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Creator:: Petersen, Chris
Abstract:: A reflection on the significant personal cost incurred by Linus Pauling as a result of his anti-nuclear and anti-war activism. Specifically, this talk focuses on Pauling's harassment by the mainstream media and his receipt of death threats as a result of the public positions that he took as an activist.
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Creator:: Petersen, Chris
Abstract:: Oregon State University Libraries In-Service Presentation. This presentation highlights some of the lesser-known archival collections housed in the OSU Libraries Special Collections department. Featured among these are the McDonald Rare Book Collection as well as the papers of Roger Hayward, William Appleman Williams, Milton Harris, Paul Emmett, David and Clara...
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Creator:: Petersen, Chris
Abstract:: A detailed biographical sketch of Ralph W. Spitzer (b. 1918), a graduate student of Linus Pauling's and promising academic who joined the Oregon State College chemistry department in 1946. Promoted to Assistant Professor in 1947, Spitzer was nonetheless fired from the OSC faculty in 1949 by President August L. Strand,...
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Creator:: Petersen, Chris
Abstract:: Presentation delivered at the Honors Education at Research Universities Conference, Corvallis, Oregon.
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Creator:: Petersen, Chris
Abstract:: An essay reflecting on the collection of molecular models held in the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, with particular mention made of specific models about which amusing or insightful anecdotes are known. Reference is made to Pauling's involvement in the development of CPK models; his use of models in...
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Creator:: Petersen, Chris
Abstract:: Presentation delivered at the Online Northwest conference. A technical overview of the creation of the Oregon State University Sesquicentennial Oral History Project web portal. This web resource was created using multiple xml standards as transformed by two different types of xsl stylesheets. The presentation focuses specifically on the use of...
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Creator:: Petersen, Chris
Abstract:: Presentation delivered at the panel, "Voices of the Northwest: Novel Approaches to Oral History Across the Region," at the joint meeting of the Conference of Intermountain Archivists and Northwest Archivists, Boise, Idaho. Presentation provides an overview of the Oregon State University Sesquicentennial Oral History Project and discusses the ways in...
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