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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
“A Food-Based Approach to the Prevention of Gastrointestinal Tract Cancers”
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  free

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Community Empowerment in Senegal
Experiences from Tostan in Senegal and what it says about the power of human rights-based education and microcredit
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
CGRB Seminar: Nicole Perna
University of Wisconsin
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
CGRB Seminar: Nicole Perna, Genome Center of Wisconsin, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
"Looking at the Genomes of Enterobacteria Through Mauve-Colored Glasses"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Four Mile Run: Reviving an Urban Stream
Institute for Water and Watersheds Film Series
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Thursday, January 10, 2008

"High-Resolution Ocean and Atmosphere pCO2 Time-Series Measurements from Open Ocean and Coastal Moorings"
Christopher Sabine, NOAA/PMEL
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
"Targeting Inflammation by Dietary Agents for Prevention and Therapy of Cancer"
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  free
Threshold Strength and Diagonality: Understanding the Shape of Complex Ecological Responses
Presenter: Heather Lintz
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
College of Business Dean's Distiguished Lecture - Ursula M. Burns, President, Xerox Corp.
"Lessons of Leadership: Bold Bets and Back to Basics"
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
IDEAS MATTER Lecture Series
Who Owns the Sky? The Tragedy or Triumph of the Commons
7:00 pm - 9:10 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free

Friday, January 11, 2008

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Ocean Uptake of Atmospheric CO2, Ocean Acidification and the Future Global Carbon Cycle"
Christopher Sabine, NOAA/PMEL
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium

Monday, January 14, 2008

Stephen Kevan, Univ. Oregon, "Correlations, Coherence, and Complexity"
Physics Colloquium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Weniger Hall
Mixed Treatment Comparison of Migraine Headache Treatment: Indirect Comparison and Evidence Consistency
Rochelle Fu, Department of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Critical Control Points for Animal Handling and Welfare
Special Seminar, Animal Sciences
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Wiegand Hall  |  Free
Doing More with Less: Price Discrimination with Three-part vs Two-part Tariffs
Adib Bagh, University of California - Davis
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm  |  Valley Library  |  Free
Bee Diversity and Community Composition in Urban Gardens
Presenter: Gail Langellotto
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Horticulture/Plant Sciences Seminar Series
Title: Bee diversity and community composition in urban gardens.
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Leadership Forum
Creating Our Own Futures
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Oregon Outdoor Garments Worn in the Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon Regions Between 1880 to 1920.
DHE Research/Creative Activity Seminar Series
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Milam Hall  |  Free and open to public
International Building Code Wind Provisions
WS&E 507/607 - Graduate Seminar Series - Presentation by Alex Firth, of CH2M Hill
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Activity Budgets and Behavior of Red Tree Voles as Determined from Video Cameras
Speaker: Dr. Eric Forsman, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
Drowned Out
Institute for Water and Watersheds Film Series
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Thursday, January 17, 2008

A Signal-Jamming Model of Persuasion: Interest Group Funded Policy Research
Daniel F. Stone, Johns Hopkins University
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm  |  Valley Library  |  Free
Guest Lecture
By David Childs, composer, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
Geosciences Winter 2008 Seminar Series
EarthScope Views North America's Structure and Natural Hazards
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Seminar: Flow, Sediment Transport, and Geomorphic Adjustment in Rivers
- The 4th Edwards Lecture
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm  |  Memorial Union
Devon Peña, "The Commons and the World's Poor"
Who Owns the Sky? ~ The Tragedy or Triumph of the Commons
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium
IDEAS MATTER Lecture Series
Who Owns the Sky? The Tragedy or Triumph of the Commons
7:00 pm - 9:10 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free

Friday, January 18, 2008

What Has Financed Government Debt?
Hess Chung, Indiana University
11:00 am - 12:30 pm  |  Bexell Hall  |  Free

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Presidential Forum
Fees, Funding, and Financial Responsibility: Where Does My Money Go?
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Paleolithic Coastal Migrations. Dr. Loren Davis
Anthropology Dept. Tan Sack Lunch Series
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
Dr. Mei Lien HDFS Presentation Age-related Differences in Task Switching: Does Internal Cognitive Control Decline with Age?
Center for Healthy Aging Research Fall Colloquium series
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Bates Hall  |  Free
Jason Stajich, University of California, Berkeley
"Evolutionary Genomics of the Fungal Kingdom: A View from the Chytrids"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
"Can Maps Serve as Historical Authorities? And if so, of what?: The Case of the US Coast Survey and 19th Century Reconnaissance Cartography of the Pacific Northwest"
John Cloud, Historian, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Financial Deepening, Endogenous Growth, and Credit Cycles
Takuma Kunieda, Brown University
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Kelley Engineering Center  |  Free
Women on Wednesday: Personal Finance
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm  |  Women's Center  |  Free

Thursday, January 24, 2008

"Fluxes of Autochthonous and Allochthonous Materials in the Water Column of Cariaco Basin - A Sediment Trap Study"
Miguel Goni, COAS, OSU
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
"Dynamics and Regulation of Marine Fish Populations at Multiple Scales"
Mark Hixon, Dept. of Zoology, OSU
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Is Forward-Looking Inflation Targeting Destabilizing? The Role of Policy's Response to Current Output Under Endogenous Investment
Qinglai Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm  |  Valley Library  |  Free
Trees in Pastures - Managing Soils through Vegetation Change
Presenter: Steve Sharrow
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Strand Agriculture Hall  |  Free
Geosciences Winter 2008 Seminar Series
North American Dynamics and Western U.S. Tectonics
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Eric Freyfogle: Conservation's Missing Framework
Ideas Matter / Who Owns the Sky?
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium
Food for Thought Lecture - Jeffrey Pilcher, University of Minnesota
"Planet Taco: The Globalization of Mexican Cuisine"
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free

Friday, January 25, 2008

At the Core: Dr. Brian Flay, Seminar Presenter
College of Health and Human Sciences Methodology Core Seminar
11:30 am - 1:00 pm  |  Bates Hall  |  Free
"Coral Reefs: Endangered Rainforests of the Sea"
Mark Hixon, Dept. of Zoology, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium

Monday, January 28, 2008

Edge Effects
Speaker: Paul Anderson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific NW Research Station
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Nash Hall
"The World in OSU"
A part of the Voices Project Brown Bag Lunch Series
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
Soil Microbial Ecology: The World Beneath Our Feet
Presenter: Dave Myrold
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
David Cobden, University of Washington, Phase transitions in correlated-electron nanostructures
Physics Colloquium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Weniger Hall  |  Free
Ideal Critics, Bad Art, Rotten Reviews
Lecture by Stephanie Ross, Philosophy Dept., University of Missouri, Humanities Center Research Fellow
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
A Baysesian Approach for Modeling Soil Moisture Depletion
Dr. Alix Gitelman, Statistics Department, OSu
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Policy Announcements and Welfare
Christian Stoltenberg, Humboldt-University Berlin
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm  |  Valley Library  |  Free

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Focus the Nation
National Climate Change Symposium
all day  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
The Great American Cover-up - Quilts!
Extension Study Group Program
9:30 am - 11:00 am  |  Benton County-OSU Extension   |  Free
Progress on the King Island Project. Dr. Deanna Kingston
Anthropology Dept. Tan Sack Lunch Series
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
A FOREST OF ASSUMPTIONS - Seminar by Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore, OSU Department of Philosophy
WS&E 507/607 - Graduate Seminar Series - Presentation by Dr. Kathleen Dean Moore, OSU
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Rising Waters – Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands
Institute for Water and Watersheds Film Series
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Women on Wednesdays: Personal Finance
This is the second workshop in the Personal Finance series.
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Women's Center  |  Free

Thursday, January 31, 2008

22nd Annual DHE Career Symposium
Panels, alumni and faculty speakers, industry leaders
8:30 am - 3:00 pm  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  Free and open to public
"Satellites and Carbon Dioxide"
Burke Hales, COAS, OSU
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
"Iron as a potential cause for sarcopenia?"
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  free
"MACRO Questions - Micro Answers: Understanding How Forests Breathe and Transpire through Flow Analysis"
Christoph Thomas, OSU Forestry
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Celebrate the publication of "To Harvest, To Hunt"
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Geosciences Winter 2008 Seminar Series
EarthScope and Oregon's High Lava Plains
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Focus the Nation: Forum on Global Warming Solutions
Sponsored by Hatfield Marine Science Center Sustainability Committee and Oregon Chapter of Surfrider Foundation
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm  |  Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport  |  Free
Charles Wilkinson: The Commons and Community Gone Bad:
The Break-Up of the Great Siletz Reservation
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium
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