Jong Sung Kim, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, and student Solange Mongoue co-authored the article "New Statistical Software for the Proportional Hazards Model with Current Status Data" published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol. 52, 2008.

Pavel Smejtek, Physics faculty emeritus, co-authored "Toward a Class-Independent Quantitative Structure−Activity Relationship Model for Uncouplers of Oxidative Phosphorylation" published in Chemical Research in Toxicology, Vol. 21, 2008.

Portland State University's Friends of English presents "How to Write a Novel in Your Spare Time," a workshop with New York Times-bestselling author Phillip Margolin.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mary Rechner, English adjunct, authored a review of the novel The Sorrows of an American, published in The Oregonian, April 27.

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.

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.

Bin Jiang, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-authored "Broadband Moth-Eye Antireflection Coatings on Silicon," published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, Issue 6, February 14.

Dennis Stovall, English faculty, served as a judge for the 2008 Book Design Awards of Publishers of the West at PSU, April 13-14.

Heejun Chang, Geography faculty; and Vivek Shandas, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, co-presented "Spatial Patterns of Residential Water Use in the Portland Metro Area" at the annual meeting of American Association of Geographers in Boston. Chang also participated in the panel discussion "New Geographies of Two Koreas: Culture, Economy, and Environment."

John Armbrust and Alexandria Cesar, Applied Linguistics faculty, presented "YouTube: U Trouble?" at the 42nd Annual Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention in New York City, April 2-5.

Michele Gamburd, Anthropology faculty, presented the paper "Gender, Migration, and the Gulf: Explaining Stunted Labor Activism in Sri Lanka" at the Gender, Connectivity, and Change in the Gulf Arab States conference at University of California, Irvine, April 18-19.

Virginia Butler, Anthropology faculty, presented "The Relationship between Relic Hunters and Professional Archaeologists on the Lower Columbia River in the early 20th Century" at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Vancouver, B.C., March 26-30. For the meeting, Butler also co-authored with student Wendy Ann Wright the poster "Archaeological Resource Preservation: Developing a Model for the City of Portland" and co-authored with student Ross Smith the oral presentation "Evaluating the Effects of Bone Density on Prehistoric Pacific Cod and Halibut Taxonomic Abundance and Body Part Representation." Butler also participated on the panel discussion "Red Fish (Salmon), White Fish (Cod), Big Fish (Halibut), Small Fish (Herring): The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries."

Dacian Daescu, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-authored the paper "A Dual-Weighted Approach to Order Reduction in 4DVAR Data Assimilation," published in the Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 136, March 2008.

Dirgham Sbait, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "A Tribute to Nazik al-Mala'ikah, a Pioneer Iraqi-Arab Poetess & Scholar Par Excellence" at the Northwest Regional Middle East Seminar in Portland, during April.

Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored the essay "Sociopolitical Education and the Nouvelles of Le Mercure Galant" in The Art of Instruction: Essays on Pedagogy and Literature in 17th-Century France, published by Rodopi, 2008.

Paul Collins, English faculty, authored "The House of Cards," published in New Scientist, March 22.

Susan McKee Reese, English faculty, authored three poems, "Sun Sign," "One Man's Ceiling," and "Paradise," published in the Oregon English Journal, Spring 2008.

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Portland State University presents this year's Fariborz Maseeh Lecture in Mathematical Sciences, "Poincaré, Perelman and Prizes," with Sir John Ball.

Catherine de Rivera, Environmental Sciences faculty, and co-PIs were awarded an $88,496 grant from Pacific States Marine Fisheries Council for "Evaluating Effectiveness of Green Crab Control Methods: Effects of Carcinus Maenas Removal in Bodega Harbor."

Heejun Chang, Geography faculty, and graduate Alex Level co-authored "Monitoring the Channel Process of a Stream Restoration Project in an Urbanizing Watershed: A Case Study of Kelley Creek, Oregon, USA," published in River Research and Applications, Vol. 24, 2008.

Paul Collins, English faculty, presented the lecture "The Missing Authors Bureau" at the Kansas City Art Institute, March 26.

Roberto De Anda, Chicano/Latino Studies faculty, co-authored "Literacy Skills and Earnings: Race and Gender Differences" in the Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 31, 2007. De Anda also authored the entry for Ernesto Galarza in the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, Vol. 2, Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.

Alex Ruzicka, Geology faculty, and Melinda Hutson, faculty, presented the paper “Amoeboid Olivine Aggregates (AOAs) in the Efremovka (CVR) Chondrite: First SIMS Trace-Element Results” at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, March 10.

Catherine de Rivera, Environmental Sciences faculty, presented, "Forecasting Northward Spread: The Potential Range of Carcinus Maenas" at the Green Crab Technical Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, March 13.

Heejun Chang, Geography faculty, co-authored "Potential Changes in Korean Water Resources Estimated by High-Resolution Climate Simulation," published in Climate Research, Vol. 35, 2008.

Marion Dresner, Environmental Sciences faculty, presented the paper "Science Teachers, Ecological Research and Modeling" at the Seventh Biennial Conference on University Education in Natural Resources at Oregon State University, March 15.

Patti Duncan, Women's Studies faculty, along with students from her Global Feminisms seminar, co-presented "Teaching and Learning about Transnational Feminisms" at the Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium in Portland, March 12-14.

Roberto De Anda, Chicano/Latino Studies faculty, presented the papers "Leadership in the Becas Para Aztlan Program" and "Ernesto Galarza, Braceros and Contemporary Guest Workers" at the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies XXXV Annual Conference in Austin, March 19-22.

Richard Pimentel has accepted the University's invitation to deliver the spring 2008 commencement address, Saturday, June 14, 2008.

Bin Jiang, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-authored "Templated Biomimetic Multifunctional Coatings" published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, Issue 5, February 2008.

Elise Granek, Environmental Sciences and Management faculty, and Margaret Griffith from Sunset High School were awarded an MJ Murdock Partners in Science Program Grant in the amount of $15,000 for a research project titled Watershed Land Use and Sediment Loading in Rocky Intertidal Marine Habitat.

Hiro Ito, Economics faculty, authored "American Fiscal Profligacy or East Asian Saving Glut? Appraisal of the Global Current Account Imbalances" published in International Reserves in Middle- and Low-Income Countries: Background of Recent Accumulation, Management, Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy, and Outlook, edited by the Latin American Reserve Fund, December 2007.

J. Alan Yeakley, Environmental Science faculty, authored the book review "An Expanding Ribbon of Native Green?" published in Ecology, Vol. 89, No. 2, 2008.

John Dash, Physics emeritus faculty, presented the co-authored paper "Effects of Applied Magnetic Fields on Aqueous Electrolysis" at the American Physical Society meeting in New Orleans, March 10.

Mo Wang, Psychology faculty, had an article chosen for the HR Division Scholarly Achievement Award for 2007. The article, "Profiling Retirees in the Retirement Transition and Adjustment Process: Examining the Longitudinal Change Patterns of Retirees' Psychological Well-Being," appeared in the Journal of Applied Psychology. It was selected by peer review as one of the most significant published articles on human resource management available to division members in 2007. Wang will receive the award at the Academy of Management meeting in August.

Steve Bleiler, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, presented "Quit Work, Play Poker, Sleep till Noon" as part of the Math Colloquium Series at University of Portland, March 5.

Portland State University will host the Intel Northwest Science Expo, March 14.

Katya Amato, English faculty, spoke on "Loki--Not Just a Trickster" at the Scandinavian Foundation's annual Scandinavian Sampler on campus, March 1.

Luis Ruedas, Biology faculty, is co-principal on a three-year, $620,000 National Science Foundation grant for "Mammals of Mongolia and Their Parasites."

Mary King, Economics faculty, authored the chapter "Defining Social Sustainability: The Political Economy of Social Reproduction" published in Future Directions for Heterodox Economics, University of Michigan Press, 2008.

Rossitza Wooster, Economics faculty, co-authored the article "Strategic Investments by US Firms in Transition Economies," published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2.

Andrew Fountain, Geology professor, was named "Outstanding Scientist/Researcher/Scholar" for 2008 at this year’s 66th annual Oregon Academy of Sciences meeting, which was held at Portland Community College.

Inger Olsen, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored the paper "Strong Minded and Strong Willed Girls in Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales Found in ‘The Snow Queen,’ ‘The Little Match Girl,’ ‘Clod Hans’ and ‘The Swamp King's Daughter,’” published in Hans Christian Andersen Between Children's Literature and Adult Literature, papers from the Fourth International Hans Christian Andersen conference.

Michael Philips, Philosophy emeritus faculty authored The Undercover Philosopher: A Guide to Detecting Shams, Lies and Delusions, published by Oneworld Publications, Oxford, England, May 2008. Philips will be reading from and signing copies of his book at Powell's on May 29.

Scott Burns, Geology faculty, presented the paper "Landslide Susceptibility Map for Shallow Landslides for the West Hills of Portland, Oregon using GIS and LIDAR" and co-authored the paper "Determining Landslide Susceptibility along Natural Gas Pipelines in Northwest Oregon, USA" at this year's 66th annual Oregon Academy of Sciences meeting, which was held at Portland Community College.

Mark Sytsma, Environmental Science and Management faculty, and graduate student Arick Rouhe received the Outstanding Service Award from the Oregon chapter of The Wildlife Society for preparation of the Oregon Feral Swine Action Plan. The award is presented in recognition of an outstanding professional contribution to wildlife management in Oregon during the past year.

Rossitza Wooster, Economics faculty, co-authored the paper "The Contribution of Intra-Regional and Extra-Regional Trade to Growth: Evidence from the European Union," published in Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2008.

Portland State scientists Dick Pugh and Alex Ruzicka from the Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory at Portland State University are sorting through information sent to the lab on the bright meteor (fireball) from February 19, 2008.

Cathleen Smith, Psychology faculty, and Janine Allen, Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies faculty, presented "Co-Admission Programs: The Role of Academic Advising" at the Student Success and Retention Conference at Portland State University, Feb. 8.

Dirgham Sbait, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, translated into English the Arabic poem "matha yaqulu al-nahru?" ("What Does the River Say?") composed by the celebrated Iraqi poetess Nazik al-Mala'ikah and published in Oregon Literary Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter/Spring, 2008.

Katherine McDonald, Psychology faculty, was the co-recipient of a grant from the International Research Initiatives Scheme at the University of Western Sydney. McDonald will travel to Sydney to share recent research conducted in Chicago on the costs and benefits of employing individuals with disabilities and will also develop collaborations and grant proposals to conduct similar research in Australia.

Mark Fishbein, Biology faculty, co-authored the article "A Functional Genomics Investigation of Allelochemical Biosynthesis in Sorghum Bicolor Root Hairs," published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 283.

Sarah Eppley, Biology faculty, received a $261,835 grant from the National Science Foundation, Directorate of Biological Sciences, Division of Environmental Biology to conduct the study, "Testing Hypotheses for the Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism."

Bin Jiang, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-authored "Templated Fabrication of Large Area Subwavelength Antireflection Grating on Silicon," published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 91, Issue 23, December 2007.

David Ervin, Environmental Sciences and Resources faculty; Patricia Koss, Economics faculty; and student Cody Jones co-authored "Motivations for Voluntary Environmental Management," published in the Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2007.

Gerry Sussman, Urban Studies and Planning and Communication faculty, was interviewed about American electioneering and the export of American electioneering methods to Europe in the Dutch magazine, Vrij Nederland, Jan. 31.

Jong Sung Kim, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, and students Wendy Leith and Tom Fielden authored "A Correlation Analysis of Bivariate Normal Data Subject to Partial Left-Censoring," published in Proceedings of Joint Statistical Meeting, Salt Lake City, 2007.

Michael Cummings, Geology faculty, authored "Ground Water Capture of Surface Drainage During Post-Eruption Landscape Evolution, Williamson River Basin, Oregon," published in Hydrological Science and Technology, Vol. 23, 2007.

Niles Lehman, Chemistry faculty, and students Will Draper and Eric Hayden authored the paper "Mechanisms of Covalent Self-assembly of the Azoarcus Ribozyme from Four Fragment Oligonucleotides," published in Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 36, 2008.

Thomas Thornton, Anthropology faculty, authored Being and Place Among the Tlingit, University of Washington Press, December 2007.

Tony Wolk, English faculty, read from his new novel Good Friday at the Montlake branch of the Seattle Public Library, Feb. 2.

Bin Jiang, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, authored "A Priori Error Analysis of the Mortar Finite Element Method for Variational Inequalities" published in Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Vol. 24, Issue 2, 2008.

Dacian Daescu, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, presented the paper "Reduced-order Observation Sensitivity in 4D-Var Data Assimilation" at the 88th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Jan. 20-24.

Elise Granek, Environmental Sciences and Resources faculty, was awarded a $20,000 grant by the National Geographic Society's Conservation Trust Advisory Board in support of her proposed project "Socio-economic and Ecological Assessment of Coral Reef Resource Use and Management in the Comoros Islands: Developing a Framework for Adaptive Management in Developing Countries."

John Hall, Economics and International Studies faculty, was recently elected to the editorial board for the Journal of Economic Issues.

Paul Collins, English faculty, authored "The 19th Century iPod" published in New Scientist, Jan. 12.

Tony Wolk, English faculty, read from his novel Good Friday (Ooligan Press, 2007) at Broadway Books, Jan. 22.

Elise Granek, Environmental Sciences and Resources faculty, co-authored "Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management with Nonlinear Ecological Functions and Values" published in Science, Jan. 18.

Mary Rechner, English faculty, read from her fiction at the Bipartisan Cafe to promote Writers-in-the-Schools, a program of Literary Arts, Jan. 17.

Subhash Kochar, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, gave an invited talk on "Connections Between Some Concepts in Reliability and Economics" at the International Conference on Modeling, Computation, and Optimization held at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre, India, Jan. 9-10.

A paper researching "non-linear" ecosytsem relationships, co-authored by Elise Granek, Portland State assistant professor in Environmental Sciences, was published in last week's Science magazine.

Dan Kaplan, English instructor, will have his first book of poems, Bill's Formal Complaint, published by The National Poetry Review Press in spring 2008.

Heejun Chang, Geography faculty, authored "A Framework for Assessing the Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources,” published in the Water21 Newsletter, 196.

John Hall, Economics and International studies faculty, organized the panel "The Origins and Significance of Circular and Cumulative Causation" and co-presented the paper "Continuity, Continuousness, and the Chain of Ideas Linking Peirce's Synechism and Veblen's Cumulative Causation" at the American Economic Association meeting, New Orleans, Jan. 4-6.

Mary King, Economics faculty, presented a paper, "Mexican Women's Work on Both Sides of the U.S.-Mexican Border," at the American Economic Association meeting, New Orleans, Jan. 4-6.

Paul Collins, English faculty, presented "Advertising Tobacco Products in Books" on National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition,” Dec. 1. Collins was also on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Jan. 5 broadcast of “Live Wire!” from the live show at Aladdin Theater Dec. 14.

Tom Hastings, Conflict Resolution adjunct, has been awarded two grants totaling $22,000 for the 2008 Peace and Justice Studies conference at Portland State Sept. 11-14.

William Lang, History faculty, authored "An Insatiable Hunger: The Consuming Myth of the Northwest," published in Here, There, Nowhere: Paintings by Michael Brophy, Nobius Projects, 2007.

Dan DeWeese, English faculty, wrote the short story "Acacia Avenue" published in Tin House literary journal, Issue 34.

Diana Abu-Jaber, English faculty, has her novel, Origin, named a Top Ten Mystery of 2007 by both the Los Angeles Times and the Sun-Sentinel. It was also a New York Times Editor's Pick and one of the Top Books of 2007 by the Washington Post.

Heejun Chang, Geography faculty, and graduate student Jon Franczyk authored a paper, "Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources: Toward Spatially-Explicit Impact Assessments," published in The Geographical Journal of Korea, Vol. 41, No. 4.

Mary Rechner, English instructor, wrote a review of Ehud Havazelet's novel Bearing the Body published in the December 23, 2007, Oregonian.

Paul Collins, English faculty, authored "Essay: Smoke This Book" published in the New York Times Book Review, Dec. 2, 2007.

Tom Hastings, Conflict Resolution faculty, presented “Peace Academicians as Public Intellectuals” at the International Conference on Education in Hawaii, Jan 4.

Portland State University's Department of Philosophy will host "Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and Pharmaceutical Industry," with Dr. Howard Brody, M.D., January 22.

Heejun Chang, Geography faculty, authored a paper, " Spatial Variations of Summer Precipitation Trends in South Korea, 1973-2005," published in Environmental Research Letter, Vol. 2, No. 4 (October-December 2007).

Karen Marrongelle, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, authored a paper titled “The Function of Graphs and Gestures in Algorithmatization” published in The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, Vol. 26 (2007).