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Our students thrive in their academic pursuits, our researchers solve
real-world challenges, and our campus expansion comes to life — because
of our surrounding community.
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For Central Oregon and Beyond.
Conversations With Acclaimed and Emerging Writers This Month
Hosted by the OSU–Cascades MFA in Writing program, these public events invite the community to engage with celebrated authors and fresh new voices.
Sept. 21 6:30 p.m.
MFA Program in Writing Faculty Reading
Join the OSU Cascades MFA Program Faculty for a reading of published works and works-in-progress on September 21st at 6:30pm in Obsidian 207. This faculty reading is part of the MFA Program's Fall '25 residency. Faculty will read from published work as well as works-in-progress, sell their books, and mingle with audience members after.
Free and open to the public.
Sept. 25 6:30 p.m.
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Distinguished Visiting Writer, Hannah Pittard
Nationally Acclaimed Author
Join us for an exciting evening with Hannah Pittard, whose fiction and nonfiction have earned national attention for their wit, emotional resonance and fearless storytelling. Pittard is the author of six books including the newly released and darkly comic “If You Love It Let It Kill You.” The novel, which blends fiction and autobiography, was praised by The New York Times as “a sharp, propulsive portrait of fractured love and lingering grief.” She is also the author of “We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind Of],” “Visible Empire,” “Listen to Me,” “Reunion” and “The Fates Will Find Their Way.” Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Oxford American, The Guardian and People magazine.
Free, but registration required.
Campus Tours for Community Groups
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Fourth Fridays
Learn about the history, present and future of OSU’s growing university campus in Bend. After a classroom session, you’ll divide into two smaller groups. While one explores campus buildings and their public art on foot, the other will tour the expansion site in a comfortable van, before alternating. Formal and informal groups welcome.
For groups of 12-24.
It's a new era for the popular, 14-year-old series that has been held in venues throughout the region until now. Science Pubs have moved to Edward J. Ray Hall on the OSU-Cascades campus.
Public art on campus was commissioned or purchased by OSU-Cascades through the Oregon Arts Commission’s Percent for Art program, or donated to the campus.
A 30-year community vision is taking shape. Over the next decades, OSU-Cascades will expand, creating a 128-acre campus for up to 5,000 students.
Net zero would mean the campus consumes only as much energy as it produces, balances water availability and demand, and eliminates waste sent to landfills.