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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
The Trofobiose Theory and organic agriculture
Handell Larco Erazo, Graduate student, Department of Horticulture, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences | Free
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
CGRB Seminar: Paul Sternber, California Institute of Technology
"Networks of Interacting Genes and Cells Specifying C. elegans Behavior"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences | Free
"Recent Decadal Variations in Antarctic Bottom Water Properties"
Gregory C. Johnson, NOAA/PMEL & UW/Oceanography
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Burt Hall
Thursday, April 3, 2008
32nd Annual Oregon State University Gerontology Conference
Active Approaches to Healthy Aging
8:00 am - 4:30 pm | CH2M HILL Alumni Center | Free
Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
CANCELED “Mechanisms in Arsenic Carcinogenesis: From Humans to Mice to Molecules and Back Again”
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences | free
Starker Lecture - Role of Planted Forests in the Pacific NW: Meeting Societal Demands in a Dynamic Environment
Carbon Sequestration and Biomass Production in Ponderosa Pine Plantations: Does Management Really Matter?
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Richardson Hall | Free
"Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power and Climate Change: Options and Opportunities for the Next Administration"
Speaker: Victor H. Reis, U.S. Department of Energy
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Peavy Hall
"Biological energy requirements as boundary conditions for subsurface life"
Dr. Tori Hoehler, NASA Ames Research Center
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Burt Hall | Free
The complex assembly history of an unusual magma: high-magnesian andesite from Mt. Shasta
Speaker: Martin Streck, PSU (Geology Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Wilkinson Hall
Friday, April 4, 2008
32nd Annual Oregon State University Gerontology Conference
Active Approaches to Healthy Aging
8:00 am - 4:30 pm | CH2M HILL Alumni Center | Free
At the Core: Structuring Discovery - A Model and Method for Longitudinal Multisite Team Ethnography
College of Health and Human Sciences Methodology Core Seminar
10:00 am - 11:00 am | Women's Building | Free
Northwest Reproduction Sciences Symposium
12:00 pm - 9:00 pm | LaSells Stewart Center
The Center for Healthy Aging Research Presents: Dr. Keith Whitfield, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
Sources of Individual Differences in Cognitive Aging Among African Americans
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Bates Hall | Free
Journeys to the Altar
Intimate unions and childbearing in low income urban and rural families
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | LaSells Stewart Center | Free and open to public
4th Annual Carpenter Lecture
Three Views, One Challenge: Leading through Ethics in the Community College
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Memorial Union | Free
Best Selling Author and Noted Human Rights Activist John Prendergast to Speak at OSU
Title of Talk: "Darfur and Beyond: What We Can Do to Confront the Human Rights Crisis in Africa"
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | LaSells Stewart Center | Free
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Northwest Reproduction Sciences Symposium
8:00 am - 12:00 pm | Magruder Hall
Monday, April 7, 2008
Zoology Spring Seminar
Dr. Mark Martindale
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences
"Statistical Implications of Dose Uncertainty in Radiation Dose-Response Analyses"
Dr. Daniel Schafer, Statistics Department, Oregon State University
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Kidder Hall
Applied Research in Cereals: Cereal Extension 2005-2008
Presented by: Michael Flowers
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences | Free
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
"Propagation of Large-Scale Waves through Narrow Straits."
Ted Durland, COAS, OSU
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Burt Hall
Gene expression analysis of transcription factors in germinating tomato seed.
Masa Asahina, Postdoc, Department of Horticulture, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences | Free
Cultural Centers & Architects Open Forums
View Preliminary Building Plans
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Memorial Union | Free
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
The Voices Project Brown Bag Lunch Series
Greek Life, part 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Memorial Union
Latinos in Media w/ Lalo Alcaraz
An interactive presentation with world-renouned cartoonist, Lalo Alcaraz!
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Kerr Administration Building | Free
Spring Hydrology Seminar 2008
Water in the West
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences
Finding balance in the upper Klamath Basin: innovative efforts by individuals and government
(Spring Hydrology Seminar Series, Water in the West)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences
Lalo Alcaraz Keynote Speech
A fun, interactive experience!
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Memorial Union | Free
Thursday, April 10, 2008
"Beyond Acidification: Experimental Approaches to Unravel the Complex Nature of Ocean Global Change."
Dave Hutchins, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Burt Hall
Violence and Nonviolence as Strategies for Social Justice
12:00 pm | Gilfillan Auditorium
"Understanding Marine Diversity: Large-Scale Patterns and Trends"
Boris Worm, Dalhousie University
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Burt Hall
Searching for the first Americans along the eastern Pacific margin: geo-archaeological problems and prospects
Speaker: Loren Davis, OSU (Geology Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Wilkinson Hall
"Boy I Am"
Screening of documentary and dicussion with the co-director, Sam Feder
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Memorial Union | Free
The Austin Entrepreneurship Program Fellow Event
Jesse Coombs, Professional Kayaker, Filmmaker, and Real Estate Investor
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Weatherford Hall | Please register with Carol Hahn
Linus Pauling Institute Public Seminar
"Personalizing Your Nutrition"
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | CH2M HILL Alumni Center | Free and open to the public
Food for Thought Lecture - Daniel J. Kevles, Yale University
"The Apples of Our Eyes: Innovation, Art, and Ownership in American Fruits"
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | LaSells Stewart Center | Free
Friday, April 11, 2008
Sharp Bounds on the Distribution of the Treatment Effect in Switching Regimes Models
Yanqin Fan, Vanderbilt University
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Bexell Hall | Free
"Ecosystem Consequences of Fishing Large Marine Predators"
Boris Worm, Dalhousie University
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Gilfillan Auditorium
Monday, April 14, 2008
Zoology Spring Seminar
Dr. Dee Denver
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences
Model Selection and Estimation with Multiple Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces
Dr. Ming Yuan, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Kidder Hall
Rediscovering an Ancient Forage (Teff) and Adding Value to Modern Grain
Presented by: Steve Norberg
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences | Free
Horning Lecture-Recital -- "French Impressions - A Musical Voyage"
Dana Whiteside, baritone, and James Johnson, piano
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Benton Hall | Free
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
"Shelf Sediment Dispersal Mechanisms and Deposition on the Waiapu River Shelf, New Zealand"
Tara Kniskern, University of California Santa Cruz/Virginia Institute of Marine Science
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Burt Hall
Horning Visiting Scholar Lecture - Lawrence M. Principe
"The Noble Art of Alchemy: Contents and Contexts"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Memorial Union | Free
Tales of the unexpected: From maize pollen to Arabidopsis roots, and beyond
John Fowler, Associate Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences | Free
Crash Course in Astrology
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Memorial Union | Free
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
"Swash Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport - New Solutions and Continuing Problems"
Tom Baldock, University of Queensland, Australia
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Burt Hall
"Small-Scale Population Structure in Coastal Cod: How Does Spatial Structure in Fitness-Oriented Traits Compare to Population Genetics?"
Halvor Knutsen and Esben Moland Olsen, Inst. of Marine Research, Flodevigen Marine Research Station, Norway
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Burt Hall
Divination, Oh My!
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Memorial Union | Free
CGRB Seminar: Craig Roy, Yale University School of Medicine
"Subversion of Eukaryotic Vesicle Transport Pathways by the Intracellular Pathogen Legionella pneumophila"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences | Free
Modeling climate change impacts on mountain hydrology: integrating vegetation dynamics with changes in snow accumulation and melt
(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
Environmental Ethics and Invasive Species
Invasive Species Conservation Biology & Mgt
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Nash Hall | Free
Relationship Signs
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Memorial Union | Free
Thursday, April 17, 2008
"What Ship Observations and Model Errors Tell Us about Tropical Eastern Pacific Climate"
Simon de Szoeke, NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
10:00 am - 11:00 am | Burt Hall
"Tracing the Transformations of Organic Carbon in Marine Sediments using Natural Carbon Isotopes"
Tomoko Komada, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, and Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Francisco State University
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Burt Hall
Eastern Zodiac: the twelve elements
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Memorial Union | Free
Linus Pauling Institute Seminar Series
"Oxidative Stress and Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease Brain: Central Role of Amyloid Beta-Peptide and Insights from Redox Proteomics"
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences | Free
Starker Lecture - Role of Planted Forests in the Pacific NW: Meeting Societal Demands in a Dynamic Environment
The Role of Planted Forests in Conserving Biodiversity in Forest Stands and Landscapes
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Richardson Hall | Free
The North Himalayan Gneiss Domes, Southern Tibet: A window into middle crustal processes during continental collision
Speaker: Jeff Lee, Central Washington U. (Geology Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Wilkinson Hall
Modeling of contaminant degradation by chemotactic bacteria: exploring the formation and movement of bacterial bands
Dr. Markus Hilpert, The John Hopkins University
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Burt Hall | Free
Horning Visiting Scholar Lecture - Lawrence M. Principe
"The Place of Alchemy in Early Modern Culture and the History of Science"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Memorial Union | Free
Is the Bible's Morality Out of Date?
A debate free and open to the public
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | LaSells Stewart Center | Free
Is the Bible's Morality Out of Date?
Sponsored by The OSU Socratic Club
7:00 pm - 9:15 pm | LaSells Stewart Center | Free
Austin Entrepreneurship Program Fireside Chat
Larry Hawley Brown, Earl & Brown Co., Inc.
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Weatherford Hall
Friday, April 18, 2008
DHE Research/Creative Activity Seminars
Korean and Latina Women's Perceptions of Gerotechnologies and Objective Phyiscal Environmental Freatures that Facilitate/Hinder Walking of Older Adults
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Milam Hall | Free and open to public
WIC 2008 Spring Luncheons
"Adding Exhibits and Graphics to the WIC Experience"
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Waldo Hall | Free
Horning Visiting Scholar Lecture - Lawrence M. Principe
"The Transmutations of Chymistry: Products and Pathways"
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Valley Library | Free
Ecosystem Service Markets: Cash, Conservation, or Can of Worms?
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Richardson Hall
"Environmental amenities and urban spatial structures."
Speaker: JunJie Wu, AREc (Geography Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Wilkinson Hall
Queer Astrology
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Pride Center | Free
Saturday, April 19, 2008
I Heard it in Class
A conference on myths and stereotypes perpetuated in schools.
10:00 am - 4:00 pm | Memorial Union | Free
Monday, April 21, 2008
Center for Humanities Lecture -- Capitalism and Its Discontents: Investigating Foodways in Rural Oregon
By Joan Gross, OSU Anthropology Dept.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Autzen House
It’s a Bug’s Life: “Pollination” of the Choke Fungus in Grasses by Flies and of Red Clover by Native Bees
Presented by: Sujaya Rao
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences | Free
Mark-Recapture Models In Columbia River Salmon Research: Replicate 2
Ben Sandford. OSU Statistics Alumni, National Marine Fisheries Services (NOAA), Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Fish Ecology Division, Pasco Field Station
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Kidder Hall
Networking and Dining Etiquette
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm | CH2M HILL Alumni Center | FULL
Global Warming and Science
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Milam Auditorium | Free
Global Warming and Science
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Milam Auditorium | Free
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Tory Hagen Lecture & Inauguration Ceremony for the Jamieson Chair in Healthspan Research
Linus Pauling Institute
11:00 am - 12:00 pm | LaSells Stewart Center | Free
Plant-insect interactions.
Jessica Green, Graduate student, Department of Horticulture, OSU
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences | Free
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
On the frontline: PPQ The gatekeeper to preventing entry of invasive species
Speakers: Gary Brown, Mark Hitchcox, Mitchell Nelson, USDA APHIS
11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Richardson Hall
Living Waters: Connection and Separation in Water, from Physical, Legal, Political, and Spiritual Perspectives
Distinguished Panel on Water Resources
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Memorial Union
New Therapies for Parkinson's disease
3:00 pm - 3:50 pm | LaSells Stewart Center | Free
Oregon water law, climate change and energy consumption
(Spring Hydrology Seminar Series, Water in the West)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Agricultural & Life Sciences
An introduced marine bopyrid isopod parasite, Orthione griffenis: The invasion faster than evolution?
Invasive Species Conservation Biology & Mgt
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Nash Hall | Free
An introduced marine bopyrid Isopod parasite, Orthlone griffenls: The Invasion faster than evolutoin?
Speakers: John Chapman and Brett Dumbauld, 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
Craft of Writing Series Presents: Literature in Translation
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Memorial Union | Free
Thursday, April 24, 2008
"Idaho National Laboratory: The Nation's Nuclear Laboratory"
Speaker: David Hill, Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology, INL
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Radiation Center
"Sensitivity Analysis of Key Parameters and Initial Conditions in Atmospheric Models."
Humberto Godinez, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Portland State University
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Strand Agriculture Hall
Environmental Justice Panel Discussion
Earth Week
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Memorial Union | Free
Environmental Justice Panel Discussion
Earth Week
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Memorial Union | Free
Coseismic and post seismic displacements from the 8 October 2005 Kashmir earthquake
Speaker: Rebecca Bendick, U. of Montana (Geology Seminar), Dept. of Geosciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Wilkinson Hall
Friday, April 25, 2008
Chun Chiu Conference - Day 1
Buddhist Activism in Greater China and Beyond
12:00 pm - 4:45 pm | Memorial Union | Free
Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields: The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects
AREc Seminar presented by Wolfram Schlenker of Columbia University
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Ballard Extension Hall | Free
Backtesting Parametric Value-at-Risk With Estimation Risk
Juan Carlos Escanciano: Indiana University, Bloomington
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Bexell Hall | Free
Medicine, Writing, and Humanities
Literary Performance with Dr. C. Dale Young
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Valley Library | Free
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Medicine, Writing, and Humanities
Medicine and Writing Workshop led by Dr. Chris Adrian
9:00 am - 12:00 pm | Autzen House | Free - Advance registration required.
Chun Chiu Conference - Day 2
Buddhist Activism in Greater China and Beyond
9:30 am - 4:15 pm | LaSells Stewart Center | Free
Medicine, Writing, and Humanities
Reading by Chris Adrian
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Valley Library | Free
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
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
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
"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
Global Warming Cracked Open: A Peek Inside
A Public Lecture
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Milam Auditorium | Free
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)
"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 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
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
