A celebration of innovative research contributing to a more equitable and sustainable future.
The OSU Diversity Research Reception celebrates OSU faculty who are advancing broader access, success and belonging through their research, scholarship and community engagement. The reception also provides a forum for sharing ideas and making connections among OSU colleagues.
Oregon State University values and celebrates the significant contributions of its researchers who have advanced inclusive excellence through their research.
We want to highlight and celebrate you!
Submissions for the 2025 event are now closed.
Have you recently published on topics related to equity, or a broader societal impact that works towards a more just future?
We welcome peer-reviewed articles, books, book chapters or scholarly outputs relevant to your discipline within the last 12 months (March 2024 to Feburary 2025) and hope to see you at the reception. Unfortunately, we are not able to invite opinion articles or editorials at this time.
Publications collected will be shared at the reception and online.
Please contact the Office of Institutional Diversity if you have question, by email at [email protected], or call (541) 737-1063.
Save the Date for the 2025 Diversity Research Reception
Thursday, Feb. 27
12 to 1 p.m.
Corvallis campus: Horizon Room, Memorial Union
OSU-Cascades: Hybrid with in-person component: Obsidian 207
View the event virtually at OSU Live.
Food and refreshments will be served.


About the Reception
Hosted by the Office of Institutional Diversity and the Division of Research and Innovation, the Diversity Research Reception is an opportunity to recognize, celebrate and highlight the important research and researchers that have advanced inclusive excellence across its research and innovation missions at OSU, and beyond.
The 2025 program will feature lightning talks and short remarks, followed by food and refreshments. We hope that this reception will also serve as a forum for sharing ideas, making connections, and building collaborations to advance research to address pressing societal issues through a fair and transparent approach.
View submissions from previous receptions
We believe that research and scholarship can contribute to a more accessible and successful and sustainable future. The 2024 Diversity Research Reception garnered submissions from 45 OSU researchers who shared 80 articles, chapters, books and works on topics related to inclusion or a broader societal impact that works towards a more just future.
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2024 Diversity Research Reception
Select research is highlighted in Lightning Talk presentations at the reception.
OSU community members with a valid ONID login may view remarks and presentations from the 2024 reception: