Emily Wadkins is a marketing professional from Hermiston, Oregon, and a summa cum laude graduate of Eastern Oregon University. She brings a wide range of experience in higher education, agency work, nonprofits, and the food and beverage industry. Her specialties include content creation, email campaigns, and event management.
Outside of work, Wadkins is an avid Jeopardy! watcher, a devoted ice cream enthusiast, and enjoys paddleboarding during the summer.
Sasha S.Y. Cain is an Instructor (Ecampus) in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
She started her engineering journey at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, earning a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. She later earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where she developed expertise in applied electromagnetics and antenna engineering. While at UIUC, she was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Oregon State University is leading two large consortiums that aim to boost innovation and commercialization for advanced technologies to stimulate economic development in Oregon and beyond. The FAST Regional Innovation Engine and Corvallis Microfluidics Tech Hub proposals have broad support from small and large companies, startups, government agencies, universities, venture capitalists, and community groups — 65 members in CorMic and 95 members in FAST.
Madelyn Sadler, an undergraduate student at Oregon State University, has been working over the past two years on a project sponsored by the Office of Naval Research to develop an innovative human interface for underwater robots.
A world of opportunities is open to robotics students at Oregon State University for collaborative research across a variety of disciplines, including agriculture, forestry, and oceanography. The well-respected robotics program also benefits from Oregon State’s strength in artificial intelligence. The university was the first in the nation to have an AI doctoral program and is today the only university in the United States to have both robotics and AI doctoral programs.
