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Girls On The Run
Join Kid Spirit and Girld On the Run for the annual Girls on the run race day. Events include 50 yd dash, 1k, and 5k. Community members welcome! For more information check out our website at http://www.gotrwillamette.org/
2013 Combined Acidified Foods and Better Process Control School
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
Fulbright U.S. Student Program General Information Meeting
Thank you for your interest in the US Student Fulbright program. Fulbright grants are for research, teaching, project or course work in any eligible country.
For more information, please contact LeAnn Adam, OSU Fulbright Program Adviser leann.adam@oregonstate.edu and see our Fulbright information page.
See: press release for competition opening.
Loan Repayment Workshop
Want to know more about repaying your student loans? Who do I send payments to? What happens after I graduate? When do I start paying my loan back? Where can I find options on consolidation? Why is it important to communicate with my lender? How can I find options if I can’t start repayment right away? Bring your lun, bring a friend! This workshop is open to all students!
Golden Jubilee
Come back to your alma mater! The Golden Jubilee is a reunion for classes of: 1963, 1958, 1953, 1952, 1948 & 1943. Registration is now open. Be sure to check out the full schedule of activities.
Golden Jubilee
Come back to your alma mater! The Golden Jubilee is a reunion for classes of: 1963, 1958, 1953, 1952, 1948 & 1943. Registration is now open. Be sure to check out the full schedule of activities.
NW Fire Science Consortium Technical Field Tour
Dr. Steven Link, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian reservation & Native Plant Land-scaping and restoration LLC, will discuss results from recent research on controlling cheatgrass and fire risk in shrub-steppe region of central Washington.
Topics include: The relationship between fire and cheatgrass; Estimating cheatgrass cover and mapping fire risk using aerial photography; Integrated weed management: using prescribed fire, herbicides, and seeding native bunchgrass to control cheatgrass; Risks associated with using "Plateau" herbicide
There is no charge for this event/Bring your own lunch & dress for the weather.
REGISTER NOW, SPACE IS LIMITED!
National Get Outdoors Day
The OSU College Forests and OSU Extension Service, Benton County, are hosting their first annual National Get Outdoors Day event at Peavy Arboretum north of Corvallis on Saturday, June 8, 2013 from 10:00am -3:00pm.
This event is free to the public and will feature a variety of hands-on activities for youth (including free fishing for youth under 12) and guided bilingual (Spanish & English) hikes for people of all ages. A number of local organizations will be on site to introduce participants to the outdoor activities and opportunities for families in the OSU College Forests and other outdoor areas in the Willamette Valley.
National Get Outdoors Day is a national effort to connect youth and first-time visitors to the great outdoors. Join us and discover the forest in your backyard. For more information contact OSU Extension Service, Benton County at 541-766-6750.
Inspired
Inspiration matters! That's why we're learning from each others ideas and the people who inspire our work. Inspired is just 30 minutes, a few speakers and some thoughts to carry with you. Everyone in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences - students, staff and faculty - is welcome.
What inspires your work? You provide the story, we'll provide the coffee.
Inspired takes place on the First Friday of each month and is hosted by the Hallie for Center for Healthy Children and Families.
Research Seminars
"Statins and Muscles in Older Men and Women: Physical Activity, Muscle Mass, and Physical Performance" David Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, Oregon State University. Dr. Lee is interested in medications that cause disabilities in older adults, both physical and cognitive disabilities. Currently, he is studying how medications can affect cognitive impairment, muscle mass, physical function and strength. This area of research will help to identify causes of functional decline and loss of independence in older adults.
Starker Lecture -- Forest Biomass: Energy and Beyond
Visit forest biomass production sites and energy facilities in the Benton and Lane County areas. The discussion will include on-the-ground facility supply and processing considerations, including the technical, environmental, and economic.
For more information, visit the Starker Lecture Series website.
Introductory Basic HACCP
Workshop Objectives
To provide an overview of the prerequisite programs (GMPs, SSOPs) as a foundation for developing HACCP based food safety plans. Participants will work in teams and go through the process of
establishing a HACCP based food safety plan for a specific food product.
This program will provide information for participants to begin to prepare to come into compliance with the FDA’s mandate to require comprehensive, prevention based controls across the food supply.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is targeted at food processors to assist them in developing HACCP based food safety plans.
Location, lodging, and registration information available at: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/foodsci/extservices/2013_HACCP_reginfo.htm
Lecture: Oregon Parenting Education Week
"Supporting Children’s First Teachers: Promoting School Readiness Through Parent Education." Katherine C Pears, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Oregon Social Learning Center.
Dr. Pears is a Senior Scientist at the Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC). She studies school readiness in high-risk children and their families, including children in foster care, children with developmental disabilities, and children from impoverished environments.
Dr. Pears also studies the early childhood experiences that shape self-regulatory and executive functioning abilities and how these abilities subsequently affect school readiness and school adjustment.
Dr. Pears is a developer of the Kids in Transition to School (KITS) Program, a school readiness intervention designed to promote early literacy, social, and self-regulation skills in children and school involvement in parents.
She is the principal investigator on several federally funded randomized efficacy trials of the KITS Program.
Dr. Pears also works in partnership with a number of community organizations to increase school readiness in at-risk children.
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Lecture: Oregon Parenting Education Week
"Boys, men, fathers: A 30-year intergenerational study of how fatherhood impacts men and their families." David C. R. Kerr, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Psychological Science, Oregon State University. Research Scientist, Oregon Social Learning Center.
David is a clinical researcher and a licensed psychologist. He specializes in developmental studies of risk for depression, substance abuse, delinquency, and suicide.
He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan in 2004, completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry in 2006, and then took a research position at the Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene where he continues to work as a Research Scientist.
He has been an assistant professor at OSU since 2008. He has co-authored 39 scholarly articles and book chapters, and has received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, the OHSU Medical Research Foundation, and the Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation.”
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Research Seminars
"Translating Epidemiologic Findings into Action to Eliminate Disparities" Victor J. Schoenbach, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Minority Health Project, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Schoenbach teaches epidemiologic concepts and distance education, HIV/STD/sexual behavior, cancer control, contextual factors and health disparities.
Lecture: Oregon Parenting Education Week
"Cultivating a Community-wide Culture of Nurturing along the Southern Oregon Coast." Stephen J. Bavolek, Ph.D.Executive Director of the Family Nurturing Centers, International.
Stephen J. Bavolek, Ph.D. is recognized for his work in promoting nurturing parenting attitudes and skills for the prevention and treatment of child abuse. During the last 27 years he has authored and validated family-based parenting programs, assessment inventories, school curricula, games, videos, instructional aides and training materials all designed to enhance the lives of individuals and families through nurturing.
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Happiness is:
Linn County Small Woodlands Association is hosting a twilight tour in the Scio area. We will gather at the Scio Odd Fellow Hall, across the street from Clevenger's, the only gas station in Scio at 4 p.m.
Our plan is to learn a little bit about bucking and grading logs. We plan to have logs to buck and grade on a landing close the Scio. Aaron White will be our logger and lugging the chain saw. Location is yet to be determined. John West, a Linn County Small Woodland owner, and Columbia Bureau Scaler, will join us and serve as our expert on how he would apply the Bureau Scaling Rules.
Bring a sack supper and LCSWA will provide beverages.
5th Annual Farmscaping with Native Plants Field Day
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).
Tractor Safety
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.
Free Well Water Nitrate Screening Clinic
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.
