Weekly News for CHE STUDENTS / STAFF / FACULTY
May 9, 2007 / Week 1
FOR THE WEEK
Bow
before the captain,
Or stalk
but don’t pursue.
Perhaps a
leg that is made of glass.
What am
I?
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CALENDAR
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May 21 – Engineers Without Borders Meeting
May 31 – June 10 –Oregon
Centennial Rose Festival and fleet Week Activities
June 17 - GRADUATION INFORMATION AND UPDATES
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ADVISING CORNER
Kristin Rorrer
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Advising for Fall term registration is here! Please check the advising page to be sure you
know who your advisor is. We do make
changes during each term. Then please
sign up for your advising appointment by going to the advising calendar.
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Any student
that has Dr. Skip Rochefort as their advisor may see Kristin Rorrer for
advising this term. Due to a heavy
schedule Dr. Rochefort may not have enough openings on his calendar and we want
everyone to see an advisor by the time they are scheduled to register.
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Students can find their
particular registration time by going to the “Check Registration Status” page
in the Registration menu through Student Online Services. http://che.oregonstate.edu/advising
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NEWS
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GRADUATION INFORMATION AND
UPDATES
ORDER
OF THE ENGINEER - Graduation is
quickly approaching! This means that you should consider participating in the
Order of the Engineer ceremony on June 16 (MU Lounge). This is a pledge, taken by
graduating engineering students, to uphold the standards and dignity of the
engineering profession and to serve humanity. As part of the process you will
be given a steel ring to wear to remind you of your obligation to society. Ring
sizing takes place May 7-9 in the Owen Hall Atrium between 1:00-4:00 pm. Cost
is $20. All ABET-accredited engineering majors are eligible to participate.
Contact Civil and Construction Engineering Department students Sean Clark
(seandrafts@hotmail.com) or Juan Hernandez (hernanju@engr.orst.edu) for
additional details. More information can be found at http://www.order-of-the-engineer.org/.
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Graduation will be here before we know
it!
Pictures – If you have not had your picture taken,
please contact BALL Studios @ 753-5721.
They will
schedule a sitting for you.
Department Graduation –
IF YOU ARE GRADUATING AND HAVE NOT
RECEIVED AN INVITATION – PLEASE CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY!
Karen/737-2491 or karen.kelly@oregonstate.edu or stop by the office.
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Many of you
have asked about the department graduation.
The general program runs as follows:
The
ceremonies are held outside of Gleeson Hall.
There are bleachers and chairs so there will be plenty of room for
family and friends.
The program
begins between 8:30 and 8:45 depending on how quickly everyone can get
seated. Coffee and other goodies are
provided both before and after the ceremonies in the main lobby.
There will be
speeches by the chair, the dean, faculty and students. Awards will be given and each of you will be
acknowledged before your guests.
There will
then be a time for the taking of the group graduation picture and time for
photos with family and friends. During
and after this time there is a reception with refreshments in Gleeson 100.
The whole
affair should be completed by 11:45 leaving plenty of time for you and your
family to attend the OSU graduation beginning at 2:00.
If you need
more information, please stop by the office.
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Please email Jennifer is you are
interested in helping with the student portion of the graduation celebration.
Jennifer
Kanaan @ kanaanje@onid.orst.edu and let her know you are interested in
helping plan something. An email went
out to all of the graduating seniors last Tuesday with ideas and
suggestions. This is your graduation
celebration – make it fun and full of memories!!
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OSU
General Information for All Students
To participate in commencement, a student
must file an Application for Graduation with the Registrar's office, and be a
graduate (or anticipated graduate) of Summer 2006, Fall 2006, Winter 2007,
Spring 2007 or Summer 2007 terms.
If you require accommodations due to a
disability, please contact the Registrar's Office at 541-737-4331, as soon as
possible, but no later than May 26, 2007
Guest Tickets
- Graduating
seniors' family members do not need tickets to attend this year's
commencement ceremony.
- Seating
is on a first come, first served basis. Not all sections of Reser will be
available due to restricted visibility of the stage.
You may obtain your graduation items from the
OSU Bookstore after April 26.
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Tom Happynook, Nuu Chah Nulth hereditary whaling chief, is scheduled
to deliver a talk starting at 6:30 p.m. in Gilfillan Auditorium on campus. The
presentation, free and open to the public, is part of a spring term course on
Native American philosophies.
Discovery Days, a bi-annual
science outreach program sponsored by the College
of Science and College
of Engineering, will be from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. in the LaSells
Stewart Center.
It is free and open to the public.
The OSAA State Band and Orchestra Championships are today through
Saturday at LaSells
Stewart Center.
The Wheel-A-Thon
fundraiser, a wheelchair obstacle course event, is
today and Thursday from noon to 6 p.m. in the MU Quad. The event will raise
money for OSU Multiple Sclerosis Exercise Program and the IMPACT program
(Individualized Movement and Physical Activity for Children Today) for children
with disabilities.
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SEMINARS
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STUDENT CHAPTERS
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Engineers Without Borders meetings
"Engineers Without Borders
- is an OSU student chapter of EWB - USA, a non-profit humanitarian
organization established to partner with developing communities world-wide to
improve their quality of life through the implementation of environmentally and
economically sustainable engineering projects while developing internationally
responsible engineering students. Join
us for an hour and see what all the hype is about! Pizza and/or other food will be
provided!"
The meetings will be from 6-7
pm in Kelley Engineering Building
– please refer to their web page at www.ewb-osu.org for more information and room number.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Monday, June 4, 2007
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RESEARCH
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Application Deadline May 15, 2007
Subject: REU Program at University of Massachusetts
UMass REU Program on Cellular Engineering,
based in the Chemical Engineering department.
Please advertise this program to your undergraduate ChemE students
We would prefer to receive applications by
May 15, but we will consider applications after this date due to the late
notice. The program runs from June
10-August 11, but we can also be flexible for students from schools with late
final exams.
Interested students can direct any
questions to me. Thanks so much!
Surita Bhatia / Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts
Amherst
sbhatia@ecs.umass.edu
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Application Deadline / May 15, 2007
NSF Research Experience for
Undergraduates (REU)
Summer Site in Cellular Engineering
June 10 – August 11, 2007
For those interested in graduate
school in engineering and biotechnology
Come and work in an exciting interdisciplinary environment at the University of Massachusetts
in the beautiful town of Amherst! Cellular
engineering is a new frontier of applied biology. Understanding cellular function and
manipulating cells/tissues to perform in a particular manner is the basis for
many ventures in the biomedical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries
including drug production from cell culture, generation of artificial organs
for replacement of diseased tissues, and design of bioremediation processes for
waste water clean-up. Our faculty
are leading researchers in the field of cellular engineering with cutting-edge
projects in biosensors, cell and drug delivery, metabolic engineering and
protein engineering. Our program runs
for ten weeks and students receive a stipend of $4,000 as well as support for
travel, housing and meals. Students will
also participate in a weekly seminar which educates them in the fundamentals of
cellular engineering and provides professional development opportunities.
Examples of Participating Faculty
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Faculty
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Department
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Research
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Surita Bhatia
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Chemical Engineering
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Polymeric biomaterials for cell and drug delivery
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Neil Forbes
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Chemical Engineering
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Novel therapies for cancer treatment
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Jeanne Hardy
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Chemistry
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Drug and protein design
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Michael Henson
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Chemical Engineering
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Modeling of tumor metabolism
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Lakis Mountziaris
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Chemical Engineering
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Nanoparticles for biosensor devices
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Jennifer Normanly
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
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High-throughput technologies for plant metabolite
detection
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Sandra Petersen
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Biology
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Effect on environmental toxins on reproductive
physiology
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Susan Roberts
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Chemical Engineering
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Cell culture for pharmaceutical production and
tissue engineering
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Larry Schwartz
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Biology/PVLSI
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Suppressiion of apoptosis in transplanted cells
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Lianhong Sun
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Chemical Engineering
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Novel protein activity using directed evolution
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Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (EEC-0649041)