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OSU Events: Lectures / Seminars

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

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Water Resources Graduate Program Open House
Open House and Poster Session
all day  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Who Owns Oregon's Private Forestland Now? What Does It Matter?
WS&E 507/607 - Graduate Seminar Series - Presentation by Dr. John Bliss, Department of Forest Resources
4:00 am - 4:50 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Eggs - They really are incredible!
Extension Study Group Program
9:30 am - 11:00 am  |  Benton County-OSU Extensin  |  Free
Impact of Geomorphological Processes on Roman Site Selection. Dr. Scott Pike.
Anthropology Dept. Tan Sack Lunch Series
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
Using state and transition models to simulate riparian vegetation and aquatic habitat dynamics in respone to natural and anthropogenic distrubance regimes to inform landscape planning
Speaker: Dr. Steve Wondzell, USDA Forest Service, Olympia, WA
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
Double Feature: "Blue Danube" and "Cadillac Desert – Part 2 – An American Nile"
Institute for Water and Watersheds Film Series
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Women on Wednesdays: Personal Finance
Let's talk about TAXES!
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Women's Center  |  Free
Carbon-Free Jubilee
You Are Invited to a Carbon-Conscious Celebration
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm  |  Student Sustainability Center   |  Free
MUPC Social Justice Series
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
"mtDNA Mutations in Mammalian Aging and Mitochondrial Involvement in Caloric Restriction"
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Eating Disorder Awareness
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Women's Center  |  Free
Geosciences Winter 2008 Seminar Series
EarthScope Magnetotellurics: Preliminary results from Cascadia
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Mary Wood, "Nature’s Trust: A Legal Paradigm for Protecting Land and Natural Resources for Future Generations"
Who Owns the Sky? ~ The Tragedy or Triumph of the Commons
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium

Friday, February 29, 2008

2008 Winter Corporate Sponsored Seminar Event
Bill Mariucci, of Kiewit Construction Company
10:00 am - 11:45 am  |  Kidder Hall
IFSA - Morning seminar
Matt Delany "Measuring and Monitoring Forest Carbon"
10:30 am - 11:30 am  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods
Marc Rysman, Boston University
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Bexell Hall  |  Free