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Three ½ðɳÓéÀÖ University computer science students combine computer vision, robotics and AI skills to build a robot that solves a famous puzzle. All three are headed to industry careers following graduation.

Believe it or not, his career so far is going just as Zach Meskell '15 drew it up: ½ðɳÓéÀÖ, improv comedy, Harvard Law, and clerkships with federal judges.

½ðɳÓéÀÖ University alumna, parent, former professor and dean will become the 18th president.

The 1980 softball season was the year everything changed for a talented group of softball players, and for their coach, Judy Sherman.

Boxer wrestling hopes to make waves again, guided by a son-father team of Boxer alumni.

As a social worker, Maria Vasquez-Rodriguez ’22, MSW '23 aims to straighten and shorten the path of patients who are buffeted by the health system. She was awarded the social work scholarship named for Claire Argow.

Pamela (Paguia) Christianson '85 and Erik Christianson '83, OD '86 met on campus in 1982 and were married five years later. Their Boxer love story includes two sons and exciting careers in Alaska. 

Lorraine Basch ‘17 has covered a lot of territory since she graduated from ½ðɳÓéÀÖ University. And she’s just getting started.

Kohler is surely the only ½ðɳÓéÀÖ undergraduate who’s eligible for Social Security, lost his job for honoring a picket line during the Reagan administration, had a son born in Mexico, and produced the last live show that featured Billy Rancher.

As a teenager, Chris Stamm MAT ’22 dropped out of high school in the San Francisco Bay area and describes his road to college as a rocky one. Now, he is pursuing a master of arts in teaching in special education.

Two historians have compiled and published a sortable list of Native people who died while attending two boarding schools for Indigenous Americans in Oregon. The online resource, which covers deaths dating back to 1881, documents approximately 275 students and 30 non-students who were buried at the Chemawa School Cemetery near Salem, and two who are buried in unmarked graves at the Forest View Cemetery in Forest Grove.

Ashley Martin '20, MBA '21 cruised directly from her ½ðɳÓéÀÖ University undergraduate degree in economics into the university's MBA program. The experience has taught her much about the world of work, professional networks, and friendships.