August 27, 2007

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IN THE NEWS
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Officials buoyed by mooring placement. A team of researchers from Oregon State University dropped an anchor from the stern of R/V Pacific Storm at about noon Thursday in an area of ocean about two miles out from Yaquina Head lighthouse. The anchor will serve as a mooring system for a wave energy buoy developed by OSU scientists to conduct small scale wave energy testing. Researchers will return to deploy the test buoy within the next few weeks. Newport News-Times

Innovators: A Girl Who Loves Buoys. IF YOU'RE GOING TO TAP THE WATERS off the ruggedly beautiful Oregon coast for electricity, you'd want the effort spearheaded by someone who appreciates the ocean. A surfer or scuba diver, perhaps. Or a competitive swimmer. Someone who named her daughter after the Hawaiian word for dolphin--now that would be comforting. You'd want Annette von Jouanne, an electrical engineering professor at Oregon State University. Sierra Club

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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Monday, August 27, 3:00-5:00 pm, KEC 1007. PhD Final Oral Examination - Charles Parker. Major Professor: Prasad Tadepalli; Committee: Alan Fern, Thomas Dietterich, Weng-Keen Wong; GCR: Maggie Niess. "Structured Gradient Boosting." Details.

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SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS
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The Lady Davis Fellowship Trust seeks to make the cultural heritage of Israel and its achievements in development, state-building, scholarship, science, and education widely available and known to people from all over the world. The Trust offers fellowships to postdoctoral scholars to do research at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Technion provides educational and research services to the State and people of Israel as well as to industry and governmental bodies abroad. Details.

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JOBS
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SW Engineer, Thomson Grass Valley. Programming skills should include C++. Our company provides end-to-end solutions (technologies, equipment and services) to the broadcast industries. Our mission is to provide the most cost effective, easy to use, yet high performance media aware server, storage and networking systems for the broadcast community with 24/7 reliability. The candidate will have responsibilities for software development/maintenance, performance profiling and management utilities for high performance storage systems. Details.

Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA). Under the general direction of the Assistant to the Associate Dean and of the Associate Dean, the Extended Campus GTA will research grants, work collaboratively with Ecampus staff to coordinate the grant process, and assist the Ecampus administration in developing grants around the subjects of distance education, online education, summer session programs, outreach and engagement, non-credit/workforce programs, minority and immigrant education, and P-12 education. Details.

The OSU Libraries, Library Technology Department has one position open for a student worker Web Developer. The main responsibilities of the position include: Coding web interfaces using XHTML, CSS and Javascript; Working with primarily PHP-based, open-source tools, such as Drupal; Assisting Library staff with web updates as needed. Details.

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