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Monday, February 2, 2009

Stream Team: Rolling Stones, No Beetles
Speaker: Hiram Li, Judy Li, and David Noakes, Oregon State University
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Nash Hall
Horning Lecture - Anita Guerrini
"Do animals have a history -- and why should we care?"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Mount St. Helens, Seismology, and the Discrete Wavelet Transformation
Albyn Jones, Reed College
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The Austin Entrepreneurship Program Presents
Bryan Sims, Chief Executive Officer & Tom Loika, Sales Manager, Brass Media Inc.
12:00 pm - 11:59 pm (continues)  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free
Fruit Tree Rx: Maintaining Healthy Fruit Trees
Gearing Up for Gardening series
12:10 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Off Campus

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The Austin Entrepreneurship Program Presents
Bryan Sims, Chief Executive Officer & Tom Loika, Sales Manager, Brass Media Inc.
(continued) 12:00 am  - 11:59 pm (continues)  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free
Liquid Assets Part I
Institute for Water and Watersheds Film Series
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union
Food consumption trends, is there a tradeoff of food vs. fuel?
Presented by: Munisamy Gopinath
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall  |  Free

Thursday, February 5, 2009

The Austin Entrepreneurship Program Presents
Bryan Sims, Chief Executive Officer & Tom Loika, Sales Manager, Brass Media Inc.
(continued) 12:00 am  - 8:00 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free
Design and Human Environment Career Symposium
Design Your World
all day  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  Free
LBCC/OSU National Teach-In
National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions
10:00 am - 3:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
"Back to the Future: A New Look at 'Old' Vitamin D"
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Disturbance Effects and Interannual Variability in Surface Albedo
Presenter - Tom O'Halloran, Research Associate, Forest Ecosystems and Society, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall
Darwin 1809-2009 Lecture - Mott T. Greene
"Charles Darwin: The Man & The Myth"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Nanking
Screening of Nanking, written and directed by Bill Guttentag
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center
Filmmaker & Screenwriter BILL GUTTENTAG
Keeping it Real--Reflections (and Clips) from Capturing the Real in Film and Televison
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center

Monday, February 9, 2009

Stream Team: Environmental policies and agencies: Implications of recent elections
Speaker: Bill Lunch, Oregon State University
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Nash Hall
Alcohol & Mental Health Wellness
featuring Ross Szabo, Youth Outreach Director, National Mental Health Awareness Campaign
9:00 am - 10:30 am  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Behind Happy Faces: Taking Charge of Your Mental Health
Book review & Q & A with author, Ross Szabo, Youth Outreach Director, National Mental Health Awareness Campaign
11:30 am - 1:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Center for Humanities Lecture: Philip Roth’s Jewish Gender Trouble. Neil Davison, Center Research Fellow, OSU English Department
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
"Until the Violence Stops"
Film Viewing
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm  |  Native American Longhouse  |  Free
2009 Water Film Series, Newport Edition: FLOW
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm  |  Off Campus  |  Free
Carson Lecture - Edmund Burke III
"Extreme Ethnography: French Exploration and the Conquest of North Africa"
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
What Happy Faces are Hiding
keynote address by Ross Szabo, Youth Outreach Director, National Mental Health Awareness Campaign
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm  |  Waldo Hall  |  Free
"Modeling the Last Deglaciation: Trace-21000 Simulations"
Bette Otto-Bliesner, National Center for Atmospheric Research
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
The Buzz of Mason Bees: Beekeeping Without the Sting
Gearing Up for Gardening series
12:10 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Off Campus
Climate Planning Forum
An open forum on drafting OSU’s climate action plan
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
"Environmental Variability and Small Pelagic Fishes off Chile"
Fabian Gomez, Master's Student at University of Concepcion, Chile
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Polar warmth, ice sheet stability and sea-level rise: past perspectives
Global Climate Change: Detection, Attribution, Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation, and Litigation (Geosciences Lecture Series, Winter 2009)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Cordley Hall
Congo Teach-In
Presentation
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm  |  Plageman Student Health Center  |  Free

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Liquid Assets Part II
Institute for Water and Watersheds Film Series
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union
Carbon sequestration and straw.
Presented by: Dan Long
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall  |  Free
Lecture - Max S. Power
"America's Nuclear Wastelands"
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Lecture - Max S. Power
"America's Nuclear Wastelands"
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Fisheries & Wildlife Seminar: Seasonal Movements, Residency, and Migratory Patterns of Wilson's Snipe in the Willamette Valley
Speaker: Britt Cline, FRESC
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
Winter Networking and Dining Etiquette
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  CH2M HILL Alumni Center  |  (TBD)

Thursday, February 12, 2009

"The Role of Moisture in the Madden-Julian Oscillation"
David Randall, Colorado State University
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall
Transcriptome Mapping and Cataloging of Alternative Splicing in Arabidopsis
Presenter - Sergei Filichkin, Research Associate, Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
Winter Wake-Up and Onion Germplasm Festival!
OSU Organic Growers' Club General Meeting
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free

Friday, February 13, 2009

"Predicting Future Climates"
David Randall, Colorado State University
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium

Monday, February 16, 2009

Stream Team: The importance of maternal effects in evolution and biodiversity of fishes
Speaker: Camille Leblanc, Oregon State University
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Nash Hall
OSU Archives: The Flickr Commons Experience
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Valley Library  |  Free
The Enterprise Challenge
Skill Building Workshop
4:00 pm - 5:50 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free
The Dynamics of Soil Biology
A talk with the OSU Permaculture Alliance
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm  |  Student Sustainability Center  |  Free
Is There a Rational Road to Faith?
Sponsored by The OSU Socratic Club
7:00 pm - 9:15 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Maximizing Your Resources: Drought Tolerant Landscaping
Gearing Up for Gardening series
12:10 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Off Campus
Managing Soil Nitrogen to Restore Weed Infested Systems: An Effective Strategy or Incomplete Paradigm
Presenter - Jeremy James, Res. Plant Physiologist, USDA-ARS Eastern Oregon Ag. Expt. Stn., Burns
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Strand Agriculture Hall
Uncomfortable knowledge about climate policy
Global Climate Change: Detection, Attribution, Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation, and Litigation (Geosciences Lecture Series, Winter 2009)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Cordley Hall
“Re-inventing Ecological Restoration: Re-storation or Pre-storation?”
seminar / discussion with Anita Guerrini and Stan Gregory
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Memorial Union

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

CGRB Seminar Series: Dr. Martin Yanofsky
"Genetic Control of Fruit Patterning in Arabidopsis"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Carbon sequestration programs and market development.
Presented by: Susan Capalbo
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall  |  Free
The Unforeseen Part I
Institute for Water and Watersheds Film Series
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union

Thursday, February 19, 2009

"Using Geo-Electrical Methods to Monitor Bio-Geochemical Processes in the Near Subsurface"
Dimitris Ntarlagiannis, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
10:00 am - 11:00 am  |  Burt Hall
Using Geo-Electrical Methods to Monitor Bio-Geochemical Processes in the Near Subsurface
Subsurface Biosphere Initiative Seminar
10:00 am - 11:00 am  |  Burt Hall
Peace Corps Information Session
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
The Austin Entrepreneurship Program Presents
Janet Redmond, Human Resources Information Systems Manager, PG&E
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free
Starker Lecture - Sustaining Forests, Homes, & Communities
Preparing the Forest Product Industry to Compete in a Sustainable Market Place
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free

Friday, February 20, 2009

Progress on Restoration of the Everglades
Seminar by Dr. Wayne Huber
10:00 am - 11:00 am  |  112 Kearney Hall
Prabhu Pingali Seminar
Tackling chronic hunger and poverty through Agricultural Development: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Strategy and Approach
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free
Darwin 1809-2009 Lecture
"The Post-Darwinian Natural Theologies of Asa Gray and Charles Kingsley"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Monday, February 23, 2009

Stream Team: Flood effects on aquatic invertebrate taxa: a meta-analysis
Speaker: Laura McMullen, Oregon State University
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Nash Hall
Center for Humanities Lecture: Clarke, Collins, and Consciousness: A Debate About the Relation of Mind and Matter in Early Eighteenth Century Britain, by William Uzgalis, Center Research Fellow, OSU Philosophy Department
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
The Austin Entrepreneurship Program Presents
Greg Sherwood, President and CIO, Quest Investment Management, Inc.
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free
Jennifer Pozner Comes to OSU
"Why Reality TV Is Bad for Women (...and men, people of color, the economy, love, sex, and sheer damn common sense!)"
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
Horse Owner Education Series
College of Veterinary Medicine
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Magruder Hall  |  Free (donations appreciated)

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Between a Rock and a Plant Place: Rock Gardens
Gearing Up for Gardening series
12:10 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Off Campus
Lecture: Why Going Green Means Going Nuclear
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  LaSells Stewart Center  |  Free
“Changing Climates on Campuses”
seminar / discussion with SueEllen Campbell, Colorado State University
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union
Physical and Ecological Weed Management (PEWM) for Organic and Non-organic Cropping: Research and On-farm Practice from Britain, Ireland, and New Zealand
Presenter - Charles Merfield, Research Scientist, Teagasc, Johnstown Castle Res. Cntr., Co. Wexford, Ireland
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

An overview of state of Oregon policies related to fossil fuels, biofuels and carbon sequestration.
Presented by: Brent Searle/Stephanie Page
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall  |  Free
Fisheries & Wildlife Seminar: Comparing Survival of Salmonids in Two Large River Systems
Speaker: Shaun Clements, ODFW, Corvallis
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall
The Unforeseen Part II
Institute for Water and Watersheds Film Series
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Memorial Union
A Conversation With Betty Roberts and Melody Rose
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
"Zinc-Mediated Regulation of the Host Response to Sepsis: A Translational Perspective"
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
"A 25-Cent Empirical Coupled Model of an Idealized Eastern Boundary Current"
Dudley Chelton, COAS, OSU
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Burt Hall

Friday, February 27, 2009

Flo Leibowitz: "Picturing Nature in the Hubble Photographs" and Tony Vogt: "Toward an Ethic of Solidarity"
Spring Creek Project Fellows Seminar
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Hovland Hall  |  Free
Heteroscedastic Unbalanced Nested Design, Fully Nonparametric ANCOVA, and Applications
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Kearney (formally Apperson)
Satellite studies of the contribution to sea-level rise from Greenland and Antarctic ice dynamics
Global Climate Change: Detection, Attribution, Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation, and Litigation (Geosciences Lecture Series, Winter 2009)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Cordley Hall

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Graduate Teaching Assistants' Statistical Knowledge for Teaching
Jennifer Noll, Portland State University, Portland, OR
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
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