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Date	Title
11 Jun 2008	PSU Celebrates Largest Graduating Class at Spring Commencement, June 14 Portland State University will graduate its largest class ever Saturday, June 14, 2008.
2 Jun 2008	Jennifer Ruth lectures in People's Republic of China Jennifer Ruth, English faculty, presented "Neoliberalism and Higher Education in the United States" at Maoming University; "Where Have all the Literary Critics Gone?" at Nanjing University of Science and Technology; "Neoliberalism and Higher Education in the United States" at Ginling Collegek; and "The Impact of Michel Foucault on American Literary Criticism" at Nankai University in the People's Republic of China.
2 Jun 2008	Jong Sung Kim co-authors article in Journal of Clinical Oncology Jong Sung Kim, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-authored the article "Prediction Model for Estimating the Survival Benefit of Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Gallbladder Cancer" published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 26, 2008.
2 Jun 2008	Oscar Fernández writes review, forward and translates a poem Oscar Fernández, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored a review of Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary, by Paul Giles, published in Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 44, Issue 3, Fall 2007. Fernández also translated and authored a foreword for Los Amantes, by Jorge Debravo, for the Oregon Literary Review: An Online Collection of Literature, Hypertext, Art, Music, and Hypermedia, Summer/Fall 2008.
2 Jun 2008	Scott Burns gives talks ranging from earthquakes to terroir Scott Burns, Geology faculty, presented "Earthquakes in Oregon: Past, Present and Future" to the Portland area emergency managers conference sponsored by Legacy Health Systems, May 27; "The Mystique of Terroir in the Pacific Northwest: The Relationship between Climate, Soils, Geology and Wine" at the Spokane Community College in Spokane, May 27; and "Debris Flow Formation on Cascade Volcanoes in November 2006" and "Landslide Hazard map for the Portland West Hills Based on LiDAR and GIS" at the Geological Society of America meeting in Las Vegas, March 20-21.
2 Jun 2008	Steven Bleiler receives National Science Foundation grant Steven Bleiler, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, received a $27,892 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Cascade Topology Seminar.”
2 Jun 2008	Tom Hastings receives grant from Jubitz Family Foundation Tom Hastings, Conflict Resolution faculty, was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Jubitz Family Foundation for PeaceVoice, a program of the Oregon Peace Institute.