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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: Wondering how to strengthen student engagement in your remote courses? Looking for college-specific teaching resources and support? Reach out to your college’s designated Peer Supporters. They’re charged with promoting teaching excellence by providing professional development, pedagogical resources and support to instructional faculty.
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.
Right now, Milstein works for the Oregon NASA Space Grant Consortium at Oregon State University. Back in the 1980s he was tracking oil exploration for the Michigan Geological Survey. “A series of three oil fields were drilled around Calvin Center just north of the Indiana border. And some weird data came back,” says Milstein.
Twenty years ago, Marjorie Sandor (Oregon State) chanced upon a performance of 15th-century music attributed to Spanish Jews who fled the Inquisition. She was instantly captivated by the melodies, which sounded familiar though she’d never heard them before. The experience was so powerful, she told The Times of Israel, that it propelled her on a nearly two-decade journey resulting in her debut novel, “The Secret Music at Tordesillas.”
Chris Goldfinger, a marine geologist and paleo seismologist with Oregon State University, offers this comparison of the subduction zones. “It’s very similar in the types of earthquakes they can both generate, are roughly the same size. Magnitude 9 is at the upper end," he said. "We don’t know for sure what the upper end is, but we know it’s at least a 9.”
For construction workers, “the chance of getting injured or getting more severe injuries are related to the hours of your work,” a researcher from Oregon State University says.
He’s a professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado who teaches in the Biology Department and conducted his research at Oregon State University. Space Force is part of the Air Force. Tubbs came across the Artec Space Spider while looking for ways to study ryegrass and early seed shattering. “I was literally going to build my own camera system to make this work,” he says.
Six months later, more than a dozen Oregon State University College of Forestry researchers are probing the blazes’ aftermath in a range of ways, including stream studies in several western and southern Oregon watersheds and a look at fire’s ramifications for biodiversity in a collection of southwestern Oregon forests.
New research shows COVID-19 infections have trended downward in recent weeks. Still, experts warn, even with vaccinations, we are not out of the woods. Since last spring, researchers at Oregon State University have been collecting wastewater from sewers in an effort to track COVID-19.
Oregon State University President F. King Alexander was singled out as a responsible party for what was described as a culture of sexual abuse allowed to exist within Louisiana State University during testimony heard Wednesday by Louisiana state lawmakers.
Catherine Bolzendahl, Director of the School of Public Policy, Oregon State University, said: "Women’s empowerment benefits everyone in society and continuing progress on genderequality cannot be abandoned in times of crisis.”
In 2020, Michael Green Architecture completed two new mass timber buildings for the internationally recognized College of Forestry at Oregon State University. Located on campus within the Oregon Forest Science Complex (OFSC), the new Peavy Hall and the AA “Red” Emmerson Advanced Wood Products Laboratory (AWP) upholds the College’s vision to create a dynamic learning, collaboration, and research environment for managing and sustaining working forest ecosystems in the 21st Century.
A piece co-written by Rebekah Elliott, associate professor of mathematics education at Oregon State University.
Despite that, the invasive hornet is a concern and residents are encouraged to keep an eye out for the hornet and report possible sightings. To help the public identify and learn more about the invasive insect, the Oregon State University Extension Service has produced the publication Asian Giant Hornet: A potential threat to honeybee colonies in Oregon.” (see also KTVZ)
The gardening challenge, spearheaded by Food Hero, is a statewide initiative of the Oregon Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education program.
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.
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.
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.
HMSC Research Seminar: Zoe Almeida, postdoctoral scholar, COMES, Oregon State University will be giving a seminar entitled “Legacies of early-life experiences on individual, cohort, and population performance of Lake Erie Walleye” Thursday March 11 at 3:30 p.m. Zoom link. Password: 972587 or call +1-971-247-1195 Meeting ID: 945 5573 115. Click here for more information.
Trees to Tap: Forest Management and Drinking Water Virtual Conference: Join us for key findings from the recent Trees to Tap Science Review, and connect research findings with management actions for the future of Oregon’s drinking water. March 11 (afternoon) and March 12 (morning) via Zoom. Free but registration required. For more information please visit beav.es/out.
Biological & Ecological Engineering Winter Seminar Series: Alex Gonyaw, of the Klamath Tribes, will present “Ecological Alteration of the Upper Klamath Basin from the Klamath Tribes’ Perspective,” on Thursday, March 11 at 4 p.m., with a meet-and-greet at 3:30 p.m. Zoom Meeting ID: 917 1196 8021 | Password: 769617. Free and open to the public.
NEW! Music à la Carte: Kenji Bunch and Monica Ohuchi: Join us for a live, lunch hour performance by viola/piano duo Kenji Bunch and Monica Ohuchi. This dynamic duo collaborates in all facets of their lives. As performers, they appear frequently on recordings, in recitals, workshops, live broadcasts and lecture-demonstrations across the country. They serve as the artistic and executive director of longtime Portland music group Fear No Music, as collaborators on new compositions including a piano concerto and book of solo piano performance etudes, and as instrumental instructors at Reed College. Kenji and Monica return to Music à la Carte with a remote performance from their Portland, Oregon home, featuring some original compositions and fun, less expected works. Friday, March 12, noon. Free, open to all via Zoom.
Women in STEM Wikipedia Editathon: In this informal “drop in” editathon, you can learn more about the Wikipedia gender gap, how to edit Wikipedia, talk with faculty teaching with Wikipedia and much more. March 19, 1-5 p.m. See the schedule and register here: https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/womenscientists2021.
University Theatre: Ten Minutes at the Townsend: This is an anthology of student plays set in a small-town diner. The event will be streamed with the support of KBVR-TV on the KBVR YouTube channel. The original works by OSU students are all based in the real town of Strawberry, California. The short slice-of-life conversations are set in a small diner in the fictional town of Pine Riverbend during the years of 1980-1989, and all take place in the same diner booth. Directed by Elizabeth Helman. Friday, March 19, 7:30 p.m. Tickets to the virtual event are available for purchase. Patrons can name their own price to support the work of OSU Theatre. The project is also supported by KBVR and the OSU campus branch of U.S. Bank.
Orange Media Network Spring '21 Open House: Orange Media Network is hiring. OMN is recruiting student writers, photographers, directors, graphic designers, engineers and much more. An open house will be held Wednesday, April 7 at 6 p.m. to explore opportunities within your passions and interests, connect with current OMN students and staff and learn how to get involved. Event link: beav.es/JLy.
Graduate Health Plan Q&A: The Oregon State University Office of Human Resource is hosting a graduate health plan Q&A session for graduate assistants and graduate fellows on April 15 at 10 a.m. via Zoom. Learn more about the grad health plan and get questions answered. Email gradhealth@oregonstate.edu for more information.
NEW! Geography winter colloquium series: Nari Senanayake, assistant professor of geography at University of Kentucky, will be presenting her talk “We are the living dead,” or; "The precarious stabilization of liminal life in the presence of CKDu." She will speak on Friday, March 12 from noon to 1 p.m. Free and open to all. To join, use Zoom link: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/94478363106?pwd=ZUtzNVVlVE9Oc0ZvWTRKWEVnWkliUT09.
NEW! Cabildos Speaker Series — Michael Dickinson: The Same Manner as Africa: West African Cultural Survival in the Early Black Atlantic. Michael Dickinson is an assistant professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was also the 2019-2020 Barra Sabbatical Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's McNeil Center for Early American Studies. His research examines enslaved communities in early Anglo-American cities. His book, "Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807," is forthcoming with University of Georgia Press. Friday, March 12, 4 p.m. Free, open to all. Learn more or Register.
NEW! Authors and Editors Recognition: Attend the OSU Authors and Editors Recognition events for two nights of lectures and discussion. Register to attend on March 15 at 5:30 p.m. and hear featured authors of literary work focused on natural resource management, ecology and art. Register to attend on March 17 at 5:30 p.m. and hear featured authors of select literary work focused on equity, inclusivity and surveillance. Visit the Authors and Editors Recognition page for more information.
NEW! Being Adaptive in an Ever-Changing World: "Because we have always done it like that" may not be the best answer anymore to, "Why do we do the things we do?" In our ever-changing world, we are seeing shifts in our markets, our economies, our cultural norms, our behaviors and ourselves. Now is the time to thrive by learning how to be adaptive to accommodate and maximize the benefits of change. March 16, 11 a.m. Register Here.
NEW! Care.com, How to help the pandemic generation thrive: How can we best support our children during this time? Dr. Michele Borba explains why empathy and resilience are key and offers practical, evidence-based and proven ways to reach kids and help them overcome adversity, be more resilient and learn skills they will need both now – and in the future – to thrive. March 17, 9 a.m. Register Here.
NEW! Under the Orange Light vaccine discussion: “We Have Three Effective COVID 19 Vaccines: What are the hold-ups with distribution?” Five OSU faculty panelists will help disentangle the impact of public policies on vaccines, the communication of public health information, the ethical issues in vaccine dissemination and the different strategies for reaching vaccine-hesitant individuals. The audience will have an opportunity to pose questions to the panelists. March 17, 5-7 p.m. Zoom link: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/99906956676. No pre-registration required. For more information: https://beav.es/Jur.
Marja Haagsma – Water Resources Engineering Ph.D. Defense: Marja Haagsma will present her dissertation, “Hyperspectral Disease Detection - Strategies Addressing Time, Space, Machine Learning, and Plant Susceptibility,” on Friday, March 12, at 9 a.m. Haagsma is advised under the guidance of major professor John Selker (BEE). Meeting ID: 921 5331 9166 | Password is 187646.
Viewing Classroom Schedules: Introduction to 25Live: You may have heard that WebViewer was decommissioned in summer 2020. OSU has since transitioned to a new event scheduled software called “25Live.” Join us to learn how to access 25Live, find specific rooms, rooms within a building, and utilize and save searches specific to your needs. After this training you will be able to quickly find a list of rooms to view calendars and details about each location. Presented by the Office of the Registrar. Part of the Winter 2021 FYI Friday series, March 12, 9-10 a.m. via Zoom. Registration required.
Getting Students Motivated to Complete Pre-Class Readings and Assignments: Are you concerned that students are not meeting course expectations for completing pre-class readings and assignments? Join Funmi Amobi, CTL instructional consultant, and Marion Ceraso, CPHHS associate professor of practice, for a lively discussion of evidence-based approaches to making reading assignments transparent and consequently maximizing student motivation to complete coursework. March 12, noon to 12:45 p.m. Zoom access: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/my/sparkshop | Password: CTL.
CPHHS research seminar: CPHHS Professor Rick Settersten Jr., Barbara E. Knudson Endowed Chair, will present “Living on the edge: An American generation’s journey through the Twentieth Century.” He will be joined by Glen H. Elder Jr., Ph.D., Odum Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology; and Lisa D. Pearce, Ph.D., Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Term Professor of Sociology, both at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Friday, March 12, from 1-2 p.m. The seminar will be presented via Zoom. Learn more about College of Public Health and Human Sciences research seminars at https://health.oregonstate.edu/seminars.
Racial Aikido – March 26-27: Racial Aikido explores the experiences of Students of Color (SOC) at OSU and beyond. Our focus for the 2021 experience is on community-building, the recognition of identity and racism, and response and replenishment to these realities. Our goal is to build a supportive network to learn and thrive at OSU and beyond. Our priority deadline for applications is Friday, March 12. Applications will be accepted until retreat is full. Check out the application here: https://uhds.link/racialaikido.
Examining White Identity: Spring Student Series: An invitation into anti-racist growth. This three-part virtual series is designed for White-identified students to deepen their understanding of and commitment to racial justice work and anti-racism practice. This offering is a part of a movement to grow a community of White-identified students committed to racial justice at OSU. Tuesdays 5-7 p.m, March 30, April 6 and April 13. Learn more and apply here by our priority deadline of Friday, March 12: https://dce.oregonstate.edu/retreat. Applications will be accepted until the series is full.
Call for Applications: Career Champions Faculty Program: Applications for the Spring 2021 Career Champions program for teaching faculty and instructors are now being accepted. The program will provide tangible ways to include career readiness in the classroom, while also taking a hard look at the barriers to access that our first generation, high financial need, and/or students of color face. A $500 honorarium will be awarded to participants. More information can be found on the Center for Teaching and Learning website. To apply, please complete the application form by March 12.
Accessibility Basics for the Web: Learn how to make websites accessible to people with disabilities. We’ll also discuss the OSU Policy on Information Technology Accessibility. All are welcome, employees with website responsibilities are encouraged if they have not attended yet. Register for a session, offered March 15
The Fulbright Experience: OSU Faculty Reflect on Their 2019-20 Fellowship. Join us Thursday, March 18, 4-5 p.m. for a series of reflections by several of last year’s U.S. Fulbright Scholar recipients: Kevin Ahern (Malta), Marit Bovbjerg (Ireland), Julie Elston (Austria), Joan Gross (Belgium), Karl Haapala (Finland), Elise Lockwood (Norway), Hannah Rempel (Czech Republic), and Brian Sidlauskas (Brazil). In addition to each Fulbrighter’s short presentation, the webinar will include Q&A and resources for faculty considering a Fulbright in their future. Presented by the Office of Global Opportunities. Register here: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WuHYOyBGQG2mvuf3V3LxjA.
Core Curriculum for Current OSU Supervisors and Managers: This workshop consists of online modules followed by 4 half-days of classroom training via Zoom. Topics include the performance management cycle (position descriptions, expectations/standards, engagement, appraisals and integration), equal employment and affirmative action, ADA, discrimination and misconduct, safety and compensation, and supervising represented employees. Monday, April 5 through Thursday, April 8, 8:15 a.m. to noon each day. Register by March 31.
A New Faculty Learning Community for Instructors and TAs: The Community for the Advancement of Antiracist Instruction (CAAI) seeks instructors and TAs for a spring pilot, weeks 5 through 8. In this professional development opportunity, participants will explore antiracist teaching in a community of colleagues and create an antiracist teaching action plan. Apply here (by March 31).
Crucial Conversations: Crucial Conversations is a 10-hour course that teaches skills for creating alignment and agreement — by fostering open dialogue around high-stakes, emotional, or risky topics — at all levels of your organization. By learning how to speak and be heard (and encouraging others to do the same), you’ll surface the best ideas, make the highest-quality decisions, and then act on your decisions with unity and commitment. This program consists of a series of five (5) live, online sessions on Thursdays, 9-11 a.m. April 15 through May 13. There is a $100 fee to attend Crucial Conversations. Learn more and register here.
Register for the virtual Ecampus Faculty Forum: Join your OSU faculty and staff peers virtually to discuss online teaching excellence, innovative teaching methods and faculty experiences in online course development. Held May 4-5 online via Zoom, the Faculty Forum will showcase faculty members sharing their expertise in interactive panel presentations. The keynote speaker is Thomas J. Tobin, a distance teaching and learning expert from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Events on May 4 and 5 will begin at noon. View the full agenda and register today.
NEW! Nominations open: The President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Office of Institutional Diversity, Office of the Provost and OSU Athletics are accepting nominations for the Breaking Barriers awards. All OSU community members whose work advances gender equity in alignment with the award categories are eligible. Categories include Breaking Barriers in Education, Breaking Barriers in Research, Breaking Barriers in Athletics, the PCOSW Community Builder and the Harriet "Hattie" Redmond awards. Learn more and submit nominations at beav.es/Jby. Nominations close Tuesday, April 6. For questions, contact pcosw@oregonstate.edu.
Our Little Village (OLV) Child Care: Registration for spring term ’21 is open until Wednesday, March 31 at noon. For children ages 5 months to 12 years, OLV high quality short-term campus child care is offered for 3.5 hours/day and is available two, three or five weekday sessions for winter term. To learn more about the Our Little Village program and/or register for spring term, visit the OLV|Milne or OLV|Dixon page. Have questions? Email the Family Resource Center at familyresources@oregonstate.edu.
PCOSW spring term scholarship opportunity: The President’s Commission on the Status of Women invites applications for funding to OSU community members to pursue professional development, research or other opportunities that support PCOSW’s mission. Apply by Friday, March 12. Funding must be used in full and receipts submitted by June 15. For more info, visit https://leadership.oregonstate.edu/pcosw or email pcosw@oregonstate.edu.
Animal Interludes: Spring Creek Project has released four new videos in its Animal Interludes series: Tyrannosaurus Rex, Meadowlark, Western Sage Grouse and Timberwolf Pups. The Animal Interludes are a series of 20 tiny concerts, each an original composition of words and music in honor of a threatened or beloved animal. They are part of the series Music to Save Earth's Songs, inspired by Kathleen Dean Moore's new book Earth's Wild Music.
Now accepting FYI Friday presentation proposals for Spring 2021: FYI Friday is a weekly remote program where campus partners are invited to present brief, one-off, awareness- or skill- building topics intended for a wide audience of professional faculty, academic faculty and classified staff. Does your group have a service, process or system you want to share with the campus community? Consider FYI Friday as your venue: Learn more about the requirements and application process here.
Call for Volunteers: Members of the campus and Corvallis community are invited to help make this year’s virtual commencement ceremony a memorable event for OSU’s 9,000+ graduates. In-person volunteers are needed to help prepare Graduate Gift Boxes that will be mailed to all 2021 graduates. The preparation will take place in the LaSells Stewart Center on campus, following strict social distancing and safety processes, starting March 9 and continuing into early April. Click here to volunteer for graduate gift box assembling.
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 Info Technology Consultant position. This is a full-time, 12-month, competency level 1 position. Classified position. Posting #P02885CT. Closes March 14.
UPDATED! Buyer 3 – The Research Office invites applications for a full-time (1.0 FTE), 12-month, Buyer 3. Posting #P02880CT. Closes Monday, March 15.
NEW! IT Service Desk Student Technician – University Information & Technology-Customer Experience invites applications for a part-time, Student Technician position. Posting #P07096SE. Closes March 17.
NEW! Fiscal Coordinator 1: The Office of Research invites applications for a full-time (1.0 FTE), 12-month, Fiscal Coordinator 1 position. Posting #P02898CT. Closes March 19.
NEW! Student Project Assistant (Outreach Specialist): The Academic Success Center invites graduate student applicants for the position of Student Project Assistant (Outreach Specialist). The person in this position will engage students to help them learn about academic success topics; they will receive in-depth training in each of the topics offered as well as training in facilitation techniques and support throughout the process. Posting #P07084SE. Closes March 21.
“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” ~ Ann Landers
Corvallis: Areas of fog and then sunny, high of 55, low of 30. Sunny Friday.
Central Oregon: Sunny today, high of 48, low of 23. Sunny Friday,
Newport: Mostly sunny today, high of 52, low of 33. Sunny Friday.
Statewide: For OSU employees around the state, find your local forecast here: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pqr/
