Archive for the ‘events’ Category
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Oregon State University Theatre will present Saudi Arabian playwright Raja Alem’s “I See God/I See Allah” on March 2-5 at 7:30 p.m. and March 6 at 2 p.m. in the Withycombe Hall Lab Theatre on the OSU campus. “I See God/I See Allah” was translated by OSU faculty members Karim Hamdy and Laura Rice. Alem [...]
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Students are already beginning to kick a soccer ball around the bright green new turf on the athletic fields just west of Dixon Recreation Center. They’re reaping the benefits of a year-long Outdoor Recreation Complex project funded by student fees, which has greatly improved the facilities for intramural teams on campus. Students voted to approve [...]
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
OSU is hosting a major public symposium called “Song for the Blue Ocean” that will feature nationally recognized authors, scholars and scientists exploring the state of the world’s oceans through science, arts and ethics. The free, public event will be held Friday and Saturday, Feb. 18-19, at LaSells Stewart Center on the OSU campus. Speakers [...]
Monday, November 29th, 2010
For the past two football seasons, OSU Athletics and Campus Recycling have teamed up in an effort to reduce waste and promote recycling at home football games – they recruit and coordinate volunteers to rove through the tailgating areas, as well as collect recycling at stadium gates. This video honors their efforts, and that of [...]
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
Innovation comes in many forms: life-saving robots, microbial fuel cells, carbonated fruit, plant-based lubricants and adhesives, and clothing that adjusts to your lifestyle. These are among the ideas that are fueling start-up companies in Oregon and will be featured at Willamette Innovators Night (WiN), Nov. 11 at Oregon State University. Mixing research, creativity and business, [...]
Monday, November 8th, 2010
When Oregon State University film professor Jon Lewis was asked by the British Film Institute to write about Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 classic, “The Godfather,” it put him among the ranks of authors like Salman Rushdie and Camille Paglia, as well as other respected film critics and historians. It was an exciting proposition. But it [...]
Friday, November 5th, 2010
Welcome to Beaver Open House! BOH is your chance to get an in-depth look at OSU and see what we have to offer. At BOH, you’ll spend the day meeting OSU faculty, staff and current students, touring the campus and learning about all the opportunities you’ll have here. You’ll get the chance to see how [...]
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
The Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture will have a public field day Wednesday, Aug. 25, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oregon State University students and faculty will share information and ideas about vegetable gardening, urban chickens, annual trials, hedge-row trials, green towers, beekeeping and green roofs. The Oak Creek Center is on the [...]
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
For Callum Read, part of the experience of attending the International Baccalaureate Student World Conference at Oregon State was getting here. When found out he’d been chosen to go, his mother told him he should bike from their home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Corvallis, where 300 International Baccalaureate high school students from 10 countries [...]
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
“Woo-hoo! Thank you Beavers,” came the shout of a Eugene runner wearing the green and yellow of the University of Oregon Ducks, passing a group of about 35 orange and black Oregon Staters who worked Saturday morning to clear hazardous brush along one of the city’s busiest riverfront paths. The group in Eugene joined volunteers [...]