I was surprised to learn last week that this
mid-Willamette Valley town, best known as the home of Oregon State University,
has been ranked as the most innovative city in the United States.
The assessment followed a study published by a quartet of social scientists in the Public Library of Science's online journal, so I perhaps should not have been startled.
After all, Corvallis is the place where the world's first transparent transistor and its original inkjet printer were invented — at OSU and Hewlett-Packard, respectively. It is the town where chemist Linus Pauling started his Nobel prize-winning career. It's the place where the modern maraschino cherry was developed by food scientists. It's a city that has more patents issued each year, on a per capita basis, than any other.
And it's the home of national royalty of a sort. OSU basketball coach Craig Robinson is the brother of First Lady Michelle Obama. Corvallis insiders say she makes several discreet visits to Corvallis each year, sometimes accompanied by her husband, President Barack Obama.
Nearly 24,000 university students are among the 55,000 people who live in Corvallis. The city's name is adapted from the Latin words for “heart of the valley,” but its pulse beats loudest at OSU. Signs around campus and in downtown Corvallis declare this a community that is “powered by orange.” Any time of year you may see students wearing bright orange shirts and jackets, but they are ubiquitous at sporting events, especially football games at Reser Stadium.
Sometime in the 1940s, OSU students adopted the symbol of the state of Oregon — the beaver — as their mascot. Benny the Beaver first made his appearance at Reser (then Parker) Stadium in 1952. He was chosen national Mascot of the Year in a 2011 competition. Students and townspeople alike are so infected by school spirit that they call themselves the Beaver Nation.
The main entrance to the OSU campus is less than a mile west of downtown Corvallis, on Jefferson Way at 15th Street. From the Kerr Administration Building on the southwest corner, small group tours are hosted six times every weekday (9, 10 and 11 a.m.; 1, 2 and 3 p.m.). Although they are mainly intended for prospective students and their parents, these tours are a good way for casual visitors to see the original northeast sector of campus.
OSU dates its history to 1868, when Corvallis State Agricultural College was chartered on the foundation of the earlier Corvallis Academy.
After it became Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) in 1890, the famed Olmsted brothers, Boston-based landscape architects, developed the first campus master plan, laying out handsome buildings along wide, tree-lined streets. The school was renamed Oregon State University in 1961.
The oldest existing building on the 400-acre campus is Benton Hall, erected in 1887. As it is now home to the Department of Music, passers-by often hear melodious sounds wafting from its upper floors, beneath an iconic clock tower.cheap canada goose
Nearby is the handsome Valley Library, built in 1963 and expanded in 1999 with a donation from alumnus F. Wayne Valley.
The assessment followed a study published by a quartet of social scientists in the Public Library of Science's online journal, so I perhaps should not have been startled.
After all, Corvallis is the place where the world's first transparent transistor and its original inkjet printer were invented — at OSU and Hewlett-Packard, respectively. It is the town where chemist Linus Pauling started his Nobel prize-winning career. It's the place where the modern maraschino cherry was developed by food scientists. It's a city that has more patents issued each year, on a per capita basis, than any other.
And it's the home of national royalty of a sort. OSU basketball coach Craig Robinson is the brother of First Lady Michelle Obama. Corvallis insiders say she makes several discreet visits to Corvallis each year, sometimes accompanied by her husband, President Barack Obama.
Nearly 24,000 university students are among the 55,000 people who live in Corvallis. The city's name is adapted from the Latin words for “heart of the valley,” but its pulse beats loudest at OSU. Signs around campus and in downtown Corvallis declare this a community that is “powered by orange.” Any time of year you may see students wearing bright orange shirts and jackets, but they are ubiquitous at sporting events, especially football games at Reser Stadium.
Sometime in the 1940s, OSU students adopted the symbol of the state of Oregon — the beaver — as their mascot. Benny the Beaver first made his appearance at Reser (then Parker) Stadium in 1952. He was chosen national Mascot of the Year in a 2011 competition. Students and townspeople alike are so infected by school spirit that they call themselves the Beaver Nation.
The main entrance to the OSU campus is less than a mile west of downtown Corvallis, on Jefferson Way at 15th Street. From the Kerr Administration Building on the southwest corner, small group tours are hosted six times every weekday (9, 10 and 11 a.m.; 1, 2 and 3 p.m.). Although they are mainly intended for prospective students and their parents, these tours are a good way for casual visitors to see the original northeast sector of campus.
OSU dates its history to 1868, when Corvallis State Agricultural College was chartered on the foundation of the earlier Corvallis Academy.
After it became Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) in 1890, the famed Olmsted brothers, Boston-based landscape architects, developed the first campus master plan, laying out handsome buildings along wide, tree-lined streets. The school was renamed Oregon State University in 1961.
The oldest existing building on the 400-acre campus is Benton Hall, erected in 1887. As it is now home to the Department of Music, passers-by often hear melodious sounds wafting from its upper floors, beneath an iconic clock tower.cheap canada goose
Nearby is the handsome Valley Library, built in 1963 and expanded in 1999 with a donation from alumnus F. Wayne Valley.
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