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OSU Events: Lectures / Seminars

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Discussion of Maritime Strategy
A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower
10:00 am - 11:50 am  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
Engaged Learning: Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creativity in the Social Justice Classroom
Sponsored by Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program and the Center for Teaching and Learning
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
CGRB Seminar: David Gang, Departments of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona
"Medicinal Plants, Metabolism and Metabolomics"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Use of Tree Properties to Model Mechanical Properties of Round Logs for Use as Structural Members
WS&E 507/607 - Graduate Seminar Series - Presentation by Dr. Olav Hoibo, of the Norwegian University of Life Science (UMB)
4:00 pm - 4:55 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Wind River
Institute for Water and Watersheds Film Series
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
MUPC Social Justice Series
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
“Epigenetic Gene Regulation: Linking Early Developmental Environment to Adult Disease”
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  free
Starker Lecture - Role of Planted Forests in the Pacific NW: Meeting Societal Demands in a Dynamic Environment
Global Plantations, Evolving Markets, and PNW Forests
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Geosciences Winter 2008 Seminar Series
EarthScope constraints on geodynamics and continental deformation
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
AmeriFlux Research and West Coast Regional Carbon Project
Presenter: Bev Law
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Winter Wake-Up and Onion Germplasm Festival
OSU Organic Growers Club General Winter Meeting
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Kim Stanley Robinson, "The Future Is a Commons"
IDEAS MATTER lectures: Who Owns the Sky? ~ The Tragedy or Triumph of the Commons
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium

Friday, February 22, 2008

At the Core: Using Multilevel Growth Curves to Investigate Growth in Behavioral Regulation for English- and Spanish-Speaking Children
College of Health and Human Sciences Methodology Core Seminar
11:30 am - 1:00 pm  |  Women's Building  |  Free
Agriculture in New Zealand -the dairy boom, the "clean green" image and advances in grass seed production
Presented by: Phil Rolston- Seed Crop & Forage Agronomist with New Zealand AgResearch
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
DHE Research/Creative Activity Seminar Series
Indian and Korean Culturally-Inspired Apparel Design and Environmental Cues Which Lead to high Seller Credibility in an Online Action Setting
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Milam Hall  |  Free and open to public
SOUP for the Soul
12:30 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Max Auffhammer Seminar
Measuring the Effects of Environmental Regulations: The critical importance of a spatially disaggregated analysis
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Ballard Extension Hall  |  Free
Breaking up is Hard to do
Come share or just listen to what others have to say.
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Women's Center  |  Free

Saturday, February 23, 2008

2nd Annual OSU Chicana/o Latina/o Alumni Reunion
OSU Chicana/o Latina/o students will benefit from funds raised for the Dr. Manuel Pacheco Scholarship fund
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  $20.00 per person

Monday, February 25, 2008

Coho Salmon in San Francisco Bay area
Speaker: Matt Sloan, OSU and USFS
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Nash Hall
Functional genetic markers for characterizing and breeding tree fruit
Cameron Peace, Associate Professor, Dept. Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, WSU
11:00 am - 12:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Multiple Uses of (Multiple) Imputation at the National Center for Health Statistics
Nathaniel Schenker, Senior Scientist for Research and Methodology, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD
11:00 am - 1:00 pm  |  Women's Building  |  Free
Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
"Berrying the Aging Brain"
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Sustainable Production of Food and Biofuels: Carbon and Land Constraints
Presenter: David Tilman
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Prof. Robert Beichner, North Carolina State Univ., The Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP) Project
Physics Colloquium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Weniger Hall  |  Free
Food for Thought Lecture - G. David Tilman
"Getting Biofuels Right: The Biofuel vs. Food and Environment Dilemma"
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

College of Business Sustainability Lecture - Lorrie Vogel, General Manager, Considered Products, Nike, Inc.
"How Nike is Reducing Its Environmental Footprint and Incorporating Sustainability into Its Products"
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  Free
Entomology Seminar
Dr. A. Regupathy: NEEM Repellent: An effective tool of Push/Pull strategy for Eco-friendly Pest Management
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free