Linda Richards, Resident Scholar

Linda Richards, doctoral candidate in the history of science at Oregon State University, is the first individual to have completed a term as an OSU Libraries Resident Scholar in 2012.  Steeped in the tradition of the activist-scholar, Richards has been discussing nuclear history, environmental justice and non-violent conflict resolution for over twenty-five years.  During her [...]

Scenes from the 2012 Linus Pauling Legacy Award

A capacity crowd of some three-hundred people gathered in Portland last Thursday April 19th to hear Dr. Roald Hoffmann deliver a fascinating lecture, “Indigo: A Story of Craft, Religion, History, Science and Culture.”  Dr. Hoffmann traveled to Oregon to receive the seventh Linus Pauling Legacy Award, which was granted during a dinner that preceded his [...]

Roald Hoffmann is the 2012 Pauling Legacy Award Winner

Today marks the 111th anniversary of Linus Pauling’s birth and what better way to mark the occasion than by announcing the recipient of an award named after Dr. Pauling? Dr. Roald Hoffmann, chemist, educator, author and Nobel laureate, is the seventh person to be given the Linus Pauling Legacy Award, which is granted every other [...]

Now Accepting Applications for 2012 Resident Scholars

The Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Research Center (SCARC) is pleased to announce that applications are once again being solicited for the Resident Scholar Program. Now in its fifth year, the Resident Scholar Program provides research grants to scholars interested in conducting work in the Special Collections & Archives Research Center. Stipends [...]

Chris Hables Gray, Resident Scholar

Dr. Chris Hables Gray, professor at the Union Institute and University and lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is the fourth individual this year to complete a term as Resident Scholar in the Special Collections & Archives Research Center.  Dr. Gray is a self-described “anarchist, feminist, post-modernist” who has written widely on a [...]

Anniversaries and New Beginnings

Last Friday night a group assembled in the fourth floor rotunda of the Valley Library to celebrate the convergence of two anniversaries: the University Archives turns 50 in 2011, while Special Collections celebrates its 25th birthday. The University Archives was established in 1961 as a component of what was then called the Kerr Library.  The [...]

An Electronegativity Breakthrough

Exciting news from the laboratories of Oregon State University: a group of researchers here have developed a method that simplifies the scientific understanding of electronegativity, a concept introduced and greatly advanced by Linus Pauling in the 1930s with his “electronegativity scale.”  We’ve written about Pauling’s electronegativity work before and since we’re in an interviewing mood [...]

Scenes from the Linus Pauling Science Center grand opening

(Video courtesy of Graham Kislingbury, Mid-Valley Newspapers) We were there when ground was broken in September 2009.  Now, just over two years later, it was our great pleasure to attend the grand opening of the magnificent Linus Pauling Science Center, new home to the Linus Pauling Institute and to components of the Department of Chemistry. [...]

Graciela de Souza Oliver, Resident Scholar

The third Resident Scholar to complete a term working with our collections this year definitely wins the longest-traveled award:  Dr. Graciela de Souza Oliver is Professor of Science and Technology at the Universidade Federal do ABC in Santo André, Brazil, where her research focus is the institutionalization of science, especially agricultural science. In furthering her [...]

Chris O’Brien, Resident Scholar

Historian Chris O’Brien of the University of Maine – Farmington is this summer’s second Resident Scholar to complete a tenure in the OSU Libraries Special Collections.  For much of his career, the primary focus of Dr. O’Brien’s research and writing has been the experience of children, ages 6-13, growing up in the U. S. during [...]