54 OregonStater.org OuR COMMuNIty ALUMNI NEWS EDITED BY > SCHOLLE MCFARLAND ADAM D. SMITH, ’00 Brigadier General Adam D. Smith (at center, with his family) was appointed the adjutant general — or chief administrative officer — of the U.S.Army.As the nation’s 64th adjutant general, he now oversees human resources policies, programs and services to maintain Army readiness. He also assumes the roles of the Military Postal Service Agency executive director and commanding general of the U.S. Army Physical Disability Agency. COURTESY OF ADAM SMITH gender and sexuality, was honored with OSU’s 2024 International Service Award for expanding Oregon State’s global reach and reputation through teaching, research and service. Seth Warren, ’98, published his second collection of poetry, Road Sodas: Evocative and Obscure, available through Amazon and at Powell’s Books. 2000s Derek Anderson, ’05, Darwin Barney, ’08, Jacoby Ellsbury, ’07, Robbie Findley, ’07, Joey Hansen, ’02, Saori Haruguchi, ’10, Leslie Mak, ’12, Cambria Miranda, ’11, Jacquizz Rodgers, ’21, and Kathy Weston, along with published by University of New Mexico Press. Barbara Lagerquist, M.S. ’98, research coordinator at the Marine Mammal Institute, was awarded OSU’s Exceptional Leadership in Safety Award. Toby Luther, ’96, CEO of Lone Rock Resources, and Camille Palmer, ’97, associate professor and associate school head of the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering, were selected by Governor Tina Kotek for service on the Oregon State University Board of Trustees, with formal confirmation by the Oregon Senate in October. Susan Shaw, MAIS ’97, professor of women, manager for the College of Agricultural Sciences, and LaRae Wallace, ’92, fiscal coordinator for the Division of Research and Innovation, were both honored with OSU’s Exemplary Employee Award. Suzanne Simard, M.S. ’89, Ph.D. ’95, author and professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia, received the 2024 Canadian Institute of Forestry award for her groundbreaking research on forest ecosystems, particularly mycorrhizal networks. Howard C. Yang, M.S. ’87, Ph.D. ’89, chairman, CEO and chief scientist of Montage Technology Company, was inducted into Oregon State’s Engineering Hall of Fame. Yang was among the first integrated circuit designers to return to his native country from Silicon Valley when China’s high-tech industry was still in its infancy. He co-founded China’s first venture capital-funded company, later co-founding Montage Technology. 1990s Dr. Scott Bender, ’92, D.V.M. ’95, published a chapter in the book Wild Carnivores of New Mexico, 1960s Wayne Chambers, ’63, owner of W&J Orchards, Inc., was featured in the Corvallis Gazette-Times in a story about his decades as a hazelnut grower and his role helping OSU researchers develop trees that could resist eastern filbert blight. Read the story at bit.ly/last-haul. 1970s Dean Fassnidge, ’76, retired after 24 years of teaching science in the Beaverton School District. During his tenure, he was honored as a state finalist for the Presidential Award in Teaching (2014) and received certification to borrow lunar samples from NASA to share with his students. 1980s Diane Braun Brown, ’80, recently retired and returned to Oregon after 23 years as a clinical pharmacist at Wellstar Spalding Regional Hospital in Griffin, Georgia, where she managed their ambulatory anticoagulation clinic. Prior to moving to Georgia, she spent 20 years as a director of pharmacy in Madras, Oregon. Jeff Clawson, ’88, M.S. ’94, brewery pilot plant
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