54 OregonStater.org COURTESY OF MORGAN STOSIC AND GIULIA WOOD OUR COMMUNITY marketing company, announced that the startup closed a funding round at a multi-million dollar valuation. Read more at bit.ly/Seatfun. Michelle Winham-Gee, ’22, Ph.D. ’24, a fluids and computational engineering doctoral student at Stanford University, was named part of the Department of Energy’s Computational Science Graduate Fellowships 35th cohort. Emily Zamarripa, ’20, plant propagation specialist, and Noah Koker, ’24, lead field technician, both with the OSU-Cascades HERS Lab, were recognized at the 2025 OSU Engagement Conference. The two are members of the award-winning East Cascades Native Plant Hub, which earned the OSU-Community Partnership Engagement Award for addressing a national shortage of native plant materials critical to post-wildfire restoration and ecological recovery. To share your good news with the OSU community, email stater@osualum. com or fill out the form at OregonStater.org/ connect. were named to Portland Business Journal’s 2026 “Women of Influence” list. The award recognizes trailblazing women leaders in Oregon and Southwest Washington from a cross section of organizations in tech, healthcare, education and more. Megan Partch, Ph.D. ’18, chief health officer at Father Joe’s Villages in San Diego, California, was recognized by San Diego Business Journal as a Women of Influence in Healthcare. Father Joe’s Villages opened a 44-bed detox program in September 2025 to support community members experiencing homelessness and substance use disorder. Previously, the City of San Diego had only two detox beds available to individuals with state-funded benefits. 2020s Burke De Boer, ’24, published Songs of the Cyberspace Cattle Drive, a collection of essays profiling singer-songwriters from across the American West, available through Amazon. Learn more at bit.ly/BDeBoer. Lauren Haas, MCoun ’25, an elementary school counselor in Central Oregon and advocate for amplifying adoptee voices, published the book A Heart that Holds it All: A Story of Adoption, available through Amazon and BarnesandNoble.com. Josh Misko, ’23, co-founder and COO of Seatfun, a ticketing and GIULIA WOOD, ’23 Giulia Wood,’23,was named Oregon State’s first Marshall Scholar.This prestigious scholarship program for outstanding U.S. students funds up to three years of graduate study at any university in the United Kingdom. After finishing her master’s in Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at OSU this spring, Wood will pursue a Ph.D. at the University of Liverpool, studying Antarctic krill physiology and their role in biogeochemical cycling in the Southern Ocean. MORGAN STOSIC, ’19 Morgan Stosic, ’19, research scientist and psychologist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, was named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list of innovators in transportation and aerospace. As a lead scientist at Johnson Space Center’s Behavioral Health and Performance Laboratory, she analyzes astronauts’ facial expressions, voices and body movements to detect markers of fatigue, cognition and team cohesion. This data is being used to develop a next-generation spacesuit that will be worn by astronauts exploring the Moon’s South Pole.
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