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Prescriptions for Change: Value Voting in Healthcare

A rotational exhibit of mixed media from Skyrocket: What Drug Prices Do, by Katy Giebenhain Health Sciences Library, August 2024 - May 2025

"Prescriptions" presents a thought-provoking exploration of healthcare disparities and pharmaceutical politics with rotating works by artist and poet Katy Giebenhain. Inspired by the urgent need for equitable access to medicines, these mixed media collages, poems and other works examine the clinical, personal, and political dimensions of healthcare.

Through a blend of artistic expression and social commentary, Katy’s works confront formulary exclusions, pharmaceutical industry lobbying, and the alarming rise in prescription drug costs. Each piece invites reflection on the complexities of our healthcare system and the critical importance of public health initiatives and will be complemented by a statement from a WVU healthcare worker on the issues.

The exhibition will compel viewers to consider the profound impact of prescription medications on individuals and society at large, especially during this pivotal election year. The accessibility of healthcare, including prescription medications, is a fundamental concern that affects every one of us, making informed voting decisions crucial for the well-being of our communities. Whether intimately familiar with the challenges of obtaining necessary medications or just beginning to explore these issues, "Prescriptions" offers a compelling narrative that will resonate with all.

Katy: “Access to medicines is an issue that finds its way into many of our healthcare stories. It is clinical, personal, and political. Made in the spirit of public health and medical humanities, these mixed media collages reference formulary exclusions, pharmaceutical industry lobbying, and the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs. We can do better. Really.”

Katy Giebenhain’s artwork has appeared in  American Journal of Nursing, The Northern Virginia Review,   AMA Journal of Ethics  the exhibit  Skyrocket: What drug prices do  at Waldo’s and the 2022 Examined Life Conference at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Her poems have appeared in  The Arkansas Review, The Healing Muse,  the  National Academy of Medicine Expressions of Clinician Well-Being Digital Gallery, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, New Welsh Review, Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology  and elsewhere. Her BFA in Art is from Oregon State. Her creative writing MPhil is from University of South Wales (Glamorgan). Her MA in Publications Design is from University of Baltimore. She occasionally blogs at  Big Pharma and the Barkeep:   www.katygiebenhain.com/blog .

5% Sodium Fluoride Varnish Pediatric Oncology Provider Training

Interprofessional Award Winning Project 2024 Exhibit on View: Health Sciences Library, August-December 2024 By: Ryan Massinople, DDS, Kara Lobban, Kamryn Jefferson, BS Payten Brown, BS, Blair Lewis, BS, Chance Brown, BS West Virginia University, School of Dentistry, School of Medicine

Both the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Dental Association (ADA) recommend applying fluoride varnish to all children every 3-6 months, starting from when their first teeth appear. This helps reduce the risk of cavities.

Children undergoing cancer treatment are at a much higher risk for cavities due to side effects like dry mouth. This is highlighted by the CAMBRA (Caries Risk Assessment by Risk Management) standard of care.

This exhibit highlights the collaborative study that evaluated how well healthcare providers understand the importance of fluoride varnish, their comfort level with using it, and their willingness to include it in the treatment plans for pediatric cancer patients to reduce their risk of cavities; their findings and recommendations.

The West Virginia University Office of Interprofessional Education, in collaboration with WVU Libraries, honors students and faculty and staff with Awards for Excellence in Interprofessional Education. For more information visit:   https://health.wvu.edu/interprofessional-education/faculty-and-staff/ipe-awards/

Photography by Allan Jones

An exhibit of various medical microscopic photographs using an Olympus polarizing microscope at a 10X objective. These photos are showcased in the Health Sciences Library study rooms.

After graduating from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and a biomedical photography internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Florida, Allan Jones began his medical photography profession at the WVU Hospital/Eye Center before continuing his career for 17 years at the King Khaled eye Hospital and the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Saudi Arabia. After returning to the WVU Eye Institute in 2004, Allan retired in 2008.

Life: Magnified

The installation is a selection of images from the NIH National Institute of General Medical Science's Life: Magnified's collection. The original exhibit was featured at Washington Dulles International Airport, and was the inspiration for this project. The images include cells from the human body, in addition to cells and structures of model organisms like fruit flies and zebrafish. Though many of the vibrant colors do not occur naturally, the chemical dyes and enhancements are a normal part of the processes that allow researchers to study structures within a cell. Specially ordered, low-profile light boxes enhance the colors and structures displayed in the photographs. More information about the project can be found on the  NIH website .

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New Master's degree builds on OSU's creative writing strengths

CORVALLIS - Before launching an effort to offer a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing, the Oregon State University English Department brought to campus an external review team to get an objective look at the merits of the initiative.

The team members reached an interesting conclusion: not only would an MFA degree be appropriate, they wrote, but based on student demand and faculty excellence, such a degree could quickly elevate OSU into one of the top creative writing programs in the country.

That transition is now under way. In February, the Oregon State Board of Higher Education formally approved OSU's request for developing a "Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing."

"Actually, our creative writing program has been developing steadily since the mid-1980s," said Tracy Daugherty, a professor of English who directs the OSU program. "The MFA degree is a natural transition to the next level. Our graduates already have published widely, received fellowships, and moved into various jobs, including teaching, journalism, technical writing and working with arts organizations.

"But those who wanted to pursue a master of fine arts had to look elsewhere," Daugherty added. "Now OSU can become a destination point for creative writers."

In the last decade or so, OSU's reputation for creative writing has skyrocketed. Daugherty and English Department colleague Marjorie Sandor have each won Oregon Book Awards and received national attention for their works. Daugherty and Jennifer Cornell, who teaches fiction writing, each have won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

That talent isn't restricted to the English Department. Kathleen Dean Moore, a philosopher, has written two acclaimed books of nature essays, and Clem Starck, a carpenter in the university's maintenance and facilities program, is one of the state's most accomplished poets.

Though the MFA faculty is concentrated in English, having those diverse resources around campus makes OSU somewhat unusual - and enriches the potential of the student experience, Daugherty pointed out.

OSU's creative writing faculty may not have received this much attention since the 1950s, when Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bernard Malamud ("The Fixer," "The Natural" and "The Magic Barrel") was on the faculty.

When the new master's program is fully launched, OSU expects to enroll about a dozen students each year on a highly competitive basis, Daugherty said. A handful of students already are taking classes toward that first degree, which likely will be handed out this spring.

This will be a busy year for the MFA faculty. Among those publishing:

• Tracy Daugherty will publish an essay collection, "Five Shades of Shadow," in February (University of Nebraska Press), and a story collection, "It Takes a Worried Man," in June (Southern Methodist University Press). His novel, "Axeman's Jazz," is scheduled for publication in the fall of 2003 by the SMU Press.

Daugherty said the English Department and the College of Liberal Arts will continue offering its Visiting Writers Series, which has brought to campus a number of noted authors, including Michael Ondaatje, Russell Banks, Gary Snyder, Yusef Komunyakaa, Bret Lott, Toi Derricotte, Frederick Busch, Pattiann Rogers, and Stephen Dunn.

Bringing such talented writers to Corvallis has energized an already-vibrant literary community, Daugherty said.

"With the combination of a receptive community, a talented faculty, and a first-rate education for students, there's no reason we can't make the mid-Willamette Valley a real mecca for talented young writers," Daugherty said.

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The B.A. in Creative Writing at Oregon State invites you to participate in a community of faculty, students and mentors who will develop your skills as an artful and imaginative writer and a bold and critically conscious thinker. You will have the opportunity to pursue a course of study that combines training in the craft of writing with rigorous literary studies. Working closely with our faculty, you will sharpen your expertise in reading and analyzing literature and develop your skills at creating meaningful, transformative narratives. When it’s time, you will leave our program prepared to think and write with imaginative power. From the MFA, to law school, to entering a diverse job market in a variety of fields, you will begin your professional life as an innovative thinker and skilled writer who knows how to harness the power of narrative.

Everyone has a story to tell. Join us, and become a writer.

Introducing the Creative Writing Major at Oregon State University

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You’ll study with our acclaimed faculty of writers and scholars who have published more than 40 books—among them,  New York Times  Notable Books, Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selections, Amazon’s Best Book of the Year, winners of the Oregon Book Award, the John Ciardi Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Whiting Award, and titles recommended by  The New Yorker , Salon, BookPage, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal. These recognitions are complemented by our faculty’s active engagement with the literary community—hosting national radio shows and leading local arts initiatives—as well as their deep commitment to teaching and mentoring. 

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We are one of only a few undergraduate creative writing majors in the Pacific Northwest. Our undergraduate major does not require a separate application to join.  We believe everyone can be a writer and think imaginatively. As scholars, writers, and filmmakers, we recognize the power of words and images to shape as well as challenge discourses that dehumanize historically under-represented and minoritized communities. Our program is committed to preparing many voices to create the narrative frames we need for a just future.  

The Field of Study

You will hone your expertise in reading literature as well as in the craft of writing. We begin with an introduction to the primary genres of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. From these, you will identify areas of focus in either one or two genres, pursuing courses in craft development and workshop intensives. You will also complete introductory and advanced literary studies, with course offerings that represent a range of eras, continents, cultural representations, and sensibilities.

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We live in a time when our professional cultures seek effective and powerful story-tellers to critique and create the narratives we need. From the entertainment industry, marketing and communications, business, journalism public relations, law, community organizing, education, grant writing, and many more fields, creative writing offers you endless possibilities for taking your stories everywhere. Our program prepares you to enter your professional life skilled in analysis and sophisticated at creating new narratives to lead change, shape the world of many different industries, and design for the future.

To explore careers with a creative writing major, discuss jobs and internships, contact CLA Career Development .

If you are interested in careers that engage a critical social justice approach, contact Dr. Liddy Detar at [email protected].

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As a creative writing major, you will have the option of pursuing additional studies in SWLF by adding a minor in English, Film Studies, Applied Journalism, or the Certificate in Scientific, Technical and Professional Communication. A creative writing major also offers tremendous opportunity for collaboration within the visual arts, oceanography, theatre, environmental studies, forestry, engineering, global studies, digital arts, and computer sciences. SWLF invites you to explore these possibilities through our rich course offerings and campus-wide co-curricular partnerships.

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SWLF and OSU offer a rich set of opportunities to join an active writing community. The program is home to a well-established Master of Fine Arts Program , a Visiting Writers Series , Literary Northwest Series , Critical Questions Lecture Series , The Stone Awards , and more.

Enjoy many additional opportunities for participating in a writing community throughout OSU: OSU’s Creative Writing Society , The Poetry Club , Prism , a student-run art and literary journal, Buckteeth Magazine , Castor Magazine , The Corvallis Review , The Exchange, and 45 th Parallel .

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The Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon is a two-year residency in which Master of Fine Arts (MFA) students concentrate in either poetry or fiction. The Program emphasizes the workshop, integrating concentrated time for writing with craft seminars and individualized reading tutorials.

You’ll hear our program is not for the faint of heart. It isn’t—and we’re proud of that. We hope to offer our students the rigorous apprenticeship we undertook with our own teachers.

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Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

• Proficiency in close reading. We expect our MFA candidates to read widely and meticulously while pursuing their studies. Our aim is for each student to encounter a variety of historical periods, aesthetic styles, and critical approaches. Any student graduating from our program should be capable of examining a single text for its many formal conventions and the style or styles with which it is conversant.
• Development of vocabularies for assessing literature, with an emphasis on craft. Our graduate students are expected to acquire the clear and sophisticated language that enables them to speak at length about a range of craft considerations for any single piece of literature. This applies to the published works they encounter in our craft seminars, but it is equally essential in the Creative Writing Workshop, when they comprehensively critique the works of their peers.
• Application of the formal elements of craft in either genre. We expect our apprentice poets and fiction writers to be able to identify, assess, and deploy many of the formal conventions they encounter in the Creative Writing workshop and craft seminar. We believe that the practice of exploring formal challenges is necessary for the MFA student in order to build on his or her own resources as an artist. We especially believe that a knowledge of such conventions is a responsibility of any writer in our MFA program.
• Familiarity with fundamental concepts, forms, modes, and traditions in literary fiction and/or poetry. At the graduate level, this outcome is particularly geared toward and measured by the MFA exam that all of our graduating students take at the end of their second year. Our expectation is that our students will demonstrate a command of the texts they have encountered while earning their degrees, along with the multitude of aesthetic concepts, compositional possibilities, and artistic concerns to which they have been exposed.

NOTE: The list of outcomes above builds on the basic expectations we also hold for  our undergraduate students in the Creative Writing Program. Because our pedagogical  goals are continuously fundamental in nature, both at the undergraduate and graduate  level of study, we view our curriculum and the varietal redundancies below as a  cumulative process, one through which our poets and fiction writers build a portfolio of  knowledge whose components are interactive. This is to say we view historical periods,  critical modalities, and aesthetic movements to be in constant conversation with one  another. 

Additionally, what distinguishes the outcomes below from their undergraduate  counterparts is that we expect all our MFA candidates to wear two hats simultaneously:  that of the apprentice writer and that of the apprentice teacher, given that all of the  people enrolled in our program teach Creative Writing classes in their first year and  Composition in their second. The following outcomes should be considered very much  in this context, in that our graduate students are expected to both pursue these goals as  scholars then contemplate the many ways these skills translate to their own pedagogical  experience.

The entirety of our curriculum is structured with the expectation that we enable our  MFA graduates to continue to grow intellectually and develop as writers and masters of  the craft once they have received their degrees, long after they have left the University  of Oregon.

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The candidate must complete the graduate work during six consecutive terms in residence at the university. The candidate must pass a written examination on a reading list of works of fiction or poetry.

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Founded in 2012, the OSU-Cascades Low-Residency MFA in Writing is an intimate program with an award-winning faculty and a stunning residency location. Our curriculum builds sustainable writing habits, strong craft foundations and the essential skills to become a critical and ethical reader and writer in a diverse literary world. Join a community that supports creative risk-taking and helps you develop the skills and mindset to center writing in your life beyond graduation.

What Makes Us Different

Our approach offers flexibility, community and independence. Over two years, you will take challenging synchronous and asynchronous courses and participate in writing workshops guided by our philosophy of compassionate critique. Faculty mentorships are game-changing opportunities to hone your voice and your vision.

• 2-year, at-home program
• Four residencies in Bend
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Learn more about the MFA in Writing's  course of study, residencies and curriculum .

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•    Application opens: September 2024 •    Priority Application Deadline: March 1, 2025 •    Final Application Deadline: June 1, 2025 •    Fall Start Date: September 2025

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"spare change" by OSU-Cascades MFA instructor and alumna Irene Cooper was a 2022 Oregon Book Awards Finalist .

Dedicated, diverse, award-winning and inspiring, the OSU-Cascades faculty have a wealth of experiences and perspectives on writing and the writing life.

MFA faculty author Raquel Gutiérrez's essay collection " Brown Neon " (Coffee House Press) has been celebrated by the "Today Show," Vogue and The New Yorker .

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The MFA in Writing at OSU in Corvallis has a long tradition of excellence. Recognizing the need to bring an outstanding education to students with different life stories, faculty on both campuses partnered to bring a low-residency MFA in Writing to Central Oregon in 2012. Here in the OSU-Cascades low-residency MFA, we continue that tradition of excellence, growing creative writers with exemplary publication records, and a passion for loving this world, through art.

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Creative writing undergraduate major (ba, hba).

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The creative writing major’s disciplinary foundations are the study of the craft of creative writing combined with rigorous study of literature. Students develop their expertise in reading literature in conjunction with their development of writing craft.

The program objectives are to produce majors who can think and write creatively and with imaginative power. They’ll have highly trained analytical, critical, technical, and editorial skills, preparing them for graduate work in a range of fields, from the MFA to law school, or for a job market with an increasing demand for imaginative thinkers and skilled writers who can construct masterful, meaningful narratives.

Major Code: 092

Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:

• Analyze craft in a variety of forms, genres, and cultural contexts.
• Apply aesthetic principles to their own creative work.
• Respond to the work of peers in oral and written critiques.
• Use practices of revision to produce polished and/or publishable manuscripts.
• Recognize and interpret a wide variety of literature and genres (may include visual material and inter-cultural texts) using a range of theoretical and interpretive strategies including close reading, and write effective arguments about these texts.

Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC)

Writing Intensive Course (WIC)

Core Education course. Applies only to students admitted to an OSU undergraduate degree from Summer 2025 onwards

Degree plans are subject to change and the following is only an example of how students may complete their degree in four years. Students should consult their advisor to determine the best degree plan for them. Contact details for advisors can be found on the  Academic Advising  page.

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