Redesigning our Web Presence

In September 2007, we decided that the time had come to redesign our home page and department web presence.  Last month, three graphic designers, dozens of mock-ups, hundreds of work hours and almost exactly two years later, we released our new look, complete with scads of fresh content.  For those interested in many of the [...]

The Pauling Electronegativity Scale: Part 1, Historical Background

The development of an accurate electronegativity scale was one of Linus Pauling’s many major contributions to the study of chemistry.  In this two part series, we’ll first look at the electronegativity research that preceded Pauling’s breakthrough, before analyzing the details of the scale that Pauling ultimately derived.
The concept of electronegativity is measured along a relative [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 on [...]

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 [...]

Nobel Laureate to Speak in Portland, Mon. May 5th

The Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections is very excited to announce that Dr. Roderick MacKinnon, co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, will deliver the Linus Pauling Legacy Award Lecture on Monday, May 5th. The event is scheduled to begin at 8:00 PM, and will take place in downtown Portland at [...]