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Join Oregon and Washington specialists from the Department of Agriculture, Public Health, and Extension Service as they share best practices for keeping animals and people healthy during county fairs. Prevention of the spread of zoonotic diseases will be the focus of this one hour webinar. This is the first in a series of continuing education/workforce development webinars for practicing community-based professionals to be offered by the CPHHS over the next year.

Connection: https://gomeet.itap.purdue.edu/edencop/

For more information, please contact Lynette Black, 4-H Youth Development Faculty, Oregon State University Extension Service.

“Disability in Public Health, Health Disparities, and the Life Course” Gloria Krahn, PhD, MPH Director, Division of Human Development and Disability at the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Krahn is widely regarded as a national and international expert in the field of disability and public health. Her publications and lectures have bridged the fields of child development, childhood-onset disability, health status measurement and health promotion among adults with disabilities.

She joined the CDC after 25 years as an academic clinician, researcher, teacher and administrator. Her early work in child development was followed by an interest in disabilities and development across the lifespan.,

Dr. Krahn's research has been funded by the NIH, the U.S. Department of Education, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau at HRSA, and the CDC. Dr. Krahn is the author of numerous publications related to disability and child development, and she is the co-editor of the first major textbook on Disability and Public Health.

Dr. Krahn has served in a variety of leadership roles within organizations addressing disability across the lifespan. She has developed strong collaborative relationships with other universities, with state health departments, and with local communities. She served as President of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD), Chair of the Disability Section of the American Public Health Association, on the executive committee of the National Associaiton of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers and as a leader of the Healthy People 2010 Disabilities Work Group.

Dr. Krahn received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Manitoba, her M.P.H. from the University of California, Berkley, and completed a postdoctoral residency in pediatric psychology at Oregon Health & Science University.

Dr. Krahn's profile at CDC

If you maintain trees on developed landscapes within fire-prone environments, then come join instructors from Oregon State University and Oregon Department of Forestry during this day-long class.  Learn how trees are affected by fire and receive hands on experience assessing tree survival.  A new curriculum on this topic, the class also includes newly developed post-fire worksheets for assessing tree health and landscape impacts.

 http://fireworkshopjul9.eventbrite.com/#

Registration dealine is June 28th.  Early-bird registration ends June 18th.  Seating is limited to 17 people...register early!

Continuing Education credit are approved by the International Society of Arboriculture and Oregon Landscape Contractors Board.

Why is this workshop important?

If you own and care for forest land, the fate of your land is probably important to you.  You hope the work you've started will continue past your lifetime and that future generations will benefit from you efforts.  But hope is not a plan.  Preserving your legacy requires planning, and that involves more than just having a will or an estate plan.

What will it cover?

This workshop is a mix of presentations and practical exercies that will give you the knowledge and tools to start succession planning.

You will:

Gain awareness of key challenges, and tools to deal with them; Get tools to determine your heirs interest; Clarify your values and goals; Learn the steps to succession planning;  Learn how to holde effective family meetings;  Learn about legal and financial instruments that can support your plan

This summer treat yourself to the sweet sounds of the OSU Summer Session Wednesdays @ Noon Concerts on the beautiful OSU campus.

Performances are FREE and held on the Memorial Union Quad (outdoors; weather permitting) or in the Memorial Union Main Lounge (indoors). So grab your lunch, bring your family/friends, and join us for an hour (12:00-1:00PM) of fun, relaxation, and the great sounds of musicians from around the great Pacific Northwest and beyond.  

Check out the Summer Session Free Noon Concerts webpage for more information: http://summer.oregonstate.edu/todo/on-campus/entertainment/concerts.htm

Audience
Supervisors of thermal food processing operations, acidified food processing operations, and food container closure operations.
Please note: The two-day course is for acidified foods processing and glass container closure operations only.

Purpose
Each processor of low-acid or acidified foods is required to operate with a certified supervisor on hand at all times during processing. This school provides the necessary training to certify supervisors of such processors.

Certification
The Oregon State University Better Process Control School is approved by the FDA and follows the prescribed course of instruction for certification. The two-day course addresses operations of acidified food processing systems, glass packaging systems and container closure inspection. In addition to the first two days, the four-day course addresses operations of retorts, low acid food processing systems, aseptic processing and packaging systems and container closure inspection.

Examinations are given for each section and are standardized by the Food Processors Institute with the approval of the FDA who specify 70% as a passing score.

The FDA receives a list of names of individuals who have passed the prescribed course. Participants who pass receive a certificate issued by Oregon State University. In addition they may provide a waiver to have their grades forwarded to their employer.

Location, lodging, and registration information is available at: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/foodsci/extservices/2013_AFS_BPCS_reginfo.htm

For the free nitrate screening, bring 1/2 cup of untreated well water in any clean container. Screeing takes about 10 minutes when the clinic is not busy.

A groundwater educator will be on hand to answer any additional questions about further testing, wells, and septic sytems.

Sponsored by the Southern Willamette Valley Groundwater Management Area and OSU Extension Service.

The Tractor & Farm Machinery Safety course is required for students age 14 to 18 who work with tractos and other machinery in Oregon. Students receive classroom safety instructions and hands-on tractor driving experience with farm implements. A certificate will be awarded upon successful completion of this course.

www.linnbenton.edu/go/tractor-safety

The Food Innovation Center offers two (2) quick overview seminars for entrepreneurs who are looking into developing a food product. The two seminars will provide basic information that will help the entrepreneur understand many of the requirements needed for developing a new food product. As a participant you will receive reference and resource material handouts. The seminars can be taken in any order and they are 2 hours in length.

 Quick Overview #1 – will address Product Formulation, Nutritional Labeling, and Food Safety.

Quick Overview #2 – will address Processing, Packaging, and Shelf Life Studies. 

Please call our receptionist to enroll in the seminars. 

Cost per seminar is $ 110.00.  Space is limited.

The seminars will be offered on the following dates:

Quick review #1 -                          Quick review #2 -

         May 03, 2013                              May 17, 2013

         Jun 07, 2013                               Jun 21, 2013

         July 12, 2013                              July 26, 2013

         Aug 16, 2013                              Aug 30, 2013

The Food Innovation Center now offers two (2) quick overview seminars for entrepreneurs who are looking into developing a food product. The two seminars will provide basic information that will help the entrepreneur understand many of the requirements needed for developing a new food product. As a participant you will receive reference and resource material handouts. The seminars can be taken in any order and they are 2 hours in length.

 Quick Overview #1 – will address Product Formulation, Nutritional Labeling, and Food Safety.

Quick Overview #2 – Will address Processing, Packaging, and Shelf Life Studies. 

Please call our receptionist to enroll in the seminars. 

Cost per seminar is $ 110.00.  Space is limited.

The seminars will be offered on the following dates:

Quick review #1 -                          Quick review #2 -

         Jun 07, 2013                               Jun 21, 2013

         July 12, 2013                              July 26, 2013

         Aug 16, 2013                              Aug 30, 2013

The researchers at the Farmscaping for Beneficials (FSB) Project of the Integrated Plant Protection Center (IPPC) at OSU, the native plant experts at the NRCS Plant Materials Center (PMC), and the conservationists at the Xerces Society are teaming up once again to provide you an afternoon of technical support on how to “scape” your farm with native plants! 

This very popular, informative field day goes from 9:00 – 4:30 to provide you with the technical details you will need to install and enhance diverse habitat features on your farm.  We will review farmer-tested, site selection and preparation practices that will help you create successful, diverse habitats that fit into your busy, unique production plan.  The afternoon will be devoted to habitat establishment techniques and machinery used.  The morning will be devoted to learning appropriate seeded native plant selections and the beneficial insects and native pollinators associated with them. We will visit a test plot of selected native plantings in their 3rd year and an established insectary hedgerow.

Lunch is provided and registration is required.

This is a collaborative event of the Natural resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Corvallis Plant Materials Center (PMC), Oregon State University’s (OSU) Integrated Plant Protection Center (IPPC) and the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation (Xerces).

9:00 a.m. - Processional Lineup:

Undergraduate candidates report to the MU quad to line up
Graduate candidates report to the Valley Library quad

9:00 a.m. Reser Stadium Gates Open

10:05 a.m. Procession begins
10:30 a.m. Procession enters Reser Stadium
11:00 a.m. 144th Commencement ceremony begins

Bagpipers
Oregon State Defense Force Bagpipe Band

Music Prelude
OSU Wind Ensemble, Dr. Chris Champman, Director

Processional
The audience remains seated throughout the Processional, but rises when the Colors approaches the front of stadium and through the posting of Colors  by members of the Oregon State University Reserve Officer Training Corps & singing of the National Anthem

The National Anthem
Performed by Alicia Baker, Senior, Music, Accompanied by OSU Wind Ensemble

Opening Remarks
Edward J. Ray, Ph.D., President, Oregon State University

Welcome
Amelia Harris, President, Associated Students of Oregon State University, 2012-2013

Greetings
Representative of Oregon University System

Conferred by President Ray

• Brigadier Gen. Julie A. Bentz, PhD

Commencement Address

• Brigadier Gen. Julie A. Bentz

Welcome to the Class of 2013
Joth Ricci, President, Oregon State University Alumni Association

Alma Mater
Performed by Alicia Baker, Senior, Music, Accompanied by OSU Wind Ensemble
The audience is invited to rise and join in the singing of the Alma Mater composed by Homer Maris, M.S., Class of 1918.

Recognition of Academic Distinction
Sabah Randhawa, Ph.D., Executive Vice President & Provost

Commissioning of Officers of the United States Armed Forces

Profile of Graduates
Larry D. Roper, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Student Affairs, Oregon State University

Presentation & Conferring of Degrees
Faculty Senate Approval of Candidates: Kevin Gable, Ph.D, Faculty Senate President

Presentation of Doctorate Degrees: Brenda McComb, Ph.D., Dean, Graduate School
Conferring of Advanced Degrees: President Ray

Presentation of Master’s Degrees: Dean McComb
Conferring of Master’s Degrees: President Ray

Presentation of Baccalaureate Diplomas: Dean of each academic unit presents Baccalaureate degrees
Conferring of Baccalaureate Degrees: President Ray

Diploma Distribution (in the following order)

• Doctoral Degrees
• Master’s Degrees
• Baccalaureate Degrees

NOTE: Once graduates receive their diplomas, they are welcome to leave the stadium and meet friends & family members by Parker Plaza outside the stadium.

1:30 p.m. (approximate time) Ceremony ends.

Graduates, celebrate with us appetizers, cake, photo booth, freebies, and faculty. Be sure to bring your family and friends. If you plan to attend - help spread the word by adding yourself to our Facebook Event Page. Be sure to check out photos from last year's reception and the photo booth.

NEWPORT – The 19th annual Markham Symposium, a celebration of graduate student research and scholarship, will be held at the Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center  in Newport on June 19. This year’s symposium will feature student research presentations in an exciting, fast-paced format.  Poster presentations and an informal reception will give attendees a chance to meet students and their mentors. The event, from 10 am-12:30 pm in the Visitor Center auditorium, is free and open to the public.

Read more about the Symposium in Currents, the HMSC newsletter – now available via RSS feed – and while you’re at it, check out the redesigned HMSC Website.

The  HMSC is celebrating its 47th year as a leading marine laboratory distinguished by its many collaborative research partnerships. Originally established as a marine laboratory for OSU, the center currently hosts research and education programs from seven OSU colleges and six state and federal agencies on a 49-acre campus. on the south shore of Yaquina Bay. The facility is also home to the HMSC Visitor Center, managed by Oregon Sea Grant as a public and K-12 education facility and a social laboratory for OSU’s  Free-Choice Learning Lab.

NEWPORT – The 19th annual Markham Symposium, a celebration of graduate student research and scholarship, will be held at the Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center  in Newport on June 19. This year’s symposium will feature student research presentations in an exciting, fast-paced format.  Poster presentations and an informal reception will give attendees a chance to meet students and their mentors. The event, from 10 am-12:30 pm in the Visitor Center auditorium, is free and open to the public.

Read more about the Symposium in Currents, the HMSC newsletter – now available via RSS feed – and while you’re at it, check out the redesigned HMSC Website.

The  HMSC is celebrating its 47th year as a leading marine laboratory distinguished by its many collaborative research partnerships. Originally established as a marine laboratory for OSU, the center currently hosts research and education programs from seven OSU colleges and six state and federal agencies on a 49-acre campus. on the south shore of Yaquina Bay. The facility is also home to the HMSC Visitor Center, managed by Oregon Sea Grant as a public and K-12 education facility and a social laboratory for OSU’s  Free-Choice Learning Lab.

I have a few thoughts about causation, which I will get to in a bit…first, though, I want to give my answers to the post last week.

I had listed the following and wondered if you thought they were a design, a method, or an approach. (I had also asked which of the 5Cs was being addressed–clarity or consistency.)  Here is what I think about the other question.

Case study is a method used when gathering qualitative data, that is, words as opposed to numbers.  Bob Stake, Robert Brinkerhoff, Robert Yin, and others have written extensively on this method.

Pretest-post test Control Group is (according to Campbell and Stanley, 1963) an example of  a true experimental design if a control group is used (pg. 8 and 13).  NOTE: if only one group is used (according to Campbell and Stanley, 1963), pretest-post test is considered a pre-experimental design (pg. 7 and 8); still it is a design.

Ethnography is a method used when gathering qualitative data often used in evaluation by those with training in anthropology.  David Fetterman is one such person who has written on this topic.

Interpretive is an adjective use to describe the approach one uses in an inquiry (whether that inquiry is as an evaluator or a researcher) and can be traced back to the sociologists Max Weber and Wilhem Dilthey in the later part of the 19th century.

Naturalistic is  an adjective use to describe an approach with a diversity of constructions and is a function of “…what the investigator does…” (Lincoln and Guba, 1985, pg.8).

Random Control Trials (RCT) is the “gold standard” of clinical trials, now being touted as the be all and end all of experimental design; its proponents advocate the use of RCT in all inquiry as it provides the investigator with evidence that X (not Y) caused Z.

Quasi-Experimental is a term used by Campbell and Stanley(1963) to denote a design where random assignment cannot be made for ethical or practical reasons be accomplished; this is often contrasted with random selection for survey purposes.

Qualitative is an adjective to describe an approach (as in qualitative inquiry), a type of data (as in qualitative data) or
methods (as in qualitative methods).  I think of qualitative as an approach which includes many methods.

Focus Group is a method of gathering qualitative data through the use of specific, structured interviews in the form of questions; it is also an adjective for defining the type of interviews or the type of study being conducted (Krueger & Casey, 2009, pg. 2)

Needs Assessment is method for determining priorities for the allocation of resources and actions to reduce the gap between the existing and the desired.

I’m sure there are other answers to the terms listed above; these are mine.  I’ve gotten one response (from Simon Hearn at BetterEvaluation).  If I get others, I’ll aggregate them and share them with you.  (Simon can check his answers against this post.

Now causation, and I pose another question:  If evaluation (remember the root word here is value) is determining if a program (intervention, policy, product, etc. ) made a difference, and determined the merit or worth (i.e., value) of that program (intervention, policy, product, etc.), how certain are you that your program (intervention, policy, program, etc.) caused the outcome?  Chris Lysy and Jane Davidson have developed several cartoons that address this topic.  They are worth the time to read them.

At some point in our lives, most of us will face the need to provide care for an adult family member. With the growing number of Americans over the age of 65 already at an all-time high, caring for elderly parents or partners is becoming a common experience.

Yet this time-honored practice carries significant uncertainties. What exactly is caregiving? Who gives care and what are common types of care? How do the givers and receivers of care perceive its pros and cons, and what how do their preferences vary? How can we prepare ourselves to take on this role that is still often unexpected?

The science of caregiving has developed over the last thirty years into a robust area of research. Karen Hooker and Carolyn Mendez-Luck of the Oregon State University College of Public Health and Human Sciences will discuss their studies on ways to promote resilience, to lessen stress and to protect the mental and physical health of caregivers. They will also cover special topics related to culture, gender, technology and family dynamics.

Hooker is the Jo Anne Leonard Endowed Director of the Center for Health Aging Research. She focuses on perception of the self in understanding mental and physical health. She has examined caregiving for people with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

Mendez-Luck is an assistant professor of human development and family sciences as well as health management and policy. She has studied family caregiving and aging-related health disparities in Latino families.

 http://oregonstate.edu/terra/science-pub-corvallis/