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COVID-19 website: To facilitate the ongoing sharing of information about the virus, Oregon State University has added a link on the OSU homepage to a page that provides detailed and up-to-date COVID-19 information; links to OSU, local, state and federal resources; and updates on the latest federal travel restrictions.
TRACE OSU testing: TRACE OSU is providing random COVID-19 testing by invitation at its Corvallis and Bend campuses and at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. Testing will take place in Corvallis in the Memorial Union Ballroom and at Reser ticket booths, Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. In Newport, testing will be provided every other week beginning Jan. 19, Monday through Wednesday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Thursday 9 a.m.-2 p.m. At OSU-Cascades, testing is provided only to students living and working on campus, and employees working on campus. Visit the OSU-Cascades Safety and Success website to learn more about testing schedules. Please join the effort to build a safer and healthier Oregon State University community. To enroll and for more information: https://trace.oregonstate.edu/osu.
Timely Teaching Tips: Looking for ways to help your students successfully complete the term? Review your Canvas gradebook for accuracy. Make sure it’s fully up to date so students know their status in your course. Remind students that the new Academic Support link in the Canvas course navigation menu will connect them to many helpful Academic Success Center resources.
Today in the News Media is a synopsis of some of the most prominent coverage of OSU people and programs. Inclusion of any item constitutes neither an endorsement nor a critique, but rather is intended only to make the OSU community aware of significant items in the media. Content appearing includes timely news and feature stories from broadcast, print and online sources. Occasionally, opinion pieces and first-person columns appearing in mainstream media outlets that are written by faculty members and pertain to their academic or professional expertise may be included based on their unique, informative value, timeliness and space constraints. It is not the policy of OSU Today to include Letters to the Editor.
Although her school has not had recent, obvious conflicts like those at WOU, Nat Young, a graduate student and senator for Oregon State University’s student government, also spoke in support of the bill. “This year, we’ve had to make a lot of tough decisions in terms of what student fees need to go to. A lot of things have had to be cut [and] reduced,” Young said Thursday.
Higher education workers will be included in the next phase of Oregon's COVID-19 vaccine priority list, making them and many other front-line workers eligible no later than May 1.
Benton County and Oregon State University are in the first steps of asking Governor Kate Brown and the Oregon Health Authority to change their COVID-19 risk level criteria so Benton County can leave the current “extreme risk” designation.
In Corvallis, Oregon, the state designates certain funding sources to metropolitan statistical areas and any change to the city’s status could create a ripple effect, particularly when it comes to transportation funding, said Patrick Rollens, a spokesman for the city that is home to Oregon State University. (see also Oregonian)
“They are a species that, because they’re so challenging to study, we just don’t have really good information on them,” said Jim Rivers, an assistant professor of wildlife ecology at Oregon State University. “And that hinders their conservation and also hinders planning for timber management of our coastal forests, which are really key to Oregon’s economy.”
“Some people have called the pandemic ‘the great pause,’” said Adam Krynicki, Oregon State University-Cascades Innovation Co-Lab executive director. “It’s caused a lot of people to stop and think about their lifestyle. They’re coming to Bend because it’s the perfect place to balance work, play and family. We have a growing tech community, a great support system for entrepreneurs, some of the best skiing in the country, great schools, a four-year university – and the list just keeps growing.”
Known commercially as Blue 10G513, YInMn Blue, pronounced “yin min,” was a happy accident during semiconductor research conducted in 2009 in the materials science lab of Mas Subramanian at Oregon State University. After a long patent and EPA approval process, it landed on the market in 2016. It’s been growing in popularity since.
According to a report conducted by an outside law firm, Louisiana State University administration failed to act on Title IX compliance recommendations during Oregon State University President F. King Alexander’s tenure as LSU president from July 2013 until December 2019. (see also USA Today)
Spring is in the air and we’re betting you’re gearing up for gardening. If you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service.
Postcards to Campus is an ongoing project centered around the OSU community. This project is open for submissions of mailed, dropped off or uploaded postcards. OSU community members are encouraged to share art, writings and sentiments on their postcards that range from personal to OSU-specific. Postcards submitted will be on display in the Valley Library rotunda and online, and will be archived through OSU's Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC) to be featured in their COVID Collecting Project. To find out more go here: https://spark.adobe.com/page/DoBPihuByIA4D/ and also click on Postcard Archive to see more of these great works of art.
Women's Leadership in Times of Crisis: Join the UCI Irvine School of Social Sciences in partnership with Oregon State University’s School of Public Policy in a global conversation honoring International Women’s Day. Catherine Bolzendahl, professor of sociology and director of the School of Public Policy, will be part of the California-Oregon panel of distinguished women leaders. Monday, March 8, 9 a.m. Learn more or Register.
Fungus Among Us Lecture Series: The College of Forestry Student Ambassadors present the first lecture in a virtual series devoted to all things fungi. Jessie Uehling, associate professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, will present “Evolutionary Fungal Bacterial Interactions and the Fungal Microbiome.” This virtual event is Monday, March 8, at 4 p.m. To register, head to https://www.forestry.oregonstate.edu/fungus.
School of Psychological Science’s Winter Colloquium Series: Erica Musser, associate professor and licensed clinical psychologist at Florida International University, will speak March 8, 4 p.m. via Zoom. Her research seeks to elucidate the mechanisms linking emotional functioning to child psychopathology. Zoom link can be obtained by emailing Kristen.macuga@oregonstate.edu.
Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world: The College of Science will host an online panel of women in leadership in celebration of International Women's Day on Monday, March 8, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Join us to learn from OSU alumni and faculty on the frontlines in the battle against COVID-19. The panel will also address the challenges and opportunities of women leaders working on disease-related work. Register here.
NEW! International Women's Day Panel: Join us on Monday, March 8 at 6 p.m. for an International Women's Day panel recognizing the accomplishments of faculty and staff at OSU. Panelists will be invited to share their journey of challenging bias in their personal lives and professional careers. We will also be joined by Julianne Jackson, local activist and founder of Black Joy Oregon. Registration required: https://beav.es/ouS.
OSU Album Club: Join Director of Popular Music Studies and Performing Arts Bob Santelli and OSU student Thomas Mahler in listening to and discussing Marvin Gaye's album "What's Going On." The club meets Monday, March 8, at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. Register.
NEW! Tuition Forum: The University Budget Committee has begun meeting to discuss recommendations for tuition rates for the 2021-22 academic year. As part of developing recommendations for the Board of Trustees, representatives of the Budget Committee and the Office of Budget and Resource Planning are offering a series of weekly forums to discuss the tuition setting process, tuition rate scenarios for FY22, and to answer any questions about tuition and the university budget. The next forum is Thursday, March 11 from 11 to noon via Zoom. To register for this forum, click here. A short discussion of common questions about tuition are available at https://beav.es/tuition-forums. The committee welcomes questions, comments, and ideas. For more information, to provide an idea or opinion, or to ask a question please contact Sherm Bloomer.
Career Meetup Day: One of the biggest Beaver networking opportunities of the year is happening Thursday, March 11, at noon. Spark connections with people who can help you achieve your goals at the Oregon State Alumni Association’s annual Career Meetup Day. Gather with OSU professionals and students from across the country and around the globe for conversations about thriving in uncertain times. Discover the new tools of virtual networking, pick up pointers for using LinkedIn and join a friendly quiz game with prizes. Register for free at osualum.com/careermeetup.
NEW! Oregon's Black History: A Virtual Event and Conversation with Walidah Imarisha: Walidah Imarisha is a writer, activist, educator, and spoken word artist who will be giving a talk about Oregon's Black History. Following her program, Imarisha will answer questions from the audience. March 9, 7 p.m. Registration is required. Link: https://beav.es/oEx.
NEW! Creating Compassionate Kids: Shauna Tominey, assistant professor and parenting education specialist will give a talk hosted by OSU’s Contemplative Studies Initiative and the Hundere Endowed Chair in Religion & Culture. March 10, 8:30-9:30 p.m. via Zoom. Recording will be available following the event. All welcome. Free/by donation. Please register here.
NEW! Targeted Drug Delivery to Treat Nervous System Disorders: DL Sellers has developed strategies to promote regeneration in the injured and diseased central nervous system. Recently, Sellers’ lab has begun to develop small peptides that function as targeting ligands and enhance drug uptake and delivery into the CNS. By engineering CNS targeting-ligands to enhance their structural and serum stability, his research aims develop novel drug delivery strategies to treat nervous system pathologies. Sellers will talk March 10, 3 p.m. Register here: https://beav.es/ozC.
NEW! Womxn in Science Outside the Lab event: Kishana Taylor, postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, will speak as part of the Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology (EECB) seminar series on "Prioritizing Intersectionality in Interdisciplinary Infectious Disease Research: Intersectional identities (and scientists) must inform how we study disease" on March 10, 4-5 p.m., via Zoom (beav.es/eecb) or YouTube: (beav.es/oSs).
NEW! Changing lives through literacy – CLA Changemakers webcast: Creating a lifelong reader and writer requires all hands on deck. That’s why Penny Kittle, ’83, founded the Book Love Foundation. She works with educators to donate classroom libraries, helping young readers discover diverse and impactful stories that fuel a passion for reading. She’s authored several books of her own and teaches at Plymouth State University. Join a conversation with Kittle March 10 at osualum.com/Changemakers, presented by the College of Liberal Arts and the OSU Alumni Association.
CTL’s Tuesday Teaching + Tech Talks: Effective Feedback: Discovering One of the Joys of Teaching and Learning. Cheridy Aduviri (CoEd) and Dan Rockwell (CoS). Grading got you down? Effective feedback is more than just a key element in student learning; it can also add purpose and joy to grading. Join us as we explore the who, what, where, when, why and how of effective feedback. This workshop will be facilitated on March 9 at 10 a.m. via Zoom: beav.es/ZOOMT4 *Password: CTL.
Fiscal Policy Updates: Learn more about OSU’s Fiscal Policy Program, recent policy updates and how you can be involved in the process. Presented by Cindy Draper. For more information about the event and how to register CLICK HERE. This PFLA Zoom event takes place Tuesday, March 9, noon to 1 p.m.
“Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate Change with Vanessa Raditz: Join us for a free, public lecture and question and answer session with Vanessa Raditz (they/them), queer educator, activist and filmmaker, on Tuesday, March 9, 6-7 p.m. via Zoom. Registrants to this free event will also receive a link to view the collaborative documentary, "Fire & Flood: Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate Change," directed by Raditz. Raditz is a queer cultural geographer, educator, and culture-shifter dedicated to community healing, opening access to land and resources and fostering a thriving local economy based on human and ecological resilience. Register here: oregonstate.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8BOE9dp_Sjuv0wHNM5LV6Q.
Floor Monitor Training: Training for Floor Monitors and Building Managers on roles and responsibilities when evacuating their building. Training is the second Wednesday of every month via Zoom. Sign up for Zoom Floor Monitor Training at: https://oregonstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1ZhCgowN8AukjPf.
2021 Starker Lecture Series: Resilience in the face of disturbance: Learning from disasters. Topic: Research: How do we best study rare disturbances? What have we learned about disturbances? How can these research findings help prepare research studies, forests, buildings and society as a whole for future disturbances? Wednesday, March 10, 2:-3:30 p.m. Register here. Panelists include Fred Swanson, emeritus professor, College of Forestry; Katy Kavanagh, associate dean for research, College of Forestry; and John van de Lindt, George T. Abell Professor in Infrastructure Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University. Hosts are Klaus Puettmann and John Nairn.
Hops dissertation: Ph.D. candidate Isabelle Logan will present her dissertation defense titled: “Cheers to Hops! How Xanthohumol can Improve Health,” on Thursday, March 11, 9 a.m. Join here: https://beav.es/JX2 Password: 394889.
Search Advocate Workshop: OSU Search Advocate workshops for the rest of this academic year are available for registration. Search advocates are outside process advisors who participate on employee search committees; their goal is to encourage culture and practices that favor equity, validity and diversity. The initial workshop series is a sequence of four 4-hour Zoom workshops. Those who complete the series may choose to have their names added to the Search Advocate Directory and will be eligible to serve as advocates until September 2022. Three-hour continuing education workshops for current advocates are also available. To register, go to the new Search Advocate/Workshops website. Questions? Contact Anne Gillies at anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu or 541-760-6160.
Social Justice Education Initiative workshops are happening now, including NEW Tier Two workshops: The SJEI is a foundational professional development program for all faculty, staff and graduate students. Join your colleagues to begin, or expand, your equity and inclusion journey. See the schedule and register for remote Tier One Platform workshops here. See the schedule and register for remote Tier Two Next Level workshops here. Interested in this work for your unit? Contact SJEI director Jane Waite for further information: jane.waite@oregonstate.edu
NEW! Call for Proposals: Explore and develop solutions for teaching challenges across all Corvallis and Cascades campus course modalities. Academic Technology and the Center for Teaching and Learning invite proposals to participate in the Spring ’21 Blended Faculty Learning Community. Group members will learn ways to enhance their use of educational technology to benefit student learning. See Call for Proposals. Apply by March 8.
NEW! NCBI/PubMed Login Changing on June 1: Login to NCBI/PubMed accounts will change beginning on June 1 and require federated account credentials. Login to NCBI/PubMed, click on your username, and check the Native NCBI Account and Linked Accounts boxes. If you ONLY have a Native NCBI Account box, link your NCBI account to a federated credentials tools (like OSU login). See "What do I need to do?" section of NCBI's announcement. Help options include the FAQ, info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, and Uta.Hussong-Christian@oregonstate.edu.
NEW! Sales academy winners: The Oregon State Sales Academy will be recognized for winning the national title at the University of Toledo National Sales Competition (UTISC). https://www.utoledo.edu/business/essps/utisc/.
NEW! Marine Science-Themed Virtual Programs: Bring fun, hands-on marine science activities to your home this spring. Oregon Sea Grant is offering a variety of two-hour virtual programs for students grades Pre-K-12 this March and April. Students will connect live with marine educators via Zoom. Cost is $30 per person and pre-registration is required. Registration includes a “homeschool day in a box/envelope” that will be mailed to registrants ahead of time. Learn more and register today.
NEW! PCOSW seeks input: The President's Commission on the Status of Women's (PCOSW) Work-Life Fit Committee would like to better understand the gendered impact of COVID-19 within OSU’s community, focused on caregiving responsibilities. Your responses will directly inform PCOSW advocacy. We are looking at the effects that the pandemic is having on people who identify as women, but we do not discount the effect it has had on all faculty and staff at OSU. Take the survey. Questions? pcosw@oregonstate.edu.
Cats with chronic kidney disease wanted for a study performed at the OSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital (Corvallis): Dr. Stacie Summers, a veterinarian and specialist in feline medicine, is looking for cats diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. Cats with CKD without diabetes, thyroid, or intestinal problems may qualify. The study pays for all study exams and tests. Your cat would receive an examination, bloodwork, urine tests, blood pressure and urinary ultrasound at enrollment to stage your cat’s chronic kidney disease. We then collect a small blood sample from your cat weekly for 6 weeks. Volunteers will receive a $100 Amazon gift card and a free 3-month supply of a kidney therapeutic diet for their cat. PI: Stacie Summers, DVM, Ph.D., Diplomate of ACVIM (Small Animal Medicine). Title: Biological variation of kidney values in cats with chronic kidney disease. Contact Dr. Summers at Stacie.summers@oregonstate.edu if you are interested in knowing more or enrolling your cat.
PCOSW special funding opportunity: The President’s Commission on the Status of Women invites applications for project funding (up to $1,000) for scholarly research work addressing the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent fallout on women in the workplace. This is particularly for proposals that increase our understanding of the strategies that can be implemented to mitigate these disproportionate impacts. This may include research on organizational change strategies, directed resources found to be effective or a literature review of efforts implemented in the higher education sector or other sectors that are transferrable to a university setting. Apply by Monday, March 15. NOTE: This is a one-time award for research, even if research is ongoing. For more info, visit https://leadership.oregonstate.edu/pcosw or email pcosw@oregonstate.edu.
$15K of Funding Available: The OSU Advantage Accelerator is currently seeking applications that describe technology-based projects in any discipline that will move OSU-owned technologies closer to commercialization. Proposals should describe a project that requires $15,000 or less of funding to achieve an important milestone(s) connected to commercialization. Proposals can include expenses for activities related to customer discovery, prototyping, student time, research, commercialization plan development and more. Each project may be awarded up to $15,000 and should span 9 months or less, beginning in April 2021. Proposals are due before 5 p.m. on Friday, March 5. Learn more here: https://advantage.oregonstate.edu/advantage-accelerator/funding-opportunities/aid-fund.
Health & Safety: The University Health & Safety Committee wants to promote health and safety by reminding employees that they have access to a variety of free safety related trainings online at https://www.saif.com/trainings.html. You can also access OSU’s University Health & Safety Committee online at http://ehs.oregonstate.edu/uhsc, including past meeting minutes, information on how to contact a committee member and a link to report safety concerns online.
Participants wanted for a short-term vegetable sprout research study (Corvallis): If you are healthy, age 18-60, non-smoking, not pregnant or breastfeeding, without diabetes, heart disease or stroke, bariatric surgery, kidney, thyroid or intestinal problems, you may qualify. The study lasts 72 hours. Volunteers will receive $150. PI: Emily Ho, Ph.D. Title: Discovery of Biological Signatures for Cruciferous Vegetable Intake. Contact us at MFCResearch@oregonstate.edu, 541-737-5049, or visit https://tinyurl.com/y7437mo4 for information and online screener.
Campus Way: As part of a construction project at the RAIL 244 facility, this is an informational campus-wide notification to inform pedestrian path users about the potential for increased vehicle traffic along Campus Way between SW 35th Street and SW 53rd Street (view map) from March 4 through June 15. Vehicles will be traveling to and from the RAIL facility and the Building 244 construction site. The general contractor for the project will post signs at key points for the duration of the project. For questions or comments on this closure, please contact Construction Manager Amy Keene at 541-214-1038.
Bike counter equipment installed along SW Campus Way bike path. Bike counter equipment has been placed on a utility pole on the north side of SW Campus Way (view map). The counter equipment will be in place through mid-March. Tubes are marked with signage and traffic barrels.
Motor Pool Canopy Construction Project work: As part of the Motor Pool Canopy Construction Project, a new canopy is being built at the fuel island north of the Motor Pool Building. Fencing will go up around the area, and work will start on Tuesday, March 2 and continue through Friday, April 2 (view map). Staging will occur in the parking lot west of the Motor Pool Building. For questions or comments on this closure, contact OSU Infrastructure Project Manager Aaron Collett at 541-207-2780.
This email only lists new or recently updated job postings. For a full list of current job postings for OSU Today, go to: http://today.oregonstate.edu/email/jobs To apply for the below positions, visit jobs.oregonstate.edu unless otherwise specified.
NEW! Student Health Services is seeking to fill one Marketing and Communications Specialist Position. This is a full-time (1.0 FTE), 12-month, fixed-term professional faculty position. Posting #P04183UF. Closes March 14.
NEW! Assistant Director of Career Development: This recruitment will be used to fill one full-time (1.0 FTE), fixed-term position for OSU-Cascades in Bend, Oregon. Posting #P04227UF. Closes April 2. Full consideration March 28.
NEW! Extension 4-H Program Coordinator: OSU Extension Service invites applications for a part-time, 12-month, fixed-term, Extension 4-H Youth Development Outreach Program Coordinator position that will be located in Jackson County, Oregon. Posting #P04221UF. Closes April 5.
“I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross, and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.” ~ Mark Haddon
Corvallis: Chance of showers today, high of 51, low of 35. Chance of showers tomorrow.
Central Oregon: Chance of snow showers, high of 42, low of 27. Chance of snow showers Tuesday.
Newport: Chance of showers today, high of 49, low of 41. Showers Tuesday.
Statewide: For OSU employees around the state, find your local forecast here: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pqr/
