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GE Spring Session 2 Begins
Higher Education Readiness Program
The American Military & Diplomatic History Conference
Conference Panels, Tues. May 7, 2-5pm, Memorial Union, Journey Room:
*with light refreshments
-2pm: "The Impact of International Revolutions on Political Discourse in Antebellum America,"
Danielle Holtz, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University
-3pm: "The Art and Science of American Diplomacy,”
David Milne, University of East Anglia
Moderator: David Bernell, Oregon State University
-4pm: "The Forgotten History of American Foreign Policy Success,"
Timothy Lynch, University of Melbourne
Moderator: Amy Below, Oregon State University
Keynote Panel, Tues. May 7, 7pm, LaSells Center, C&E Auditorium:
"American Power in Historical Perspective"
with Christopher McKnight Nichols (Oregon State), Timothy Lynch (Melbourne), and David Milne (East Anglia)
Moderator: Ben Mutschler (Oregon State)
*followed by a reception hosted by Oxford UP
NOTE: Some of the conference talks and events will be recorded and can be viewed after the event.
American Military and Diplomatic History Conference
This conference will bring together international and U.S.-based scholars to offer new perspectives on the historical and contemporary relationship between the United States and the world. The daylong event features scholars from three continents and draws on experts from OSU’s School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, as well as from political science and public policy. It will address a wide variety of scholarly accounts and innovative interpretations of American military and diplomatic history, 1776-present, and seeks to engage the OSU and Corvallis communities in discussions about the pressing international challenges that the U.S. and the world face today.
The timing of this conference coincides with the publication and launch of The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History, a major two-volume encyclopedia that will be discussed at the keynote panel by its main editors: Timothy Lynch, David Milne, and Christopher McKnight Nichols. In the keynote these three scholars will talk about the insights drawn from their multi-year, multi-volume study of American military and diplomatic history since the 18th century and will situate American power in historical and global perspective.
In addition to the scholarly and community benefits of the conference, this event also aims to foster new intellectual connections and to embed the work pursued at the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion and the OSU community in a transnational dialogue around the international role of the U.S. and its relationship to and with the world.
Schedule of Events:2-5pm, Conference Presentations - OSU Memorial Union, Journey Room:
2pm: "The Impact of International Revolutions on Political Discourse in Antebellum America"
Danielle Holtz, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Christopher McKnight Nichols, Oregon State University
3pm: "The Art and Science of American Diplomacy"
David Milne, University of East Anglia
Moderator: David Bernell, Oregon State University
4pm: "The Forgotten History of American Foreign Policy Success’"
Timothy Lynch, University of Melbourne
Moderator: Amy Below, Oregon State University
7pm, Keynote Panel - LaSells Stewart Center, C&E Auditorium:*
(* NOTE: C-SPAN will be filming this event!)
and the Launch of Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
In the nearly two-and-half centuries since the Declaration of Independence, the United States
has gone from being a distant trading outpost on the eastern seaboard of British North America to one of the most significant political, economic, and military powers in world history. This rise is
due to many factors. Americans were fortunate in their geography, which lessened their vulnerability to foreign threat, and in their climate, which made much of the nation’s land arable and
prevented famine. Through robust design, the flexible, often messy political system of the United States tended to generate vibrant democratic politics, characterized by peaceful transitions of
power, and a booming economy. These opportunities and political constructions provided the foundation for the military power and diplomatic capacity of the United States. Bringing to bear the
latest scholarly insights to analyze that power and capacity over the last 300 years is the central concern of the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History.
The editorial board directing the conception and writing of this major reference work will discuss and debate scholarly approaches to American power, historical and contemporary, as part of Oregon
State University’s conference on American Military and Diplomatic history launching the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History.
purchase the volumes at $100 off the list price (@ $295)
The panel will feature:
• Professor Christopher McKnight Nichols, Senior Editor, Assistant Professor, School of History,
Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University, author of: Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age (2011); co-editor/co-author with Charles Mathewes, Prophesies of Godlessness:
Predictions of America’s Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day (2008)
• Professor Timothy Lynch, Editor-in-Chief, Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate School of
Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, author of: After the Cold War: American Foreign Policy in a New World (2014); co-authored with R.S. Singh, After Bush: The
Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy (2008); Turf War: The Clinton Administration and Northern Ireland (2004)
• Professor David Milne, Senior Editor, Senior Lecturer, University of East Anglia,
author of: America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War (2008)
• Professor Ben Mutschler, Director of the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion
Sponsors:Funding for this event comes from the OSU Office of International Programs, the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, the Hundere Endowment for Religion and Culture, Oxford University Press, and the College of Liberal Arts.
GE Spring Session 2 Orientation
US Fulbright Information Session
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the largest U.S. exchange program offering opportunities for students and young professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and primary and secondary school teaching worldwide. The program currently awards approximately 1,800 grants annually in all fields of study, and operates in more than 155 countries worldwide.
During their grants, Fulbrighters will meet, work, live with and learn from the people of the host country, sharing daily experiences. The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think. Through engagement in the community, the individual will interact with their hosts on a one-to-one basis in an atmosphere of openness, academic integrity, and intellectual freedom, thereby promoting mutual understanding.For more information, please contact LeAnn Adam, OSU Fulbright Program Adviser (leann.adam@oregonstate.edu) or visit our Fulbright information page.
ISOSU's Spring Festival
The International Students of Oregon State University presents Spring Festival. Spring Festival is a collection of performances put on by both students and professional performers. There will be activities and games, free food ranging from the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, and Asian, and cultural booths. Come enjoy an afternoon of music and performances from around the world.
US Fulbright Information Session
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the largest U.S. exchange program offering opportunities for students and young professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and primary and secondary school teaching worldwide. The program currently awards approximately 1,800 grants annually in all fields of study, and operates in more than 155 countries worldwide.
During their grants, Fulbrighters will meet, work, live with and learn from the people of the host country, sharing daily experiences. The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think. Through engagement in the community, the individual will interact with their hosts on a one-to-one basis in an atmosphere of openness, academic integrity, and intellectual freedom, thereby promoting mutual understanding.
Learn more about the Fulbright U.S. Student Program: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/GE Spring Session 1 Ends
Biochar video
John Miedema of BioLogical Carbon Inc., Philomath, Ore., makes biochar at a wood processing plant and explains his process in this video.
Perry Morrow, student in the Oregon State University Water Resources Graduate Program, produced this video on biochar, the carbonized remains of plants. Turning low-value wood and other biomass into biochar sequesters carbon from the atmosphere for hundreds of years. The resulting material may also benefit water quality by absorbing pollutants such as copper, lead, zinc and other metals.
Learning to Fly
Heidi Igarashi studies the “sandwich generation,” parents who care for their adult children as well as their own aging parents. Listen to a podcast with Igarashi. (Photo: Nick Houtman)
For many first-year college students, going to a new school represents “leaving the nest.” They are now responsible for housing, bills and their own education. But according to Heidi Igarashi , a research assistant at Oregon State University, most are still in their parents’ nest and will be for several more years.
“Parents used to expect that their kids should be financially independent by 22,” she says, “but now the majority of them say 25. There is a longer run up to adulthood.”
Igarashi, a doctoral student who works with Carolyn Aldwin, professor of human development and family sciences, recently published a study looking at parents who support both adult children (ages 18 to 30) and their own elderly parents. She found that while parental support may benefit maturing adults, things get more difficult when they care for the older generation.
“The idea of the empty nest is based on this probably antiquated idea of the life cycle where you get married, have children, your children grow up, ‘leave the nest,’ and the parents are there to ride out those last periods of time. ‘Empty nest,’” she adds, “applies to some people but not many.”
It is simply taking longer for young adults to take flight. That trend shows up in a variety of ways, from education to insurance. For example, Igarashi points to an increased interest and a need for further education in graduate school. Health insurance has also changed. Prior to 2010, states had varying rules on dependency for health insurance purposes. Now federal law says a child can remain on a parent’s insurance until age 26. Igarashi attributes these cultural changes to the nest being full longer.
Igarashi found that most parents were happy to support their children for longer periods of time. Parents, she suggests, are simply continuing what they had been doing. However, she also looked at them as caregivers for their own parents. This type of caring is increasingly common. The average couple has more parents than children. But that doesn’t mean it is always received with ease. Igarashi calls this type of support “caring up.” On the generational ladder, the older you get, the higher on the ladder you are.
Caring Up Is Hard to Do
“Caring up is hard on everyone. The midlife folks were very happy to provide care up, but it came with this burden, feelings of angst, anxiety, uncertainty. Not only for themselves, but for their parents too.” Some elderly parents had Alzheimer’s, and some were bed ridden. In these circumstances, feelings of anxiety are natural, she adds.
Igarashi did her study during the economic recession of 2008-2009. Shortly after she published her results, the PEW Research Center released a similar but separate study that added more detail. PEW found that in 2012, 47% of midlife adults (ages 40-59) were supporting a child, while they were also taking care of a parent older than 65-years-old. Pew Researchers referred to these individuals as part of a “sandwich generation,” meaning they provide both care up and care down the generational ladder.
Despite any feelings of potential burdens, Igarashi’s study found that during these changing economic times, being a “sandwich generation” may not be a bad thing. Young adults get the support they need to take flight from the nest when they are truly ready, whether for educational, financial or other reasons.
“In our society we tend to really value autonomy and independence, and hold it almost paramount to almost anything else,” says Igarashi. “What our study indicates is that it’s really interdependence that may become really important, especially in this changing socioeconomic world where you really need other people around you to really work together.”
Most college students fit into the category of nestlings learning to fly. While the job market will continue to create challenges, Igarashi provides encouragement that parents are willing to assist their children during these changing times even while assisting parents of their own.
Co-authors on Igarashi’s study include Oregon State professor Karen Hooker, Deborah P. Coehlo (OSU-Cascades) and Margaret M. Manoogian (Western Oregon University).
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See Igarashi’s report, “My Nest Is Full”: Intergenerational relationships at midlife, in the Oregon State University Scholar’s Archive.
See the PEW Research Center study on mid-life adults: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/01/30/the-sandwich-generation/
Unique Journeys: Collaborating Beyond Borders
Join Allison Davis-White Eyes, Dr. Brent Steel , Dr. Philipp Kneis, and some of their students as they discuss the result of their recent collaborative efforts: an experiential learning program offered in partnership between Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, Oregon State University and Warsaw University, Poland. Dr. Kneis is currently an instructor in Political Science and Master of Public Policy Programs, of which Dr. Steel is the director, while Allison Davis-White Eyes is the Director of Intercultural Student Services and American Indian Initiatives. This event will take place Thursday, May 2nd from noon-1pm in MU 213. Light refreshments will be served.
Network Professionally with Facebook
Alumni Career Webinar Series-FREE
Wednesday, May 1st from 5-6PM
Network Professionally with Facebook
with Natascha Saunders
Visit www.osualum.com/webinars to register
AHA Scholarship Application Due
The AHA Scholarship is a monetary scholarship available to all students applying for any AHA study abroad program. Individual scholarships are available and range from $500-$3,000; the amount awarded will vary depending on an applicant’s:
- Academic standing
- Scholarship application essay
- Project proposal
- Resume
- Financial need (optional)
Click here for more
information.
PLEASE NOTE: In order for a scholarship application to be considered, students must complete their AHA program application by the scholarship deadline. This includes submitting the application essays, two references, and transcript(s).
Engineers Without Borders "Kel Wer" documentary screening
Engineers Without Borders at Oregon State will be showing its documentary film made during their last trip to Kenya in July of 2012. The 35 minute film will be followed by a Q&A session with members of the EWB team. Attendance is free but seating is limited!
The Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture for World Peace
Leah Bolger, recent President of Veterans for Peace, will be the 30th Pauling Peace Lecturer.
IE3 Global Internship Fall 13 scholarship application due
IE3-OUS Chancellor Scholarships
IE3 offers scholarships to highly-qualified applicants with financial need. The award is in the form of a $500 - $1500 program fee reduction (for Scholarship Recipient Requirements, see below). IE3 Global Internships considers applications for all IE3 internship sites.
To apply, submit a completed IE3 Scholarship Application online in addition to a completed Internship Application.
http://ie3global.ous.edu/about/scholarships/
DFG Research and Innovation Grants
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.
Music à la Carte
University and private instructors and students from Eugene and Corvallis perform. Memorial Union Lounge, Free
