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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Medicine, Writing, and Humanities
Meditative Journaling: Giving Your Illness a Voice
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm  |  Corvallis Public Library  |  Free - Advance registration required.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Linearization Variance Estimators in Two-Phase Sampling with Application to Crop Production Survey
Lee, Kee Jae, Korea National Open University
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Center for Humanities Lecture -- Living with (and Embracing) Change in Public Higher Education
By Mary Cullinan, President, Southern Oregon University
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
Linking Nitrification Kinetics and Ammonia Oxidizer Community Dynamics in a Range of Soils Following Manure Application
Presented by: Ann-Marie Fortuna
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Global Warming Cracked Open: A Peek Inside
A Public Lecture
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Milam Auditorium  |  Free
"Hot Days in the Southern Ocean: Climate Induced Migration of Antarctic Food Webs"
Oscar Schofield, Institute for Marine & Coastal Studies, Rutgers University
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center
Holocaust Memorial Week 2008
Week of April 28, 2008
7:30 pm - 11:59 pm (continues)
Holocaust Memorial Week 2008
Public talk - Pearl Oliner: Very Religoius and Irreligious Rescuers of Jews in nazi Euriope: What Was the Difference and What Difference Does it Matter?
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Holocaust Memorial Week 2008
Week of April 28, 2008
(continued) 12:00 am  - 11:59 pm (continues)
The River Runs Through It - Ongoing Research in the lab of Dr. David Lytle
Microcosm - OSU's Entomology Seminar Series
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
The River Runs Through It - Ongoing Research in the lab of Dr. David Lytle
Microcosm - OSU's Entomology Seminar Series
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
"So You Want to Build an Ocean Observatory...A 15 Year Retrospective in Building the Mid-Atlantic COOL Room"
Oscar Schofield, Institute for Marine & Coastal Studies, Rutgers University
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
The influence of protein repair and targeted destruction over aspects of Arabidopsis seed germination.
Bruce Downie, Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture, University of Kentucky
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
"Urban growth controls and the Galactic City: redefining a nearly ubiquitous metropolitan landscape." and "Can the way we eat change metropolitan agriculture?"
Speakers: Thomas Harvey and Martha Works, Portland State University (Geography Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
F.A. Gilfillan Memorial Award Lecture
From Pine Trees to the Brain: A Radical View of Lou Gehrig's Disease
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Holocaust Memorial Week 2008
Week of April 28, 2008
(continued) 12:00 am  - 11:59 pm (continues)
Cesar Chavez Tribute Month Symposium
A day full of presentations and events surrounding important social and cultural issues
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Why have bullfrogs (Rana catesblana)successfully invaded the Pacific Northwest?
Speakers: Tiffany Garcia, OSU Fisheries & Wildlife
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
Spring Hydrology Seminar 2008
Water in the West
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Sierra Nevada snowcover patterns and watershed processed from blended satellite and ground-based networks
(Spring Hydrology Seminar Series, Water in the West)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Holocaust Memorial Week 2008
Public talk - Thomass Blatt: Genocide and Resistance in the Holocaust
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
Rami G. Khouri
2008 Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Lecture for World Peace
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm  |  Milam Auditorium  |  Free

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Holocaust Memorial Week 2008
Week of April 28, 2008
(continued) 12:00 am  - 10:00 pm
Celebrate the Department of Geosciences' scholarship and student research with graduate research presentations.
GEO Day 2008
all day  |  Wilkinson Hall
"Needles in a Haystack: Finding New Molecular Markers within Marine DOM"
Elizabeth Kujawinski, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
"The Extended Family of Neutral Sphingomyelinases: Functions and Regulation"
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Process and Pattern: Lessons from Parsing the Heterotrophs' Diet
Jay L. Garland, NASA - Dynamic Corp., Kennedy Space Center
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Burt Hall  |  Free
Rapid fluvial response to removal of Marmot Dam, Sandy River--the first winter's results
Speaker: Jon Major, USGS, CVO (Geology Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Student Community Symposium
Cultural Competency and Leadership
6:00 pm - 7:45 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Holocaust Memorial Week 2008
Public talk - Taner Akçam: The Armenian Genocide and the Reasons for Turkish Denial
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free

Friday, May 2, 2008

WIC 2008 Spring Luncheons
"The Google Generation Does Research: Student Proficiencies for Information Literacy"
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
India and Pakistan: What Do We in the West Need to Know?
part of "US Foreign Policy: the Middle East and Asia" series
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Corvallis-Benton County Public Library  |  Free
Cynthia Barnett, Journalist and Environmental Historian
Distinguished Lecturer in Water Resources
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
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