Greek Life: A Framework For Renewal

The President’s Taskforce on Greek Life was created in October 2010, and it includes appointed representatives from across all key constituencies including active student members of Greek letter organizations, staff, faculty, Greek alumni, administration, and the Board of Trustees. The committee was charged by President Bradley to submit recommendations, based in part on an October 20-21, 2010, external assessment performed by the Fraternity & Sorority Coalition Assessment Project, for revitalizing and enhancing the Greek student population, chapters, and councils. As part of the“Greek Life” initiative, the President’s Taskforce will emphasize the importance of encouraging the development of a Greek community that reflects the mission of the university—in particular, student success and community engagement

Comparing Categorical and Probabilistic Fingerprint Evidence

Fingerprint examiners traditionally express conclusions in categorical terms, opining that impressions do or do not originate from the same source. Recently, probabilistic conclusions have been proposed, with examiners estimating the probability of a match between recovered and known prints. This study presented a nationally representative sample of jury‐eligible adults with a hypothetical robbery case in which an examiner opined on the likelihood that a defendant\u27s fingerprints matched latent fingerprints in categorical or probabilistic terms. We studied model language developed by the U.S. Defense Forensic Science Center to summarize results of statistical analysis of the similarity between prints. Participant ratings of the likelihood the defendant left prints at the crime scene and committed the crime were similar when exposed to categorical and strong probabilistic match evidence. Participants reduced these likelihoods when exposed to the weaker probabilistic evidence, but did not otherwise discriminate among the prints assigned different match probabilities

Report of the Oregon State University President's Commission on Ocean, Coastal and Earth System Futures

The Oregon State University (OSU) President s Commission on Ocean, Coastal and Earth System Futures was charged by President Edward Ray to explore and identify a far-reaching vision for the future of OSU as a Land Grant and Sea Grant institution - one that integrates the biological, physical, and social sciences in studies of ocean, coastal systems and communities, and Earth systems in general - and to recommend new ways of engaging with society. The Commission met at OSU March 13-15, 2007

Empirical Evaluation of the Reliability of Photogrammetry Software in the Recovery of Three-Dimensional Footwear Impressions.

This paper examines the reliability of Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry as a tool in the capture of forensic footwear marks. This is applicable to photogrammetry freeware DigTrace but is equally relevant to other SfM solutions. SfM simply requires a digital camera, a scale bar, and a selection of oblique photographs of the trace in question taken at the scene. The output is a digital three-dimensional point cloud of the surface and any plastic trace thereon. The first section of this paper examines the reliability of photogrammetry to capture the same data when repeatedly used on one impression, while the second part assesses the impact of varying cameras. Using cloud to cloud comparisons that measure the distance between two-point clouds, we assess the variability between models. The results highlight how little variability is evident and therefore speak to the accuracy and consistency of such techniques in the capture of three-dimensional traces. Using this method, 3D footwear impressions can, in many substrates, be collected with a repeatability of 97% with any variation between models less than ~0.5 mm