2008: The Year in Pauling

Notable Projects and Events
This has been a terrifically-productive year for the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections:

In January our first major video release was launched.  The conference proceedings from the two-day event “The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and his Era,” was the first of five Special Events video projects made available [...]

Linus Pauling baseball!

As the Phillies and Rays prepare for another rendition of the Fall Classic, we thought it appropriate to share with you one of our favorite pieces of video:  Linus Pauling playing beach baseball at a Caltech chemistry department picnic in 1938.
Author of more than 1,100 published articles and inarguably one of history’s great minds, Pauling’s [...]

A Virtual Tour of the OSU Libraries Special Collections

A seven-part virtual tour of the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections is now available on the PaulingBlog.
The videos, which were originally shot for use by Terra Magazine, are hosted by Cliff Mead, Head of Special Collections.  Viewers of the tour will receive fascinating insight into Dr. Linus Pauling and his legacy, and can look [...]

Interesting New Pauling-related Podcast and Video

Chester Bateman, a researcher in the Oregon State University College of Education, has made available an interesting new Pauling-related podcast as part of the College’s Grassroots Learning Project.  The 33-minute podcast, which features Pauling biographer Tom Hager as well as two students from Corvallis, Oregon’s Linus Pauling Middle School, was recorded in tandem with Hager’s [...]

Pauling and Chomsky

The latest addition to the rapidly-expanding volume of transcribed video on the Special Collections website is a two-hour presentation by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Dr. Noam Chomsky. Titled “Prospects for World Order,” Chomsky’s talk was delivered on the Oregon State University campus on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, [...]

An Exposé of the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections

“Pauling’s thinking was never cramped by traditional disciplinary boundaries. His investigations can be likened, not to a line drawn on a page, but to a drop of ink suffusing outward on the currents of curiosity and the tides of creativity.”
- Lee Sherman. “Like Looking Over His Shoulder,” Terra Magazine. June 2008.
We are pleased [...]

Roderick MacKinnon video now available

Fully-transcribed video of Dr. Roderick MacKinnon’s Linus Pauling Legacy Award Lecture is now available on the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections website. Titled “Ion Channel Chemistry: The Electrical System of Life,” MacKinnon’s talk was delivered in Portland on May 5, 2008.
Click here to view Dr. MacKinnon’s presentation

Now Playing On the Special Collections Website…

In recent days, a large amount of great new content has been added to the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections website. Here are some of the highlights:
New Videos
First and foremost, almost nine hours of transcribed video from a major conference on the life and work of Linus Pauling has been added to our [...]