18 OregonStater.org PHOTO BY KARL MAASDAM, ’93 N EWS BEAVER BRAGS $417 MILLION in research expenditures is the number OSU hit in fiscal year 2025 despite a rapidly changing federal funding landscape. No. 1 is sophomore Justin Rademacher’s new title after capturing the U20 World Championship in wrestling. THAT’S BILLION WITH A “B” OREGON STATE’S ENDOWMENT PASSES $1 BILLION. By Cathleen Hockman-Wert Oregon State University’s endowment topped $1.01 billion on June 30, 2025, the end of the 2024-25 fiscal year. Passing the billion-dollar milestone for the first time is good news both for the university now and for future generations — and it puts OSU in rare company. According to the most recent data available from NACUBO (the National Association of College and University Business Officers), the U.S. had a total of 143 universities with endowments of $1 billion or more in fiscal year 2023-24. Only 60 of those were public universities. Of the ones most comparable to OSU — land-grant universities without an associated medical center — the number shrinks to seven. “Passing the billion-dollar milestone is an extraordinary achievement.We’re endlessly grateful to our donors and our volunteer leaders on the OSU Foundation Board of Trustees — now and who came before us — who made this growth possible,” said Shawn L. Scoville, the Foundation’s president and CEO. “This is a 20 YEARS of caring for small animals is the anniversary Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine’s Lois Bates Acheson Veterinary Teaching Hospital celebrated this fall. No. 26 made its debut as the first OSU-branded car to race in a NASCAR event, on Aug. 30.
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