OSU Events
Pacific Biodiesel plant tour
See a biodiesel plant in action! The OSU Sustainable Energy Initiative will be touring Pacific Biodiesel's production facility in Salem, getting an up-close view at how biodiesel is made on a commercial scale.
Open to all majors. Registration fee is $10, and must be paid in the Gleeson Hall main office to reserve your spot. We are limited to 20 participants, so register early to ensure you get a spot!
For more information, visit sei.oregonstate.edu.
Lifeguard w/First Aid
Challenge yourself and gain skills and knowledge to keep aquatic patrons safe. This program includes aquatic-specific rescues, and First Aid and CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer.
*Participants must swim 500 yards continuously, and retrieve a 10 pound brick from 10 feet underwater. Offered as a programmed or contract class only (no private lessons). (Note: Lifeguard w/First Aid or equivalent required for Dixon employees working in aquatics).
There is 2 full weekend that you will have to attend to pass this course. Dates and times: Sat 4/27, Sun 4/28, Sat 5/11, & Sun 5/12 at 10:00am to 6:00pm.
Self-Defense Class
Ronie Carper, the self defense instructor will be giving a brief, crash course on self defense for the OSU community.
Intramural Sports Combine Tournament Games
Oregon State University 58th Annual Luau
Come on down on April 27th to Gill Coliseum and join us for Oregon State's 58th Annual Luau followed by a concert by Spawnbreezie! Gold tickets are $25 which include dinner, show and a concert or silver tickets which are $15 and include the show and concert. Tickets will go on sale April 15-26th in the MU quad and will also be available at the door for $5 more. You don't wanna miss this!
Artistic Beavers Art Exhibition
What:First ever event focused on highlighting the artistic talents of both local artists and student athletes at Oregon State University. The goal is to create awareness within the
community about the impact art has on our society. This will be done by providing a venue that brings limitless talent under one roof for an extravagant event.
• Digital media
• Traditional media
• Music
• Sculpture
• Painting
• New Media
• possible open mic
• Other Ideas are more than welcome.
Why: Artists that decide to offer their art for profit will also be donating a portion of the proceeds to the American Cancer Society. This would provide a great opportunity for
art to directly impact the lives of others.
Artists will have an option to either donate their art, showcase their art or sell their art at the event.
A Call to Artists
If you are an Artist in any media, Like to draw in your spare time, enjoy digital media as a way to escape day to day mandates, or play an instrument, you are eligible to participate in the first
annual Artistic Beavers Art Exhibition.
If you are interested in being featured in the event please email me immediately <stevenchristian@stuckonaneyeland.com>
Subject Line: I Want To Be An Artistic Beaver
Include your name in the message as well.
Oregon Dance 34th Annual Concert
Oregon Dance and guest artists will present the 34th Annual Concert on April 26,27, 2013, at 7:30 pm, at the Majestic Theatre, 115 SW Second St. Corvallis. All seats are reserved. On-line ticketing is available at www.majestic.org, or 541-738-7469. Tickets may also be purchased at the Majestic Theatre Box Office from noon-5pm, Wed - Fri. Additional tickets may be purchased at the door prior to each performance. Ticket prices are $15 - general, $10 students / seniors.
Carol Soleau, an Associate Professor of dance at OSU, has been the founder and artistic director of Oregon Dance for over three decades. Her new works include two modern jazz dances, one of which, "Dirty Laundry", portrays a racy view of floundering relationships.
Set to the sultry tune of "Harlem Nocturne", Maryam Baghdadi and Sean Carrigg capriciously perform in "Can we Dance?" This piece explores the etiquette associated with Ballroom Dance Competitions.
Ms. Soleau is also reviving two of her vintage works.
"Transmutation" (1989) set to Robert Campbell's commissioned score, has been rechoreographed on Claire Skach, a former national rhythmic gymnast.
"Eve of the Marriage" (1983) is a lyrical commentary on arranged marriages from women's perspectives.
Carol has also received permission to reset "Isle" (1984) choreographed by her brother, Willliam Soleau. This critically acclaimed duet to the music of Henry Purcell has been set on several national and international ballet companies. Its timeless purity of movement is a treat to share with Corvallis audiences.
Guest performers are OSU's Vietnamese dance club, and selected students from LBCC who will add jazz and hip-hop to the concert.
The concert is sponsored by the School of Biological and Population Sciences, the College of Public Health and Human Sciences, the OSU Foundation, and the Alonzo and Jennie Bonsal Foundation.
2013 Earth Week Celebration
The annual Earth Week celebration is a week of fun and educational activities geared toward raising environmental awareness and engagement.
Get the full event details at http://tiny.cc/earth-calendar.
Summer LIFE Scholars Program
Applications for the Center for Healthy Aging Research 2013 Summer Life Scholars program are due on May 3, 2013. Stipends of up to $2,000 are available to OSU undergraduate students for scholarly, creative research in the interdisciplinary field of aging. Students must identify and work with a mentor from the Center for Healthy Aging Research. Up to 5 students will be selected for the program. See health.oregonstate.edu/healthy-aging/student-opportunities; Contact: Anne Hatley@541-737-4993
ASCE PNW Student Conference
Eighteen ASCE Student Conferences are held every spring, each hosted by an ASCE Student Organization belonging to the Student Conference. Most include a business meeting, professional/technical presentations, competitions (surveying, technical paper presentations, concrete canoe, steel bridge), social activities and an awards banquet.
Contacts: Ben Sundberg & Prof. Tom Miller
2nd Amendment Week
The OSU College Republicans will be celebrating 2nd Amendment Week and the right to keep and bear arms. There will be a free Concealed Handgun License class, a lecture and documentary screening, a drawing for a weapon, and Lars Larson will be broadcasting his radio show from the steps of the MU when the winner of the drawing is declared.
Music à la Carte
University and private instructors and students from Eugene and Corvallis perform. Memorial Union Lounge, Free
Willamette Water 2100 Project Webinar: Modeling ecohydrologic processes in mountain watersheds—implications for the Willamette Watershed
Abstract: Mountain, snow-dominated watersheds in the Western U.S. provide multiple services. Two especially important services are the provision of water supply to human populations and maintenance of forested ecosystems that preserve water quality and sequester atmospheric carbon. Understanding what fraction of the hydrologic budget that forests consume via transpiration or their influence on the landscape’s evaporation budget remains an active area of research because of the many interacting climatic and landscape controls. We use a process-based model of coupled hydrologic and carbon cycling processes to estimate evapotranspiration (ET), forest productivity (NPP) and growth, and streamflow. The model allows us to detangle how historic climatic controls have influenced forest water use, and concomitantly, basin streamflow. We show that despite receiving a substantial amount of annual precipitation in the HJ Andrews, the seasonality of precipitation relative to the growing season renders a large fraction of that water unavailable to the forests. Instead, forest ET is largely controlled by the landscape’s soil water holding capacity—or the geologic properties that hold snowmelt on the landscape later into the growing season. Other watersheds in the Western US, such as those in the California Sierra or Colorado Rockies, show much greater sensitivity to the timing of melt and how much incoming precipitation falls as snow versus rain. The spatial differences in the sensitivity of forest water use to warming can have important implications for streamflow but also for forest vulnerability to disturbances, including fire and drought related dieback and disease. To show this, we present results from a study in New Mexico where the spatial pattern of drought-related forest dieback was related to these geo-climatic controls on forest water availability and use. Our model-based analysis for forest and streamflow responses to warming for small watersheds in different geo-climatic settings in the Western US provides a more mechanistic understanding of watershed sensitivity to climate warming.
This seminar can also be viewed online: http://live.oregonstate.edu . Please sign in to the chat window with: First Name_Last Name_OrganizationAbbreviation so you can ask questions during and after the seminar and we can track who is watching online. You will need to use underscores rather than spaces when you sign in and there is a limit of about 30 characters.
This seminar is sponsored by the Willamette Water 2100 Project, a project evaluating how climate change, population growth, and economic growth will change the availability and the use of water in the Willamette River Basin (WRB) on a decadal to centennial timescale.
Research Seminars
"Health Impact Assessment: A Cutting Edge Tool for Bringing Public Health Science to Cross-Sector Policies" Brenda Hoppe, PhD, Instructor, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University.
Brenda Hoppe is a senior natural resource specialist for the Oregon Health Authority, performing research, modeling and data analysis related to climate change, health impact assessment, built environment and drinking water quality.
She earned a MS in Human Physiology at the University of Oregon and a Public Health PhD in Environment, Safety and Health at Oregon State University.
Her doctoral research involved modeling fine resolution agricultural nitrogen inputs to groundwater in order to characterize statewide exposures to nitrate in private well water. This work was applied to evaluating state-level data and policy for supporting public health surveillance of contaminant loading to private wells.
She is an instructor at OSU in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences. A native of Wisconsin, she's delighted to live and ride in Portland, one of the most 'skate friendly’ cities in the U.S., where skateboarding is recognized as a legitimate mode of transportation and world-class skateparks are part of the shared commons.
Bellah's Lament: the Making of Civil Religion in America
In 1967, Robert Bellah published an essay entitled "Civil Religion in America" - he has regretted it ever since. Bellah's lament is based on the ironic relationship between the historical and the historiographical aspects of that essay. He wrote his essay in a time of war - the Vietnam War - as a reflection on the tragic mess he hoped the United States could find a way of. However, with that essay he launched a somewhat quixotic cottage industry of scholars who seemingly searched for a moral creed - a normative civil religion - that suggested tragedies such as Vietnam were anomalies (rather than confirmations) of the "true" nature of American history. I argue that in retrospect, Bellah’s essay and his lament reveal a significant relationship between civil religion and war. Recent scholarship confirms that at the intersection between religion, the nation, and war, many historians cannot avoid finding civil religion. In other words, civil religion in America persists with or without Robert Bellah.
ASCE PNW Conference
Concrete canoe contest, steel bridge contest, various other events, meals and social and professional interactions with students and professionals from the PNW. Held at OSU and KnifeRiver facility in Corvallis.
Trans* Health 101
Join the Pride Center in the educational event focusing on Trans* Health, and its various aspects, difficulties, and resources. Brenda McComb and Beth Wasylow are presenting this event. Become more informed!
Free and open to the public. Refreshments available.
Brenda McComb, Ph.D., who is a Dean from OSU's Graduate School and who teaches the Trans 101 academic course.
Beth Wasylow, Ph.D., who is a licensed psychologist from OSU's Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS).
Trans* Health 101
Focus in on the Trans* health and its various aspects, difficulties, and resources.
Optimal Expectations and Casino Gambling
OSU's School of Public Policy invites you to attend an SPP Research Colloquium seminar entitled "Optimal Expectations and Casino Gambling" to be presented by Dr. Roland Eisenhuth, who will be joining OSU's Economics Faculty next fall.
ABSTRACT: Employing a version of the model of optimal expectations introduced by Brunnermeier and Parker (2005), we explain the persistent phenomenon of risk averse agents accepting gambles with negative expected pay offs. We assume a preference structure in which an agent is divided into and receives utility from two sub agents: the advisor and executor. The executor believes, with a higher-than true probability, that the expected pay off will be positive. The advisor, who is rational, optimally sets this probability so that the agent extracts utility from both sub agents. Implications are discussed in the context of supply and demand of casino gambling and transactions costs charged by brokers in financial markets. Finally, we solve a mechanism design problem in which agents with high (low) executor weight self select into gambles that have a lower (higher) probability of a positive pay off, rationalizing why different games with different odds are offered in the same casino.
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