A revision was made at 4:39 p.m. June 7, 2023 to include graduates from Blodgett. The university in a release to media had not included Blodgett students as graduates from Benton or Linn counties.
Twenty-five students from Philomath and four from Blodgett will receive degrees from Oregon State University Saturday, June 17 at Reser Stadium and Sunday, June 18 at the OSU-Cascade campus in Bend.
The schedule for the graduation ceremony in Corvallis shows the gates opening at 9 a.m., the processional beginning at 10 a.m. and entering the stadium at 10:30 a.m., and the ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. Tickets are not required.
The featured commencement speaker will be Dr. Charity Dean, an internal medicine specialist and founder of The Public Health Company, a startup harnessing artificial intelligence and machine learning to help global enterprises manage biological risk at scale. She was an assistant director in the California Department of Health and co-chair of the state’s COVID-19 testing task force that helped advise Gov. Gavin Newsome and guide California’s pandemic response. She is a 2000 graduate of OSU.
This year’s class includes a record 7,338 graduating students receiving 7,583 degrees, with 238 students receiving two degrees, two students who will receive three degrees and one student who will receive four degrees.
They will add to the ranks of OSU alumni, who have earned 287,469 degrees over the university’s 154-year history.
For more information about commencement events, visit OSU’s website.
The list of Philomath graduates as released by OSU includes the following:
• Ruby Ackermann, Bachelor of Science, Public Health; Brooke Aduviri, Honors Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, Mechanical Engineering; Kase Allouzi, Bachelor of Science, Digital Communication Arts; Aaron Anderson, Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laude, Music; Marshall Brattain, Bachelor of Science, Forestry.
• Sawyer Culbertson, Bachelor of Science, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Jensen Davis, Honors Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, Mechanical Engineering; Kyle Escamilla, Bachelor of Science, Cum Laude, Energy Systems Engineering; Amelia Evans, Bachelor of Arts, English; Mariana Fisher, Master of Counseling, Counseling.
• Elise Graham, Bachelor of Science, Psychology; Bailey Gurski, Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laude, Human Development and Family Sciences; Rylee Henderer, Bachelor of Science, Cum Laude, Interior Design, Bachelor of Science, Cum Laude, Design and Innovation Management; Christopher Houck, Master of Science, Industrial Engineering; Crystal Kelso, Bachelor of Science, Horticulture.
• Jayson Kildea, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science; Connor Kutzler, Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laude, Psychology; Emma Matthews, Bachelor of Science, Architectural Engineering; Hailey Matthews, Honors Bachelor of Science, Cum Laude, BioHealth Sciences; Kristaps Mednis, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design.
• Ireland Misner, Bachelor of Science, Kinesiology; Corin Rodger, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science; Seth Staten, Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, Earth Sciences; Sara Wiger, Doctor of Philosophy, Education; Eve Zoller, Bachelor of Science, Biology.
The list of Blodgett graduates as released by OSU includes the following:
• Jaime Chambers, Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laude, Animal Sciences; Stacey Galvan, Bachelor of Science, Human Development and Family Sciences; Nicole Padilla, Master of Science, Statistics; Leonard Williams, Master of Science, Marine Resource Management.