News for: Administration

Tony Wolk, English faculty, contributed to "Reflection on Lincoln and English Studies" in the November 2009 issue of College English, Vol. 72, No. 2. Wolk's "reflection" was based on having taught Lincoln and Literature winter term.

Darrell Grant, Music faculty, and his band On The Territory performed at a music and storytelling event "We...Live...Here!" at Airplay Cafe in Portland, Nov. 20.

Sherril Gelmon, Public Administration faculty, made four presentations at the recent annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in Philadelphia. She presented "Practical Applications to Integrate Public Health in Undergraduate Liberal Education" (co-authors Shawn Smallman, Carlos Crespo and Jeff Gerwing); "Recognizing and Rewarding Community Engaged Scholarship in Public Health" and "Faculty for the Engaged Campus" with colleagues from Community-Campus Partnerships for Health; and "Building Public Health Nursing Capacity through Partnerships with Philanthropy" with colleagues from Northwest Health Foundation.

Talya Bauer, Business Administration faculty, served as a panelist on Publishing Research: Perspectives from the Journal of Management at the Southern Management Association Faculty Consortium, Asheville, N.C., Nov. 10.

Mike Burton, Extended Studies vice provost, has been selected co-chair of the Oregon Legislative Task Force on Veterans Reintegration. The task force has been charged with making recommendations to the governor and legislature regarding implementation of the new federal GI Bill, employment, family issues, suicide rates, housing, and health care issues among veterans. Burton is a Vietnam-era veteran, retired USAF officer, and a former member of the Oregon Legislature.

Auditions for singing and acting roles for a dramatic adaptation of Studs Terkel's Working will be held at 123 Market Center Building, Nov. 30, 7 to 9:30 p.m. and Dec. 1, 4 to 6 p.m.

A giving tree to benefit community-building programs at the New Columbia housing development in North Portland will be on display through Dec. 18 in the Portland State Bookstore.

Rossitza Wooster, Economics faculty, authored two entries, "Balance of Goods and Services" and "Leontief Paradox," for The Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World, Sage Publications, 2009.

Christine Rose, English faculty, authored a review of Constance Hieatt's A Gathering of Medieval English Recipes, published in The Medieval Review, November 2009.

Susan Masta, Biology faculty, authored "Mitochondrial rRNA Secondary Structures and Genome Arrangements Distinguish Chelicerates: Comparisons with a Harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangium opilio)" published in Gene, No. 449.

Linda George, Environmental Sciences and Management faculty, and physics graduate student Jeremy Parra co-authored "Atmospheric Pressure Laser-Induced Fluorescence Determination of Ambient Levels of NO2," published in Applied Optics, 48(18), 2009.

Carl Wamser, Chemistry faculty, made preliminary remarks and moderated the afternoon symposium's presentations at the annual Linus Pauling Medal Award Symposium held on campus Nov. 7. MIT professor Stephen Lippard was awarded the medal.

Chris Monsere, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, gave an invited presentation on the Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab's recent activities related to congestion monitoring at the Innovations in Congestion Monitoring Workshop in Beijing, Oct. 28-29. The workshop was sponsored by the Beijing Transportation Research Center and co-sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Committee of Transportation, the Texas Transportation Institute, and the Transportation Research Board Performance Measures Committee.

Rik Lemoncello, Speech and Hearing Sciences faculty, presented a talk entitled "Assistive Technology for Brain Injury Survivors" at the Innovate-Collaborate Oregon Innovation Showcase on the Brain at the World Trade Center in Portland, Nov. 3. He presented on his current research with Personal Technologies, focusing on everyday, familiar technologies to improve everyday living tasks for people with cognitive challenges.

Elise Granek, Environmental Science and Management faculty, gave an invited symposium talk on "Marine Reserves and Mangroves: The Land Sea Connection Between Tropical Coral Reefs and the Coast" at the Ecology of Marine Reserves: Acknowledging the Land-Sea Connection symposium of the 20th Biennial Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Meeting held in Portland, Nov 1-5.

Oregon Ballet Theater is offering faculty and staff a discount on Nutcracker tickets for Dec. 13, 17, and 18.

Compete in a free 20-20-20 Mini Triathlon at the Stott Center, Nov. 21 at 10 a.m. Call Rusty Vineyard at 5-5647 or im@pdx.edu.

"The Cosmopolitan Neighborhood: Political Theological Models for Living in an Open World," a free lecture, is Nov. 19, 6:30 p.m., 296 Smith Union.

Marcus Mundy, CEO of the Portland Urban League, is the guest for the Black Bag Speakers Series, Nov. 18 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in 228 Smith Union.

Eric Mankowski, Psychology faculty, received a grant from the Ohio Department of Youth Services to evaluate the Boys Council, a strengths-based group program to promote healthy masculinity.

John Hall, Economics and International Studies faculty, co-authored "Peirce, Veblen, and the Introduction of Cumulative Causation into Economic Science," Chapter 11 in the book, The Foundations of Non-Equilibrium Economics: The Principle of Circular and Cumulative Causation, published by Routledge, 2009.

Tim Clark, Business Administration, is the editor and contributing co-author of a new book on business model innovation, Business Model Generation, published October 2009.

Dilafruz Williams, Education faculty and Portland school board member, was a panelist on Teaching English Language Learners at an Urban Schools National Town Hall Meeting that included the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education. The meeting was held in conjunction with the Council of the Great City Schools' Annual Fall Conference in Portland, Oct. 28 to Nov. 1.

Serge Preston, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, presented the paper "Noncommuting Variations in the Lagrantian Field Theory" at the International Conference of Differential Geometry and Dynamical Systems at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, Oct. 8-11.