Rockefeller University professor Dr. Roderick MacKinnon, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, spoke in Portland, Oregon on Monday, May 5, 2008. His lecture, titled "Ion Channel Chemistry: The Electrical System of Life," was presented at the Portland Hilton & Executive Tower. MacKinnon is the fifth recipient of the Linus Pauling Legacy Award, granted once every two years for outstanding achievement in an area of study once of interest to Dr. Linus Pauling. The Pauling Legacy Award is sponsored by Oregon State University Libraries.

Main Page | Schedule | Video | Abstract | Speaker Biography

Janna Malamud Smith, the daughter of famed novelist Bernard Malamud, read from two of her works on the evening of November 9, 2007. The first reading, originally published in Summer 2003, was an essay titled "My Father is a Book." Following this, Malamud Smith read from a chapter of her 2006 memoir, also titled "My Father is a Book," before taking questions from the audience.

Main Page | Schedule | Video | Abstract | Speaker Biography

On October 29-30, 2007 a two-day conference at Oregon State University's LaSells Stewart Center was held to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of Linus Pauling's General Chemistry and the fiftieth anniversary of Linus and Ava Helen Pauling's first public appeal for a ban on nuclear weapons testing. The theme of the conference was "The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and His Era."

Main Page | Schedule | Video | Abstracts | Speaker Biographies

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Dr. Noam Chomsky lectured on the Oregon State University campus on October 24, 1995. Chomsky spoke as the fourteenth Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecturer for World Peace. In 1982 the Ava Helen Pauling Lectureship for World Peace was jointly-established by Dr. Linus Pauling and the OSU College of Liberal Arts in memory of Mrs. Pauling's multi-decade commitment to issues of peace and civil liberties. In 1995, beginning with Dr. Chomsky's presentation, the Lectureship was renamed to include Linus Pauling, who had died in August of the previous year.

Main Page | Schedule | Video | Abstract | Speaker Biography

From February 28 - March 2, 1995, a symposium was held at Oregon State University's LaSells Stewart Center to celebrate and discuss the remarkable life and legacy of Dr. Linus Pauling. The aim of the symposium was to convene three groups of speakers: scholars and journalists who had been writing about Linus Pauling as a biographical subject; friends and colleagues who knew Pauling personally; historians and archivists who have studied scientists as the subject of contemporary scientific biography.

Main Page | Schedule | Video | Abstracts | Speaker Biographies