| Date | Title |
| 23 Feb 2009 |
Kenneth Ames presents at Santa Fe Institute
Kenneth Ames, Anthropology faculty, presented “The Archaeology of Rank: North American Perspectives” to the Emergence of Permanent Economic Inequality and Political Hierarchy Working Group at the Santa Fe Institute, Feb. 13-15. |
| 23 Feb 2009 |
Christine Cress presents at North Carolina Campus Compact Civic Engagement Institute
Christine Cress, Educational Policy, Foundations and Administrative Studies faculty, presented “Just ASK—Attitudes, Skills, and Knowledge: An Inclusive Pedagogical Model for Service Learning and Community Engagement” as the invited keynote speaker for the North Carolina Campus Compact Civic Engagement Institute at Elon University, N.C., Feb. 10. |
| 23 Feb 2009 |
Anne McClanan presents at Reed College
Anne McClanan, Art faculty, presented “The Perils of Painting God: Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Problem of Classical Visual Culture” at Reed College in Portland during February. |
| 23 Feb 2009 |
Gerry Sussman gives invited talks at Florida Atlantic University
Gerry Sussman, Urban Studies and Planning and Communication professor, gave talks on his recent and current book projects, Global Electioneering and Branding Democracy as an invited speaker at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Feb. 9-10. |
| 23 Feb 2009 |
Suwako Watanabe presents Oral Proficiency Interview workshops in Korea
Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented an American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Oral Proficiency Interview Workshop, and a refresher Oral Proficiency Interview Workshop in Seoul, Korea, Dec. 19-23. She also attended the Interagency Language Roundtable Oral Proficiency Interview Summit: Testing at L4 and Above conference sponsored by the Defense Language Institute and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Monterey, Calif., Feb. 9-10. |
| 23 Feb 2009 |
Janelle Voegele, Amy Spring, Peter Collier, Sukhwant Jhaj, and Stephen Reder present at Student Success and Retention Conference
Janelle Voegele and Amy Spring, Academic Excellence faculty; Peter Collier, Sociology faculty; and Sukhwant Jhaj, University Studies faculty; co-presented the paper “Connecting Transfer Students with University General Education Values: A Hybrid Gateway Course” at the 2009 Student Success and Retention Conference: Access and Success for All held in Portland in January. Collier, Jhaj, and Stephen Reder, Applied Linguistics faculty, also presented the paper “University Studies' Students First Success System: Using On-line Student Support Resources to Promote First Year Academic Performance and Retention.” |
| 16 Feb 2009 |
Chris Cartwright and Kimberley Brown present at colleges and universities meeting
Chris Cartwright, Education; Kimberley Brown, Applied Linguistics and International Studies faculty; and education graduate M. Yamashita presented “Global Citizenship: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Higher Education” at the Association of American Colleges and Universities meeting in Seattle, Jan. 23. |
| 16 Feb 2009 |
Rik Lemoncello presents at rehabilitation therapists symposium
Rik Lemoncello, Speech and Hearing Sciences faculty, presented a full-day symposium to more than 120 rehabilitation therapists on “Best Practices for Assessment and Treatment of Acquired Cognitive Impairments” in Vancouver, Wash., Feb. 7. |
| 16 Feb 2009 |
Anthony Rufolo presents at Transportation meeting in Washington, D.C.
Anthony Rufolo, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented the paper “Transit's Effect on Mileage Responses to Oregon's Experiment in Road Pricing” at the Transportation Research Board's 88th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Jan. 13. |
| 16 Feb 2009 |
Roy Koch, Stephanie Farquhar and Kevin Kecskes present at Colleges and Universities conference
Roy Koch, provost; Stephanie Farquhar, Community Health Faculty; and Kevin Kecskes, Academic Excellence faculty, presented “Creating a Culture of Engagement” at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities conference on engagement for Chief Academic Officers, Feb. 6. |
| 09 Feb 2009 |
Eileen Brennan and Julie Rosenzweig present at Social Work Education meeting
Eileen Brennan and Julie Rosenzweig, Regional Research Institute faculty, and others presented "Supporting Families Including Children with Disabilities: A Curriculum Module on Community Integration" at the Annual Program Meeting Council on Social Work Education held in Philadelphia, Oct. 31. |
| 09 Feb 2009 |
Miguel Figliozzi presents at Transportation Research Board meeting
Miguel Figliozzi, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented four papers at the Transportation Research Board's 88th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C, Jan. 11-15. The papers were "Planning Approximations to Average Length of Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Window Constraints," "Route Improvement Algorithm for Vehicle Routing Problem with Time-Dependent Travel Times," "Survey of Chinese Importers and Exporters: China's Logistics Industry Developments and Impacts of Transportation System Performance on Supply Chain Costs and Operations," and "Prototype for Freight Data Integration and Visualization Using Online Mapping Software: Issues, Applications, and Implications for Data Collection Procedures." |
| 09 Feb 2009 |
Meiru Liu presents at Macau Polytechnic Institute
Meiru Liu, Business Administration faculty, gave an invited speech, "Chinese Courses, Curriculum Design and Material Development at Confucius Institutes Worldwide and at Portland State University," for the School of Language and Translation at Macau Polytechnic Institute in Macau, China, Dec. 18. |
| 09 Feb 2009 |
Sue Taylor presents two art lectures
Sue Taylor, Art History faculty, presented lectures on the current "crisis" in art criticism at Wayne State University in Detroit, Jan. 29, and on textile-based feminist art since the 1970s at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Jan. 30. |
| 09 Feb 2009 |
Jennifer Dill presents at Transportation Research Board meeting
Jennifer Dill, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented the co-authored paper "Green Taxes and Fees: A Politically Acceptable Way to Increase Transportation Revenue?" at the Transportation Research Board's 88th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Jan. 11-15. She also presented two posters, "Observational Evaluation of Safety Effectiveness of Marked and Unmarked Crosswalks at Unsignalized Intersections" (co-authored with Civil Engineering faculty Chris Monsere and alumna Delia Chi) and "Factors Affecting Walking and Biking to Elementary School: Urban Form, Parental Attitudes, and School Characteristics" (co-authored with alumna Hannah Kapell). |
| 02 Feb 2009 |
Jackie Balzer presents at 2009 Oregon Women in Higher Education conference
Jackie Balzer, Student Affairs vice provost, presented "Promoting a Healthy Campus: Incident Response Teams" at the 2009 Oregon Women in Higher Education conference held at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Jan. 30. |
| 02 Feb 2009 |
Harrell Fletcher speaks at Assume Nothing New: New Social Practice conference
Harrell Fletcher, Art faculty, spoke at the Assume Nothing: New Social Practice conference held at University of Victoria in Victoria, B.C., Jan. 30-Feb. 1. |
| 02 Feb 2009 |
Sherril Gelmon co-presents at Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting
Sherril Gelmon, Public Administration faculty, co-presented "Taking Engagement to Scale: Different Positions, Different Perspectives" at the Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting in Seattle. Her co-presenters were former PSU faculty and administrators Judith Ramaley (Winona State University), Devorah Lieberman (Wagner College), and Susan Agre-Kippenhan (Montana State University). |
| 02 Feb 2009 |
Linda Golaszewski presents at Nonprofit Organization Board Training
Linda Golaszewski, Public Administration faculty, gave a presentation on developing new nonprofit organizations at the Nonprofit Organization Board Training in Corvallis, Jan. 24. |
| 02 Feb 2009 |
Andy Job presents at Northwest Schools Uniting Neighborhoods AmeriCorps meeting
Andy Job, Education faculty, gave an invited presentation on "Managing Organizational Change" to the Impact Northwest Schools Uniting Neighborhoods AmeriCorps team, Jan. 16. |
| 02 Feb 2009 |
Sean Kohles presents to Collins Medical Trust trustees
Sean Kohles, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, presented a progress report, "Cell Biomechanics and the Study of Disease," to the trustees of the Collins Medical Trust, who sponsor his and department Colleague, Derek Tretheway's ongoing bioengineering research. The talk was held in Portland on Jan 23. |
| 02 Feb 2009 |
Meiru Liu presents at Chinese Language Symposium in Beijing
Meiru Liu, Business Administration faculty, gave three invited presentations, "Construction of the Confucius Institute at Portland State University," "On Relationship between Chinese Language Teaching Materials, Teachers and Teaching Methodology," and "CI-PSU's Model in Organizing and Hosting Chinese Proficiency Tests" at the Ninth International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching in Beijing, Dec. 14-17. |
| 02 Feb 2009 |
Wende Morgaine co-presents at Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting
Wende Morgaine, Child and Family Studies faculty, co-presented "Show Me The Learning: AAC&U Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education Initiative" at Ready or Not: Global Challenges, College Learning, and America's Promise, the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Annual Meeting in Seattle, Jan. 22. |
| 02 Feb 2009 |
Michael Philips featured on Philosophy Talk Live
Michael Philips, Philosophy faculty, discussed his most recent book, The Undercover Philosopher: A Guide to Detecting Shams, Lies and Delusions, as the featured guest on National Public Radio's Philosophy Talk Live in Portland, Jan. 31. |
| 02 Feb 2009 |
Pedro Ferbel-Azcarate presents at nutrition and society conference in Mexico
Pedro Ferbel-Azcarate, Black Studies faculty, presented "El efecto de la biodisponibilidad y el factor economico en el consumo de alimentos en America Latina" (Sustainability and Economics in the Consumption of Food in Latin America) at the Annual Nutrition and Society Conference, Universidad Latina de America, Morelia, Mexico, Jan. 27. |
| 02 Feb 2009 |
Siobhan Maty presents at Health Disparities Summit
Siobhan Maty, Community Health faculty, presented "Diabetes Risk, Prevention and Treatment within the Latino and Chinese Communities: A Pilot Project from Portland, Oregon" at the Health Disparities Summit of the Trans-National Institute of Health in Washington, D.C., in December. |
