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"Acting your age" used to make sense. Going to college, leaving home, getting married, having children and retiring took place at predictable stages. That was then. "Age has become much less significant in our society and in the minds of people," says Richard Settersten Jr., a professor at the Center for Healthy Aging Research at Oregon State University.
It's a version of Seaside -- carefully created at a fraction of its actual size -- just waiting to be slammed by a tsunami. Oregon State University's O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory's Tsunami Wave Basin is re-creating a few blocks of Seaside so researchers can repeatedly slam tidal waves into it. And officials of the Oregon coast town are thrilled. The $1 million study could help save lives.
“Love is a better teacher than duty,” said Albert Einstein. Elizabeth W. Sulzman, an award-winning associate professor at Oregon State University, was the embodiment of the love that teaches well, according to her students, colleagues and friends. “She had more energy than you can imagine,” said Barbara Bond, a friend and colleague. “She was gorgeous and vivacious.”
In our body-conscious society, virtually everyone seems to be obsessed with shedding excess pounds. But Oregon State University researchers are finding that self-consciousness about being overweight may actually keep some people from exercising, changing their diet or taking other steps to slim down to healthier levels. A new study titled “Weight Stigma and Perceived Physical Appearance: Their Key Precursors and Relationship to Physical Self-Worth and Health Behaviors” is attempting to measure people’s attitudes about being overweight and gauge those influence actions that might help them lose weight.
An OSUsed Store is scheduled for noon to 3 p.m. at the property management facility, 644 S.W. 13th St.
Among the events on the Oregon Public Affairs Network, which starts at 6 p.m., are Robert Nye’s “Why This Isn’t My Final Lecture” and John Dupré’s “The Friendly Germ Meets the Selfish Gene: Towards a Less Hostile View of Nature.” It is shown on Channel 27 in the mid-valley.
The Lavender Graduation ceremony is set for 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 14, at the LaSells Stewart Center on campus.
The Research Office is accepting applications for the Undergraduate Research, Innovation, Scholarship and Creativity (URISC) for the Fall 2007-08 solicitation. Deadline is Monday, June 25. Info: Debbie Delmore at 737-8390 or debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu.
Training and Professional Development Courses has posted its summer workshops for faculty and staff, featuring a comprehensive three-course session on change management and additional Online Recruitment and Position Dscriptions trainings.
The deadline for Oregon Literary Fellowships is June 29. Oregon Literary Fellowships provide fiscal support to writers and independent publishers throughout the state of Oregon. The minimum amount for each fellowship has been raised to $2,500. Fellowships are awarded to writers in the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama and young readers literature. Fellowships are also awarded to independent publishers. Info: Susan@literary-arts.org.
Reservations are being taken for the 2007 Beaver Community Fair, which is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 28, in the MU Quad.
Due to parking lot maintenance and irrigation repairs, student and staff parking in the 15th Street parking lot north of Jefferson will be closed June 18-22. Access to the Campus Information Booth will not be affected by this shutdown. Info: Norm Brown, 737-7639.
Due to annual backflow testing, all water services to Richardson Hall will be temporarily shut down from 8 a.m. to noon on June 28. This shutdown will affect all rooms on all floors, including restrooms and drinking fountains. Info: Roger Admiral, 737-3163; or Rand Sether, 737-4275.
Due to annual maintenance on the campus steam distribution system, Facilities Services will shut down all steam services to campus from 11 p.m. June 17 to 5 p.m. June 21. This will affect all hot water and heating services. Info: Les Walton, 737-4395 or Gary Hanson, 737-7652.
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