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December 1, 2008
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OPPORTUNITIES
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ALS 199, College Life offers a wonderful way for students to come together in a laid-back atmosphere to unwind during the week, share experiences, and make connections between self, college, and daily life. It provides an evaluation and synthesis of the college experience through students teaching each other about academic success, student health, relationships, spirituality, diversity, building character, facing challenges, firming identity, and understanding one’s self in a college setting.
I proposed this course as an undergraduate student during a time when I was struggling to connect and make meaning of my college experience. This course was created in hopes of providing students an outlet to talk and process what being a student really means to them. The course was student facilitated and student led, and last year the participants expressed that they enjoyed the opportunity to openly discuss their daily lives. We all wished we could have spent more time together sharing, laughing, and connecting. This offered us the inspiration to bring the course back this year!
The course is open to all students and we welcome anyone and everyone who would like to participate! College life is sponsored by the Center for Leadership Development and will be facilitated by Don Johnson and myself. Please join us this winter for College Life!!
Please contact me with any questions, concerns, and suggestions. I hope to see you winter term!
Kathleen Normandin
Student Affairs Graduate Assistant
College of Pharmacy
Oregon State University
Kathleen.Normandin@oregonstate.edu
541-737-5770
The Provost's Office pleased to announce the 21st annual Provost’s Literary Prize for undergraduate students at OSU. The prize consists of an award of $500 and publication for on-campus distribution. Keith Scribner in the Department of English is chairing the screening committee.
Professor Scribner and the committee are seeking help from the faculty to identify candidates for the prize. The literary work can be fiction, poetry (including a group of poems), or creative nonfiction written for a general audience. The prize is open to currently enrolled undergraduate students at Oregon State University, who may submit their own work or have work nominated by faculty members. Submissions must be the student’s original work, typed, no longer then 20 double-spaced pages for prose, or 8 manuscript pages for poetry, and include the full name, year in school, current mailing address, phone number, and student ID number of the writer.
Deadline for submission of work for consideration is 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 25, 2009. Submissions should be turned in to the Provost’s Literary Prize Committee via Keith Scribner in the English Department Office (Moreland Hall 238). Questions may be directed to Professor Scribner at 7-1645 or keith.scribner@oregonstate.edu.
The winner of the 2009 Provost’s Literary Prize will be announced in May.
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COLLOQUIA/SEMINARS
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Monday, December 1, 4:00 - 4:50 PM, Kelley 1001. "Testing Theory meets the Real World" presented by Willem Visser, Senior Software Engineer, SEVEN Networks, Redwood City, CA. Details
(Note: the following seminar information is presented only as an item of interest and is NOT part of the ECE colloquium series.)
Tuesday, December 2, 10:00 am, Conference Room, USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Forage Seed Production Research Center, 3450 SW Campus Way. "ON-FARM PYROLYSIS TO REFINABLE CRUDE BIO-OIL AND VALUABLE COPRODUCTS" presented by A.A. (Kwesi) Boateng, Research Chemical Engineer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Wyndmoor, PA. Information: 738-4125.
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GRADUATE EXAMS
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Tuesday, December 2, 10am-noon, KEC 2057. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Swamy Korada. Major Professor: Ron Metoyer; Committee: Mike Bailey, Eugene Zhang; GCR: Joe Zaworski. "Creating and Editing Motion Machines for 3D Characters." Details
Tuesday, December 2, 10am-noon, KEC 3114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Jun Zhang. Major Professor: Eugene Zhang; Committee: Carlos Jensen, Sabry Elias. "An Implementation of Graph Cut Textures: Image and Video Synthesis Using Graph Cuts." Details
Thursday, December 4, 11am-1pm, KEC 3114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Gregory Esch. Major Professor: Eugene Zhang; Committee: Michael Scott, Ron Metoyer; GCR: Michael Pavol. "Visualization and Design Systems for Road Infrastructure." Details
Friday, December 5, 12-2pm, KEC 1007. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Arvind Kalyan. Major Professor: Bella Bose; Committee: Timothy Budd, Toshimi Minoura. "PHP Cloud Computing Platform." Details
Friday, December 5, 12-2pm, KEC 1114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Wei Lin. Major Professor: Xiaoli Fern; Committee: Alan Fern, Weng-Keen Wong. "Myopic Policies for Budgeted Optimization with Constrained Experiments." Details
Monday, December 8, 12-2pm, KEC 1114. MS FINAL ORAL EXAM - Zaid Hussain. Major Professor: Bella Bose; Committee: Toshimi Minoura, Thinh Nguyen. "Performance Evaluation of Some Classes of Balanced Codes." Details
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JOBS
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Don't forget to check out the AfterCollege job site, tailored especially for our EECS students.
Software Engineer, Intel. In this position you will be part of a small and quick-paced team developing and supporting a custom automation framework. The framework follows a distributed model and features parallel execution, debugging, resource management, and other advanced features. It is currently used to test WiFi, WiMAX, high-end graphics products, and more. Your responsibilities will include: Working with customers to investigate and fix issues; Designing, implementing, testing, and supporting new functionality. Details
Test Engineer, Intel. In this position you will be a part of software quality assurance in a small and quick-paced team developing and supporting a custom automation framework. The framework follows a distributed model and features parallel execution, debugging, resource management, and other advanced features. It is currently used to test WiFi, WiMAX, high-end graphics products, and more. Your responsibilities will include: Defining test plans and testability requirements, implementation of automated tests; Execution of manual and automated tests, analyzing and reporting tests results. Details
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