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Date	Title
12 May 2008	Gil Latz presents at International School Volunteering symposium in UAE Gil Latz, International Affairs, presented "Volunteering as a Way of Life: Understanding Community-University Partnerships and Service Learning in the United States" at the Emirates Foundation's Takatof Symposium on International School Volunteering in Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 28.
12 May 2008	Heejun Chang co-authors paper in Journal of Environmental Management Heejun Chang, Geography faculty, and alumnus Mike Boeder co-authored the paper "Multi-Scale Analysis of Oxygen Demand Trends in an Urbanizing Oregon Watershed" published in the Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 87, 2008.
12 May 2008	Linda George and Dave Sailor co-author article in Environmental Research Jan Semenza, former PSU faculty member; Linda George, Environmental Sciences faculty; Dave Sailor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty; and students Daniel Wilson and Jeremy Parra co-authored the article "Public Perception and Behavior Change in Relationship to Hot Weather and Air Pollution" published in Environmental Research, April 2008.
12 May 2008	Marie Lo presents at Association for Asian American Studies Conference Marie Lo, English faculty, presented "A Politics without Identity? The Impossible Subject of Asian American Cultural Critique" at the Association for Asian American Studies Conference in Chicago, April 18.
12 May 2008	Matthew Hein places second in Oregon State Poetry Association contest Matthew Hein, English faculty, was awarded second place in the Oregon State Poetry Association's New Poets contest for "Because a Train Isn't Coming." The award was presented in absentia in Salem, April 26.
12 May 2008	Paul Collins presents at Minnesota State Autism Conference Paul Collins, English faculty, presented "The Autisphere" at the Minnesota State Autism Conference, May 3.
12 May 2008	Talya Bauer and Donald Truxillo participate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology meeting Talya Bauer, Business faculty, and Donald Truxillo, Psychology faculty, co-hosted with others the Applicant Reactions Cross-Cultural Organizational Surveys research incubator at the Interactive Research Agenda Session at the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology Annual Meeting in San Francisco in April. Bauer also served as a panelist on the topic of mentoring and participated in the symposium discussion on "Multi-level and Multi-Perspective Research in Leader-Member Exchange Leadership."
8 May 2008	Portland State Honors Six at Annual PSU Salutes Ceremony, May 8 Portland State University is honoring six outstanding Portland State alumni, faculty and friends for success in their fields and for their dedication and support of both the University and the Portland community at the 19th Annual PSU Salutes Ceremony.
5 May 2008	Charles Deemer creates Web hyperdrama video Charles Deemer, English adjunct, created "Changing Key," a hyperdrama video project published on the Web at http://www.ibiblio.org/cdeemer/ChangingKey.htm. The videos will be featured at the Hypertext 2008 Conference in Pittsburgh, June 19-21.
5 May 2008	Gil Latz speaks at Northwest Academic Forum Gil Latz, International Affairs faculty, was an invited speaker on the topic of international comparisons in education and implications for institutions in the West at the 2008 Northwest Academic Forum in Boise, April 4.
5 May 2008	Jennifer Perlmutter presents at Lafayette College Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "Anne de La Roche-Guilhen's Power-Hungry Heroines" at the 40th annual meeting of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., April 24-26.
5 May 2008	John Hall presents at Western Social Science Association conference John Hall, Economics faculty, presented "Keynesian and Post Keynesian Approaches to Unemployment in Eastern Germany" at the Western Social Science Association conference held in Denver, April 24-26.
5 May 2008	Katherine McDonald receives intellectual disabilities fellowship Katherine McDonald, Psychology faculty, was awarded the Steven-Shapiro Fellowship from the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities. The fellowship is awarded to young researchers actively involved in the field of intellectual disabilities. McDonald will present her research at the upcoming World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa.
5 May 2008	Keith Hadley receives grant from National Science Foundation Keith Hadley, Geography faculty, was co-recipient of a $260,000 National Science Foundation collaborative research grant to examine "The Occurrence of Severe Pacific Northwest Windstorms: A Multi-Century Dendroclimatic Assessment of Their Ecological Impacts."
5 May 2008	Linda George co-authors article in Science of the Total Environment Linda George, Environmental Sciences faculty, and alumnus Matt Mavko co-authored "A Sub-Neighborhood Scale Land Use Regression Model for Predicting NO2," published in Science of the Total Environment, April 2008.
5 May 2008	Mark Fishbein co-authors paper in Madroño Mark Fishbein, Biology faculty, co-authored the paper "Resurrection of Asclepias Schaffneri (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae), a Rare, Mexican Milkweed," published in Madroño, Vol. 55, 2008.
5 May 2008	Mary Rechner authors review in Oregonian Mary Rechner, English adjunct, authored a review of the novel The Sorrows of an American, published in The Oregonian, April 27.
5 May 2008	Matthew Hein presents at Pacific Northwest Writing Centers Association meeting Matthew Hein, English faculty, presented "Boredom and the Dream Bird: Awesomification" at the annual Pacific Northwest Writing Centers Association meeting in Everett, Wash., April 26.
5 May 2008	Michael Clark receives Fulbright Teaching Fellowship Michael Clark, English faculty, has received a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Croatia for the 2009 academic year. He will teach courses on film and U.S. law.
5 May 2008	Patti Duncan, Priya Kandaswamy, and Marie Lo receive Exemplary Community Volunteer Award Patti Duncan and Priya Kandaswamy, Women's Studies faculty; and Marie Lo, English faculty, received the Asian Reporter Foundation's Exemplary Community Volunteer Award for their work with Asian Pacific American Compass Collective at KBOO radio, 90.7 FM. Asian Pacific American Compass is a monthly Asian Pacific American public affairs program.
5 May 2008	Radu Popa receives grant from NASA Astrobiology program Radu Popa, Biology faculty, has received a $195,741 research grant from the NASA Astrobiology program to study how microbes extract energy from crystals of peridote, to describe the fingerprints of this activity and use them to search for evidence of past life in Martian meteorites.
5 May 2008	Sarah Eppley co-authors paper in Journal of Evolutionary Biology Sarah Eppley, Biology faculty, co-authored the paper "Moving to Mate: The Evolution of Separate and Combined Sexes in Multicellular Organisms," published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 21, 2008.