¡Juntos! Latinx Support Group

¡Juntos! Latinx Support Group is a drop-in processing and support space for Latinx students to share information and develop skills to tackle challenging situations such as academic stress, family challenges, self-worth, relationships, mental health concerns, and much more. Group members will be able to work through their presenting concerns, find community, and be empowered in a protected therapy space.

Speaker Event, Steven Adams

"Finding Opportunity in Unlikely Places: How to Kickstart Your Career in the Entertainment Business" ~ If you ever thought you might like to work in entertainment--as a writer, screenplay reader, actor, researcher, producer, manager, director--this is your chance to learn how to get involved in the industry.

Steven Adams- Finding Opportunity in Unlikely Places: How to Kickstart Your Career in the Entertainment Business

If you’ve ever thought you might like to work in the entertainment industry—as a writer, screenplay reader, actor, researcher, producer, manager, etc.—this is your chance to get learn more about how to get involved in the industry.

Kuponya: Centering Black Healing

This space is for Black-identified** students, faculty members, and staff to engage in guided soulfulness mindfulness, African-centered healing strategies, and dialogue to promote collective healing. We invite Black students, faculty members, and staff to connect, breathe, and heal in a space designed specifically for them. 

**Black, African, African American, Afro-Latinx, Afro-Caribbean, or the African Diaspora

Let's Talk Drop-In - Fridays 1-3PM @ CMAE/Zoom

Meet with Counseling Services Gonzalo Camp, who specializes in working with LatinX and undocumented students, at the Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence (Oregon Hall-Room 130) or click here: https://zoom.us/j/92243720320

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. 

Click here for Let's Talk - Fridays 1-3PM or see Gonzalo at the CMAE, Room 130: https://zoom.us/j/92243720320

 

 

 

 

Organic/Inorganic/Materials Chemistry Seminar

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

Much Ado About Knotting

Knots are important structural features in DNA and some proteins, and play a significant role in the physical properties of both natural and synthetic polymers.1 Although billions of prime knots are known to mathematics, few have been realized through chemical synthesis.2 Here we will discuss the latest progress from our laboratory, including the synthesis of some of the most complex molecular knots and links (catenanes) to date3-9 and the introduction of 2D molecular weaving.10

 

References [1] "Molecular knots", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 11166 (2017). [2] "Knotting matters: orderly molecular entanglements", Chem. Soc. Rev. 51, 7779 (2022). [3] "A synthetic molecular pentafoil knot", Nat. Chem. 4, 15 (2012). [4] "A Star of David catenane", Nat. Chem. 6, 978 (2014). [5] "Allosteric initiation and regulation of catalysis with a molecular knot", Science 352, 1555 (2016). [6] "Braiding a molecular knot with eight crossings", Science 355, 159 (2017). [7] "Stereoselective synthesis of a composite knot with nine crossings", Nat. Chem. 10, 1083 (2018). [8] "A molecular endless (74) knot", Nat. Chem. 13, 117 (2021). [9] "Vernier template synthesis of molecular knots", Science 375, 1035 (2022). [10] "Self-assembly of a layered two-dimensional molecularly woven fabric", Nature 588, 429 (2020).

Three Novels of Education: "Adam Bede," "Great Expectations," and "If Beale Street Could Talk"

This four-week seminar will explore three novels of education (George Eliot’s Adam Bede Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, and James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk) through a balance of lecture and discussion, punctuated by clips from videos and by passages being read aloud for close analysis.

Discussion questions, as a backbone to the class, will be supplied for the works. Hopefully you will want to read more of these authors. Encouragement will be given to write on your own about them. Dr. Henry Alley will present various rhetorical essay strategies.

Also, through breakout group discussions, you will see how very much alive these works are in engaging your curiosity. With the first class, a sheet will be circulated allowing you to volunteer to read aloud in class. In the breakout groups, there will be an opportunity to volunteer to be secretary to the discussion and to report back to the class as a whole. This experience will be a chance to develop your writing skills. Throughout the month, good attendance is expected and student engagement will be encouraged at all times.

Editions of the texts used in the seminar are:

George Eliot’s Adam Bede. Penguin Classics (2007). Editor Margaret Reynolds.

Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Signet Mass Market (2009). Editor Stanley Weintraub.

James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk. Vintage Reprint (2006).

Oregon Center for Electrochemistry Workshop

Oregon Center for Electrochemistry

Solid-State Battery Workshop  

Topics: Electrochemical stability and transport optimization in sulfide and halide based solid-state batteries.

Introduction by Mathias Agne

Guest speakers: Yannik Rudel, Tim Bernges and Caro Rosenbach

Film Series: Mafias and Narcotraffic

Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, 137 mins., 2008)

Black CommUnity Table

In collaboration with the Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center, Black CommUnity Table provides a space for Black** students and staff to connect for a weekly discussion related to the strengths and challenges within the community. The discussion varies weekly with topics ranging from campus climate and activism to mental health as well as popular culture. We welcome Black students and staff for an open dialogue where they can be their radical and authentic selves. This space will be part of Wellness Wednesdays.

**Black, African, African American, Afro-Latinx, Afro-Caribbean, or the African Diaspora