Shown here as it neared completion, the Agricultural and Life Sciences houses the departments of Horticulture and Biochemistry/Biophysics, as well as the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing.
The SMILE program (Science and Math Investigative Learning Experiences) was created at OSU in 1988. SMILE seeks to promote interest in the STEM fields among Oregon's minority and under-served youth, and to encourage these students to attend college, by involving them in science- and math-based extracurricular activities.
Roderick Dashwood was a faculty member in the Linus Pauling Institute at OSU, heading the Institute's Cancer Chemoprotection Program. In 2015, he left OSU to become director of the Center for Epigenetics and Disease Prevention at Texas A&M University.