Thank you to our newest donors

We are pleased to recognize the following new members who, in the last quarter, informed us they have included Oregon State University in their will or estate. Estate gifts create opportunities that continue the momentum of OSU’s growth and leave a lasting legacy.

These kinds of gifts may support a variety of programs across the university, whatever it is the donor is most passionate about—providing vital scholarships to students, creating endowed faculty positions that recruit and retain world-class faculty, offering indispensable research opportunities, and building and maintaining state-of-the-art facilities.

Leaving Your Legacy

As Rod Chandler and his wife, Joyce, discussed the legacy they wanted to create through their estate plans, they pondered the needs of future generations.

“Our world faces incredible challenges such as providing enough clean water for everyone,” Rod says. He points to other areas of need such as waste management, climate change, and food insecurity around the world.

“These are the kind of challenges that STEM program graduates will tackle,” he says. And those are the students – undergraduates with financial need who are studying science, technology, engineering, or mathematics – who will benefit from the Chandlers’ endowed scholarship at OSU.