EVENT 1: Elizabeth Kolbert will be at Oregon State University in Corvallis on Monday, February 2nd. Kolbert is an award-winning staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. She’ll give a talk about her best-selling book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, at 7 PM in Austin Auditorim at LaSells Stewart Center. The event is sponsored by OSU’s Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word, and is free and open to the public.

EVENT 2: The 3rd annual Healthy Masculinities Conference will be Saturday, February 14th at the OSU Memorial Union. The theme is Connecting the Dots: Awareness, Action, Commitment. Registration is open until February 9 and free for all attendees. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Shaun R. Harper, whose research “…examines race and gender in education, equity trends and racial climates on college campuses, Black and Latino male student success in high school and higher education, and college student engagement.”