chemical, biological, and environmental engineering

College of Engineering grads selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The National Science Foundation has awarded four recent graduates from Oregon State University’s College of Engineering the 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. This five-year fellowship provides three years of financial support inclusive of an annual stipend of $37,000 and a $16,000 allowance for tuition and fees.

Fellows are recognized as outstanding students who demonstrate the potential to become knowledge experts in their fields, contributing significantly to research, teaching, and innovation throughout their careers.

FY 23 Research Funding Highlights

Oregon State University’s College of Engineering is the nation’s seventh-largest engineering college and a proven leader in research, with impacts that extend statewide, regionally, nationally, and globally. Research conducted here expands knowledge and creates use-inspired solutions in fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced manufacturing, clean water, materials science, sustainable energy, high-performance computing, resilient infrastructure, and health-related engineering.

New 30-year climate normals

Oregon State University’s new maps of 30-year U.S. climate “normals” show the area east of the Rockies is getting wetter, the Southwest is getting drier, and temperatures are inching upward – with daily lows rising faster than daily highs.

“When we publish the new normals every 10 years, we’re taking away one decade from a 30- year period and adding another, which means the changes we see are subtle,” said Chris Daly, professor of geospatial climatology and the founding director of Oregon State’s PRISM Climate Group.