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Monday, November 16, 2009

Stream Team Seminars
Does nutrient supply or hydrology affect bacterial communities in desert stream sediments? - Lydia Zeglin, OSU, Crop and Soil Science
8:30 am - 9:30 am  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
Does nutrient supply or hydrology affect bacterial communities in desert stream sediments?
Speaker: Lydia Zeglin, Crop and Soil Science, OSU
8:30 am - 9:30 am  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
"Global Encounters: What Is It Like to Live and Learn in the Unfamiliar?"
Sunil Khanna, Professor of Anthropology and 2009 International Service Award Recipient
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free and open to the public
Rural People and Places --- Familiar Subject, New View
Emery Castle, Professor Emeritus, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University. Discussant: Ethan Seltzer, Director, School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Memorial Union
What's it Like? - Being an Agricultural Extension Agent
Presenter - Larry Lutcher
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences
‘Fallen Among Reformers?’: Feminism, Activism, and Miles Franklin’s Unpublished Writing During the Chicago years, 1906-1915
Center for the Humanities Lecture by Janet Lee
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm  |  Autzen House
Problems for the clairvoyant demon
Geoffrey Grimmett, University of Cambridge
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Kidder Hall
Euthanasia: A Good Death?
A Socratic Club Debate
7:00 pm - 9:15 pm  |  Gilfillan Auditorium  |  Free

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Join the Jet-Set: How to kick off an international career!
9:00 am - 10:00 am  |  Snell Hall  |  Free
"Preliminary Results from the Pacific Equatorial Age Transect, IODP Expeditions 320/321"
William Busch, University of New Orleans
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Burt Hall
Dynamical Downscaling of Climate for Global Change Application
Dept. of Geosciences (Geography Seminar Series)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
Metrology of Cellulose Nanocrystals
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
"Biological control in horticultural crops: Facts and fancy."
Jana Lee, Research Entomologist, USDA-ARS HCRL, Corvallis
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Building Your Business Plan Series
Profit and Loss Statements and Cash Flows
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm  |  Kelley Engineering Center

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

"Animal movement at multiple scales: toward a behavioral global ecology"
Matt Betts, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forest Ecosystems and Society, OSU
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall
CGRB Seminar Series: Craig Pikaard
"Roles of RNA polymerases IV and V in siRNA-mediated gene silencing"
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm  |  Agricultural & Life Sciences  |  Free
Reconstructing the use of freshwater and marine habitats by Chinook salmon: implications for conservation and management.
Speaker: Jessica Miller, Fisheries & Wildlife, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Newport, OR
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Nash Hall  |  Free
Power, Water and Corruption: Past, Present and Future
Fall Water Resources Seminar Series
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Owen Hall
Pocketbook
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Memorial Union  |  Free

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Austin Entrepreneurship Program
Fellow Event Dr. Jason Clay, Senior Vice President for Market Transformations at the World Wildlife Fund
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free
The Forests of Taiwan: New opportunities for biomass utilization
by Dr. Yu-jen Lin, Taiwan Forest Research Institute and World Forest Institute International Fellow
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Richardson Hall  |  Free
Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Southern Willamette Basin
Dept. of Geosciences (Geology Fall Seminar Series)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  |  Wilkinson Hall
The Austin Entrepreneurship Program Presents
Fellow Event, Laura Sokolowski--VP For Operations At Blue Cross Shield Of Oregon
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free
The Austin Entrepreneurship Program Presents
Fellow Laure Sokolowski,Vice President of Membership, Regence
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm  |  Weatherford Hall  |  Free

Friday, November 20, 2009

Sexual Health Advisory Board
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm  |  Plageman Student Health Center  |  Free
Visiting Writers Series
Poetry Reading by Fady Joudah
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Valley Library
Visiting Writers Series
Jess Walter, novelist
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm  |  Valley Library  |  Free
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