Alumni Awards celebrates excellence in the College of Science
On October 24, 2022, the College of Science community gathered to celebrate this year’s Alumni Award recipients. These awards publicly recognize our alumni, friends, and colleagues for their distinguished personal and career achievements, service, and contributions to society that reflect positively on the College of Science and on Oregon State University.
Young Alumni Award: Excellence in neuroscience education
One question changed the course of Tari Tan’s (Biochemistry & Biophysics, ‘08) professional career.
Rising environmental health scientist receives Young Alumni Award
Andres Cardenas (B.S. 10), a trailblazer in devising epidemiological and molecular approaches to understand how environmental exposures affect disease, has received the 2020 Young Alumni Award from the College of Science.
Meet a Science Grad: Katherine Ganio
Meet Katherine Ganio, 2009 biochemistry & biophysics alumna and research fellow at the University of Melbourne.
Meet a Science Grad: Tari Tan
Meet Tari Tan, biochemistry and biophysics alumna and currently the Director of Educational Programming for Neurobiology and the Ph.D. program in Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School.
OSU alum awarded for studies in children's health
Andres Cardenas (10', '15) has received funding to spend the next five years studying the impacts of prenatal and early childhood environmental stressors on children’s health and development.
From Botswana to Los Angeles, OSU biochemistry alum now on the front lines of COVID-19
Since graduating from OSU with a degree in biochemistry & biophysics, Bango has been in the Peace Corps, worked in a malaria research laboratory in Botswana and is now working on the front lines of COVID-19 testing and treatment in Los Angeles County, California.
Mathews Fellow in biochemistry plans bioinformatics studies of disease-causing protein mutations
Doctoral student Patrick Morar is the 2019-20 Christopher and Catherine Mathews Graduate Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Biochemist blazes trail for women in STEM and creates scholarship
When alumna Karen Nickel (Chemistry, ’61) returned to campus after a long and illustrious career in clinical chemistry, the trip “brought back lots of good memories."
Biochemist alumna named 2019 AAAS Fellow
Malin Young (’92, ’94), an Oregon State University alumna and biochemist, was elected a 2019 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Recognizing outstanding achievement: 2018 Alumni Awards
Three outstanding scientists received the 2018 College of Science Alumni Awards.
Scientist who discovered protein involved in cancer metastasis named Alumni Fellow
Alumna Marian Waterman, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of California, Irvine, is honored as 2018 Alumni Fellow.