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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dr. Ina Heumann, Resident Scholar

Dr. Ina Heumann, a historian of science affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, is the most recent individual to complete a term as Resident Scholar in the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections.  Heumann spent two months in Corvallis studying the Roger Hayward Papers and the Ava Helen [...]

Now Accepting Applications for 2011 Resident Scholars

Research grants are being made available to scholars interested in conducting work in the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections. Stipends of $2,500 per month renewable for up to three months (for a total maximum grant award of $7,500) will be awarded to researchers whose proposals detail a compelling potential use of the materials held [...]

Julia Bursten, Resident Scholar

Julia Bursten is the fifth individual to complete research as a Resident Scholar in the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections.  Bursten is a doctoral candidate in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. [Update: transcribed video of Bursten's Resident Scholar presentation is now available.] Bursten came to Corvallis to study [...]

Jane Nisselson, Resident Scholar

“People have sometimes stated that Pauling’s model of the alpha-helix or his incorrect model for DNA gave us the idea that DNA was a helix. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Helices were in the air, and you would have to be either obtuse or very obstinate not to think along helical lines. What [...]

Now Accepting Applications for 2010 Resident Scholars

Research grants are being made available to scholars interested in conducting work in the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections. Stipends of $2,500 per month renewable for up to three months (for a total maximum grant award of $7,500) will be awarded to researchers whose proposals detail a compelling potential use of the materials held [...]