Image from a mechanical engineering booklet titled, "Oregon State University Mechanical Engineering - Our Faculty and Staff Heritage," October 1995. Photo caption reads "Mach-Zehner interferometric study of heat transfer rates for natural convection in an open channel."
An image depicting the 1991 closure of the Black Cultural Center due to racism on campus. This event, among others, lead to the foundation of the Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program.
On November 2, 1995 the Oregon State Board of Higher Education named Paul G. Risser to succeed John Byrne as the thirteenth president of Oregon State University; he began his presidency in January 1996. An internationally renowned biologist whose research interests include the structure and function of grassland and forest ecosystems, environmental planning and management, landscape ecology, and global change, Risser expanded OSU's Corvallis campus and facilitated the establishment of both the OSU-Cascades Campus in Bend and the extended campus online.