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OSU Events: Lectures / Seminars

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
Jeanne Sather: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Austin Entrepreneurship Program Fireside Chat
Patricia Seybold, Founder and CEO, Patricia Seybold Group
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Weatherford Hall
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

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