Profiles for: College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Profiles		Type
	Advocating for equality, speaking out on violence Gabriele Ross translates academic pursuits into meaningful community contributions.	Alumnus
	Capture the Sun Harvesting solar power	Faculty Member
	Center for Electron Microscopy and Nanofabrication Working with local industries to build structures	Community Partnership
	Certain Chemistry Cooking up a killer app. TB and malaria, beware!	Faculty Member
	Climate Change Glacier research at Portland State	Research
	Documenting women peacemakers Emi Noma uses film to tell the stories of women peacemakers around the world.	Alumnus
	Dr. Byron Haines Dr. Byron Haines Philosophy Professor Emeritus	Alumnus
	Dr. Leslie B. Hammer, Professor of Psychology Leslie Hammer is the Director of a new Occupational Health Psychology graduate training program at PSU	Faculty Member
	Drama for conflict transformation CR student Anya Hankin uses the creative arts to strengthen community, engage in conflict resolution and explore effective interpersonal communication	Graduate Student
	Eye Solution Priming materials for emerging technologies.	Faculty Member
	From West Africa to the Pacific Northwest Stéphanie Van Hook combines international service and conflict resolution skills in her graduate work	Graduate Student
	In Memory of David Boone In Memory of David Boone	Faculty Member
	In Memory of Peter Nicholls Peter was an important member of the Philosophy Department for two decades and fulfilled his role in an admirable manner. His gentle, unprepossessing manner and commitment to his students, colleagues and community will be sorely missed.	Faculty Member
	Languages Offered at PSU Offering over 23 languages	Research
	Life Stories Teaching the art of memoir	Faculty Member
	Meet Associate Professor Cynthia-Lou Coleman A former reporter turned professor studies mass media, uncovering values and mores that lurk beneath the construction of news stories.	Faculty Member
	Meet Associate Professor Jennifer Ruth From Victorian England to modern day China, Jennifer Ruth feels equally at home.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Albert S. Benight Professor Benight's commitment to his students is that he will make them the best they can be.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Andrew G. Fountain This Ice Man travels the world to study glaciers, including the one named after him the Fountain Glacier in Antarctica.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Anna-Louise Reysenbach Professor Reysenbach is interested in the microscopic life that resides in one of the last frontiers on Earthhot springs in the deep-sea and on land.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Aslam Khalil Whether from rice paddies, cities, landfills or cattle, Professor Khalil understands how trace gases effect global warming.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Curt D. Peterson For Professor Curt Peterson the fun of science is time travel.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Cynthia Mohr Professor Cynthia Mohr understands that psychologists are like Sherlock Holmes, examining the clues of human behavior to discover how one individual influences another.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor David Ritchie Curious about how the brain makes sense of language? David Ritchie thinks metaphor and playful language hold the key.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Dennis Stovall The Center for Excellence in Writing's Ooligan Press continues to grow with the guidance of Program Coordinator Dennis Stovall.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Friedrich Schuler At fifteen Professor Friedrich Schuler got lost in the library. Today he still goes to the stacks to discover the truth about the past.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Geoffrey Duh Professor Geoffrey Duh believes that every student is capable of exceeding his or her own expectations.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Gerald Sussman Gerry Sussman does research on the impacts of information and communication technologies on politics, economics, culture, and everyday life.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Heejun Chang Professor Chang believes that the 21st century will be the Climate and Water Century.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Hiro Ito Prof.Ito is an expert in East Asian economics.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Janice Haaken Whether studying drag queens, false memories or the wearing of the hijab, Professor Haaken knows that there is often more than meets the eye.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor John Hall Just as a great piece of music is composed to draw the listener inside to discover a special world, Professor Hall attempts to draw his students into the special world of social science ideas and reasoning.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Jong Sung Kim Professor Kim's students learn that the key to success is understanding the fundamental difference between random and fixed quantities.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor K. Pelin Basci From religion to pop culture, Professor K. Pelin Basci believes there is no experience that cannot be translated into every culture.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Karen Marrongelle In Professor Marrongelle's classroom mathematics is an active subject.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Katy Barber Professor Katy Barber's students participate in collaborative projects that result in both academic and community outcomes.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Ken Ruoff Dr. Ken Ruoff is an expert in Japanese history.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Larry Kominz Professor Kominz, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies, brings the joy of Japanese performing arts to students and audiences alike.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Mark Sytsma When aliens invade our waters, Mark Sytsma fights back.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Matthew Carlson Professor Matthew Carlson demonstrates to lawmakers the real impact of their health care policy decisions.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Michael Shaughnessy Among students, Professor Michael Shaughnessy is known as "Mr. Probability".	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Mingdi Yan For Professor Yan it is what's on the surface that counts.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Oscar Fernandez Professor Oscar Fernandez explores the intersection of culture, sexuality, disease and literature in the Americas.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Patricia Wetzel Professor Patricia Wetzel travels the linguistic landscape of Japan.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Peter Collier Professor Peter Collier's research helps first generation students who don't know the taken-for-granted scripts for "being a college student."	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Primus St. John Professor Primus St. John writes to dream people into existence.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor R Kevin Hill Professor R. Kevin Hill envisions himself as a tour guide, leading his students through the strange and exotic lands of philosophers.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Rolf Koenenkamp When it comes to harvesting the sun's energy, Professor Rolf Koenenkamp is often light years ahead.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Sandra Freels Sandra Freels sees language as the key to culture.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Steve Reder Professor Steve Reder makes learning experiential by engaging students in interaction with people as they collect language and literacy data.	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Suwako Watanabe Exploring the world of US-Japan cross-cultural communication	Faculty Member
	Meet Professor Teresa Bulman Professor Teresa Bulman's passion for teaching is a natural resource.	Faculty Member
	Oregon Geographic Alliance Grants awarded for Oregon teachers	Community Partnership
	Parasite Prescription Revising solutions, reviving hope	Faculty Member
	Research Profile - Carl Wamser Carl Wamser and about 50 others researchers worldwide are developing synthetic membranes using a similar process to convert sunlight into electricity—on a scale that one day could be used in homes and skyscrapers.	Research
	Research Profile - John Dash Researchers around the world, including John Dash, professor emeritus of physics, are pursuing a way to make hydrogen squeeze itself, so to speak.	Research
	Restorative Justice in Salem CR grad students and alumni coordinate a dialogue program at the Oregon State Correctional Institution	Graduate Student
	Sentencing Service Program Kate McCracken '08 advocates for alternatives for juvenile and adult offenders in San Francisco.	Alumnus
	Sisters of the Road Café Professor Tom Hastings leads nonviolence trainings for organizers and street people at a Portland community center.	Faculty Member
	Stroke Camp Helping stroke survivors and their caretakers	Community Partnership
	These Numbers Have Faces Conflict Resolution alum Justin Zoradi's non-profit confronts generational poverty in South Africa.	Graduate Student
	Venezuelan Killifish In partnership with the American Heart Association	Research
	Widening the path of peace and justice work Conflict Resolution director Rob Gould helped develop a number of Northwest-based peace and conflict resolution community organizations.	Faculty Member
	Working toward peaceful change in Cyprus Larry Fergeson went to Cyprus on a CR-sponsored course. Now he calls the island home	Graduate Student
	Worlds Together Weighing global issues on a human scale.	Faculty Member