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February 2017 #OSUResearchMatters

The Research Week 2017 issue

The 14th annual Research Week is an inspiring time on the campus of Oklahoma State. Almosteverywhere you look there are events dedicated to the work of scientists, engineers, scholars, and artists –presentations, lectures, displays, competitions, performances, and exhibits. Research Week features some

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of the most important invited lectures in several disciplines at OSU including the KammLecture in Higher Education, the OSU Sociology Bradford Gray Lecture, theInterdisciplinary Toxicology Symposium, the Food and Agricultural Products ResearchSymposium, and others. Research Week also includes the arts. So there are events foranyone with an interest in OSU research.

The VPR Panel Series returns to Research Week

Vice President for Research Kenneth Sewell has created an annual Research Week series of discoursesintroducing Oklahoma State interdisciplinary research strengths through panel discussion that highlightOSU faculty. The 2017 panels showcase research areas of growing impact:

The Microbiome Monday, Feb. 20, 10 a.m., 416 Student Union, Case Study 2Fire Protection Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1 p.m., 416 Student Union, Case Study 2The Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity Wednesday, Feb. 22, 10 a.m., 416Student Union, Case Study 2

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The Research Week schedule covers it all

Printed schedules are available throughout campus in ResearchWeek displays in many buildings and can be downloaded. Theonline schedule includes additional details like speaker bios andphotos and is available at researchweek.okstate.edu

Top lecturers visit OSU for Research WeekResearch Week is a stage for renowned invited lecturers who bringtheir expertise on a variety of disciplines to the OSU campus.

TuesdayFAPC/IFT-OK Research Symposium Keynote by Dr. Randall K. Phebus, Kansas State UniversityValidation and Prevention of Multisyllable Germs in Meat, Produce,Baking and Pet Food Industries11:15 a.m., Kerr Auditorium, 201 Food and Agricultural ProductsCenter Kamm Lecture in Higher EducationKeynote by Dr. Harry Boyte, Center for Democracy and

Remembering Darla

Darla Duncan,a dear friendand colleaguein the OSUOffice of theVice Presidentfor Research,passedaway Feb. 10. The personlargely responsible forplanning the annual ResearchWeek celebration from itsbeginning, Darla wasalso responsible for managingthe VPR office. An OSU alum,Darla worked for the universityfor 33 years. She is survived bytwo daughters, Morgan Duncanand Peyton Duncan, a studentat OSU, and stepdaughter

CitizenshipEducating the Citizen Professional: Higher Education and theFuture of Civic Leadership10:30 a.m., 010 Willard Hall Interdisciplinary Toxicology Symposium - McElroy Hall Auditorium

Dr. Phil Kemp, Analytical Toxicology Labs and FederalAviation Administration, Oklahoma City - Postmortemforensic toxicology investigations in aviationaccidents 3 p.m.OSU Sociology Bradford Gray Lecture Dr. Paul Mohai,University of Michigan School of Natural Resources andEnvironment - Environmental Justice and the Flint WaterCrisis 3:45 p.m. 17th Annual Sitlington Lecture in Toxicology Dr. KevinCrofton, United States Environmental Protection Agency,Research Triangle Park, North Carolina - The Evolution ofToxicology and Chemical Regulation 4:30 p.m.

Dr. Kirill Nourzhanov, deputy director of Ph.D. studies at theCentre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian NationalUniversityCentral Asia in the Persianite World: Past, Present and Future 2 p.m., 108 Wes Watkins Center WednesdayOklahoma Center for Respiratory and Infectious Diseases SeminarDr. Padmini Salgame, professor and director of the GraduateMedical Research Program, Department of Medicine, Division ofInfectious Diseases, New Jersey Medical School, RutgersUniversityImpact of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Strain Variation on InfectionOutcome12:15 p.m., 259 McElroy Hall, Center for Veterinary HealthSciences Thursday 21st Century Literacies Lecture Series Dr. Antero Garcia, assistant professor in the Graduate School ofEducation at Stanford University Literacy and Youth Culture in the 21st Century 10 a.m., 010 Willard Hall Dr. Melissa Farley, a clinical psychologist, researcher, and founderof the organization Prostitution Research and Education in SanFranciscoFracking and Human Trafficking: Neoliberal Sacrifice Zones andWhat We Can Do about the Commodification of Everything4 p.m., Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room, Edmon Low Library

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OSU Research MattersThe OSU researchmagazine has a new name

With a new name, OklahomaState's research magazinemakes the point that scientificand scholarly inquiry impactscountless lives including ourstudents, the citizens ofOklahoma and those beyond ourborders. OSU is building anational reputation for thestrength of its research and thequality of its faculty. Thatreputation is highlighted in OSUResearch Matters. Read the2017 issue and learn aboutamazing research andresearchers.#OSUResearchMatters

Research Weekevents of note

OSU Microscopy LabOpen House

A visit with scientific pioneer Marie Curie

Meet chemist and physicist Dr. Marie Curie in France in 1915 in aprogram that includes a presentation in character by Susan MarieFrontczak. Curie is best known for the discovery of radium andradioactivity in the early 20th century, which led to the firsttreatments for cancer. Few understand the obstacles Curie facedas a woman just to get into the laboratory. Learn More

Nicole McMurray painted a forest based on a scanning electron microscopeimage of bark (right). Liz Dueck won a purchase prize for her work (below),Changing the Ending.

Artists interpret science in student exhibits

Art and science are not so very different. Many artists have beeninspired by scientific inquiry and scientists have relied on works ofart and writing to translate their discoveries to the general public.That ageless connection is on display during Research Week in twoexhibitions of the work of OSU student artists for whom scienceserved as the source for their creativity.

Attend an open house forresearchers and the public tolearn about available microscopyfacilities and services. Monday,12 - 2 p.m., Venture 1 Building,1110 S. Innovation Way, Suite104

Research Week edition ofScience Cafe

Dr. Kitty Cardwell, director ofthe National Institute forMicrobial Forensics and Foodand Agriculture Biosecurity atOSU, will discuss cutting-edgefood and animal science in theResearch Week edition ofScience Café at OSU. Theprogram is Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.in the Helmerich BrowsingRoom, Edmon LowLibrary. Learn More

Each year at Research Week, theOffice of the Vice President forResearch and the OSU School ofVisual and Performing Arts haveorganized a competition called“Where Art Meets Science: AnEnvironment of Discovery andInventiveness.” The top works winpurchase prizes and become partof OSU’s permanent art collection as well as displayed in the HenryBellmon Research Center. The art will be on display duringResearch Week at the Bartlett Center for the Visual Arts. An exhibit of student art interpreting the microscopic world iscurrently on display in the Student Union Art Gallery (basementlevel). “Metamorphic Microscopy” is a collection of oil paintingsbased on images taken with a scanning electron microscope at theOSU Microscopy Laboratory. The exhibit will close Feb. 20 with areception from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Shipwrecked! OSU

Department of TheatreProduction

Shipwrecked will be presentedFeb. 23-25 at 7:30 p.m. andFeb. 26 at 2:30 p.m. in the ViviaLocke Theatre in the SereteanCenter for the Performing Arts.Learn More

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