1:00–3:00 p.m.
Meet with Counseling Services Gonzalo Camp, who specializes in working with LatinX and undocumented students, at the Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence (Oregon Hall-Room 130) or click here: https://zoom.us/j/92243720320
Let’s Talk is a service that provides easy access to free, informal, and confidential one-on-one consultation with a Counseling Services staff member. See our website for six additional Let’s Talk days/times offered throughout the week.
Let’s Talk is especially helpful for students who:
Have a specific concern and would like to consult with someone about it. Would like on-the-spot consultation rather than ongoing counseling. Would like to consult with a CS staff member about what actual therapy looks like. Would like to meet with one of our CS identity-based specialists. Have a concern about a friend or family member and would like some ideas about what to do.How does Let’s Talk work?
Let’s Talk will be offered via Zoom and/or in satellite locations across campus. As a drop-in service, there is no need to schedule an appointment and no paperwork to be completed. Students are seen individually on a first-come, first-served basis at the times listed below. There may be a wait in the Zoom waiting room if the Let’s Talk staff member is meeting with another student. Please wait and we will be with you as soon as we can. Let’s Talk appointments are brief (usually between 15-30 minutes) and are meant to be used on an as-needed basis.
Click here for Let's Talk - Fridays 1-3PM or see Gonzalo at the CMAE, Room 130: https://zoom.us/j/92243720320
3:00 p.m.
Thermo Fisher Discovery and Impact Symposium Series Organic/Inorganic/Materials Chemistry Seminar Series
Erdost Yildiz, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Hosted by Teresa Rapp
Microscale Robotics as a Research Tool for Cellular Biophysics
The human body consists of diverse cellular environments, which leads to various therapeutic and diagnostic challenges for medical experts. While improvements and discoveries of new pharmaceutical agents, devices, and methods are ongoing, a deeper investigation of cellular biophysics is required. From this perspective, mobile microrobotics is an emerging field that revolutionizes medical applications in the diagnostics and therapeutics of various diseases.
Thanks to wireless manipulation methods with various physical forces, microrobots can mimic cellular functions, manipulate cells, and deliver pharmaceutical and physical treatment agents on a micro- scale. In this talk, I will focus on the usage of mobile microrobots to understand cellular biophysics and give some examples from different organ systems.
7:00 p.m.
Mark Jarman began reading and writing poems in his teens. His early poetry reflects the influence of living by the Pacific and the North Sea at important times in his life, along with growing up in a strongly religious family. As he has matured, his poetry has remained invested in family experience, a sense of place, and the presence of God in everyday life. Zeno's Eternity, his latest book, reflects much of these interests and values, along with celebrating the land and seascape of Southern California where he grew up.
2:00 p.m.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Physical Chemistry Seminar Series
Jacob Neal, University of Oregon Hosted by: Jeff Cina
Theory vs. Experiment: The Rise of the Dynamic View of Proteins
Over the past century, the scientific conception of the protein has evolved significantly. This talk focuses on the most recent stage of this evolution, namely, the origin of the dynamic view of proteins and the challenge it posed to the static view of classical molecular biology. Philosophers and scientists have offered two hypotheses to explain the origin of the dynamic view and its slow reception by structural biologists. Some have argued that the shift from the static to the dynamic view was a Kuhnian revolution, driven by the accumulation of dynamic anomalies, while others have argued that the shift was caused by new empirical findings made possible by technological advances. I analyze this scientific episode and ultimately reject both of these empiricist accounts. I argue that focusing primarily on technological advances and empirical discoveries overlooks the important role of theory in driving this scientific change. I show how the application of general thermodynamic principles to proteins gave rise to the dynamic view, and a commitment to these principles then led early adopters to seek out the empirical examples of protein dynamics, which would eventually convince their peers. My analysis of this historical case shows that empiricist accounts of modern scientific progress—at least those that aim to explain developments in the molecular life sciences—need to be tempered in order to capture the interplay between theory and experiment.
Sin nombre [Nameless] (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 96 mins., 2009)
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Sin nombre [Nameless] (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 96 mins., 2009)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, 137 mins., 2008)
6:00–8:30 p.m.
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, 137 mins., 2008)
noon
Looking for a part-time job this summer in Eugene? Looking ahead for fall job opportunities on campus? Or want to learn more about future work-study opportunities during your time at UO? Stop by the UO Part-Time Job & Work-Study Fair, Tuesday, May 7th, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Tykeson Hall 1st Floor Commons area to meet local and on-campus employers hiring for seasonal employees! Bring your resume and apply on the spot, or just look around and learn more about the great ways you can get work experience and build career readiness skills during your time at the UO.
FYI: Work-Study is a specific type of part-time job available to students based on financial need. If a job says it requires Work-Study, you must have accepted an award on Duckweb. To learn more about the program and how to find your award, check out https://career.uoregon.edu/jobs-and-internships/work-study
There will still be LOTS of jobs at this event that do not require work-study in order to apply--something for everyone!
Register in Handshake to keep up to date on which employers are coming to the fair and what jobs you can be applying for!
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Lecture by Juliette Levy (UC Riverside)
Juliette Levy will be discussing methods she employs to make history as a topic and as a field of study approachable and attractive to students who are ever more pressed to focus on scientific majors. She created multiple online courses in history for the University of California, developed a learning game (http://digitalzombies.ucr.edu) that introduces university students to information hierarchies and research methods. She also worked on a mixed reality learning module for large scale lecture courses, and is now developing a spatial history narrative platform. In all these the focus has been on accessibility and inclusivity, so she recently joined colleagues in an practice bilingual instruction and education in her courses and will be developing an upper division bilingual Latin American history course for the UC online education program.
The Department of History’s Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the nation’s top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about this event and others in the series.
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Black students, faculty members, and staff are invited to engage in activities that center Black joy including art, laughter, music, and movement. Black Joy Sessions create a space to center a celebration of Black culture, uplift, heal, and empower using a liberated narrative of the Black experience. This space is designed to be an easy, transformative, and love-infused space to create, express, and (re)claim Black joy.
2:00–4:00 p.m.
Meet with Counseling Services Cecile Gadson, who specializes in working with Black and African American students, at the Black Cultural Center.
Let’s Talk is a service that provides easy access to free, informal, and confidential one-on-one consultation with a Counseling Services staff member. See our website for six additional Let’s Talk days/times offered throughout the week.
Let’s Talk is especially helpful for students who:
Have a specific concern and would like to consult with someone about it. Would like on-the-spot consultation rather than ongoing counseling. Would like to consult with a CS staff member about what actual therapy looks like. Would like to meet with one of our CS identity-based specialists. Have a concern about a friend or family member and would like some ideas about what to do.How does Let’s Talk work?
Let’s Talk will be offered via Zoom and/or in satellite locations across campus. As a drop-in service, there is no need to schedule an appointment and no paperwork to be completed. Students are seen individually on a first-come, first-served basis at the times listed below. There may be a wait in the Zoom waiting room if the Let’s Talk staff member is meeting with another student. Please wait and we will be with you as soon as we can. Let’s Talk appointments are brief (usually between 15-30 minutes) and are meant to be used on an as-needed basis.