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 [...]

Scenes from the 2010 Linus Pauling Legacy Award Event

Dr. Roger Kornberg received the 2010 Linus Pauling Legacy Award this past Tuesday and lectured before a capacity crowd at the Oregon Historical Society’s Miller Pavilion.  Here are a few images from an entertaining and illuminating evening. Fully transcribed video of Dr. Kornberg’s lecture will be made available soon on the OSU Libraries Special Collections [...]

Roger Kornberg Lectures Tonight

“The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription,” a lecture by 2006 Nobel Chemistry laureate Dr. Roger Kornberg, will be presented at 8:00 PM tonight at the Oregon Historical Society’s Miller Pavilion.  The event, which is sponsored by Oregon State University Libraries, is free and open to the public. For more information, please see the event website.

Roger Kornberg is the 2010 Pauling Legacy Award Winner

Dr. Roger Kornberg, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will speak in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday, April 20th. His lecture, entitled “The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription,” will be held at the Oregon Historical Society’s Miller Pavillion at 8:00 PM. The event is free and open to the public. Seats may be reserved [...]

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, October [...]

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 [...]

Scenes from the Linus Pauling Legacy Award Lecture

A large and enthusiastic crowd convened at the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower last night to participate in the Linus Pauling Legacy Award ceremonies. The recipient of the 2008 Pauling Legacy Award, Dr. Roderick MacKinnon of the Rockefeller University, delighted his audience with an engaging talk on the history, evolution and future promise of research [...]

Roderick MacKinnon talk is Monday, May 5th

What: “Ion Channel Chemistry: The Electrical System of Life.” The 2008 Linus Pauling Legacy Award Lecture by Nobel Laureate Dr. Roderick MacKinnon. Sponsored by the Oregon State University Libraries. Where: Hilton & Executive Tower, Pavilion Ballroom, 921 SW Sixth Ave., Portland, Oregon When: Monday, May 5th. 8:00 PM. Free and open to the public. More [...]