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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
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
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
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

Monday, May 5, 2008

Zoology Spring Seminar
Dr. Adam Jones
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Center for Humanities Lecture -- What Are We Saying When We Talk About Art? Some Thoughts about Aesthetic Qualities
By Stephanie Ross, Philosophy, University of Missouri
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
Spatial Heterogeneity and Replication in Investigations of Natural Microbial Communities: Two Case Studies
Presented by: David Oline
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Conditional AIC for Linear Mixed-Effects Models
Hua Ling, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Linus Pauling Legacy Award Lecture: “Ion Channel Chemistry: the Electrical System of Life”
Nobel Laureate Dr. Roderick MacKinnon
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Off Campus  |  Free

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Oregon Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education
all day  |  LaSells Stewart Center
CGRB Seminar: Jeff Dangl, Plant Genetics and Cellular Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Plant Immune System"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Application of molecular-markers in breeding of vegetable crops: An industrial perspective.
Jeff Skinner, Scientist, Nunhems USA, Inc.
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
"The way forward: Strategic economic development in Kake, Alaska."
Speakers: Mike Hibbard, University of Oregon (Geography Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Christine Sleeter
Intellectually Challenging Teaching in Multicultural, Bilingual Classrooms
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

The Center for Healthy Aging Research Presents: Claude Goodman, President CareWheels and Jane Jorgensen, CleverSet
Sense-able Aging-in-Place in Your Own Intelligent Smart-Home
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm  |  Bates Hall  |  Free
The Economics of Invasive Species.
Invasive Species Conservation Biology & Mgt
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
The economics of invasive species.
Speakers: Michael Harte, OSU COAS/Sea Grant Extension
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
Water and Land Use Planning in Oregon: Bridging the Governance Gap
(Spring Hydrology Seminar Series, Water in the West)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Spring Hydrology Seminar 2008
Water in the West
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences

Thursday, May 8, 2008

"Discharge and Deposition of Particulate Organic Carbon and Nitrogen by the Alsea River Fall 2007 Finals Week Flood: A Soil Scientist's Perspective"
Jeff Hatten, COAS, OSU
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Reanalysis of the Oregon Cascadia uplift data and a new model for locking on the subduction zone
Speaker: Ray Weldon, U of O (Geology Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Women and Body Image
Learn about eating disorders and make fun/inspirational crafts!
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Women's Center  |  Free
Chun Chiu Lecture - Shiyung Liu , Academica Sinica, Taiwan
"Medical Practice and Policies in Japan-Ruled Taiwan, 1895–1945"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
STOP Blaming the Victim!
Immigration from a historical context
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Friday, May 9, 2008

WIC 2008 Spring Luncheons
"Change Five Things: Strategies for Teaching Revising, Editing, and Proofreading"
12:00 pm - 11:59 pm (continues)  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
Product Quality at the Plant Level: Plant Size, Exports, Output Prices and Input Prices in Colombia
Eric A. Verhoogen, Columbia University
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Bexell Hall  |  Free

Saturday, May 10, 2008

WIC 2008 Spring Luncheons
"Change Five Things: Strategies for Teaching Revising, Editing, and Proofreading"
(continued) 12:00 am  - 11:59 pm (continues)  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free

Sunday, May 11, 2008

WIC 2008 Spring Luncheons
"Change Five Things: Strategies for Teaching Revising, Editing, and Proofreading"
(continued) 12:00 am  - 11:59 pm (continues)  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free

Monday, May 12, 2008

WIC 2008 Spring Luncheons
"Change Five Things: Strategies for Teaching Revising, Editing, and Proofreading"
(continued) 12:00 am  - 11:59 pm (continues)  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
Zoology Spring Seminar
Dr. Andrew Biewener
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Demension Reduction Based on Constrained Canonical Correlation and Variable Filtering
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Uses and Abuses for Ecological Risk Assessment in Agriculture
Presented by: Paul Jepson
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

WIC 2008 Spring Luncheons
"Change Five Things: Strategies for Teaching Revising, Editing, and Proofreading"
(continued) 12:00 am  - 11:59 pm (continues)  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
OSU Sigma Xi Chapter - Researcher of the Year Award Lecture
James C. Carrington, "Genomes, Silence, and the Big Deal about Small RNA"
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Plant responses to jasomonate and its analogues
Wioletta Pluskota, Visiting scholar, University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
"Federal landscapes of the spotted owl: Public perceptions of changing forest plans and practices with notes on rural-urban differences."
Speakers: Rob Ribe, University of Oregon (Geography Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

WIC 2008 Spring Luncheons
"Change Five Things: Strategies for Teaching Revising, Editing, and Proofreading"
(continued) 12:00 am  - 11:59 pm (continues)  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
Fish Conservation: Invasive Fish Species and Homogenization
Gene Helfman, Professor Emeritus, Univ. of GA, Odum School of Fisheries
11:30 am - 1:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
The Center for Healthy Aging Research Presents: "Navigating through Task Space: The Role of Cues, Inhibition, and Hierarchical Task-Space Representations"
Dr. Ulrich Mayr, Lewis Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Bates Hall  |  Free
CGRB Seminar: Gary Karpen, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Life Sciences Division, University of California - Berkeley
"Chromatin Regulation of Genome Stability"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Coastal Dune Ecosystem Modification by Invasive Beachgrass: Can single-species conservation provide an umbrella effect?
Invasive Species Conservation Biology & Mgt
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
Coastal dune ecosystem modification by invasive beachgrass: can single-species conservation provide an umbrella effect?
Speakers: Phoebe Zarnetske, OSU Zoology
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
Water, plants and California's drought prone ecosystems
(Spring Hydrology Seminar Series, Water in the West)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Spring Hydrology Seminar 2008
Water in the West
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Buddhist Basics
Asian & Pacific Heritage Month
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Asian Cultural Center  |  Free
Are There Many Paths to One God?
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free

Thursday, May 15, 2008

WIC 2008 Spring Luncheons
"Change Five Things: Strategies for Teaching Revising, Editing, and Proofreading"
(continued) 12:00 am  - 11:59 pm (continues)  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
"Drought in North America: The Solar-ENSO Connection"
Mark Cane, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
10:00 am - 11:00 am  |  Burt Hall
"Microbial Metal Transformation: A Preponderance of Possible Permutations"
Timothy Magnuson, Idaho State University
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Prediction and h-likelihood
Youngjio Lee, Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul Korea
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Cordley Hall
Minus tide: photographs of inter-tidal features on basalt headlands of the northern Oregon coast
Speaker: Terry Toedtemeier, Portland Art Museum (Geology Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Crossroads International’s Worldview Series
2008 Olympic Games: China’s preparations and Environmental Health Issues that athletes face’
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Off Campus
Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: Can We Expect the New Administration to Make a Start?
part of series on "US Foreign Policy: The Middle East and Asia"
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  First United Methodist Church  |  Free
Horning Lecture - Steven Shapin, Harvard University
"Eating Good in the Neighborhood: The Medical and Moral History of Dietary Localism"
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free

Friday, May 16, 2008

WIC 2008 Spring Luncheons
"Change Five Things: Strategies for Teaching Revising, Editing, and Proofreading"
(continued) 12:00 am  - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
"Nearshore Morphodynamics of High-Energy Dissipative Beaches: A Decade of Observations in the U.S. Pacific Northwest"
Peter Ruggiero, Geosciences, OSU
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
"Climate in the Currents of History"
Mark Cane, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium
BOOK LAUNCH: In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mt. St. Helens
Charles Goodrich, Fred Swanson, Kathleen Dean Moore, Tony Vogt
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm  |  Valley Library

Monday, May 19, 2008

Dedication of the Middle East Water Collection to OSU
Keynote by Thomas Naff
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm  |  Valley Library
Gas Exchange at Air-Snow Interfaces
Speaker: Bill Massman, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilmore Hall
Center for Humanities Lecture -- Re-thinking Elements of Normative Democratic Theory in an Age of Social Cognitive Neuroscience and Voter Micro-Managing
By Robert Sahr, OSU Political Science Dept.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
15N from Labeled Leaf Litter Found in Soil Density and Particle-Size Fractions after 12 Years
Presented by: Pierre-Joseph Hatton
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
American Cultures and Politics Lecture - Kathleen Brown
"Civilizing Bodies in the Early Atlantic and Antebellum United States"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Weighted quantile regression with non-elliptically structured covariates
Ying Wei, Columbia University
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

International Speakers Series
"You Can't Go Home Again?"
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm  |  Kelley Engineering Center  |  Free
Journal Club Discussion on Gas Exchange at Air-Snow Interfaces
Special Guest: Bill Massman, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Gilmore Annex
Water on the Edge: Water Issues for the 21st Century
Part of Welcoming the Middle East Water Collection to OSU
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
OSU Authors Recognition
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Valley Library  |  Free
The Assertive Cancer Patient
Living with cancer – and an attitude
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
"Turbulence and Mixing in the Columbia River Plume and Estuary"
Jonathan Nash, COAS, OSU
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Jeanne Sather: The Assertive Cancer Patient
Living with Cancer--and an Attitude
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

LL Stewart Scholar Workshop
Presented by Milo Koretsky
9:00 am - 10:30 am  |  Owen Hall
Thesis Fair
11:30 am - 1:30 pm  |  Valley Library  |  Free
Blogging About Breast Cancer
Tan Sacks Lecture Series
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
DHE Research/Creative Activity Seminar
Evaluation of Thermal Insulative Properties of Military Ballistic Helmets by Thermal Manikin and Human Physiological and Subjective Responses
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Milam Hall  |  Free and open to public
The barred owl invasion of the Pacific Northwest: the next chapter of the spotted owl conservation saga.
Speakers: David Wiens, 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
The Colorado River at 1900, 2000, and 2100: what is the past, present, and future of the river?
(Spring Hydrology Seminar Series, Water in the West)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Eastern Medicine Night
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm  |  Asian Cultural Center  |  Free
"The End of Education:
Contingency, Corporatization, and Academic Freedom"
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Gleeson Hall  |  Free

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Distinguished Professor Lecture by Dr. Tracy Daugherty
10:00 am - 11:30 am  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
"Eddy Correlation - An Effective Technique for Measuring Oxygen Exchange between the Seafloor and the Water Column"
Peter Berg, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
BYOBB
Bring Your Own Brown Bag and have lunch with Founder, CEO, and Author Patricia Seybold
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Women's Center  |  Free
Distinguished Professor Lecture by Dr. Steven Strauss
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
The last great ice sheet in Western Canada
Speaker: John Clague, Simon Fraser U. (Geology Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
MacVicar Scholar Award Lecture
Morphologic and biochemical characterization of suspensory apparatus breakdown and fetlock hyperextension in the llama
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Magruder Hall  |  Free
Mechanisms of Permeability Reduction by In-Situ Microbe Growth
Dr. Steven L. Bryant
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Burt Hall  |  Free
Resolving the Palestine-Israel Conflict: An Update on Progress
part of Dept of Political Science and Willamette Valley Forum series on "US Foreign Policy: the Middle East and Asia"
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Corvallis-Benton County Public Library  |  Free
Austin Entrepreneurship Program Fireside Chat
Patricia Seybold, Founder and CEO, Patricia Seybold Group
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Weatherford Hall

Friday, May 23, 2008

WIC 2008 Spring Luncheons
"Using Writing in Content Courses: A Collaborative Workshop with OSU-Cascades Campus"
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
"Global Ocean Ambient Sound of the Last 10 Years"
Haru Matsumoto, Res. Assoc., CIMRS (Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies), NOAA, OSU
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Extreme Value Index Estimation with Applications to Modeling Extreme Insurance Losses and Sea Surface Temperatures
John Henry (Statistics PhD candidate)
10:00 am - 12:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
A molecular evolutionary analysis of invasive success of Brachypodium distachyon in California.
Erica Bakker, Assistant Professor, Department of Horticulture, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

"Exploring Stakeholders' Attitudes and Beliefs Regarding Behaviors that Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species: A Focus Group Study"
Gwenn Kubeck, COAS Graduate Student in Marine Resource Management
9:00 am - 11:00 am  |  Burt Hall
Long-Term Dynamic Water Modeling of the Lower Truckee River, Nevada
(Spring Hydrology Seminar Series, Water in the West)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
The promise and the peril of biological control
Speakers: Peter McEvoy, OSU Botany & Plant Pathology
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

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Starker Lecture Series - Capstone Field Trip
Impacts of Planted Forests in Oregon Coast Range, with Examples from Private and Public Sectors
8:00 am - 4:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall
"Flow-Through Leaching Marine Barite: New Insights on its Composition and Diagenesis"
Chih-Ting Hsieh, College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, OSU
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
"Cellular Responses to Electrophile Stress: Inventory of Protein Modification and Biological Consequences"
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Peace and science in the Middle East
Speaker: Uri ten Brink, USGS (Geology Seminar) Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium

Friday, May 30, 2008

Forest Science Graduate Student Symposium
all day  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
9:00 am - 11:00 am  |  Milam Hall  |  Free
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