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Thursday, February 1, 2007

21st Annual Design and Human Environment Career Symposium
all day  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  Free
21st Annual Design and Human Environment Career Symposium
all day  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center
"Comparative Organic Geochemistries of Surficial Marine Sediments from Gulf of Lions (France) and Adriatic Sea (Italy): Source, Age and Fate of Terrestrial-Derived Organic Matter"
Tommaso Tesi, Bologna University
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Austin Entrepreneurship Program Fireside Chat
Brent Wiest, General Manager and Traci Egan, Human Resources Manager, at Target Distribution Center
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free

Saturday, February 3, 2007

This is your brain on music
Lecture by musician, researcher, author Daniel Levitin
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Benton Hall  |  Free

Monday, February 5, 2007

Stable isotope studies on the use of marine-derived nutrients by coho salmon juveniles in the Oregon Coast Range
Robbins Church, Joe Ebersole, Jim Wigington and Kirk Rensmeyer, Western Ecology Division, NHEERL, EPA
9:00 am - 10:15 am  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
Poetry Reading with Willa Schneberg and Anita Feng
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Women's Center
Our Boudica’s, Our Selves
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
Changxuan Mao, University of California-Riverside
Prevalence estimation: Peterson estimator with covariates
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Seminar: A radiation hybrid system for the genetic and physical mapping of the corn genome
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Ninth Annual Symposium
New Ideas and New Directions for Long Term Ecological Research: Building on our Legacies
9:00 am - 12:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Horticulture Department Seminar
TBA
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Visualization, analytics and spatial decision support in the Geosciences Network (GEON)
Geovisualization: A Window to Earth Surface, Structure, and System
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free
Crop & Soil Science/Animal Science Centennial Celebration
Genomics
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Withycombe Hall  |  Free

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

International Forestry Seminar by Dr. Jo Albers
Economics of Shade-grown Coffee, Forest Cover, and Rural People: Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm  |  Peavy Hall  |  Free
Seminar: New products from wheat
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall  |  Free
FW 507 Fisheries & Wildlife Department Seminar
The 13,000-year history of salmon and other fishes of the Columbia River
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Nash Hall
Enhancing Plants for Human Health and Nutrition
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free

Thursday, February 8, 2007

"The Partial Return of Pacific Waters to the Upper Layers of the Central Arctic Ocean"
Matthew Alkire, COAS, OSU
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
"Meandering Motions and Turbulence in Weak Wind Conditions"
Larry Mahrt, COAS, OSU
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Strand Agriculture Hall
Chun Chiu Lecture - Dr. Douglas Fix
"The Issue of the 'Colonial' in Taiwan's History"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
The Future of Media
College of Business Dean's Distinguished Lecture
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free

Friday, February 9, 2007

OSU Libraries Faculty Seminar
"To Use or Not to Use: Undergraduates and the OSU Library"
10:00 am - 11:30 am  |  Valley Library  |  Free
Anthropology Tan Sack Lecture Series
“Sci-Fi and Anthropology: Pushing the Frontier of Multidisciplinary Learning”
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free

Monday, February 12, 2007

Major in Success
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Kerr Administration Building  |  Free
Smart Prevention of Invasive Species in Aquatic Ecosystems
Department of Zoology Winter Seminar Series
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Kathy Hall, Hewlett Packard's Technology Development Operation
MetrologyCase Study: Statistical Issues crossed with Application Problems
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Color-Conscious Liberalism:
An Argument for Racial Justice
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
Developing Dreams Into Reality: The Story of Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods
Bob and Charlee Moore
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
"Ecological Oceanography: Global Changes, Consequences and Challenges"
Jane Lubchenco, Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology, Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Zoology, OSU
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium
Corvallis Community Vision for Education
Corvallis School District Community Forum
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Education Hall
Networking and Dining Etiquette
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
Carson Lecture - Leslie Pierce
"Unequal Justice? Gender, Islamic Law, and Local Courts in the Premodern Ottoman Empire"
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
Redband trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss gairdneri) distribution and longitudinal temperature profiles: Implications across a basin
Luis Francisco Madrinan, Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University
9:00 pm - 10:15 pm  |  Nash Hall  |  Free

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

M.O.C.
Make Outstanding Connections
9:00 am - 4:00 pm  |  Kerr Administration Building
Pink Paper, Perfume & Other Bad Resume Ideas
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Kerr Administration Building  |  Free
Nuclear Power - Prospects for Nuclear Energy in the Navy and the Commercial World
Admiral Bruce DeMars, Retired
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
"Nonlinear Internal Waves on Continental Shelves - Sea stories, basic physics and why they are so much more interesting than any you might see in the South China Sea"
Jim Moum, COAS, OSU
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Horticulture Department Seminar
Linking buyers and sellers of ecosystem services in the Willamette ecosystem marketplace
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Temporal GIS for meteorological applications and representation models for dynamic geographic phenomena
Geovisualization: A Window to Earth Surface, Structure, and System
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free
Putting Your Major to Work
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Kerr Administration Building  |  Free
Love Connection
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Asian Cultural Center
Sexuality @ OSU
Q & A with Dr. Sex
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
Sexuality @ OSU
Sex and Culture
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Memorial Union

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Cupid in the Quad
10:00 am - 2:00 pm  |  Memorial Union Quad  |  Free
Getting to "You're Hired"
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Kerr Administration Building  |  Free
CGRB Seminar: Evgeni Sokurenko
FimH adhesin of E. coli and the illuminating power of SNPs
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Sexuality @ OSU
History of Sexuality
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
Seminar: Seed crops in the Willamette Valley for biodiesel production
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall  |  Free
FW 507 Fisheries & Wildlife Department Seminar
Applications of advanced technologies and direct observation in habitat and fisheries research in West Coast groundfish fisheries
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Nash Hall
Ready, Aim, Hired!
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kerr Administration Building  |  Free
Sexuality @ OSU
We're Talking Sex
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm  |  Women's Center
Sexuality @ OSU
Sexual Spelling Bee
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Memorial Union

Thursday, February 15, 2007

What Not to Wear
10:00 am - 11:00 am  |  Memorial Union
"The Case for Regional Coupling of N2 Fixation and Denitrification in the Sea of Cortez"
Angel White, COAS, OSU
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
How to be Career Fair Fabulous
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Kerr Administration Building  |  Free
"Downslope Windstorm Pulsations - A Bora Wind Example"
Danijel Belusic, COAS and University of Zagreb
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Strand Agriculture Hall
Sexuality @ OSU
The Sexuality and Decoration of Gingerbread Persons and Baking Workshop
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Pride Center
Starker Lecture
Title - TBA
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
Branching Out Dinner
A celebration of diversity in the workplace
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Austin Entrepreneurship Program Fireside Chat
Michael Forney, President/CEO/Owner, The Forney International Groupe
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free

Friday, February 16, 2007

Workstar Supernova: Alumni Panel
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Kerr Administration Building  |  Free
Anthropology Tan Sack Lecture Series
“Waorani: Old Stories and New Stories”
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
Does Size Really Matter?
Body Image Pressures around Modern Masculinity
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
"The Light at the End of the Tunnel: How Students Persist to Degree Completion."
Dr. Jessica White, OSU College of Education
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium
Sexuality @ OSU
Healthy Relationships
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
Marion Nestle
What to Eat: What You Should Know about Personal Responsibility vs. Social Responsibility
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free

Monday, February 19, 2007

Applying to Graduate School
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Kerr Administration Building  |  Free
Seminar: Pest management issues in grass seed and rotational crops
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Horning Lecture - Dr. David Kaiser
"Evolution on the Grandest Scale: Cosmology and Flashpoints of Controversy"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Weniger Hall  |  Free
Dr Virginia Lesser, Statistics Department
Applying Multiple Imputation with Geostatistic Models to Account for Item Nonresponse in Environmental Data
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Are freshwater fishes really more diverse in the southeast than the northwest? Yes . . . and no.
Daniel J. McGarvey, Aquatic Biology Program, University of Alabama
9:00 pm - 10:15 pm  |  Nash Hall  |  Free

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Winter University Wide Career Fair
all day  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  Free
Winter Career Fair
10:30 am - 4:00 pm  |  Kerr Administration Building
Real-time Traffic Maps for the Internet and Mobile Devices
Geovisualization: A Window to Earth Surface, Structure, and System
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free
Horticulture Department Seminar
Cover cropping for disease suppression
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
What is the Heart of Christianity?
A debate sponsored by the Oregon State University Socratic Club
7:00 pm - 9:15 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
"What is the Heart of Christianity?"
OSU Socratic Club Debate
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Winter Engineering Fair
11:00 am - 4:00 pm  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  Free
Winter Engineering Career Fair
11:00 am - 4:00 pm  |  Kerr Administration Building
International Forestry Seminar by Dr. Klaus Puettmann
Forests and Forestry in Highly Industrialized Countries: The German Experience
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm  |  Peavy Hall  |  Free
Transparent Electronics
Sigma Xi Researcher of the Year lecture
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Kelley Engineering Center  |  Free
Seminar: Biochemical decomposition products from crops
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall  |  Free
FW 507 Fisheries & Wildlife Department Seminar
South Atlantic snailfishes and crabs, the cost of sexual parasitism, or :What's love got to to with it?
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Nash Hall
Developing the Leader Within
Featuring Dr. Jonathan King from OSU College of Business
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Strand Agriculture Hall  |  Free

Thursday, February 22, 2007

"Iron Homeostasis in Marine Pennate Diatoms: Insights into Diatom Molecular Biology, Physiology and Ecology"
Adrian Marchetti, University of Washington
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall

Friday, February 23, 2007

International Coffee and Seminar
featuring Dr. Joe Karchesy (African natural product chemistry collaborative research) and Zengwang Ma (Forestry in Hebei, China)
10:00 am - 11:30 am  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Anthropology Tan Sack Lecture Series
“Evolutionary Perspectives on Pregnancy and Its Impact on Dental Health in Women”
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
“Pharmacogenetics in Chemoprevention of Colorectal Cancer”
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Monday, February 26, 2007

Pearls of Wisdom
A seminar for women business owners
7:30 am - 9:00 am  |  Oregon Executive MBA  |  $35.00 per person
Quantile Regression and Inference
Xuming He, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Seminar: A glimpse of farming in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
History of unregulated and regulated flows in the upper Willamette River, ecological relationships with flow regimes, and possible directions for future flow management
Stan Gregory and Linda Ashkenas, Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University
9:00 pm - 10:15 pm  |  Nash Hall  |  Free

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Drinking Water Strategies in Developing Countries Round Table Discussion
Sponsored by OSU International Health Club
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
"J.E. Pillsbury and 19th Century Oceanography in the US Coast and Geodetic Survey"
Ed Dever, COAS, OSU
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Multi-domain geovisualization of news stories
Geovisualization: A Window to Earth Surface, Structure, and System
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free
Horticulture Department Seminar
Agroforestry and restoration for profit and survival
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

International Forestry Seminar
David Zahler and Nicole Strong: A Forester's Peace Corps Experiences
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm  |  Peavy Hall  |  Free
FW 507 Fisheries & Wildlife Department Seminar
Do jellyfish have the potential to negatively affect pelagic fishes in upwelling regions?
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Nash Hall
Seminar: Potential for on-farm thermochemical conversion of straw to energy
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall  |  Free
Biosciences Librarian
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm  |  Valley Library  |  Free
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