Ask Alumni | Honors College

Heading to graduate or professional school

Hosted by OSU Honors College

Panelists:

Tucker Cochenour, ’20

Tucker Cochenour is a third-year law student at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law. He graduated from Oregon State in 2020 with Honors College degrees in economics and political science. While at OSU, he found an interest in law through both his coursework and while completing his Honors College thesis on immigration judge decision making, under the mentorship of Rorie Solberg, a professor of political science in the School of Public Policy. Tucker will be joining the corporate practice of a leading Bay Area law firm focused on startup companies after his graduation in May.

True Gibson, ’18

True Gibson is a third-year Ph.D. student in logic and philosophy of science at the University of California-Irvine. He graduated from Oregon State in 2018 with his H.B.S. in biochemistry and biophysics and a minor in philosophy, and he worked as a physics researcher at Portland State University and as a synthetic chemist at OSU after graduation. His current work investigates how our cognitive structure shapes the way we interact with and think about the world around us, including how humans engage with wide-ranging philosophical questions and how we approach scientific and everyday problems.

Ammara Molvi, ’20

Ammara Molvi graduated from the Honors College at Oregon State University with a degree in public health and minors in biology and chemistry in 2020. Since graduation, she has completed a year of service with AmeriCorps at the Oregon Health Authority, interned at Oregon Health and Sciences University’s Center for Health Systems Effectiveness and volunteered with migrant and refugee students, and she is currently a scribe at OHSU preparing to apply to medical school in the near future.

Tari Tan, ’08

Tari Tan graduated with her H.B.S. in biochemistry and biophysics in 2008 and then earned her Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard University in 2016. She is currently the assistant dean for educational innovation and scholarship in the Office for Graduate Education and a lecturer on neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and she currently sits on the admissions committee for the Harvard Ph.D. program in neuroscience. In addition to teaching and mentoring graduate students, Tari works extensively with undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students to prepare them to succeed in graduate school.