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I am pleased to comment on the occasion of
the tenth anniversary of the University
Honors College. While there is a long history
of honors programs at Oregon State University, the more recent establishment of the
University Honors College and the Honors
Baccalaureate degree earned by its graduates
represent relatively unique attributes among
American universities. There are only a
handful of institutions offering the Honors
Baccalaureate. Moreover, the qualifications of
students who enter the University Honors
College are comparable to those of students
Celebrating Scholarship
and Creativity
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The impact of Honors is palpable. The annual Thesis Fair
(held in late spring) is the most visible celebration of the
scholarship and creativity demonstrated by Honors
students. Honors graduates are asked to prepare a poster
style presentation of their senior project and they stand ready to share insights with all
who ask. Over the past decade, it is fair to say the event has become standing room only
as the campus community comes to see the most recent round of invention and insight
by OSU's most accomplished group of undergraduates.
Honors students are limited only by time and resources and their activities enhance the
prestige of OSU on a national scale. UHC student participation in NASA research, for
example, is highlighted on page 7. Countless scholarly articles, creative writings and
performance recognitions are just the tip of the iceberg. UHC thesis projects have
yielded books, a musical CD, admission to the prestigious Iowa Writers School and
numerous professional recognitions for those preparing to take the next step in their
professional lives. Laura Ferguson's Honors thesis in History became a chapter in a
recent publication of the Gilder Lehrman Institute ofAmerican History. As a sophomore.
Tanya Homrichhausen was the lead author of an article in the journal Seed Science
Research. Mark Muktoyuk's thesis was requisitioned by the Oregon Attorney General's
office as endangered species legislation was updated. Stephanie Root's thesis became a
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in the leading universities in the country and
their curricular requirements are as rigorous
as those found in the finest universities.
Consequently, Honors provides Oregon
State University with exceptional learning
opportunities for the brightest students in
Oregon, regardless of their economic
circumstances.
We understand at OSU that our graduates
are the most important contribution that we
make to the future. We declare in our
strategic plan that we want our graduates to
be prepared to compete with anyone,
anywhere in the world in their chosen
careers. We want their creative endeavors to
provide the greatest possible contributions
to society and we want their service activities to their communities, the nation, and the
world to be of the greatest possible benefit
to others. The University Honors College is
a critical contributor to our achieving those
ends and we are all justifiably proud of our
Honors graduates.0
1In this Issue:
Tenth Year Celebration
1
The Impact of Honors
2-3
The Future of Honors
4
In the Community
4-5
Ten Years of Honors
6-7
NASA and Honors
7
Board of Regents
8-9
New Scholarships
10
Honors Roll
11
Announcements
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of undergraduate study toward the
Honors Baccalaureate in Engineering,
automatic entry into a graduate program in
Engineering at OSU, and a one-year
graduate fellowship stipend. The inaugural round of Opportunity PLUS, launched
in Spring 2005, will support six UHC
Engineering majors who are on track to
complete the Honors thesis during 200506. The objective of the program is to
enhance retention of COE students in
Honors, ensure transition to the graduate
programs in COE for OSU undergraduates,
and to expedite progress toward receipt of
MA and PhD degrees for UHC students
selected tbr participation in the program.
A new, privately funded Women in Science
and Engineering grant provided by the
OSU Women's Giving Circle serves a dual
purpose. By providing substantial
financial stipends to women in Honors
working in broadly defined science and
engineering fields, research costs leading
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Honors is undertaking an innovative
recruitment strategy
among National Merit
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to the Honors thesis will be off-set. In
return, Honors women selected in a
competitive process will be obligated to
visit their own high school and an
adjacent high school to help recruit other
students to OSU and to the UHC. This
newly funded outreach effort supports
eight women over a two year period and
provides a creative outreach strategy to
Oregon-based high school students.
The vast majority of the high achieving
students who enter OSU for their undergraduate careers also join the University
Honors College. All but two of this year's
Presidential Scholars are also members of
the UHC. Working with the Office of
Admissions, Honors is undertaking an
innovative recruitment strategy among
National Merit Scholars in their senior
year of high school. Financial Aid will
provide a handsome package to those
students who elect to attend OSU;
Honors will provide a home and the kind
of academic advising that will help ensure
their success and launch them toward the
next step in their lives.
NPR Features UHC Course:
"Far Side Entomology"
Along the way, students learned about culicids (mosquitoes),
orthoptera (crickets), scarabs (dung beetles), pests, plagues and
politics.
What can cartoons teach us about entomology and society?
Plenty, according to Michael Burgett, professor emeritus at
Oregon State University. Burgett uses Gary Larson cartoons to
explore the far side of the relationship between people and
insects in his Honors College course.
"Far Side Entomology," the course Burgett created for OSU's
Honors College, was featured on Jan. 4,2005 on National Public
Radio in a series on "Cool College Classes." The series featured
courses from Harvard, Julliard, and the Colorado School of Mines
as well as Dr. Burgett's UHC course at Oregon State University.
Interactions between humans and insects can vary from humorous to deadly serious, according to Burgett. The former OSU
Extension entomologist uses cartoons to introduce his students
to the biology of insects and to explore the relevance of insects
to human activities.
"The anthropomorphism in the cartoons makes an immediate
connection between insects and people," Burgett said. Students
take those connections farther, connecting to ideas and relationships they wouldn't have imagined in a straight systematics
course."
Burgett's unconventional approach to cultural entomology, which
caught the attention of NPR producers, has connected Honors
students to the far side of entomology since the inception of the
current University Honors College.
For a close-up of the cool college class "Far Side Entomology,"
check the NPR website at http:/!www.npr.org/temptates/story/
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A cartoon of a fully engorged mosquito ready to explode led two
students to research other gluttonous bloodsuckers, including
vampires in literature and history.
OSU News Release compiled hi' Peg Herring. U
To view the whole story on NPR, visit the
"A ii Things Considered" page on
www. npr. org. The article appears under
A cartoon ofJiminy Cricket floating in a collector's specimen jar
led another pair of students to critically examine the role of
conscience in ethical questions of right and wrong.
A cartoon of Spiderman commiserating with Dung Beetle Man led
to an exploration of superheroes and recycling in modern culture.
"Past Shows "for January 4, 2005.
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Mickaila Johnston graduated from OSU with an HBS in
Radiation Health Physics in 1998. This is his story.
A few short days after graduating from the University Honors
College in 1998, I found myself on the road heading off to
another academic endeavor. Directly across the United States,
just outside of Washington D.C., is Bethesda, Maryland. This
is where the Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences is located, and where many a night would be spent
applying study habits I built as an Honors student.
The first two years of medical school were very rigorous, but as
with all things, persistence and vigilance pay off. The next two
years were entirely hands-on and benefited immensely from an
ability to study efficaciously that I learned at OSU (thank you
Dr. Roberts). It was hands-on but I was still a student with a lot
to learn. However, I did happen to find a bit of free time to run a
race or two and do some military training at a number of
locations, including the Mountain Warfare School. Had it not
been for the combined demands for excellence within the
University Honors College and the Department ofNuclear
Engineering, I certainly would not have prospered. Thank you!
The completion of medical school customarily marks the
beginning of the worst year of any physician's life.., the
dreaded internship! I would not be far off to say it's just like
the movies, sitcoms, and books. It is absolutely the most
painful year of my life thus far. And that says enough about
that particular year.
The Navy affords its physicians an opportunity to serve as
general practitioners on occasion. I seized just such an
opportunity as I entered the US Navy Dive Medical Officer
program. This program provided specialty training in Hyperbaric Medicine and diving-related casualties.
After that physically demanding school, I was afforded the
opportunity to live the dream by working as the physician for a
team of US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal members in the
Kingdom of Bahrainbefore you ask, it's a little island off the
east coast of Saudi Arabia. Close enough to all the action one
might ever imagine.
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While we have the chance to exercise copiously, and I get to practice
independent medicine, there are a few trials as well. In mid-summer, it
can reach about 140°F (with heat index for humidity). We also get
the chance to do some more military training (sliding down ropes
from helicopters and shooting a variety of weapons). One of the side
benefits of serving our country as a physician in the military is the
chance to travel to many foreign countries to take care of people.
Since graduating from OSU I have lived in three different countries
and visited 23 others, and that is not even counting the four states
where I have been posted.
All in all, it is a good career, the weather is warm, and the patients are
great, but I will be visiting the slopes of Mt Bachelor the first
vacation I get!
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Ten Years: What We Have Wrought!
It is nearly unfathomable that 2005-06 represents the tenth
anniversary for the University Honors College. Before we
admitted the first UHC students in 1995, a cadre of dedicated
faculty, students, and campus leaders designed what would
become only the eleventh degree-granting Honors College in the
country. President John Byrne, Provost Roy Arnold and the entire
Faculty Senate deserve special appreciation for their endorsement
of the fledging notion that OSU could provide a world-class
educational experience for undergraduates.
Unique among Honors programs, the
UHC is fully integrated into every
aspect of the academic cornmLlnity at
outstanding responses to the Honors admissions essays. Any
OSU student can apply for transfer admission to the UHC prior to
their junior year. Honors students hold dual citizenship with their
academic major and their participation raises the level of academic
accomplishment throughout the campus.
To celebrate ten years of unparalleled success, UHC student Toan
Ngo created the ten-year Honors logo shown below. His design
was selected in a competition among Honors students. The
upcoming year will feature a variety of celebratory
events to both commemorate ongoing success and
to look ahead as Honors plays a key role in the
success of OSU's first Capital Campaign. We
OSU. All faculty are eligible to partici-
welcome participation from all members of the UHC
community, including students, faculty, parents,
alumni, and the many friends of excellence who
pate as instructors or thesis mentors.
Any student can apply for admission
to the UHC and ten percent of each
entering class is reserved for students
who "write their way in" by virtue of
support Honors. Please join us in recognizing the
success of the University Honors College and help
us ensure that the opportunities afforded by the
UHC experience will continue to shine in the years
ahead.
NASA and Honors
As a UHC first-year
student, Heather
McCaig found herself on a parabolic flight path aboard the NASA
KC-135 suborbital microgravity
research platform (aka "Vomit
Comet"). The research, directed by
Dr. Goran Jovanovic, led directly to
Heather's 2004 Honors thesis on
magnetically assisted fluidized
microgravity percolation. Fellow
team-member and UHC student
Christopher Fey also based his 2005
Honors thesis "The Creation and
Use of a Pseudo-Constant Magnetic Force Field in Microgravity"
on experimentation on the KC-135.
During the summer of 2005, OSU
sent three undergraduates to the
Goddard Space Flight Center
Robotics Internship Program in
Maryland. They joined twentysix students selected from across
the U.S. in a competitive process.
UHC students Chris Edmonds
(Computer Science) and Melissa
Jensen-Morgan (Bioengineering
and Mechanical Engineering)
were joined by Brandon Philips
(Computer Science) as OSU was
the only institution with multiple
representatives. At the end of
the program, four participants
were recognized for excellence,
including all three OSU representatives. Way to go, Chris,
Melissa, and Brandon! Well
doneOSUandUHC!
Never too early for excellence: the next generation of Honors.
Madison & Hailey Escobar with Heather McCaig (Ph.D. candidate. Cal Tech).
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college that would provide unparalleled excellence in everything it
offered its undergraduates. The University Honors College, in its
first ten years, has done exactly what it
set out to do: provide innovative
instruction, participatory learning, and
small classes designed to be interactive, intercultural, and interdisciplinary.
Honors awards OSU's most prestigious undergraduate degree and
stands on the laurels of its students
and those faculty who join Honors to
offer unique learning opportunities.
was to ensure students attained their maximum potential. As
part of the UHC strategic plan. the Board of Regents identified
that goal as one of the principal foci of our fundraising efforts.
In recognition of Honors' tenth
anniversary this year, the Board of
Regents has announced a special
challenge to graduates of the UHC.
The Regents will match, dollar for
dollar, any gift made to Honors through
the OSU Foundation. This challenge is
being extended to all graduates of the
University Honors College. The
Regents anticipate that the increased funding will allow
undergraduate support to increase substantially. If you are an
Honors graduate and want to take advantage of this special
match, please contact Aaron Escobar, Director of Development,
at (541) 737-9330 or email aaron.escobaroregonstate.edu. If
you are not a graduate but would like to join the mission to
ensure that Honors students maximize their potential, we would
welcome your contributions as well.
"The Regents will match,
dollar for dollar any gift
made to Honors through the
OSU Foundation."
As part of the strategic planning process of the UHC, led by the
Board of Regents, faculty and students, increasing support for the
Excellence Fund was identified as one of the top priorities for the
college as it prepares for the next decade of educating the best
students in the world. (The Excellence Fund provides financial
support to reimburse students for out-of-pocket expenses associated with the research required to complete the senior thesis.)
Initiated by a donor who preferred to remain anonymous, his goal
tially better than national averages for
comparable universities at the same
benchmarks. Over the past decade one
thing has become abundantly clear, the
campus, indeed the state, can be proud of
the performance of our Honors SW-
dentsthey will surely emerge among
tomorrow's leaders.
In his popular book, The Tipping Poi,it,
Malcolm Gladwell referred to intellectual
mavens as people who have an unrelenting thirst for new knowledge and an
abiding passion for sharing what they
know with others. Honors students bear
a striking resemblance to these mavens in
that they are active collectors of information, and, just as importantly, they love to
share what they discover as they are
socially motivated and intent on giving to
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Our Five
avorite Facts
The University Honors College is a
happening place and it is easy to brag
about exciting programs, activities, and
individual achievements. In the past ten
years we have developed an enviable
track record, but here are our five
favorite statistics underlining an
ongoing record of excellence:
1
At least 10% of each freshman
class is reserved for those who
"write their way in." The very
best essayists receive special
consideration regardless of test
scores or GPA.
2
Nine out often UHC students
are from the top 10% of their
high school class.
Honors classes are small to 4
enhance effectiveness, with a
3
courses and 12 in the upper
division.
4
of
maximum of 20 in lower division
All Honors Baccalaureate
recipients complete the Honors
Thesis under the guidance of a
faculty mentor.
Nine out often students who
5 enter the UHC go on to graduate
from OSU within six years.
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Charitable contributions to the University Honors College enable us to
provide value-added opportunities to the Honors experience. Thanks to our
friends and benefactors we are able to provide some scholarship support, help
defray the expenses associated with the Honors thesis, and, most importantly,
add to the prospect of student success. Each year a number of donors stepup and give unselfishly to one or another initiative through their donations to
the OSU Foundation. Honors students thrive because of their charitable gifts
and they extend the reach of the Honors College. Listed below are those
donors who provided support in the twelve month period that ended in May,
2005. Thank you donors!
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Andrew Abdelnour
Steven Allen
Andrew & Roseann Bartmess
Ruth Ann Beyer
William Bogley
Karen Bolin
Ronald & Marilyn Bolstad
Eric & Judy Brewer
Nathan Brooks
Robin Brown
Tom & Carol Brown
John & Shirley Byrne
Robert & Maryhelen Calderwood
Joseph & Susan Carter
Keith & Susan Cochrun
Richard & Carole Ann Crateau
James & Dee Davis
Paul & Cathy Diacetis
Lorena Dornfeld
Robert & Marion Dunlap
Aaron & Angela Escobar
Robert & Carol Fey
Larry Fickenscher
Douglas & Nancy Fisher
Myles & Pamela Gilmer
Craig & Kathleen Gregory
Gregory & Laura Grimes
Anastasia Hampton
Diana Hancock
John & Tina Hansel!
Larry & Helen Hearing
Jon Hendricks & Haze! Reeves
Michael & Cathleen Herbage
Tom Hillstrom
Gail Hirota
Mike Hogue
Bruce Ito
Edmund & Edith Johnson
Gregory & Kimberlee Jones
Bernard & Joyce Keefe
Walter & Helen Kelly
Mark & Katherine Kralj
John & Sharon Krauss
Thomas Kretchun
William & Michelle Krippaehne
James & Bonita Krueger
Donald Laird
Allan & Tina Lane
Brian & Christine Lewis
Jill Lombaer
Joseph Maxwell
George & Valerie Miles
Leslie Mitchell
Ron & Deborah Mitchell
Sheridan & Sarah Mock
Theodore & Elaine Molskness
Charles & Shirley Mombell
Gayle & Roy Nelson
Richard Osburn
Kevin & Elaine Pardew
Bryce Payne
Louis & Eleanor Piha
John & Sandra Potter
Michael Prince
James & Candy Puterbaugh
Jon Renholds
Don Richards
William & Shirley Richards
Lenard & Maxine Robertson
Mary Alice Seville
LeeAnne Spivey
Kathy Stewart
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Anita Summers
Ariana Sutton
Richard Thompson
Sally Tripp
Donald & Rosalyn Upson
Gary & Janene Vaughn
Ebenezer & Judith Vedamuthu
Tom & Valerie Wall
Margaret Walton
Russell & Reitha Weeks
Wendy Williams
John & Julie Wirz
Corporate Donors
Marcus Electronics
Northwestern Mutual Life
United Way of Benton County
Wells Fargo Bank
Women's Giving Circle
Board of Regents
Ruth Beyer
John Byrne
Mike Hogue
Kathy Kralj
Allan Lane
Bryce Payne
Carol Pickard
Don Richards
Tom Wall
Bill Bogley (Ex Officio)
Aaron Escobar (Ex Officio)
Joe Hendricks (Ex Officio)
Joey Spatafora (Ex Officio)
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