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Ocean career fair sets sail for MU

Ocean career fair sets sail for MU

Wes Flow, Senior Reporter
March 14, 2025

For students charting out their careers, and those still navigating college, a chance to learn about opportunities in ocean-related fields is on the horizon. Or, rather, in the Horizon Room. The...

A sign to wear masks outside of a barber shop in downtown Corvallis, Ore. on Feb. 14. Small businesses are trying to constantly adapt to alterations in COVID-19 restrictions.

Students say pandemic lessons still felt today

Wes Flow, Senior Reporter
March 5, 2025

On March 23, 2020, then-Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a stay-at-home order, beginning what many remember simply as “lockdown.” 12 days prior, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19...

OSU Professor looks back on COVID-19 response five years on

OSU Professor looks back on COVID-19 response five years on

Wes Flow, Reporter
March 4, 2025

For Chunhuei Chi, the first year of the pandemic was a busy one. He gave over 350 pandemic-related interviews with news outlets, with 200 coming in the first year. The most he did in one day, he said,...

Quinn Carson, Grammy-nominated Indigenous musician, to play PRAx

Quinn Carson, Grammy-nominated Indigenous musician, to play PRAx

Wes Flow, Senior Reporter
March 4, 2025

Grammy-nominated vocalist and trombonist Quinn Carson will take to the Ray Theater stage on March 20 in a performance showcasing the musical history of Indigenous tribes. Carson will perform twice,...

Japanese Student Association’s J-Night coming to MU

Japanese Student Association’s J-Night coming to MU

Wes Flow, Senior Reporter
February 24, 2025

Tickets are on sale for J-Night 2025, hosted by Oregon State University’s Japanese Student Association in the Memorial Union Ballroom on March 1. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with food service beginning...

Korean Student Association to host K-Night

Korean Student Association to host K-Night

Wes Flow, Senior Reporter
February 17, 2025

Oregon State University’s Korean Student Association will be hosting K-Night 2025 in the Memorial Union Ballroom from 6:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. on Feb. 22. Doors will open at 5 p.m. and food will be...

Campus closure to continue into Friday morning

Campus closure to continue into Friday morning

Wes Flow, Senior Reporter
February 13, 2025

Campus will remain closed until 10 a.m Friday due to inclement weather, Oregon State University announced Thursday evening. The closure will mean that offices and classrooms will be closed until then,...

New year, old goals

New year, old goals

Student body larger, faculty smaller than 2009 predictions
Wes Flow, Senior Reporter
February 4, 2025

Where were you in 2009? Many of Oregon State University’s current seniors celebrated their 6th birthday. OSU’s younger students would have been in preschool. In that year’s State of the University...

Grammy-winner Alex Cuba to play PRAx

Grammy-winner Alex Cuba to play PRAx

Wes Flow, Senior Reporter
February 3, 2025

The award-winning singer-songwriter Alex Cuba, will be putting on a pair of Valentine’s Day performances at the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts. The two shows will be held at PRAx’s...

On Jan. 27, Natalie Cheal informs members of their tabling duties for the upcoming on-campus blood drive. The first campus blood drive is set for Feb. 10-13.

With blood drive on horizon, organizers talk planning

Wes Flow, Senior Reporter
February 3, 2025

This February, blood will be shed at the Memorial Union. Voluntarily, of course. With blood drives upcoming this winter and spring term, planning is already underway thanks to the Oregon State University...

Students walk by the construction on the Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex at Oregon State University on Jan. 8th. Weniger Hall, located behind the complex, is scheduled for demolition in 2028 and will be replaced by a transit hub and plaza.

Huang Complex construction continues, officials describe facilities

Wes Flow, Senior Reporter
February 3, 2025

Work on Oregon State University’s newest research building, planned to house facilities for artificial intelligence and material science research among other things, is currently expected to finish in...

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Baro Look Back: Impactful figures from OSU history

Wes Flow (he/him), Senior Reporter
November 21, 2024

Students Nearly a quarter of a million people have graduated from Oregon State University since the first graduating class of three in 1870. Some, like two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling or...

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