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SOU grad's Cold Connect cooler keeps vaccines cool

SOU grad’s beverage cooler idea pivots toward humanitarian use

(Ashland, Ore.) — Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. Build a better beer cooler, and you just may save lives. Mark Morrison set out to do that – build a tech-heavy, personal-use cooler to keep a beverage cold – when he realized that his invention may have […]

Dee Anne Everson appointed to Board of Trustees at SOU Ashland
Open textbook program at SOU Ashland
Design Patterns and AI: Computer Science evolves at SOU

SOU Campus News

Dee Anne Everson appointed to Board of Trustees at SOU Ashland
SOU’s Small Business Development Center to close
Three new members appointed to SOU Ashland Board of Trustees
SOU's Noah Horstman on Golf Digest list

Academic Stories

Open textbook program at SOU Ashland
Design Patterns and AI: Computer Science evolves at SOU
New SOU Ashland program in Ghana funded by Matt and Ella Essieh.

Alumni Spotlight

SOU grad's Cold Connect cooler keeps vaccines cool
New SOU Ashland program in Ghana funded by Matt and Ella Essieh.
SOU Ashland alumni awards recipients
Solar energy project approved by students at SOU Ashland

Student Life

SOU Ashland Board of Trustees member Micelle Fuentes
Criminology & Criminal Justice students from SOU Ashland
Gender-based violence survivors have new resource at SOU

SOU in the Arts

Creative Industries will be consolidated at SOU Ashland
SOU Ashland graduate Thilini Dissanyake stars in "Earnest" at OSF
SOU's Worth Harvey Pipe Organ is 50 years old.

Awards & Recognitions

Sheila Clough and husband Chris at Ashland Chamber of Commerce awards dinner
SOU Ashland alumni awards recipients
Grant for SOU Ashland to develop accessible tourism for state of Oregon.
NSF grant on grasshoppers awarded to SOU Ashland biologist

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