10:00–10:50 a.m.
UAG School of Medicine is the first medical school in Latin America to offer a US-style curriculum. At this information session, students will have the opportunity to learn more about UAG’s admissions process, curriculum, life on UAG campus and more!
Sponsored by Tykeson College & Career Pre-Health Advisors as part of the University Career Center's Health Grad & Career Expo, 4/24 11-2pm EMU Ballrooms
11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Want to learn more about graduate school or different types of part-time/full-time jobs, internships, volunteer opportunities, and careers in the health professions? The Health Grad & Career Expo is your chance to get curious about your present and future in healthcare! This expo is a mix of graduate schools, health-related businesses, non-profits, and government agencies excited to share more with you about their organization/program and early career talent and educational opportunities. Great for students exploring career paths as well as students ready to start applying for the year ahead.
Register on Handshake today to learn about all the schools and organizations coming, positions of interest, and get tips and advice for how to make the most of the expo.
For more information, visit the Unviersity Career Center in Tykeson-Garden Level to learn more about how the UCC supports students applying to grad school through career coaching and document reviews! Also check out our NEW online career exploration resources around Health & Scientific Discovery!
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Black students, faculty members, and staff are invited to engage in activities that center Black joy including art, laughter, music, and movement. Black Joy Sessions create a space to center a celebration of Black culture, uplift, heal, and empower using a liberated narrative of the Black experience. This space is designed to be an easy, transformative, and love-infused space to create, express, and (re)claim Black joy.
2:00–2:50 p.m.
Three East Coast colleges will be discussing their Master’s Programs in Nursing for non-nursing Bachelor’s degree students.
The Schools of Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, and Columbia University will be hosting an information session at the University of Oregon that will focus on opportunities to continue or advance your education within the nursing profession. This session is targeted towards students who are not nurses and are looking to transition into Nursing as a second degree, and for those who are currently nurses and looking to advance their nursing skills and education. Food will be provided, so come hungry and ready to learn and engage with our schools!
Sponsored by Tykeson College & Career Pre-Health Advisors as part of the University Career Center's Health Grad & Career Expo, 4/24 11-2pm EMU Ballrooms
2:00–4:00 p.m.
Meet with Counseling Services Cecile Gadson, who specializes in working with Black and African American students, at the Black Cultural Center.
Let’s Talk is a service that provides easy access to free, informal, and confidential one-on-one consultation with a Counseling Services staff member. See our website for six additional Let’s Talk days/times offered throughout the week.
Let’s Talk is especially helpful for students who:
Have a specific concern and would like to consult with someone about it. Would like on-the-spot consultation rather than ongoing counseling. Would like to consult with a CS staff member about what actual therapy looks like. Would like to meet with one of our CS identity-based specialists. Have a concern about a friend or family member and would like some ideas about what to do.How does Let’s Talk work?
Let’s Talk will be offered via Zoom and/or in satellite locations across campus. As a drop-in service, there is no need to schedule an appointment and no paperwork to be completed. Students are seen individually on a first-come, first-served basis at the times listed below. There may be a wait in the Zoom waiting room if the Let’s Talk staff member is meeting with another student. Please wait and we will be with you as soon as we can. Let’s Talk appointments are brief (usually between 15-30 minutes) and are meant to be used on an as-needed basis.
3:00–3:50 p.m.
Representatives from 3 West Coast DO programs will discuss their admissions processes.
Participating Institutions: Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences Touro University Western University
Sponsored by Tykeson College & Career Pre-Health Advisors as part of the University Career Center's Health Grad & Career Expo, 4/24 11-2pm EMU Ballrooms
3:30 p.m.
Please join us for a talk by James L. Flexner, Associate Professor of Historical Archaeology and Heritage, University of Sydney, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 3:30 PM in the Museum of Natural and Cultural History Galleria.
The archaeology of Catholic missions is a subject of global research, including the Pacific Rim from the California hills to remote Pacific Islands. Beginning in 1834, a group of Catholic priests and lay builders under the auspices of the Pères des Sacrés Coeurs established a mission in the Mangareva Islands (also called Îles Gambier) in what is today French Polynesia. In the subsequent decades, the missionaries and their Polynesian converts constructed churches and shrines on each of the main inhabited islands; a royal complex for the “king” Maputeoa; towers and other monuments; and dozens of stone houses for Christian Islanders. Remarkably, this landscape of conversion and culture change remains largely in place today, albeit in a state of ruination. This talk presents the current findings of an ongoing four-year project investigating the archaeology of the Catholic mission in the Mangareva Islands and relevant cultural collections around the world. Archaeological survey and excavations during 2022 and 2023 documented dozens of 19th century mission structures, from the grand cathedral in Rikitea to the boys’ school at Aukena Island, to local sites of food production such as bread ovens and pits for the making and preserving of popoe (fermented breadfruit paste). This research highlights themes of transformation, but also adaptation and resilience during a century of dramatic encounters with others in Oceania.
4:00 p.m.
Organic-Inorganic-Materials Chemistry Seminar Series Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Professor David A. Leigh, University of Manchester, UK Hosted by Mike Haley and Darren Johnson
Giving Chemistry Direction
In recent years examples of synthetic molecular machines and motors1 have been developed,2 all be they primitive by biological standards. Such molecules are best designed to work through statistical mechanisms. In a manner reminiscent of Maxwell’s Demon,3 random thermal motion is rectified through ratchet mechanisms,3-8 giving chemistry direction.
It is increasingly being recognised that similar concepts can be applied to other chemical exchange processes9. Ratchet mechanisms—effectively chemical engines10 in which catalysis4,6,7 of ‘fuel’ to ‘waste’ is used to drive another chemical process—can cause directional impetus in what are otherwise stochastic systems, including reversible chemical reactions. This is ushering in a new era of non-equilibrium chemistry, providing fundamental advances in functional molecule design and the first examples of molecular robotics,11,12 overturning existing dogma and offering fresh insights into biology and molecular nanotechnology.
For a musical introduction, see ‘Nanobot’
[1] The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016–Advanced Information. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 6 Oct, 2016, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2016/advanced.html. [2] "Rise of the molecular machines", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 10080 (2015). [3] "A molecular information ratchet", Nature 445, 523 (2007). [4] "An autonomous chemically fuelled small molecule motor", Nature 534, 235 (2016). [5] "Rotary and linear molecular motors driven by pulses of a chemical fuel", Science 358, 340 (2017). [6] "A catalysis-driven artificial molecular pump", Nature 594, 529 (2021). [7] "Autonomous fuelled directional rotation about a covalent single bond", Nature 604, 80 (2022). [8] "A tape-reading molecular ratchet", Nature 612, 78 (2022). [9] "Design, synthesis and operation of small molecules that walk along tracks", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132, 16134 (2010). [10] "Chemical engines: Driving systems away from equilibrium through catalyst reaction cycles", Nat. Nanotechnol. 16, 1057 (2021). [11] "Sequence-specific peptide synthesis by an artificial small-molecule machine", Science 339, 189 (2013). [12] "Stereodivergent synthesis with a programmable molecular machine", Nature 549, 374 (2017).
4:30–6:30 p.m.
Join Cinema Studies for “The Art of Producing” talk and reception with Carter Swan, current senior producer for Sony PlayStation Productions. Swan will discuss his career as a producer, including his award-winning work on the recent Netflix series “The Last of Us” and feature films GRAN TURISMO (2023) and UNCHARTED (2022). Free and open to the UO community.
This event is part of the 2024 Art of Producing Visiting Filmmaker Series, featuring screenings, talks, and receptions with award-winning producers and filmmakers. All events are free and open to the UO community.
Visit the Cinema Studies website for more information on this event and others in the series: https://cinema.uoregon.edu/faculty-news-news/art-producing-visiting-filmmaker-series-2024.
Funded by the generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment
5:00–6:30 p.m.
Silvia Federici (Hofstra University) in Conversation on her book Beyond the Periphery of the Skin. This is part of the Spanish 490 and RL623 Speaker Series: "Mafias and the Cultures of Narcotraffic"