the Spring Creek Project Mission:
The challenge of the Spring Creek Project is to bring together the practical wisdom of the environmental sciences, the clarity of philosophical analysis, and the creative, expressive power of the written word, to find new ways to understand and re-imagine our relation to the natural world.
Upcoming Events
Fall Term 2008:
"The Sea, The Forest, The Night Sky"
Thursday, 7 pm, October 9
Reading by Julia Whitty, author of The Fragile Edge Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, free, open to all
Friday, 1-5 pm, October 10
Writing Workshop with Julia Whitty: "Writing Science, Scientists as Writers" (location TBD: check back for details)
Saturday, 7 pm, October 18
Reading / Conversation with Paul Bogard, editor, Let There Be Night:
Testimony on Behalf of the Dark (location TBD)
Wednesday, 7 pm, November 12
Reading and slideshow with Tim Palmer, author / photographer, Trees and Forests of America (location TBD)
News
Forestry Students Named First Recipients of Mason Prize
The first recipients of Oregon State University’s Mason Prize for Integrity and Moral Courage are Cristina Eisenberg and Daniel Donato, graduate students in the OSU College of Forestry.
The prize, which includes an honorarium of $1,000 to each recipient, is designed to “honor, encourage, and empower people at Oregon State University whose work demonstrates academic virtues.” It was created earlier this year and will be administered by OSU’s Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. read more>>
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