Life at OSU

American architect and sculptor Maya Lin, perhaps best known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. as a Yale University student in 1981, will deliver the next Provost’s Lecture at 7 p.m., April 26 at Oregon State University. Lin was originally scheduled to deliver her lecture last April, but cancelled due to illness.

Robots will increasingly rub shoulders with people at home and in the work place,so machines need social attributes: humor, personality and body language.

“East Comes West,” a two-part exhibition of prints from the Atelier Outotsu printmaking studio of Japan, is underway in the Memorial Union Concourse Gallery and will also appear in the Fairbanks Gallery at Oregon State University in January.

Barbara Zimmerman, founder and director of the Kayapo Project to help indigenous peoples in the southeastern Amazon River basin, will give a free public lecture at Oregon State University on Wednesday, Jan. 10.

The Grammy-nominated artist Mona Golabek will perform in “The Pianist of Willesden Lane,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, at in the LaSells Stewart Center at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

The annual Oregon State University celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., takes place Jan. 13-19. This is the 36th year of the event. It is one of the university’s longest-running social justice events.

John Killefer, professor and department head of animal and rangeland sciences at Oregon State University, has been named the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council endowed dean of the College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences at South Dakota State University.

Natalia Fernández, curator and archivist at Oregon State University Libraries and Press, was named a winner of this year’s I Love My Librarian Award from the American Library Association. She is one of only 10 librarians in the country this year to garner this national honor. She is also the first librarian from Oregon to earn the award.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is looking for snowshoers, backcountry skiers and snow-machine users in the Pacific Northwest to gather data to use in computer modeling for snow-water equivalent, or SWE.

“Hands Up,” a set of seven monologues exploring the psyches of black men and women in the wake of police shootings across the country, will be performed at Oregon State University Dec. 2 and 3.