Schedule of Events     2001: November     Previous Events
November 3, 2001
The Linus Pauling Medal Award Ceremony The 2001 recipient of the Linus Pauling Award is Tobin Marks. The symposium and award banquet will be held at Reed College. More information can be found here: http://www.chem.orst.edu/acs/pauling.htm
Spring 2002
Publication of The Pauling Catalogue, second edition This will be the first comprehensive listing of the complete holdings (500,000+ items) of the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers. For more information, please visit our The Pauling Catalogue page.
Previous Events
October 9, 2000
OSU fraternity donates Pauling treasures to campus library Three fraternity pins belonging to two-time Nobel Prize winner and Oregon State University graduate Linus Pauling were donated to the campus library by Delta Upsilon Fraternity. Delta Upsilon officials presented the pins, along with a picture of Pauling, to The Valley Library during a ceremony, "Honoring Our Brother," at 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 9, in the Memorial Union Lounge. Among the speakers at the presentation were OSU President Paul Risser and Bob Kerr, campus Greek life coordinator. "Linus Pauling was a founding father of the Oregon State Chapter of Delta Upsilon," said Eric Lindberg, a fraternity member who coordinated the presentation. Recognizing the significance of Linus Pauling's contributions to society, Delta Upsilon is donating the pins to Special Collections at The Valley Library, Lindberg said. Article courtesy of OSU This Week.
October 17, 18, 19, 2000
The 2000 Linus Pauling Lectures - John B. Goodenough John B. Goodenough, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas at Austin, gave three lectures at Oregon State University. All lectures were at 4:00 p.m. in 324 Gilbert Hall. On Tuesday, October 17, the lecture was entitled, "Vibronic Superconductivity in the Copper Oxides." For Wednesday, October 18, the lecture was entitled, "Lithium-Insertion Compounds." The final lecture, held on Thursday, October 19, was entitled, "Oxide-Ion Conductors." This event was sponsored by the Department of Chemistry at Oregon State University.
January 2001
Publication of Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker Oregon State University Press has published this centenary volume, edited by Cliff Mead and Thomas Hager. For more information, please visit our Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker page.
January 2001
Ava Helen Pauling Chair Appointed Joseph Beckman, a professor of anesthesiology, biochemistry, molecular genetics and neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has accepted the Ava Helen Pauling Chair as the newest member of OSU's expanding Linus Pauling Institute and a member of the OSU Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Read the entire article at OSU This Week in PDF format here.
January 8, 2001 - March 31, 2001
SGI Linus Pauling Exhibition in Portland Sponsored by Soka Gakkai International, the Pauling family, and Oregon State University, this traveling exhibition will be hosted in Portland, Oregon at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). For more information, please visit our Linus Pauling Traveling Exhibition page.
January 10, 2001
Live Radio Interview on KPAM 860 AM This live radio interview was conducted at 8:00 p.m. with Cliff Mead, Head of Special Collections, to discuss Linus Pauling and the Centenary Celebration at Oregon State University.
January 22, 2001 - March 5, 2001
Linus Pauling Display Exhibit This exhibit will be hosted in the Memorial Union at Oregon State University and is being organized by Special Collections.
January 31, 2001
Linus Pauling and the Twentieth Century OSU Alumni and friends gathered for an exclusive viewing of the Linus Pauling and the Twentieth Century exhibit. The evening began at 6:30 p.m. at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. At 7:00 p.m., Tom Hager, Linus Pauling's biographer, gave a short presentation in the auditorium, followed with a viewing of the exhibit. This event was sponsored by the OSU Alumni Association and the Linus Pauling Institute.
February 7, 2001
John Polanyi speaks at Oregon State University John Polanyi holds the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Dudley R. Herschbach and Yuan T. Lee for contributions to "the development of a new field of research chemistry--reaction dynamics." Polanyi was cited for "the method of infrared chemiluminescence, in which the extremely weak infrared emission from a newly-formed molecule is measured and analyzed," and for its application. Polanyi has written exclusively on science policy, the control of armaments, and peacekeeping. He was educated at Manchester University, England, was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, U.S.A., and the National Research Council, Canada. He is presently a faculty memeber in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. His lecture was entitled "Science and Conscience," and was presented at the LaSells Stewart Center at Oregon State University at 7:30 p.m. This event was organized by the Convocations and Lectures Committee of Oregon State University.
February 12, 2001
Pauling Love Letters Presentation Cliff Mead, Head of Special Collections, gave a presentation to the OSU Folk Club on the love letters between Linus Pauling and Ava Helen Pauling at Burton's Sunnybrook Restaurant at 10:00 a.m. The restaurant is located at 199 SW Third Street in Corvallis, OR. For more information, contact Julie Jensen at socrates@proaxis.com.
February 26, 2001
Screening of Linus Pauling biographical films Two biographical films of Linus Pauling will be shown from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. at Oregon State University in Gilfillan Auditorium. The first film shown is entitled Linus Pauling: Crusading Scientist and is sixty minutes long. The second film is entitled Linus Pauling: A Century of Life and Science and is thirty minutes long. This event is organized by Special Collections and the Linus Pauling Institute.
February 27, 2001
Reading of the play, "The Essential Bond" "The Essential Bond" is a play about the life of Ava Helen and Linus Pauling. It is produced by Soka Gakkai International-USA. The reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the University Theater (Withycombe Hall). This event is being organized by the Pauling Heritage Committee.
February 28, 2001
Symposium on Linus Pauling "A LIKING FOR THE TRUTH: Truth and Controversy in the Work of Linus Pauling" is an all-day symposium that will be held at Oregon State University's LaSells Stewart Center. Five speakers will be presenting, including Ahmed Zewail, Jack Dunitz, Linus Pauling Jr., Robert Paradowski and Tom Hager. For more information on the speakers, please visit the Lecture Series page. Schedule for Symposium Directions: From Portland | From Salem | From Eugene
May 14, 2001
The Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Peace Lectureship Betty Williams, a Nobel Laureate is scheduled to speak. The lecture will begin at 7:00 p.m. and will be held at the LaSells Stewart Center at Oregon State University. This event is organized by the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University.
May 16 - 19, 2001
Linus Pauling Institute conference, Diet and Optimum Health A four-day conference held at the Marriott Hotel in Portland, Oregon. The Linus Pauling Institute Prize for Health Research will be awarded during this conference. For more information, please visit the Diet and Optimum Health conference page at the Linus Pauling Institute.
May 18, 2001
Structural Biology: 50 Years After the Alpha-Helix Milton Harris Minisymposium - presented in conjunction with the Pauling Centennial Celebration at Oregon State University. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Structure of Proteins by Pauling, Corey and Branson, this day-long symposium on the OSU campus will focus upon a half-century of advancement in the field of structural biology. Speakers for this symposium are: Morning - (Nucleic Acids/Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions) Dr. Alexander Rich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "A Role for Left-Handed Nucleic Acids in a Right-Handed World" Professor Brian Matthews, University of Oregon "Proteins Off, On and Around DNA" Professor P. Shing Ho, Oregon State University "The Changing and Exchanging Faces of DNA" Afternoon - (Proteins) Dr. David R. Davies, National Institutes of Health "From the Alpha-Helix and the Beta-Sheet to Gamma-Globulins" Professor Rachael Klevit, University of Washington "Structure of the BRCA1-BARD1 Heterodimes: Two RINGS are Better Than One" Professor P. Andrew Karplus, Oregon State University "Getting High on Protein Structure" The minisymposium will run all day at LaSells Stewart Center at Oregon State University. Sponsored by Oregon State University's College of Science, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Linus Pauling Institute, Center for Gene Research and Biotechnology, and the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program. For more information, contact P. Shing Ho at 541-737-2769 or hops@ucs.orst.edu Listen to Linus Pauling recount the tale of his discovery of the alpha-helix.
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