Bruce Maxwell graduated with a Ph.D. in crop science and forest ecology in 1990 and presently serves as a professor of agroecology at Montana State University.
John Vincent Byrne assumed the presidency in November 1984 and served as OSU's twelfth president for eleven years until the end of 1995. Byrne began teaching at Oregon State University in 1960, and his career at the university spanned thirty-five years. He was an early leader of the OSU Sea Grant program and was the director of the Marine Science Center.
Kay Conrad became Associate Director of Admissions in 1978, later serving as Director from 1991-1997. Along with her husband, Alan Robinson, Conrad offers an annual scholarship to upperclassmen in the Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics department.