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Nettie Spencer
Nettie Spencer was born near Corvallis in 1861 to Oregon pioneer parents. She graduated from Corvallis College in 1882, and spent the next several years teaching and studying at various places in the U.S. and abroad, including Portland, Davenport…
Mercedes Bates with President Robert MacVicar
Mercedes Bates was receiving the Distinguished Service Award from President Robert MacVicar. Mercedes Bates graduated in 1936 with a degree in Food and Nutrition. In 1967, Bates was appointed the Vice President of the General Mills Betty Crocker…
Mary Kelsey
Mary Kelsey was a faculty member in the Department of Nutrition and Food Management.
Lois Sather at a food research meeting
Lois A. Sather received her B.S. from Oregon State University in 1945. Sather was an Associate Professor in the Food Science and Technology department.
Mary Graham, Rose Russell, Farnie Irvin and Mattie Graham
All four of these Corvallis young women attended Corvallis College as preparatory students between 1866 and 1868. Rose Russell married Lewis F. Wilson in 1869; their son, Eddy, graduated from the college in 1889 and was a longtime member of the board…
Kathleen Dean Moore
Moore is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. She came to OSU in 1975. She is an environmental philosopher, and taught many classes about humans’ place in the natural world. She co-founded and served as a senior fellow with the Spring…
Jo-Ann Leong with a student in the laboratory
Leong is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Microbiology who worked at OSU from 1975-2002, concentrating on viruses. While in Corvallis, she developed successful treatments for viral diseases afflicting regional trout and salmon using techniques…
Jane Lubchenco
In addition to being a Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Lubchenco is OSU’s Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology. Except for a federal appointment, she has been at OSU since 1977, where her research has focused on community…
Harriet Moore with a class gift
Moore was the first university archivist