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Monday, May 1, 2006

The concept of resilience and its application to salmon and ecosystem conservation
Dan Bottom, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries and Kim Jones, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Nash Hall
The Influence of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Activation on T Cell Fate
Castle Funatake Thesis Defense
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Discovery Days
9:00 am - 6:00 pm  |  Lasells Stewart Center  |  Free/contact for group reservations
Degenerate Symmetric Matrices
21st Annual Lonseth Lecture
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
Liebig vs Lady Eve: Updating the humus theory for organic agriculture.
Speaker: Michelle Wander, Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Geoscience Perspectives on Energy, Environment, and the Future
Sustainable Development and the Minerals Industry
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free
F.A. Gilfillian Memorial Award Lecture
"Intelligent design and evolutionary biology: when worlds collide"
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Lasells Stewart Center  |  Free
Victor Villasenor, Author-Lecturer
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free
DNA Mismatch-Repair Dependent Responses to 2-Amino-1-Methyl-6-Phenylimidazo[4,5-b]Pyridine (PhIP), A Food-Borne Carcinogen
Stephanie Smith-Roe Thesis defense
10:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Discovery Days
9:00 am - 4:00 pm  |  Lasells Stewart Center  |  Free/groups contact for reservations
LaVon Mercer, Former Israeli Basketball Sensation
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm  |  Owen Hall  |  Free
CGRB Seminar: Cell Polarity and Cell Division in the Early C. elegans Embryo
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
O.J. Simpson and the Endangered Species Act: A Quest for Power and Sound Science in the Klamath Basin
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
Characterizing groundwater systems using hydrogeophysics, Speaker: Eileen Poeter, Colorado School of Mines
OSU Spring Hydrology Seminar Series: World Class Women in Water
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences

Thursday, May 4, 2006

Austin Family Business Program
The Business Journal Luncheon
11:30 am - 1:00 pm  |  Off Campus  |  $30.00 by 4/27
Fine-Scale Distribution of Biogenic Gases in the Ross Sea (Antarctica): Implications for Phytoplankton Physiology and Ecology
Philippe Tortell, University of British Columbia
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Tropical Control on the Northward Extent of the North American Monsoon?
Simona Bordoni, UCLA
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Strand Agriculture Hall
Posies and Pathogens of Patagonia: A New Phytophthora Species From Austrocedrus Trees With Symptoms of Mal del Cipres in the Andes of Argentina
Dr. Everett Hansen, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
2006 Pauling Legacy Award Lecture - Useful Knowledge about Magnetic Resonance Imaging
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Lasells Stewart Center  |  Free
Pharmacy Refusal
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm  |  Women's Center
Rebecca Belmore
Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
Weatheford Visiting Fellow
Thomas Bauer & Robert Schull
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free

Friday, May 5, 2006

WIC Spring 2006 Events
Eating-to-Learn Seminar
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
Eating for blood sugar control, diabetes and diet
Nutrition Matters presented by Faculty Staff Fitness
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Langton Hall  |  Free
A Tropical Greenhouse Forcing Hypothesis for Ice Age Climate Change
David Lea, Dept. of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
No One Cared. We Was Just Indian Women: Plants as a Catalyst to Eastern Shawnee Women's Identity Change
Cathleen Osborne-Gowey, MA Candidate, Applied Anthropology, OSU
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free

Saturday, May 6, 2006

Mom's Weekend UHC Talent Show
Talent Show and light Brunch
10:00 am - 12:00 pm  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  Free

Monday, May 8, 2006

Iraq War Memorial
Dedication
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  MU Commons
MRM Career Seminar Speaker will be presenting her experience working in policy development, the NOAA Fellowship and her work with Oregon Rocky Shores.
Laurel Hillman, MRM alumni and NOAA Coastal Management Fellow at the Oregon Parks and Recreation Dept. (OPRD), Planning Section
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
“No free lunch: Chemical defense, aggregation, and warning coloration by three amphipod species against predators”
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Lecture: Romanticism, Globalization, and Modernity
The World According to Walter Scott
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Center for Healthy Aging Research Spring Colloquia
Understanding Age and Aging Effects on Cognition: Integrating Longitudinal Evidence
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Women's Building
Energy Considerations in a River Plume
Parker MacCready, University of Washington
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Geoscience Perspectives on Energy, Environment, and the Future
Gas Hydrate (the ice that burns!) - a Widespread Methane Reservoir
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free
Gas chromatography-olfactometry study of blackberry aroma chemistry.
Speaker: Michael Qian, Department of Food Science and Technology, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

"Phylogeny of the bees based on five genes plus morphology reveals an unexpected pattern of early diversification"
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Center for Healthy Aging Research Spring Colloquia
The National Center for Accessible Transportation: Overview of Research Activities
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Bates Hall
River-Floodplain Wetland Linkages in the Tualatin River Valley, OR
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
Reactive transport of metals and organic material in streams and rivers, Speaker: Diane McKnight, University of Colorado
OSU Spring Hydrology Seminar Series: World Class Women in Water
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Inspecting Sweatshops
Experiences of a field inspector for the WRC
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
A look at the World
World Social Forum
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Centro Cultural César Chávez  |  Free

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Theoretical Considerations Regarding Phytoplankton Assemblage Structure and Chaos
Dan Roelke, Depts. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Oceanography, Texas A&M University
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
River Basin Organizations (RBOs), IWRM and Water Policy in The U.S.
Speaker: Dr. Jerome Delli Priscoli, Senior Advisor at the Institute for Water Resources, US Army Corps of Engineers and Editor in Chief of the International Journal, Water Policy
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Linus Pauling Institute: ‘Effects of Turmeric and Ginger on Joint Swelling and Destruction in an Animal Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis’
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Owen Hall  |  Free
Building a New Ideological and Ethical Consensus on Water
Speaker: Dr. Jerome Delli Priscoli, Senior Advisor at the Institute for Water Resources, US Army Corps of Engineers and Editor in Chief of the International Journal, Water Policy
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
Turbulent Mixing in Mid-Latitude Low Level Jets: Experimental and Modeling Studies
Joan Cuxart, Dept. of Physics, Meteorology Group, U. of Balearic Islands, Spain
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Strand Agriculture Hall
Quantifying Bromus tectorum response to select soil surface C treatments
Lora Perkins, Graduate Student of Dr. David Pyke, OSU, Thesis Proposal
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Weatherford Visiting Fellow
Tara O' Keeffe-Broadbent
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free

Friday, May 12, 2006

The Agro-Social Economic Regulatory Ecology of Oregon's Farmers' Markets
Garry Stephenson, OSU Anthropology
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
Atmospheric CO2 Trapped in Antarctica Ice Cores and Abrupt Climate Change
Jinho Ahn, Dept. of Geosciences, OSU
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
The Nutrition Facts Label: What you need to know
Nutrition Matters presented by Faculty Staff Fitness
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Langton Hall  |  Free
Copepod-Diatom Interactions in the Sea: Paradigm or Paradox?
Jamie Pierson, Dept. of Oceanography, University of Washington
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Structural Identifiaction of Production Functions
Daniel A. Ackerberg, University of California - Los Angeles
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Bexell Hall  |  Free

Monday, May 15, 2006

Clustering of Stream Fish and macroinvertebrate Assemblages Across the United States and Their Relationship to Existing Spatial Classification Schemes
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Nash Hall
“Dispersal limitation and the spatial organization of alpine stream communities and populations”
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
The Interactive Expert System for Road Winter Maintenance of the Canton Lucerne and it's Statistical Modeling
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall  |  Free
Lecture: Virtual Communities and Contested Chronic Illness: An Exploration in Electronic Ethnography
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
ORAL NARRATIVES OF THE KLAMATH TERMINATION
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Weniger Hall  |  Free

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Environmental & Molecular Toxicology Seminar: "Risk Communication: Case Studies in Oregon"
10:00 am - 11:00 am  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Pride Week: Homosexuality & the Bible
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
AUV Observations of Mixing and Optics over Oregon Shelf off Lincoln Beach
Hemantha Wijesekera, COAS, OSU
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Geoscience Perspectives on Energy, Environment, and the Future
Wind Power and Rural Communities
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free
Ecological genetics and breeding of Douglas fir: merging traditional and genomic approaches in forest genetics.
Speaker: Glenn Howe, Department of Forest Science, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Regulation of Hepatitis C virus gene expression by a liver-specific microRNA
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Ethnic Studies Colloquium Lecture Series
Tina Johnson
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
New Approaches in Soil Physics using Ground Penetrating Radar, Speaker: Susan Hubbard, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
OSU Spring Hydrology Seminar Series: World Class Women in Water
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Ecological science vs. popular environmentalism: A view from the world of crop biotechnology
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
Google ing God
Religon and Religious Dialogue
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Centro Cultural César Chávez  |  Free

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Degree Partnership Summit
all day  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  $30-$60
Weatherford Visiting Fellow
Gary Goodman
9:00 am - 11:00 am  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free
Pride Week: Ron Buford
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
Open Ocean Nutrient Fluxes: Physical Forcing and Biological Feedbacks
Pete Strutton, COAS, OSU
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
“The evolution and diversification of "seed-free" vascular plants”
Dr. Kathleen Pryer, Department of Biology, Duke University, Bonnie Templeton Seminar
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
The Planet Within: Microbial Communities as Geological Agents
Dr. Penelope (Penny) Boston, Director of Cave and Karst Studies Program, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
The Impostor Syndrome: How to Feel As Bright and Capable as Everyone Seems to Think You Are
What Every Woman and Man Needs to Know About Competence, the Impostor Syndrome, and the Art of Winging It.
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Lasells Stewart Center  |  Free
Crossroads International Worldview
Tea Time with the Former Soviet Bloc
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Off Campus  |  Free

Friday, May 19, 2006

Degree Partnership Summit
all day  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  $30-$60
Cancer prevention: What do you mean, five to nine a day?
Nutrition Matters presented by Faculty Staff Fitness
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Langton Hall  |  Free
Sustainable Energy and the New Economy
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Kelley Engineering Center  |  Free
Global Warming Inferred from Borehole Temperature-Depth Profiles
Robert Harris, COAS, OSU
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
The Earliest Gold in Europe and its Social Implications - Recent Discoveries in Bulgaria
Mark Stefanovich, American University, Bulgaria
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
“ Ecosystem Extinction in the Ocean”
Zoology Graduate Student Invited Speaker, Special Seminar
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Soroptimist International of Corvallis
8th Annual Spring Friendship Tea & Auction
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  $22.00

Monday, May 22, 2006

The Headwater Stream Dilemma in Trout Conservation: A Classic Disconnect from Conservation Principles
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Nash Hall
Environmental & Molecular Toxicology Seminar: "Mechanisms of Aromatic Hydrocarbon-mediated Developmental Toxicity and Resistance in Fish Models"
11:00 am - 12:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
“Playing in DIRT: What litter manipulations can tell us about soil biogeochemistry and soil organic matter stabilization”
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Lecture: Freedom on the Fence, Preview, documentary on Polish poster art.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Experiences of an Applied Statistician and a Mathematician: A Journey into Latent Variable Regression
Dave Lundahl, Insights Now, Corvallis, OR
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Spanish Conversation night
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm  |  Centro Cultural César Chávez  |  Free
Evolution versus Intelligent Design
A Debate on Scientific Assumptions in a Free Society
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  Free

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

OSU Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology Lecture
Oregon's coastal ocean: a window into some ecological consequences of global warming.
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Surface Wind Response to the Gulf Stream
Qingtao Song, University of Rhode Island
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Geoscience Perspectives on Energy, Environment, and the Future
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage from Geological Formations
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free
Role of root signals in rice responses to salinity stress.
Speaker: Nina Castillo, Graduate student, Department of Horticulture, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Peer Health Advocates
Volunteer Opportunity Informational
10:30 am - 3:00 pm  |  Memorial Union Quad  |  Free
Environmental & Molecular Toxicology Seminar: "The Developmental Ramifications of Dithiocarbonate Pesticide Exposure in Zebrafish"
Fred Tilton, PhD Thesis Defense
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Taking large wood out of streams....and putting it back in again: scientific credibility and social context
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
Carbon fluxes from headwater catchments in the Southern Amazon, Speaker: Susan Riha, Cornell University
OSU Spring Hydrology Seminar Series: World Class Women in Water
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Ending The Tragedy in Darfur
Presenting Mohamed Yahya, Chairman of the Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
Stopping the Genocide in Darfur
Featuring Speaker Mohamed Yahya
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center

Thursday, May 25, 2006

All Earthquakes Great and Small: What We Can Learn from Geodesy
Rowena Lohman, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
10:00 am - 11:00 am  |  Burt Hall
What are the Pathways to Hypoxia on the Oregon Shelf?
Francis Chan, Zoology, OSU
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Recombination, Balancing Selection and Adaptive Evolution in the Aflatoxin Gene Cluster
Dr. Ignazio Carbone, Department of Plant Pathology, NC State
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
A Philosophy For Science and Management: Perspectives on Truth and Reality
Dr. Fred Provenza, Dept of Forest, Range, and Wildlife Sciences, Utah State University; Co-founder of the BEHAVE program. Presented by the Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management, co-sponsored by the University Honors College
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Withycombe Hall  |  Free
Visiting Weatherford Fellow
Gene Arant
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free

Friday, May 26, 2006

2006 Spring Term Corporate Sponsored Seminar Event
EHS Business Risk in a Global Economy
10:00 am - 12:30 pm  |  Kidder Hall
WIC Spring 2006 Eating-to-Learn Seminar
"Charting Their Own Course: Students Self-Assessing and Setting Goals at Start of Term (A Study of 23 WIC Classes)" Presenter: Tracy Ann Robinson
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
WIC Eating-to-Learn Seminar
Charting Their Own Course: Students Self-Assessing and Setting Goals at Start of Term
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
Now That's Real Paiute!" Language Adaptation and Shift in a Northern Paiute Community
Tim Thornes, University of Oregon Linguistics
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
Women, menopause and weight: what about nutrition?
Nutrition Matters presented by Faculty Staff Fitness
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Langton Hall  |  Free
Vertical Distribution, Parallel Trade, and Price Divergence in Integrated Markets
Keith E. Maskus, University of Colorado at Boulder
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Bexell Hall  |  Free

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Design and Human Environment Research Seminar
Responsive Design for Dementia
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Milam Hall  |  Free
Fourier Representation of Quadratic Friction
Ryuichiro Inoue, University of Victoria
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Geoscience Perspectives on Energy, Environment, and the Future
Nuclear Waste Disposal
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free
Breeding opportunities in pharmaceutical crops.
Speaker: Erron Haggard, Graduate student, Department of Horticulture, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

CGRB Seminar: Detection and processing of color information in Drosophila
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Snow Hydrology Research: Status and Future, Speaker: Janet Hardy, US Army Corps of Engineering, Cold Regions Research Lab
OSU Spring Hydrology Seminar Series: World Class Women in Water
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Bovines, bacteria, BMPs, and buffers: Bigger isn't necessarily better; but why do we care?
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
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