particular evening were two At some point, I would like to promote ready tending a baby, I sought exemption very large, very well-endowed females. the idea for a center that offers courses from the Home Management House re- Both arrived on a rainy evening and after and experiences which encapsulates quirement. After some pretty heavy-duty shedding their rain gear each pulled a boldly this mission of the school to pleading with deans, I was excused. small dog from her ample bosom. As the encourage and help students to take up After later earning a master’s degree evening progressed the dogs took center this cause well beyond their years at in early childhood education, establish- stage and with the help of their owners, OSU. Are there other alumni who have ing a couple of early learning centers truly misbehaved, including being fed the same passion? I think the education and teaching child development at Lane from the dinner plates of our guests. We system is mandated to not only equip Community College and the UO for many had been assigned to carry on timely, students with skills and knowledge but years, I now think with horror about the sophisticated adult conversations on it is ideally positioned to imbue stu- effect of “group rearing” of babies, espe- current affairs. Knowing college girls, you dents with the passion and character to cially with a different student caregiver can imagine the chaos that evolved. advance the economic, social, cultural every six weeks. We did know, even back I laugh again as I write this and that progress of our world. then, of the importance of bonding for was how many years ago? Dr. Kuy understands and has great joy babies with particular caregivers. But still, Phyllis Armstrong Specht ’52 in using her gifts and skills in the service students and staff participated through Pasadena, Calif. of others, not just to advance her own much of the 1940s in this program. Thank Editor’s note: Mike Dicianna ’12, from economic status. She is a real inspiration goodness, we know better now. Special Collections and Archives Re- to us all. Jeanne Erickson Armstrong ’54 search Center, provides an update: “The Pearl Chinn Stein ’72 Eugene year 1947 came from a 1999 newspaper Redmond, Wash. More on the babies article that included the incorrect date. A joyous read Our apologies for the error. The in-house The second question (fall issue; “What baby program ended in the 1958-59 First, I want to share great appreciation Do You Know?” quiz) is about “practice school year. After this date, home eco- for the most recent Oregon Stater. What babies.” Your answer is correct as far as nomics students began observing chil- a positive and vibrant publication. There the Home Economics Department, but dren’s activities in two nursery schools was much joy in reading about people, your dates are incorrect. run by the school. The requirement for places and things, both past and present. You state the practice babies were used home economics students to spend a Thank you, Oregon State, for achieving on campus from 1926 to 1947. term in the Home Management House great levels of success, and for always As a home economics major, I lived in program was discontinued in 1966.” setting higher goals across the board. a practice house for a portion of winter The greatest joy is in being able to see term of 1952. While I do not remember Tradition continues that this university is doing exactly what which practice house I lived in, I do re- My daughter, Faith Bourgeois Neal, is a a university should be doing: helping member our baby, Frankie. He was about fourth-generation student at OSU. people to achieve at levels far beyond a year old, but not yet walking. It was My grandmother, Laura Zeigler Bunn their dreams. my understanding that he was adopted Sather, graduated in 1919 from OAC, Many thanks to Ed Ray and to all. by a faculty family. I do not know when and my mother, Natalie Bunn Moline, Thanks also to Ed Ray for offering several practice babies were discontinued but I graduated in 1948, both in pharmacy. more years of quality leadership to the do know it continued past my graduation Here’s where it gets kinda fun. Some- university. in the spring of 1952. time last year when my daughter and I Jerry Zahl We lived in the practice house for half were going through some of my mom’s College Place, Wash. of the term and rotated the tasks of run- OSU memorabilia (and discovering the ning a house among the class enrollees. newspaper article saying that my mom We were supervised by a grad student

6 << OREGON STATER received the honor of having the highest help build structures on the newly created Divestment grade point average of all the women in campus. the 1948 graduating class), I had a little I was told that there was only one Nora Demers’ letter (fall issue) on di- revelation and asked Faith, “When do you institution of higher education that I could vestment makes all the real arguments think you’ll be able to graduate?” attend and OSU was it. against it — notwithstanding that you She replied, “I think around spring of Barbara Dunkelberger Beck Hess ’60 have already decided against it a year 2016.” Beaverton ago. Trying to constrain your investment I sat there in stunned amazement and manager’s choices cannot lead to better told her, “Your great-grandmother began Celebrating alumnus investment results, because choices are OSU in the fall of 1916. Wow, exactly 100 Curtis Tigard at 106 being arbitrarily limited. Such decisions years between the time she started and make us all incrementally a little poorer, Born April 13, 1909, Curtis Tigard cele- and greatly complicate the university’s re- the time you end! That is so cool!” brated his 106th birthday this year with So there you have it, a little piece of fun lations with companies in industries where community members in Tigard at the it trains students for careers. It also sends Beaver trivia. Each one of us ladies had the John Tigard House Museum, named for his freedom to go to school where we wanted a terrible message to students preparing grandfather. for careers in those industries. so there was no obligatory family tradition Curtis’ parents, Charles and Rosa to keep. OSU was and is a great school for As for helping the environment, anyone Tigard, ran a general merchandise store who has studied the past history of the all of us to attend over the last 100 years. and post office in Tigardville, which was And it’s pretty neat that it closely coincid- earth as read from the geological record later shortened to Tigard so it would not knows that “Mother Nature” regularly kills ed with the 100-year anniversary of the be confused with nearby Wilsonville. In Oregon Stater magazine! and eats her young, and that no envi- his youth Curtis worked to catch moles, ronmental influence exerted by humans Karen Moline Bourgeois ’85 which destroyed farmers’ crops, earning Lebanon comes close to those of the earth’s natural 10 cents for each mole nose turned in to variability. Issue triggers memories the county. He then sold the moleskins to Finally, I would think that such a flawed furriers in Portland, who made them into I want to applaud the layout of the alumni choice as adopting a divestment deci- muffs and gloves. magazine. I really enjoy reading it. The sion would end up causing a reduction in Curtis continued catching moles as a articles are interesting, and the photos donations, resulting ultimately in fewer hobby at the Tualatin Country Club where and articles are presented in enticing and poorer services to students. Why in he is a member, and estimates that he had manner. Thank you for the effort expend- heaven’s name would anyone want this? caught more than 740 moles there over ed on making the magazine enjoyable to Barry McElmurry ’59 the years, averaging about forty per year read. I always read the whole magazine. Vista, Calif. before he gave up the practice. For his There were several interesting articles and past efforts, he does not have to pay dues Send us letters a note that someone I was in college with anymore to the club. We love letters. We might edit them for had died. In 1917 the Tigard family bought its first clarity, brevity or factual accuracy. Send E.B. Lemon was my mother’s adviser Model T Ford, which Curtis learned to drive them to [email protected] or Let- when she was attending OSC (graduating in 1918, at age nine. He has retained an ters to the Editor, Oregon Stater, OSUAA, in 1932) and was still there during my ardent love of fine cars and today his own 204 CH2M HILL Alumni Center, Corvallis, years of 1956-58. My memory isn’t what red sporty Oldsmobile displays a bright OR 97331-6303. it once was, but Dean Lemon may have yellow “Tigard” license plate and an OSU been dean of the College of Education Corrections bumper sticker. during my mother’s era as well as mine. Curtis is proud to be a Beaver and a Report errors at stater@oregonstate. In 1927 when my mother enrolled in Class of 1930 graduate of Oregon State edu or at Corrections, Oregon Stater, 204 OSC, she lived in Kidder Hall (currently Agricultural College. CH2M HILL Alumni Center, Corvallis, OR Fairbanks), no doubt named for “Mother When he attended 97331-6303. Kidder.” She told me her dormitory was college his tuition was condemned while she lived in it, and it $12 per term. During was still standing when I took French his freshman year he and art classes in Kidder Hall in 1956 and and five friends rented 1957. During the four years our grandson a house and shared attended OSU, the name Kidder was on cooking and laundry a different building, which confused me, Curtis Tigard, 2012 duties. Curtis joined but if the library was renamed for “Mother the ROTC, which paid Kidder,” that seems apt to me. him $57 per quarter and he graduated with The Memorial Union was completed the rank of second lieutenant in the Army during my parents’ undergraduate years. and a degree in banking and finance. It is family lore in my father’s ancestry Barbara Bennett Peterson ’64 that members of his family in the Browns- Tigard Historical Association ville and/or Albany area gave lumber to Tigard

WINTER 2016 >> 7 Not getting it done: SAID

ED A promise to do better to

>> fight campus racism

“As I Iistened, I was On the evening of November 16, perhaps 500 students, faculty and staff — a group more racially diverse than a typical OSU very sad, and frankly crowd but still predominantly white, and including OSU President Ed Ray — trooped in out of a blustery rain and sat in lower-level I was disappointed in seats and bleachers in Gill Coliseum. A group of Oregon State students, galvanized by news from myself. The stories the University of Missouri, had organized a “speak-out” and the students shared asked campus leaders to come listen to students of color. Missouri students’ frustrations about racial issues had led to with us were pretty protests and a threat by the football team to boycott its games. Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned Nov. 9. awful, in terms of Barely a week later, the crowd in Gill listened as, haltingly at first and then in a steady stream, students stepped to micro- what they have to phones to describe what it’s like for them to walk the Corvallis deal with day in and campus and sit in classrooms as people of color. They spoke of overt racism, subtle racism, threats, sexual innuendo and day out.” teachers’ obliviousness to how their topics and examples were — Ed Ray affecting students of certain ethnicities. They reminded listeners of how much they had treasured the chance to go to college, and how racism was poisoning their experience. Often through tears and in voices shaking with fear or anger or both, the students described how it feels to be the only person of color in a classroom, to endure the stares, to deal with lecturers’ requests that they explain to their classmates how people “like them” feel about an issue. One young woman said she had been asked to do that on behalf of people of both Mexican and Arabic heritage. The university live-streamed the event online and left open an on-screen window for anony- mous commenting. Holding her smartphone in front of her, a young woman read aloud some of what was being typed by the hidden commenters — a vile torrent of racially based insults and threats. Many of those who spoke in the coliseum did so directly to President Ray, who sat quietly a few rows up in the bleachers and listened. None called for his ouster, but several said he had failed to come through on a promise he made in 2011 to make fighting racism on campus a top priority. They asked for manda- tory training on inclusion and racial issues for everyone at OSU, more general support for students of color, and more faculty of color — and not just in programs such as Ethnic Studies. Then they invited Ray to speak. He made his way down to the microphone and — in an uncharacteristically soft voice — praised the students for their courage and told them they were right: He and the university had not done enough. He prom- ised to meet with them and — sooner than later — implement concrete actions to improve the situation. Afterward he asked that the version of “Ed Said” originally planned for this space be scrapped so he could discuss his reaction to the speak-out and reiterate his promise to do more to make OSU a more welcoming, supportive place for people of color.

8 << OREGON STATER “As I Iistened, I was very sad, and frankly I was disappointed in are in an incredible state of turmoil. Lots of marches. Lots of myself. The stories the students shared with us were pretty aw- demonstrations. Lots of offices being taken over. Lots of yell- ful, in terms of what they have to deal with day in and day out. ing and screaming at each other. The relentlessness of the sense of abuse and harm they felt was “I’m incredibly proud of the students who spoke, and disap- very moving. I felt disappointed in myself because a lot of what pointed in our community and in myself that they had to call I heard, I had heard before, and I knew it, and yet here we were, us out to get us to listen. They didn’t march, or take over my hearing it again. office, or make demands. They simply made the very decent “Because of who I am, because I look the way I do, I can request that we sit and listen to what we had clearly not been never fully appreciate the sense of outrage, the sense of the listening to. imperative for change and, I would add based on Monday “They gave us four suggestions about what we need to do night, the sense of fear that people who don’t look like me to get to a better place, and I guarantee you we will respond. experience every day of their lives. By the time people read this, I will have met with the students “As a predominantly white institution, we need mechanisms who organized the speak-out so we can share some ideas. I that force the dominant culture to face this reality in order to will announce changes by the end of this quarter, but I want genuinely demonstrate that we support people of color. their voices and perspectives reflected in what we do now, “The reality is that I have many causes and purposes calling and I want them to be an integral part of our conversations on for my attention, and I’m no different than anyone else: I can what we need to do going forward.” be distracted. What’s particularly important in this situation is Do you think the university can achieve meaningful that because I look the way I do, because I am who I am, I can change on these issues? drop the ball in terms of dealing with issues of inclusion and social justice and protecting the people I ought to be protect- “When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. started his activities on behalf ing, and it has no immediate impact on me. of Civil Rights, the idea of passive resistance depended on two “People of color don’t have that luxury. They’re aware of the things: One was the rule of law, and the other was that if the circumstances in which they find themselves every day. better angels in the hearts of the dominant culture could hear “Issues that ought to be attended to can drift until you’re the message, take it to heart and be brought into partnership forced to face them again. Somehow I lost sight of the fact with people of color, then people of color would be much more that what I thought was a very effective way of moving this powerful. culture forward in 2011 ... has not been effective enough. Busi- “I think there are people who are generally hateful. Maybe ness as usual is not getting the job done. So I’m disappointed it’s my upbringing but I really think there is evil in the world. that I didn’t stay attentive to what the students we care about But I think that’s not the dominant force that drives us. I think with our whole heart and soul have to deal with. there are hearts that can be reached if they’re educated in the “One of the things I didn’t anticipate going into the speak- way that Martin Luther King understood. out was how afraid our students are. It was palpable. You “Also, maybe I’m being a Pollyanna, but I’m an educator; could feel the fear in the room. Virtually all of our students — this is what I’ve done for 45 years. If I didn’t think that, by white students as well as students of color — live in a post- and large, people are educable, that if they are forced to con- 9/11 world in which they have been told, ‘Be afraid. Be vigilant. front some of their behavior and realize how much they are Pay attention.’ So — even without the acts of racism our genuinely hurting people, they can change, then I wouldn’t be students of color face every day — there’s an overall level of an educator. disquiet among younger people — students, faculty and staff — “All of us under some circumstances avoid conflict, but I also that people of our generation don’t have, because we knew an think all of us can be taught that when we are silent in the alternate reality, pre-9/11. face of these behaviors, we are enabling the awful thing that’s “The other thing that surprised me about the speak-out was happening. We are part of the problem unless we learn to call what happened in the chat room that was available online out people and call out situations that are wrong.” where the event was being live-streamed. In a sense (having What actions do you expect to take as you make this once the chat room available beside the live video and audio feed) again a top priority? was inappropriate, because the point of that forum was to have the voices of the students of color be heard and for the “I grew up in New York, so my instinct is when you get hit, you hit rest of the community to sit and listen, which is what hap- back. If anything I’m too impulsive. Luckily, I have several great pened inside Gill Coliseum. people on my staff who are helping me figure out the next steps “But because of the electronic availability, cowards and we need to take. We have many people who are giving their all hateful people who had no interest in understanding others’ to move us forward on these issues, but it’s very clear that busi- situations ... were able to virtually invade that space and they ness as usual is not working. didn’t sit down and listen. They spewed all the hate that they “One issue is that we have not consistently and deliberately felt. And that reminded me that all of these students have incorporated student voices in our efforts. grown up in a world in which electronic voices can invade “So yes, we need organizational changes, but that alone is their space and scare them and say awful things to them con- not going to do it. I think the students the other night were stantly. The ability to do that electronically simply did not exist right. We need more training for everyone on campus, includ- 10 or 20 years ago. ing administrators. We need to have many more faculty of “There’s a lot going on around the nation. Part of the catalyst color on campus. for the students of color asking me and others to come listen “We are not getting it done in a lot of areas, and we will be was what happened at the University of Missouri. Campuses announcing changes.” q

WINTER 2016 >> 9 DO YOU KNOW? DO YOU WHAT >> WHAT

Think you know a bit about bees?

We asked international expert Mike Burgett, an emeritus OSU professor of entomology and apiculture, to send a swarm of questions our way. The creator of the award-winning “Far Side Entomology” course in the University Honors College at OSU has studied bees and harvested honey from Beaverton to Bangladesh. Want to know more? A Master Beekeeper Program available through the OSU Extension Service trains people in the practice of beekeeping and ensuring the health of native bees. Learn about it at extension.oregonstate.edu/mb 1. Compared to the estimated 10,000 5. In Oregon the closest genetic relative 8. How many honey bee colonies are bird species in the world, the to the honey bee is: registered by commercial Oregon number of bee species is: A. yellow jackets beekeepers? A. one tenth as many B. orchard mason bees A. 1,000 B. one half as many C. alfalfa leaf-cutting bees B. 10,000 C. the same D. bumblebees C. 50,000 D. twice as many E. sweat bees D. 75,000 E. 10 times as many E. 100,000 6. What portion of the human popula- 2. How many species of bees have tion is severely allergic to honey bee 9. How many pounds of honey are been recorded in the Pacific venom? produced in Oregon annually? Northwest? A. 0.1% A. 28,000 A. 9 B. 1% B. 280,000 B. 90 C. 10% C. 2.8 million C. 900 D. 20% D. 28 million D. 9,000 E. 50% Answers are on page 64. 3. Is the single species of honey bee 7. Honey bees are crucial to the agricul- found in North America a native or ture industry of Oregon. What is the introduced species? annual farm-gate value of Oregon crops that benefit from managed pol- 4. Are commercial honey bees in lination by honey bees? Oregon on the decline or increase? A. $10 million B. $25 million C. $100 million D. $500 million E. $1 billion 10 << OREGON STATER Mennonite Village

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WINTER 2016 >> 11 12 >> BEAVER BRAGS so-bashful Beavers: batch oftalkingpointsfornot- Stater inpresentinganother marketing, for university relationsand Steve Clark’75,vicepresident to helpsharetheOSUstory, get alumniandotherfriends As partofanongoingeffortto << OREGON STATER joins theOregon Spread the word program nurtured15startupcompaniesin2015.Seepage16. for technologiespatentedby OSUdoubled.The Advantage tries andnonprofitsgrewtomorethan$40million,licensing funding provides mostofthesupport,butsupportfromindus done atOregon’ssixothercomprehensive universities. Federal in fiscal year 2015 —nearlydoublethecombinedresearch Oregon State,witharecordof$308.9millioninresearchfunding World-class problem-solvingcontinuestobuildmomentumat Another recordinresearchfunding student successandfacultyengagement.Seepage18. of theOSUstudentpopulationeachday,LInCemphasizes foot tourdeforceofinnovation. Withcapacitytoserve aquarter LInC —isOSU’snewest classroombuilding,a134,000-square- a globalteachingmodel.TheLearningInnovation Center—the packed withcutting-edgetechnologythatquicklyhasbecome Oregon Statestudentsareattendingclassesinanewbuilding New buildingoffersworld-class learning universities. Kappa chaptersexistatonlyabout10percent ofcollegesand chosen forasitevisitlastyear, includingOregon State.PhiBeta universities appliedforthehonorthreeyears ago,andfive were oldest honorsocietyforliberalartsandsciences.Atotalof26 three-year applicationprocess.PhiBetaKappa isthenation’s OSU hasbeenawardedaPhiBetaKappa chapterafterarigorous Top honorsocietychoosesOregonState stunned attheforceofwhirlwindaroundher.”Seepage 15. sor emeritusofEnglishandcreative writingatOSU.“Iwasabit since Ibeganthisproject,”saidDaugherty,distinguishedprofes yet achieved thealmoststratosphericcelebrityshehasattained public figurewhenIbegantowriteabouther,butshehadn’t er listforhardcover nonfiction.“Didionwasa well-known debuted inSeptemberatNo.11ontheNewYork Timesbest-sell- Didion by Oregon StateprofessoremeritusTracyDaugherty, The LastLove Song,abiographyofjournalistandnovelist Joan National best-sellerforOSUprofessor more studentsifadditionalfundingisacquired. for OSUmaster’sanddoctoralstudentswillbeopento30 to theeffort.Theprogramwillprovide morethan30fellowships the nationalprogramandcommitted$5millionover threeyears National ScienceFoundationselectedOregonStatetodevelop students totackleemergingglobalissuesinmarinescience.The OSU hasundertaken aboldnewprogramto train cohortsof Tackling toughmarinescience problems - - Dean Tammy Bray to leave post once university hires replacement

Tammy Bray, dean of the College ucation and research programs that are focused on the future of of Public Health and Human public health and well-being,” said OSU President Ed Ray. Sciences and executive dean of She helped raise nearly $40 million to construct the Hallie E. the Division of Health Sciences Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families, renovate the food at Oregon State University, plans and nutrition lab for the Moore Family Center for Whole Grain to step down from her position Foods, Nutrition and Preventive Health, support 11 endowed fac- following a national search for ulty positions, and provide about $500,000 annually for student her replacement. scholarships. She hired more than 40 new faculty members since Bray led CPHHS, OSU’s fast- 2008; established The Oregon Center for Health Innovation; and est-growing college, to achieve integrated the college’s outreach efforts with the OSU Extension national accreditation in 2014, Service, specifically the Family and Community Health Program becoming Oregon’s first and and the 4-H program. only accredited college of public “I’m thankful for the opportunity to work with Dean Bray in health. building a distinct and preeminent college at OSU,” said Provost “I am grateful to serve and Sabah Randhawa ’81. be a part of such a remarkable “There has never been a dull moment in keeping up with her community of alumni, students, faculty and staff,” Bray said of ideas. Her strength is to follow through with her ideas and make her 13-year tenure. “Together, we did the impossible and built the them a reality.” first accredited college of public health in a land grant institution He said the search for her replacement has started with a goal for Oregonians.” of naming a new dean by the end of the academic year. The college’s funding from grants and contracts under Bray in- As a scientist, Bray’s expertise has been in antioxidants and creased sixfold, from $3 million in 2002 to more than $18 million free radical metabolism in the prevention of diabetes, as well in 2014. Bray also oversaw the creation of new centers dedicated as the role that diet plays in gene expressions that influence a to research into healthy children and families; aging; food and person’s susceptibility to chronic disease. nutrition; and global health. She said she plans to focus on high-impact projects related to “Dean Bray is a visionary leader and builder of innovative ed- health innovation, leadership and globalization. q The MBA that works. In Portland & Online

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WINTER 2016 >> 13 Corvallis enrollment CAREER levels out as online ADVICE classes drive new record OSU’s overall 2015 fall term enrollment “Expanded access to an excellent AT ALL grew 2.4 percent over last year, with higher education and college degree is stable enrollment on the Corvallis campus essential for all Oregonians, as well as the and continued growth in online learning future of our state and the nation.” STAGES through OSU’s nationally ranked Ecampus International student enrollment at distance degree program. Oregon State also grew this fall, but by a Oregon State’s overall enrollment is slower rate than in the past. OSU enrolled Career services 30,592 students, making it the largest 3,328 international students this fall — up university in Oregon for the second year 3.9 percent over 2014. Že international aren’t just for in a row. student enrollment had grown by 21 per- University officials, who sought to slow cent in 2013 and by 12 percent in 2014 and students and enrollment growth in Corvallis, noted that now represents 11.3 percent of Oregon there are 24,466 students at the main State’s overall enrollment. recent grads. campus, an increase of only 0.3 percent, Steve Clark ’75, OSU’s vice president for or 83 students, from fall 2014. Meanwhile university relations and marketing, said They’re for everyone, Oregon State has enrolled 5,110 students OSU’s strategic enrollment growth is sus- including you. In addition in Ecampus this term, an increase of 607 tainable. While demographic patterns in students or 13.5 percent over last year. At Oregon suggest that the number of high to services for recent OSU-Cascades, which this fall started of- school graduates will remain relatively flat grads, the OSU Alumni fering four-year academic classes for the for the foreseeable future, Clark said Ore- Association provides first time, 1,016 students are enrolled — a gon State is poised to continue attracting 3.7 percent increase over last year. Oregonians, but also a mix of out-of-state services to seasoned “Žis is right in line with Oregon State’s and international students, and non-tra- professionals and even strategic plan to serve as Oregon’s uni- ditionally aged students (25 and over). those preparing for versity, as well as with our enrollment “OSU will remain focused on being Ore- management plan,” said OSU President gon’s statewide university,” Clark said. “It retirement. Ed Ray. “Žree out of four degree-seeking takes a balancing act to meet the needs undergraduate students on our Corvallis of the state; manage growth in a stra- campus are Oregon residents, and we tegic way; serve as a great community continue to attract high-achieving stu- partner where our campuses are located; dents. Among first-time college students and operate the university in a financially from Oregon high schools, 41.6 percent sustainable way. are considered high-achievers (with a “As promised, we have slowed the grade point of 3.75 or higher).” growth on our Corvallis campus, but Ray said he was particularly pleased while doing so, we are taking high- with continued growth in enrollment of er education to where students are U.S. minority students, an increase of 6.9 by continuing to enroll more distance percent from 6,320 students in 2014 to online students through Ecampus; by 6,754 this fall. expanding OSU-Cascades to a four-year Že university also enrolled 5,803 campus in Bend; and by opening a ma- Many of our services undergraduates who are first-generation rine studies campus in Newport over the students — an increase of 4.5 percent next few years.” are free; most are over 2014. “As a first-generation college More students are studying engineering available virtually. student myself, that trend is near-and- than any other discipline at OSU — the Visit osualum.com/career dear to my heart,” Ray said. “Nearly one College of Engineering has a total of out of four of our undergraduates (23.6 8,265 undergraduate and graduate to learn how we can help. percent) is a first-generation student. students enrolled. Že next largest “Oregon State’s mission is to bring programs are the College of Liberal Arts, higher education to all people within 3,905 students; the College of Science, Oregon and we are doing just that by 3,526; the College of Business, 3,487; increasingly enrolling people of diversity, the College of Public Health and Human students from low-income families, and Sciences, 3,200; and the College of first-generation students. Agricultural Sciences, 2,610. q 14 << OREGON STATER Noted publications by Beavers and friends

“IN PRINT” items were written by alumni, facul- ty and friends of OSU. Another listing of written New nonstop PRINT works by Beavers and friends appears in the “Published” section of “Of note” on page 57. EUG to San Jose >> IN The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion(St. Mar- Connecting the tin’s Press) by Tracy Daugherty, distinguished professor emeritus of English and Creative Writing at OSU. The Silicon Shire biography of the well-known author of both fiction and to the Silicon Valley non-fiction takes readers on a journey back through time. It follows a young Didion from her life in Sacramento to her adult life as a writer, through interviews with those who know or knew her personally, while maintaining a respectful distance from the reclusive literary great.

Vintage: A Novel (Simon & Schuster) by David Baker, director of Interactive Communications at OSU. From the rolling hills of Burgundy to a raucous wedding in Moldova, from a Beaune bacchanal to the graying walls of a Russian prison, this novel is a hilarious food-filled debut about redemption, sacrifices and making one last effort to follow your dreams.

Remote Wonders: An Explorer’s Guide to Southeast Oregon (Washington State University Press) by Melvin R. Adams ’63, Richland, Wash. Designed as a road tour guide, the essays and numerous photos highlight notable natural and historical features. Supplemental information includes side trip and other travel recommendations, and a pullout map is keyed to selected sites.

Canyons: A Novel (Daniel & Daniel) by Samuel West- ern ’82. The journalist and poet debuts a novel about ranching life in the high country and the music scene in Los Angeles; about guitars and firearms, philosophy and horses. His sparkling fiction also shows rare insight about friendship and enmity, about guilt and grace, and about love and death.

Evidence-based Approaches to Relationship and Mar- riage Education: A Global Perspective (Routledge) by James J. Ponzetti Jr. ’80 ’84, emeritus professor at the University of British Columbia. The book introduces read- ers to the fundamentals of creating effective relationship and marriage education programs to prepare them to design new programs or implement existing programs that promote healthy sexual attitudes and relationships. Ponzetti has edited two other books in this series: Evi- dence-based Parenting Education and Evidence-based Sexuality Education.

WINTER 2016 >> 15 Research sets $308 million record

OSU research funding reached $308.9 million, its highest level Knife of Oregon City, Sheldon Manufacturing of Cornelius and ever, in the fiscal year that ended on June 30. NuScale Power of Corvallis. A near doubling of revenues from licensing patented technol- By contrast, federal research grants in 2015 were only 0.2 ogies and an 8.5 percent increase in competitive federal funding percent higher than those received in 2010, a year in which fueled OSU research on a range of projects including advanced American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funds gave university ocean-going research vessels, the health impacts of pollution research a one-time shot in the arm across the country. and sustainable materials for high-speed computing. According to the National Science Foundation, federal agency “This is a phenomenal achievement. I’ve seen how OSU re- obligations for research have dropped from a high of $36 billion search is solving global problems and providing innovations that in 2009 to $29 billion in 2013, the last year for which cumula- mean economic growth for Oregon and the nation,” said Cynthia tive figures are available. The Department of Health and Human Sagers, OSU’s vice president for research. Services accounted for more than half of that spending. “OSU’s research performance in the last year is amazing, given “We’ve worked hard to diversify our research portfolio,” said that federal funds are so restricted right now.” Ron Adams, who retired as interim vice president for research The overall economic and societal impact of OSU’s research at the end of August. “But it’s remarkable that our researchers enterprise exceeds $670 million, based on an analysis of OSU’s have succeeded in competing for an increase in federal funding. research contributions to the state and global economy that fol- This speaks to the success of our strategic initiatives and our lowed a recent economic study of OSU’s fiscal impact conducted focus on clusters of excellence.” by ECONorthwest. Economic impact stems in part from new businesses Technology licensing almost doubled in the last year alone, launched this year through the Oregon State University from just under $6 million in 2014 to more than $10 million this Advantage program. year. Leading investments from business and industry were Among them are: patented Oregon State innovations in agriculture, advanced »» OnBoard Dynamics, a Bend company developing a materials and nuclear technologies. natural-gas powered vehicle engine that can be fueled OSU researchers exceeded the previous record of $288 million, from home which the university achieved in 2010. Although federal agencies »» Valliscor, a Corvallis company that manufactures provided the bulk of funding, most of the growth in OSU research ultra-pure chemicals revenues over the past five years stems from nonprofit organiza- »» eChemion, a Corvallis company that develops and markets tions and industry. technology to extend battery life Since 2010, total private-sector funding from sponsored Altogether, 15 new companies have received mentoring contracts, research cooperatives and other sources has risen assistance from Oregon State’s Advantage Accelerator program, 60 percent — from $25 million to more than $40 million in 2015. part of the state-funded Regional Accelerator and Innovation Oregon State conducts research with multinationals such as HP, Network, or RAIN. Six new companies worked with the Advan- Nike and Boeing as well as with local firms such as Benchmade tage program this fall. q

EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING, FY 2015

oregon state university $308.9 million

university of oregon $114.6 million

portland state university $64.6 million Meena ’12 (left) and Jaana Rajachidambaram ’12, twin sisters, worked in col- laboration with Sharp Laboratories of America to improve the performance of thin-film transistors used in liquid crystal displays. Such research has expand- ed with the Oregon State University Advantage program. (Photo courtesy OSU)

16 << OREGON STATER Poet Rita Dove to visit OSU in April to accept Stone literary award

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet professor of English and creative writing at OSU. “Each of her Rita Dove has been selected as books has enlarged the imaginative reach of American poetry by the 2016 recipient of Oregon infusing it with personal and broader history, and by meditating State University’s Stone Award on issues of race and identity as well as the interrelationships for Lifetime Literary Achieve- between poetry, music, dance and drama.” ment. Dove will visit Oregon in April 2016 to accept the award and Že biennial award is pre- read from her work. She will speak at 7:30 p.m. on April 14 at the sented to a major American CH2M HILL Alumni Center in Corvallis and at 7:30 p.m. on April 15 author who has created a at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Portland. body of critically acclaimed Additional details, including ticket information for the events, work and who has mentored will be released early next year. young writers. Že $20,000 Stone Award is one of the largest prizes of its Dove served as poet laure- kind given by an American university. It was established in 2011 ate of the United States from by Patrick ’74 and Vicki Stone to spotlight OSU’s Master of Fine Photo by Fred Viebahn 1993-95 and has received nu- Arts in Creative Writing program in the School of Writing, Litera- merous awards for her work, ture and Film. including the 1987 Pulitzer An advisory board of three active, nationally visible writers Prize in Poetry. She is the only poet to receive both the National recommends five nominees who meet Stone Award criteria. Humanities Medal (1996) and the National Medal of Arts (2011). From those nominees, the creative writing faculty at Oregon She holds the Commonwealth Professor of English chair at the State University make the final selection. Joyce Carol Oates was University of Virginia in Charlottesville. the first honoree, in 2012; the second winner was Tobias Wolff, “It’s hard to imagine a poet more essential to our literary in 2014. q culture than Rita Dove,” said Karen Holmberg, an associate

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