On Monday, April 21st, Dr. Zia Mian became the eighth individual to receive the Linus Pauling Legacy Award, granted every other year to an individual who has achieved in an area once of interest to Linus Pauling.
Mian’s talk, “Out of the Nuclear Shadow: Scientists and the Struggle Against the Bomb,” provided an informative and often sobering view of the history of anti-nuclear activism within the scientific community and the challenges that the world continues to face today as nuclear technologies become more widespread. Mian’s talk, once transcribed, will be made freely available on the website of the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Research Center in the coming weeks. We’ll be sure to pass along word as soon as it goes live.
In the meantime, here’s a glimpse of the event, which took place at the Oregon Historical Society Museum in downtown Portland.
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- Dr. Mian with former OSU Libraries Resident Scholar, Linda Richards.
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- Guests mingling at the pre-dinner reception.
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- A peek at the VIP dinner that preceded Dr. Mian’s talk.
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- Zia Mian posing with the Pauling Legacy Award medal.
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- Mian delivering his remarks upon receiving the Legacy Award.
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- University Librarian and Press Director Faye Chadwell, greeting the audience.
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- Dr. Jose-Antonio Orosco, Director of the OSU Peace Studies Program, introducing Dr. Mian.
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- Zia Mian in lecture.
