The Gov. Tom McCall Memorial Lecture in Public Affairs this year will be a conversation between U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and retired Associated Press journalist Terrence Petty.
Petty will interview Wyden about his recent book, “It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change.” Petty was the Oregon news editor for the AP for 18 years, after working as an AP foreign correspondent based in Germany.
Since taking office in January, fourth-year environmental science student Ava Olson has had to balance serving on the Corvallis City Council with all her other duties, including coursework in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences; volunteering with Sunrise Corvallis and WestM; her campus job at PRAx; and, somewhere in there, sleeping.
College of Health assistant professor of practice and child care policy researcher Megan Pratt recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to testify before U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren about the challenges facing the child care industry. (Watch their conversation here.)
