Oregon State University

Oregon State University is a public land-grant research university in Corvallis in the state of Oregon, United States, and it is placed in the 701-710 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.俄勒冈州立大学是一所位于美国俄勒冈州科瓦利斯的公立赠地研究型大学，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 701-710 区间。

It was founded in 1868 as Corvallis College, the state's first public college, and its motto is Open Minds, Open Doors, with some 38,000 students making it the largest university in Oregon.该校于 1868 年以科瓦利斯学院之名创办，是该州第一所公立学院，校训为「Open Minds，Open Doors（开放的思想，开放的大门）」，在校学生约 38,000 人，是俄勒冈州规模最大的大学。

It is one of only a few universities holding land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant and sun-grant designations, its OpenAlex record lists 119,609 works and 8,546,330 citations, and it is 417th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.该校是同时持有赠地、赠海、赠空与赠阳四项联邦资助身份的少数大学之一，其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 119,609 项、被引 8,546,330 次，并在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 417。

History

• The university's roots date to 1856, when it was founded as a primary and preparatory community school known as Corvallis Academy, the first institution in the Oregon Territory to offer postsecondary public education.其根源可追溯至 1856 年创办的初等与预备社区学校「科瓦利斯学院」，这是俄勒冈领地首所提供中学后公共教育的机构。

• Corvallis-area Freemasons played a leading role in developing the academy, and several of the university's largest buildings carry the names of these founders today.科瓦利斯地区的共济会成员在该学院的创建中发挥了主导作用，如今该校数座最大的建筑仍以这些创办者命名。

• John Wesley Johnson, the academy's first administrator and teacher, was a prominent figure in Oregon higher education who later studied at Yale University and helped develop several early Oregon colleges.该学院首任管理者与教师约翰·韦斯利·约翰逊是俄勒冈高等教育的知名人物，他后来在耶鲁大学深造，并协助建设了俄勒冈多所早期学院。

• Between 1860 and 1868 the Southern Methodist Church took ownership of the academy and operated it privately, a period in which the curriculum was broadened under William A. Finley as president.1860 年至 1868 年间，南方卫理公会取得该学院的所有权并进行私立经营，期间在院长威廉·A·芬利主持下课程范围有所扩展。

• On 22 August 1868 the articles of incorporation were filed and the Oregon Legislative Assembly designated the institution Oregon's land-grant university and the agricultural college of the state.1868 年 8 月 22 日，该校完成注册立案，俄勒冈州议会指定其为本州赠地大学与州立农学院。

• On 27 October 1868, two months later, Oregon State was chartered as the state's first and only public college, with Finley continuing as its first president.两个月后的 1868 年 10 月 27 日，俄勒冈州立获准成为该州第一所也是当时唯一的公立学院，芬利继续担任首任校长。

• Although it became a fully public, non-denominational institution in 1868, the Southern Methodist Church remained important in its administration through the mid-1880s.尽管该校在 1868 年已成为完全公立且不分教派的机构，南方卫理公会在其管理中仍具重要性，直至 1880 年代中期。

• The first graduates received Bachelor of Arts degrees in 1870, and within two years the school had been renamed Corvallis State Agricultural College as its mission shifted towards agriculture.首批毕业生于 1870 年获得文学学士学位；两年之内，随着办学使命转向农业，学校更名为科瓦利斯州立农学院。

• Science and technology coursework became the most popular majors from 1900, reflecting the institution's drift towards technical and agricultural teaching.自 1900 年起，科学与技术类课程成为最受欢迎的专业，反映出该校向技术与农业教学倾斜。

• In 1914 the State Board of Higher Curricula began assigning specific colleges to the Corvallis and Eugene institutions to eliminate duplication, confining engineering and commerce to Corvallis.1914 年，州高等教育课程委员会开始为科瓦利斯与尤金两校划分办学领域以消除重复，把工程与商科限定在科瓦利斯。

• In 1927 the institution's name was officially changed from Oregon Agricultural College to Oregon State Agricultural College, and in 1937 it became Oregon State College.1927 年，该校名称由俄勒冈农学院正式变更为俄勒冈州立农学院；1937 年又更名为俄勒冈州立学院。

• A doctorate in education was first offered in the early 1930s, with four Doctor of Philosophy degrees conferred in 1935, the year the first summer session was also created.该校在 1930 年代初首次开设教育学博士项目，1935 年授予四个博士学位，同年还首次开设暑期学期。

• The name Oregon State University was adopted on 6 March 1961 by a legislative act signed into law by Governor Mark Hatfield.1961 年 3 月 6 日，经州长马克·哈特菲尔德签署生效的一项立法，该校采用「俄勒冈州立大学」之名。

• The university's Extension Service was established on 24 July 1911 and now runs programmes in 4-H youth development, agriculture and natural resources, forestry, family health and outdoor schooling across Oregon.该校推广服务于 1911 年 7 月 24 日成立，如今在全州开展 4-H 青年发展、农业与自然资源、林业、家庭健康与户外学校等项目。

• Fundraising became a defining feature of its modern history: the first comprehensive campaign passed one billion dollars in 2014, with more than 1.1 billion raised from 106,000 donors by its close.筹款成为其现代史的显著特征：首轮全面筹款运动于 2014 年突破十亿美元，至结束时从 106,000 名捐赠者处筹得逾 11 亿美元。

• In 2001 the university's Wave Research Laboratory was designated by the National Science Foundation as a site for tsunami research under its earthquake engineering simulation network.2001 年，该校的波浪研究实验室被国家科学基金会指定其地震工程模拟网络下的海啸研究站点。

• The Radiation Center was built at the edge of campus in 1967, housing a 1.1 megawatt TRIGA Mark II research reactor equipped to use high-assay low-enriched uranium zirconium hydride fuel.辐射中心于 1967 年在校园边缘建成，内设 1.1 兆瓦 TRIGA Mark II 研究反应堆，可使用高丰度低浓缩铀锆氢燃料。

• In the early 2000s researchers at the campus reactor developed a prototype small modular reactor, and the university later partnered with NuScale, a company started in part by its faculty, on commercial research.2000 年代初，该校反应堆的研究人员研制出小型模块化反应堆原型；该校其后与部分由本校教师创办的 NuScale 公司合作开展商用研究。

• The university's Open Source Lab, founded in 2003 with corporate sponsors including Facebook, Google and IBM, trains students in software development while hosting projects for clients such as the Linux Foundation.其开源实验室成立于 2003 年，赞助企业包括 Facebook、谷歌与 IBM，在培养学生软件开发能力的同时为 Linux 基金会等客户托管项目。

Academics

• Academic work is organised under a quarter system of four eleven-week terms, and courses are taught through eleven colleges, an honours college and a graduate school.其教学按由四个十一周学期组成的学季制组织，课程由十一个学院、一个荣誉学院与一个研究生院开设。

• More than 200 disciplines are offered at undergraduate level and over 100 at graduate and doctoral level, giving the university more majors and programmes than any other institution in Oregon, and the Carnegie Foundation recognised it in 2005 as a comprehensive doctoral university with medical and veterinary provision, one of three such institutions in the Pacific Northwest.该校本科层次开设 200 余个学科方向、研究生与博士层次开设 100 余个，专业与项目数量居俄勒冈州各院校之首；卡内基基金会于 2005 年将其认定为设有医学与兽医教育的综合性博士型大学，是太平洋西北地区三所此类院校之一。

• In 2006 Carnegie also recognised the university as having very high research activity, making it the only university in Oregon with both classifications.2006 年，卡内基基金会又将其认定为研究活动极为活跃的大学，使其成为俄勒冈州唯一同时具备这两项分类的院校。

• Its engineering college is the fifth largest in the United States as of 2025, and enrolment includes just over 32,000 undergraduates and about 5,000 graduate students.截至 2025 年，其工学院为美国规模第五大的工学院，在校学生包括 32,000 余名本科生与约 5,000 名研究生。

• Distinctive programmes include ecological engineering, the first undergraduate degree of its kind in the United States, which joins engineering principles with ecological science.其特色项目包括生态工程，这是美国首个同类本科学位，把工程原理与生态科学相结合。

• Radiation health physics and nuclear engineering, forest engineering, wood innovation for sustainability and rangeland sciences are further programmes uncommon on the West Coast, and US News placed its graduate nuclear engineering programme eighth nationally in 2008.辐射健康物理与核工程、森林工程、可持续木材创新以及草原科学等项目在美国西海岸亦属少见；《美国新闻与世界报道》2008 年把其核工程研究生项目列为全国第 8。

• Research facilities beyond Corvallis include the John L. Fryer Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory, the Seafood Laboratory in Astoria and the Food Innovation Center in Portland.科瓦利斯之外的研究设施包括弗莱尔水生动物健康实验室、阿斯托里亚的海产品实验室与波特兰的食品创新中心。

• Researchers developed the Cascade hop, released in 1971 and now widely used in American craft brewing, and the food science department runs a fully automated research brewery that partners with industry.该校研究人员培育的卡斯卡特啤酒花于 1971 年推出，如今广泛用于美国精酿啤酒；食品科学系还运营一座与产业合作的全自动研究酿酒厂。

• The College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences operates the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport and several oceanographic research vessels, and it co-leads the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the largest ocean science project in United States history.其地球、海洋与大气科学学院运营纽波特的哈特菲尔德海洋科学中心与多艘海洋科考船，并共同主持美国史上最大的海洋科学项目「海洋观测站计划」。

• That college is leading design and construction of the next class of ocean-going research vessels for the National Science Foundation, the largest grant or contract ever received by an Oregon university, with the first vessel Taani launched in May 2023.该学院正主持为国家科学基金会设计与建造下一代远洋科考船，这是俄勒冈州各大学迄今获得的最大一笔资助或合同；首艘船「Taani」于 2023 年 5 月下水。

• The O. H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory is one of the world's largest and most sophisticated facilities for coastal and ocean engineering testing, and two offshore PacWave sites near Newport let wave energy firms stress-test prototypes.O. H. 欣斯代尔波浪研究实验室是世界最大的海岸与海洋工程测试设施之一；纽波特附近的两处 PacWave 海上试验场可供波浪能企业对原型设备进行压力测试。

• The South PacWave test site consists of four berths occupying two square nautical miles of ocean with a cable route to shore of about twelve miles, while the North site lies in state waters with permitting expected in under a year.其 PacWave 南区试验场含四个泊位，占约两平方海里海域，上岸电缆约十二英里；北区试验场位于州管辖水域，许可预计一年内办妥。

• Two research centres funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences operate on campus, the Environmental Health Sciences Center since 1969 and the Superfund Research Center since 2009.由美国国家环境健康科学研究所资助的两个研究中心设于校内，分别是自 1969 年起获资助的环境健康科学中心与自 2009 年起获资助的超级基金研究中心。

• The university administers the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a United States Forest Service facility and UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve, and manages nearly 11,250 acres of forest land including the McDonald-Dunn Research Forest.该校管理美国林务局设施兼联合国教科文组织国际生物圈保护区「H. J. 安德鲁斯实验林」，并经营近 11,250 英亩林地，包括麦克唐纳-邓恩研究林。

• OpenAlex attributes 119,609 works and 8,546,330 citations to the university, among the larger research footprints in the Pacific Northwest.OpenAlex 记录该校 119,609 项成果与 8,546,330 次被引，是太平洋西北地区科研体量较大的院校之一。

• Military training forms part of the academic structure, as the university is one of the few with ROTC detachments for every branch of the United States armed forces.军事训练构成其学术结构的一部分，该校是美国少数为各军种均设后备军官训练团的大学之一。

• Army ROTC has been taught at the university regularly since 1873, and its Beaver Battalion was known during the Second World War as the West Point of the West for commissioning more officers than any other non-military school.其陆军后备军官训练团自 1873 年起常年开设，所谓「海狸营」在二战期间因委任军官人数超过任何非军事院校而被称为「西部的西点」。

• A Department of Naval Science added after 1945 trained officers for the Navy and Marine Corps and earned the informal title Naval Academy of the Northwest, and the Air Force unit has commissioned over 1,000 officers.1945 年之后增设的海军科学系为海军与海军陆战队培养军官，并获「西北海军学院」的俗称；其空军训练单位已委任逾 1,000 名军官。

• In 1977 two graduates of the university's Air Force ROTC became the first women pilots in the United States Air Force, and the Army and Air Force units share the McAlexander Fieldhouse, named after General Ulysses G. McAlexander.1977 年，该校空军后备军官训练团的两名毕业生成为美国空军首批女飞行员；陆军与空军单位共用麦克亚历山大训练馆，该馆以尤利西斯·G·麦克亚历山大将军命名。

Campus

• The 420-acre tree-lined main campus in Corvallis serves as an internationally recognised arboretum and is the centrepiece of the city, about 83 miles south of Portland in the Willamette Valley.位于科瓦利斯的 420 英亩绿树成荫的主校区兼具国际公认的树木园功能，是城市的中心，地处威拉米特谷，距波特兰约 83 英里。

• Its geographic position is approximately 44.56457 degrees north and 123.26204 degrees west, in the heart of the Willamette Valley.其地理坐标约为北纬 44.56457 度、西经 123.26204 度，位于威拉米特谷中心。

• Much of the main campus was designed by the landscape architect John Charles Olmsted in 1906, and in 2008 that design was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Oregon State University Historic District.主校区大部分区域由景观设计师约翰·查尔斯·奥姆斯特德于 1906 年设计，2008 年该设计以「俄勒冈州立大学历史区」之名列入国家史迹名录。

• The Memorial Union was designed by the Oregon architect and university alumnus Lee Arden Thomas and has been described as one of the finest examples of neoclassical architecture in Oregon.纪念学生会堂由俄勒冈建筑师、该校校友李·阿登·托马斯设计，被称为俄勒冈新古典主义建筑最优秀的实例之一。

• In 2016 the university completed a ten-acre branch campus in Bend, known as OSU-Cascades, which had grown to about thirty acres and roughly 1,400 students by 2023.2016 年，该校在本德建成十英亩的分校区「OSU-Cascades」，到 2023 年已扩展至约三十英亩、约 1,400 名学生。

• The Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport has served as an oceanographic research base for more than fifty years, hosting six state and federal agencies and completing a 16.5 million dollar residential project in 2025.位于纽波特的哈特菲尔德海洋科学中心作为海洋研究基地已有五十余年，驻有六个州与联邦机构，并于 2025 年完成一项 1,650 万美元的宿舍项目。

• The College of Agriculture operates a Food Innovation Center in Portland, described as the first urban agricultural experiment station in the nation and occupying a 33,000-square-foot facility.其农学院在波特兰运营食品创新中心，被称为全美首个城市农业试验站，设施面积 33,000 平方英尺。

• The university's Portland Center moved in 2017 into the renovated Meier and Frank building, housing the Extension Service, the university foundation, the alumni association and athletics offices, and the Valley Library was remodelled at a cost of forty million dollars in 1999 and named Library of the Year by Library Journal, the first academic library so recognised.其波特兰中心于 2017 年迁入翻新后的梅耶与弗兰克大楼，内设推广服务处、大学基金会、校友会与体育部门办公室；瓦尔利图书馆于 1999 年以四千万美元完成改造，并被《图书馆杂志》评为年度图书馆，是首个获此殊荣的学术图书馆。

• The library houses the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archives, the first archive in the United States dedicated to the history of hops cultivation and brewing in the Pacific Northwest, including the papers of Fred Eckhardt and records of the Oregon Hop Growers Association.该图书馆设有俄勒冈啤酒花与酿造档案，这是美国首个专门收藏太平洋西北地区啤酒花种植与酿造历史的档案，藏有弗雷德·埃克哈特的手稿与俄勒冈啤酒花种植者协会的记录。

• PacWave South is an open ocean test site of four berths, and the university also maintains the Peavy Arboretum and the Linus Pauling Institute as named points of interest.PacWave 南区是含四个泊位的开放海域试验场；该校另设皮维树木园与莱纳斯·鲍林研究所等具名场所。

• The campus is only a few hours' drive from the Cascade Range, a rugged coastline, large forests, high desert, rivers and lakes, and Portland lies 85 miles to the north.校园距喀斯喀特山脉、崎岖海岸线、大片森林、高原荒漠、河流与湖泊均只需数小时车程，波特兰位于其以北 85 英里处。

• The OSU Radiation Center sits at the edge of campus, and the Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory occupies a site on the campus boundary beside the Willamette River.该校辐射中心位于校园边缘，欣斯代尔波浪研究实验室则坐落在校园边界、威拉米特河畔。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Oregon State University is placed in the 701-710 band, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，俄勒冈州立大学处于 701-710 区间。此排名以官方榜单为准。

• It is 417th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and placed in the 201-300 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, and it was not placed in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, having declined to submit the data required for that table.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 417；在软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 201-300 区间；该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，因其未提交该榜所需数据。

• In the 2023 Center for World University Rankings exercise it was placed in the top 1.4 per cent of 20,531 degree-granting institutions worldwide, a ranking built largely on outcome data.在 2023 年世界大学排名中心的评估中，该校位列全球 20,531 所学位授予机构的前 1.4%，该排名主要依据结果类数据。

• U.S. News placed it tied for 139th nationally and 71st among public universities in 2021, tied for 58th most innovative and tied for 277th globally.《美国新闻与世界报道》2021 年将其列为全美并列第 139、公立大学并列第 71、最具创新并列第 58，全球并列第 277。

• In the 2021 Academic Ranking of World Universities its oceanography programme was ranked fifth in the world, with agricultural sciences in the top fifty and earth sciences, ecology and water resources in the top hundred.在 2021 年世界大学学术排名中，其海洋学项目位列世界第五，农业科学进入前五十，地球科学、生态学与水资源进入前一百。

• Agriculture and forestry at Oregon State were ranked 26th in the world and eleventh in the United States by QS in 2021, and its animal sciences and forestry programmes are among its most cited.2021 年 QS 排名中，该校的农业与林业位列世界第 26、美国第 11；其动物科学与林业相关项目也是被引最多的方向之一。

• OpenAlex attributes 119,609 works and 8,546,330 citations to the university, and its federal designations as land, sea, space and sun grant give it research access unusual outside the largest land-grant institutions.OpenAlex 记录该校 119,609 项成果与 8,546,330 次被引；其赠地、赠海、赠空与赠阳等联邦身份，使其拥有除最大型赠地院校之外少有的研究资源通道。

• An economic impact analysis in 2012 found an annual footprint of 2.06 billion dollars, of which 1.93 billion dollars fell within the state of Oregon.2012 年的一项经济影响分析显示，其年度经济贡献为 20.6 亿美元，其中 19.3 亿美元发生在俄勒冈州境内。

• Its online Ecampus was ranked fourth nationally by U.S. News and World Report in 2024 and has held a top-ten position since 2015.其在线「Ecampus」在 2024 年被《美国新闻与世界报道》列为全国第四，并自 2015 年以来保持前十。

Student life

• More than 400 active student organisations operate on campus, and the university's nickname and mascot, the Beavers and Benny Beaver, give campus culture its sporting identity.校园内有 400 多个活跃的学生组织，其绰号与吉祥物「海狸」与「本尼海狸」赋予校园文化体育层面的身份标识。

• Corvallis is Oregon's ninth-largest city and many local events are tied to the university, while Portland, the state's largest city, lies 85 miles to the north, and most older students live off campus although on-campus housing is required for most incoming freshmen across sixteen residence halls.科瓦利斯是俄勒冈州第九大城市，当地许多活动与该校相联系，该州最大城市波特兰位于其以北 85 英里处；多数高年级学生住在校外，但十六栋校内宿舍仍要求多数新生入住。

• The LaSells Stewart Center serves as the campus conference and performing arts venue, where the Corvallis-OSU Symphony performs frequently in the Austin Auditorium.拉塞尔斯·斯图尔特中心是校园的会议与表演艺术场所，科瓦利斯-俄勒冈州立交响乐团常在其中的奥斯汀礼堂演出。

• PRAx, the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts, added a 49,000-square-foot arts complex with a nearly 500-seat concert hall, a 200-seat theatre and a 3,000-square-foot art gallery.创意艺术中心 PRAx 新增了 49,000 平方英尺的艺术综合体，内含近 500 座的音乐厅、200 座的剧场与 3,000 平方英尺的美术馆。

• Orange Media Network runs the university's student media, including the Daily Barometer newspaper, KBVR 88.7 FM radio, KBVR-TV, the Prism art and literary journal, Beaver's Digest and DAMchic.橙色媒体网络运营该校学生媒体，包括《每日气压计》报、KBVR 88.7 FM 电台、KBVR-TV 电视台、艺术与文学刊物《Prism》、生活方式杂志《Beaver's Digest》与时尚杂志《DAMchic》。

• Global Formula Racing, formed in 2009 with the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Germany, competes in Formula SAE and Formula Student and has won numerous championships, while Beaver Racing builds vehicles for Baja SAE.全球方程式赛车队于 2009 年与德国巴登-符腾堡州立合作大学共同组建，参加方程式 SAE 与大学生方程式赛事并多次夺冠；海狸赛车队则打造参加 Baja SAE 的越野车辆。

• The Associated Students of Oregon State University is the recognised student government, representing students on campus and at community, state and federal levels.俄勒冈州立大学学生联合会是校方认可的学生自治机构，在校园内以及社区、州与联邦层面代表学生。

• Its cultural centres include the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center, the Native American Longhouse, the Asian and Pacific Cultural Center, the Centro Cultural César Chávez and a Pride Center, and in autumn 2022 thirty per cent of enrolment were students of colour.其文化中心包括朗尼·B·哈里斯黑人文化中心、原住民长屋、亚洲与太平洋文化中心、塞萨尔·查韦斯文化中心以及骄傲中心；2022 年秋季，在校生中三成为有色族裔学生。

• In 1993 only 150 of 2,284 faculty members were Black, Native American, Asian or Hispanic, prompting a hiring initiative by the president and vice president to build an inclusive community.1993 年，其 2,284 名教师中仅有 150 人为黑人、原住民、亚裔或拉美裔，校长与副校长因此推出招聘计划，以建设更具包容性的校园社群。

• Military training has been part of campus life since 1873, and the so-called Beaver Battalion was known during the Second World War as the West Point of the West for the number of officers it commissioned.军事训练自 1873 年起即为校园生活的一部分，所谓「海狸营」在二战期间因委任军官众多而被称作「西部的西点」。

• From 1930 to 1968 the university hosted the Gamma chapter of Phrateres, a philanthropic and social organisation for female students that eventually had more than twenty chapters in Canada and the United States.1930 至 1968 年间，该校设有 Phrateres 的 Gamma 分社，这是面向女学生的慈善与社交组织，后来在加拿大与美国共有二十余个分社。

Notable people

• Linus Pauling, who attended Oregon State, won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the only person to hold two unshared Nobel Prizes.曾就读于俄勒冈州立大学的莱纳斯·鲍林于 1954 年获诺贝尔化学奖、1964 年获诺贝尔和平奖，是唯一独享两项诺贝尔奖的人。

• Jensen Huang, the co-founder and chief executive of the semiconductor company NVIDIA, is an alumnus of the university's electrical engineering programme.半导体公司英伟达的共同创办人兼首席执行官黄仁勋，是该校电机工程专业的校友。

• The university has over 200,000 alumni, and its athletes have included more than 15 Major League Baseball players, more than 20 NBA players and more than 130 NFL players.该校校友逾 20 万人，其运动员校友包括 15 名以上美国职棒球员、20 名以上 NBA 球员与 130 名以上 NFL 球员。

• Bernard Malamud, the novelist and short-story writer, taught at the university, as did the historian William Appleman Williams.小说家与短篇小说作家伯纳德·马拉默德曾在该校任教，历史学家威廉·阿普尔曼·威廉姆斯亦然。

• George Poinar Jr., an entomology professor, extracted DNA from insects fossilised in amber in work that inspired the novel and film Jurassic Park.昆虫学教授乔治·波伊纳尔从琥珀化石中的昆虫提取 DNA，其研究启发了小说与电影《侏罗纪公园》。

• Ernest H. Wiegand, a faculty member, invented the modern maraschino cherry, and the physicists Corinne Manogue and the mathematician Tevian Dray also taught at the university.该校教师欧内斯特·H·维根发明了现代马拉斯奇诺樱桃；物理学家科琳·马诺格与数学家特维安·德雷也曾在此任教。

• Slats Gill and Ralph Miller, both former basketball coaches at the university, are members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and the Gill Coliseum is named for Gill.该校前篮球教练斯莱茨·吉尔与拉尔夫·米勒均为奈史密斯篮球名人堂成员，吉尔体育馆即以吉尔命名。

• Pat Casey coached the baseball team to the 2006 and 2007 national championships and was named coach of the year by several publications in both seasons.帕特·凯西率领棒球队夺得 2006 与 2007 年全国冠军，并在这两个赛季被多家媒体评为年度最佳教练。

• Craig Robinson, a former head basketball coach at the university, is the brother-in-law of President Barack Obama, and Bernadine Strik, who lived from 1962 to 2023, was a noted horticulturist on its faculty.该校前男篮主教练克雷格·罗宾逊是总统巴拉克·奥巴马的姻亲；1962 至 2023 年在世的伯纳丁·斯特里克则是其教师中的知名园艺学家。

• Terry Baker, the quarterback who won the 1962 Heisman Trophy, was the first winner from the university and from the west coast.1962 年获得海斯曼奖的四分卫特里·贝克，是该校以及美国西海岸的首位获奖者。

• William A. Finley, hired as president in 1865, is recognised as the university's first president after its incorporation in 1868, and John Wesley Johnson was its first administrator.威廉·A·芬利于 1865 年受聘任院长，被视为该校 1868 年立案后的首任校长；约翰·韦斯利·约翰逊则是其首任管理者。

• Lee Arden Thomas, an alumnus and Oregon architect, designed the campus Memorial Union, one of the state's neoclassical landmarks, and Mark Hatfield signed the 1961 act giving the institution its present name.校友兼俄勒冈建筑师李·阿登·托马斯设计了校园纪念学生会堂，这是该州新古典主义地标之一；马克·哈特菲尔德则签署了 1961 年授予该校现名的法案。