Historical Note
Science instruction has been a part of Oregon State University's
curriculum since the founding of the school. Through the early 1930s, the
science departments were part of the School of Agriculture and the School
of Basic Arts and Sciences. The School of Science was created by the State
Board of Higher Education in 1932 as the one school in the state higher
education system authorized to grant degrees in science. The first Ph.D.
degrees were confered in 1935. The school's name was changed to the
College of Science in 1974.
Stella Coakley of the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology served
as chair of the organizing committee for the 1991 Biology Colloquium. This
Biology Colloquium has been held at Oregon State University annually since
1939.
Content Description
The College of Science Videotapes include two video productions
prepared for the College that highlight academic programs and research
activities and video recordings of lectures presented as part of the 1991
Biology Colloquium at Oregon State University.
The two video productions are
To See the World in a Grain of Sand (1993)
and By the Beautiful Sea (1997).
To See the World in a Grain of Sand (FV
P084:1) was produced by Antares Videomedia, Ltd. It is 17 minutes long and
highlights the academic programs and research activities of the College of
Science. By the Beautiful Sea (FV P084:2)
was produced by Mary Lee and Sid Nolan and includes highlights of an
Oregon coast tour given by Geosciences Department faculty for OSU
Foundation donors (the Council of Regents) in June 1997.
The remainder of the collection (7 tapes) consists of recordings of
lectures presented as part of the Biology Colloquium on global climate
change at Oregon State in 1991. The colloquium focused on the biological
aspects of climate change. Speakers and topics were: Robert Charlson on
marine phytoplankton as indicators of global change; Robert Dickinson on
predictions, uncertainties, and biological feedbacks associated with
global climate modeling; Christopher Field on the effects of increasing
carbon dioxide on terrestrial ecosystems; Peter Glynn on the responses of
coral reefs to global warming events; Simon Levin on problems of scale in
ecology; Pamela Matson on trace gas emissions relating to climate change;
and David Wake on worldwide amphibian decline. The recordings also include
introductions by Stella Coakley and George Keller.
All of the videotapes are VHS format.