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Discovery Days is here!

On November 2 and 3, 1500 K-12 students gather for Discovery Days on campus.

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Events

Nobel Laureate in Physics and Corvallis native presented Distinguished Lecture

Carl Wieman, a Stanford physicist Nobel Laureate and Corvallis native, presented the College of Science Fall Distinguished Lecture November 21, 2016.

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Events

Black holes and the evolving universe

The Department of Physics' annual Yunker Lecture features Meg Urry, the Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Yale University, on May 17, 2016.

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Events

Gilfillan Lecture: We are living in a Materials World

Physics professor Janet Tate presents, β€œIt’s a Materials World,” at the 2016 F.A. Gilfillan Memorial Lecture May 9 in LaSells Stewart Center.

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Events

ScienceSpeak: Career Q&A with physics alumnus

Physics alumnus Shane Larson will discuss his career and his work with the LIGO project in a Q&A with science students.

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Alumni and Friends

Physics alumnus to speak on discovery of gravitational waves

Physics alumnus Shane Larson (B.S. '91) will return to Corvallis to discuss the most important physics discovery of the century.

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Faculty and Staff

2016 Winter Teaching & Advising Awards

The College of Science celebrated our 2016 Winter Teaching and Advising awards on January 12.

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Faculty and Staff

Science scores big on University Day 2015

Science faculty and students nabbed top honors at 2015 University Day, an annual tradition of ushering in the academic year by honoring extraordinary accomplishments.

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Physics

APS conference for undergraduate women in physics

The Oregon State University Physics Department hosted the American Physical Society Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics January 15-17, 2016.

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Alumni and Friends

Scholarship Dessert celebrates excellence and gratitude

The College of Science celebrated our extraordinary scholarship students at our annual spring Scholarship Dessert.

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Events

Leading theorist in fluid mechanics delivers Physics Yunker Lecture

Professor Howard A. Stone is the Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton