Bicycles vs. Vehicles - Jennifer Dill is an associate professor and director of the Center for Transportation Studies at Portland State University (PSU). Lynn Weigand is director of the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation at PSU.

Joined by Mayor-elect Sam Adams, new PSU President Wim Wiewel, rode his bicycle to Portland State for his first day.

Starting fall 2008, Portland State University will have a Russian Language Flagship program, aimed at creating superior speakers of Russian.

Objects and artifacts held by the Portland State University will be preserved for future generations with help from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Connecting to Collections Bookshelf

Bin Jiang, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-authored "Bioinspired Broadband Antireflection Coatings on GaSb" published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, Issue 14, April 9.

Dirgham Sbait, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored the essays "A Tribute to Nazik al-Mala'ikah, Poetess & Scholar Par Excellence" and "Debate in the Improvised-Sung Folk Poetry of the Palestinian Poet-Singers" published in Oregon Literary Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2008.

Elizabeth Almer, Business Administrative faculty, is president-elect for the Accounting, Behaviors, and Organization section of the American Accounting Association.

PSU is hosting a summer term Red Cross blood drive Wednesday, Aug. 13, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Smith Union Ballroom. To schedule an appointment go online to www.givelife.org/index.cfm?Sponsor=PortlandState or contact Gwyn Ashcom at gwyn@pdx.edu or 5-5123.

Gretta Siegel, Library faculty, guest edited a "Libraries and Graduate Students: Building Connections” issue of Public Services Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 3-4.

Janet Walker, Daniel Coleman, Junghee Lee, Peter Squire, and Barbara Friesen, authored an article, "Children's Stigmatization of Childhood Depression and ADHD: Magnitude and Demographic Variation in a National Sample," published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 47, No. 8, 2008.

Julie Rosenzweig and Eileen Brennan, Social Work faculty, co-authored "Child Care and Employed Parents of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders" published in the Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 16, No. 2.

Margaret Neal, Institute on Aging faculty, was elected by the Gerontological Society of America membership as social research, policy, and practice section secretary.

Mark Fishbein, Biology faculty, co-authored "Evolution of Latex and its Constituent Defensive Chemistry in Milkweeds (Asclepias)" published in Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Vol. 128.

Michaela Brenner, Library faculty, co-authored "Discovering the Library with Google Earth" published in Information Technology and Libraries, Vol. 27, No. 2, June 2008.

Miguel Figliozzi, Civil Environmental Engineering faculty, received the Best Paper Award in the Transportation Planning category at the 10th International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation held in Athens, Greece, in May. His award-winning paper is titled, "An Iterative Route Construction and Improvement Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft and Hard Time Windows."

The Women's Resource Center at Portland State will hold a fall Feminism Conference titled "Under Pressure: Women, Oppression, and Leadership" Friday, October 31, in Smith Union. Students, staff, and community members of all genders are invited to participate. To register for the student-run conference, visit www.wrc.pdx.edu/conference. The conference planning committee is also accepting workshop proposals.

Pelin Basci, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored "Türk Edebiyatı Kanonu ve Ulusal Kimli in Sınırları" (The Canon of Turkish Literature and the Limits of National Identity) published in Pasaj Edebiyat, Vol. 6 (November 2007-May 2008), a special issue on the literary canon.

Robert Strongin, Chemistry faculty, co-authored "Gold Nanoparticle Sensor for Homocysteine Thiolactone-Induced Protein Modification" published in Langmuir, Vol. 24; "Chiral Recognition of Amino Acids by Use of a Fluorescent Resorcinarene" in Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 62; "Determination of Enantiomeric Compositions of Analytes Using Novel Fluorescent Chiral Molecular Micelles and Steady State Fluoresence Measurements" in the Journal of Fluorescence, Vol. 18. (2008); "Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Chiral Ionic Liquids and Investigation of Their Enantiomeric Recognition Properties" in Chirality, Vol. 20; and "Iron(III)-Salophene: An Organometallic Compound with Selective Cytotoxic and Anti-Proliferatice Properties in Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer Cells," in Public Library of Science One, Vol. 3.

Sherry Buchanan, Library staff, presented "Just in Time Acquisitions via Interlibrary Loan: Purchasing Models and Workflows" at the 40th Annual State University of New York Library Association Conference in Potsdam, N.Y., June 11.

Twenty-four Ronald E. McNair student scholars will be presenting their summer research projects from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13, in 228 Smith Union.

William Lang, History faculty, authored "Swimming Canaries: What the Fate of Anadromous Fish Tells Us about the Pacific Northwest Environment" published in the Oregon English Journal, Spring 2008.

Government Relations Legislative Update for July 29, 2008

On July 12, 2008, 15 Portland State physics students exhibited their physics knowledge at OMSI by displaying posters on a variety of topics.

Effective July 1, 2008, annual Unsubsidized Stafford loan limits will increase by $2000 for all undergraduate students.

Most managers have heard from their company leaders that leadership talent is—or will shortly be—a scarce resource.

Recognizing and discussing defining moments in your professional and personal lives make you a better leader. Those defining moments--called crucibles--can shape who you are as a leader.

As a supervisor or department head faced with a department that’s about to implode, take a candid look at either reinventing the structure of the group or replacing certain key individuals within it.

The Pacific Northwest Children's Book Conference for writers and illustrators, sponsored by Portland State University, will be held on the campus of Reed College, July 14-18, 2008.

a review of the new entrance counseling requirement or Graduate PLUS loan borrowers

Robert Bertini testifies on sustainable, energy efficient transportation infrastructure.

Newest faculty member joins Department of Music in the Fall.

The Oregon Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies Center, one of Oregon's new signature research centers, is investing $480,000 in 10 faculty teams at Oregon universities whose work has the potential to fuel the state's growing sustainability and renewable energy sectors.

Portland State's Department of Art presents its first annual online auction. Bidding starts June 6, 2008.

The State Board of Higher Education has approved a new master's degree program in Architecture at Portland State University.

Cassie McVeety, University Relations vice president, and Julie Smith, University Communications, presented "Building and Managing Your Institutional Brand" at the 2008 Willamette Valley Development Officers Regional Conference in Portland, May 16. McVeety and Smith discussed the importance of developing an integrated marketing program and the relationship of branding to fundraising at Portland State.

Christine Cress, Educational Policy, Foundations and Administrative Studies faculty, presented “Integrating Service Learning into the Curriculum: Course and Syllabus Design Strategies for Service Learning Instructors” at the Community College National Center for Community Engagement Annual Conference, Scottsdale, Ariz., May 21.

David Burgess, Office of Institutional Research and Planning, presented "Using Time Series Graphs to Quantify and Analyze Undergraduate Admissions Data" at the Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research held in Seattle, May 25-28.

Gretta Siegel, Library faculty, presented "Saving the Environment, One Reference Question at a Time" at a Portland Area Library System workshop, May 9.

Jack Corbett, Public Administration faculty, was interviewed on Radio Movimiento´s "Hora Campesina" about immigration policy and prospects for undocumented workers. Corbett also presented "Research Questions and Research Methods: Strategies for Integration in Field Settings" at the Center for Advanced Research in Social Anthropology in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Jesse Dillard, Business faculty, presented "Green Owl and the Corn Maiden" at the Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference in New York City, April 24-26.

Juliette Stoering and Rowanna Carpenter, Office of Institutional Research and Planning, presented "Student Enrollment Pattern Characteristics: Contributors to Community College Student Transfer and Bachelor's Degree Attainment in an Urban Metropolitan Region" at the Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research held in Seattle, May 25-28. Colleague Lina Lu with Stoering and Carpenter also presented "Evaluation of a Co-Admission Program: Community College Transfer Students' Experiences and Outcomes" at the forum.

Mark Kaplan, Community Health faculty, was appointed to an experts panel that will make recommendations to the Department of Veterans Affairs on ways it can improve its programs in suicide prevention, research, and education.

Miguel Figliozzi, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented "An Iterative Route Construction and Improvement Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft and Hard Time Windows" at the 10th International Conference on Application of Advanced Technologies in Transportation in Athens, Greece, May 27-31. The paper has been published in the conference proceedings. Figliozzi also chaired a session on transportation and logistics modeling.

Students from Portland State programs earn six out of eight Gates Millennium Scholarships

Richard Lycan, Population Research Center, authored the chapter "Linking Tax-Lot and Student Record Data: Applications in School Planning" published in Applied Demography in the 21st Century, Springer, March 2008.

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.

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.

United States Navy Commander and Astronaut Sunita Williams and Maseeh College graduate student Diana Laboy-Rush will be inducted into the Denice Dee Denton Women Engineers Hall of Fame

The American Public Health Association (APHA) is actively soliciting submissions for a special edition of their Student Assembly's newsletter, News & Views, and the deadline for submitting articles has recently been extended to June 6, 2008. Additional details about the opportunity appear below.

Government Relations Legislative Update for May 28, 2008

Anna Malsch, Regional Research Institute; Julie Rosenzweig and Eileen Brennan, Social Work faculty; and students John Conley and Lisa Stewart presented "Rewards and Concerns: Marital Role Quality and Child Mental Health Disorders" at the 88th Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association in Irvine, Calif., April 12.

The PSU Bike Cooperative will be on the Park Blocks Wednesday, May 28, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to help fix bicyles and answer questions about commuting to campus. In addition, the cooperative staff will sell Krypotonite U-Locks at a special low price and give an additional discount for traded-in cable locks and keys.

Faculty, staff and community partners recognized May 29 from 3 to 5 p.m. in 228 Smith Union

Dilafruz Williams, Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies faculty, presented "The Engagement Imperative: Academia, Students, and Communities in Partnership" at the Western Region Campus Compact Consortium conference in Portland, in April.

Hamid Moradkhani, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, co-organized a congress technical track titled "Stochastic and Probabilistic Approaches for Analyzing Complex Water Resources Systems" that included 12 technical sessions. He also presented three papers, "Uncertainty Assessment of Water Resources Systems using Data Assimilation and Ensemble Methods," "Toward Improved Hydrologic Prediction with Reduced Uncertainty using Sequential Multi-Model Combination," and "Lessons from Fish Passage Waterways in Oregon and Factors for Improving their Construction" at the World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2008 in Honolulu, May 12-16. The last paper was co-authored with Sheryle Quinn and Trevor Smith from PSU. At the congress, Moradkhani was elected chair of technical committee on "Probabilistic Approaches in Water Resources Systems" through 2010.

Session on Banner and hiring begin June 4

Jose Padin, Sociology faculty, received a grant from the Children's Investment Fund for the PSU Center for Health and Social Inequality Research project "Hispanic Student Mentoring Intervention and Research."

Mara Tableman, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, presented "Nonparametric Methods for Employment Termination Time Data with Competing Risks" to the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, May 14.

Matthew Carlson, Sociology faculty, is co-principal investigator on a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through the Office of Oregon Health Policy and Research. The grant will fund the PSU Center for Health and Social Inequality Research project "The Oregon Health Plan Lottery: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Medicaid Eligibility and Coverage."

The Portland State Business Accelerator is sponsoring "Advanced Invention to Venture," a hands-on workshop for entrepreneurial teams to reality-test their business plan. The workshop is May 28 through May 31, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost is $500 for student teams and $750 for faculty teams. For more information and to register, visit www.psba.pdx.edu/A12V.

The United Indian Students in Higher Education are baking and selling a salmon lunch in the Park Blocks Wednesday, May 28, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cost is $8 a plate.

Sean Kohles, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, gave two seminars/lectures to the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University, May 19. He presented "Cell Biomechanics Technique and Theory" for a Cell Engineering course as a guest lecturer as well as "Integration of Microfluidics and Optical Forces for Osteochondral Cellular Biomechanical Engineering" at the departmental seminar.

Events concerning sustainability planned for May 28, 30, and June 4, 6

William B. Fischer, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, has again graced the Portland operatic stage, this time appearing in Portland Opera's five recent performances of Aida. His auxiliary chorus role of "member of the Egyptian populace" afforded him a tunic, robe, headband, and some shiny white shoes that looked like they'd escaped from a louche production of Guys and Dolls. Alas, he did not merit a wig. This was Fischer's third Aida. He has now completed most of a book about his off-duty life in the opera titled Moonlighting in Turandot: Amateur Encounters with Music, History, War, Sex, Death, Literature, Ideology, Language, and Love. Many of the most prestigious publishers in the country have already rejected the manuscript, reports Fischer, who speculates that perhaps it is either too serious or not serious enough.

Status of New Programs, Degrees, and Certificates Academic Year - 2007-2008

Recent Portland State events with strong alumni presence.

Big Sky Champions! Men's basketball sets new records.

Dacian Daescu, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, presented "Sensitivity to Observations in Model-Constrained Optimization" at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on Optimization in Boston, May 10-13.

Dilafruz Williams, Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies faculty, authored the essay review "Political Education Matters" published in the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Vol. 14, Issue 2, 2008.

Senators elected for 2008-09 academic year

Scientists document 50 nonnative aquatic animals and plants that have been introduced into Oregon rivers through a variety of ways.

Children living in an orphanage in India are benefiting from new caregiving practices developed by PSU educators.

Jill Mosteller, Business faculty, authored the paper "Animal-Companion Extremes and Underlying Consumer Themes" published in the Journal of Business Research, Vol. 61, May 2008.

Why we love Portland; Where have all the gerontologists gone?; Let's remember the former film program

Faculty and staff interested in submitting a grant proposal for the National Science Foundation's S-STEM (Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) must send a single-page abstract to the PSU Office of Research and Sponsored Projects by June 6. One proposal from each college and school will be chosen for submission to NSF. To read about the grant, go to www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07524/nsf07524.htm. For more information, about the PSU selection process, contact Bill Helsley, 5-3417, or Kam Barron, 5-5231.

H. Thomas Johnson, accounting professor, earns the Deming Medal from the American Society for Quality.

Sherril Gelmon, Public Administration faculty, presented "Creating a Research Agenda on Community-University Partnerships" and "Methods and Strategies for Assessing Community-University Partnerships"; and co-presented "Sustaining Service-Learning & Maximizing its Benefits: Lessons from a National Demonstration Program" and "Faculty for the Engaged Campus" at the International Community University Partnerships Expo in Victoria, B.C., May 5-7.

Are you planning to travel abroad this summer? Learn about recommended and required vaccines Tuesday, May 27, at 7 p.m. in the basement of Montgomery Hall. The speaker is Julie Lueker, RN, BSN, Multnomah County Health Department. The event will also include travel photos from Asia, Kenya, Botswana, and the Amazon.

New centers and programs of statewide interest at Portland State University

Passing on political and leadership know-how to a new generation of women

Drop your ballots off on the Portland State campus.

The Winter 2008 President's and Dean's lists have been released for all of Portland State University's undergraduate academic units.

Lincoln Hall to close, but the show will go on.

Hannah Hurdle-Toomey will discuss a book she is writing, More Than a Slave, which is about her father, who was born into slavery in the 1840s. The free talk is scheduled Wednesday, May 14, at noon in the Smith Union Multicultural Center, room 228. This is part of the 2008 Blackbag Speaker Series. For more information, call 5-5713 or e-mail ejohns@pdx.edu.

A chance to teach a term in England, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Mexico, or Argentina awaits faculty who apply for the 2009-10 Northwest Council on Study Abroad positions by Sept. 3. Faculty may apply for the posts by visiting oia.pdx.edu/faculty.php and clicking the link under "PSU Faculty Teaching Opportunities." The 10- to 18-week teaching posts are in Angers, France; Athens, Greece; London, England; Macerata, Italy; Morelia, Mexico; Oviedo Spain; Rosario, Argentina; or Siena, Italy.

Dan Zalkow, Housing and Transportation Services, presented "Planning a Vibrant Living-Learning Community at Portland State University" at the 2008 Pacific Regional Conference for the Society for College and University Planning in Vancouver, B.C., April 15.

The campus community is invited to participate in interactive lab tours and learn about research and student life in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science Friday, May 16, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Engineering Building, 1930 SW Fourth Ave. To RSVP or for more information, e-mail info@cecs.pdx.edu or call 5-4631.

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.

Gretta Siegel, Library faculty; and Rosalind Wang, Library emerita faculty, presented "Sharing More Than an Ocean: Chinese Libraries and Librarianship Today" at the Oregon and Washington Library Association Joint Meeting in Vancouver, Wash., April 17-18.

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.

Karen Gibson, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented "Evaluation: A Tool for Community Sustainability" at the Western Regional HOPE VI Community & Supportive Services Sustainability Conference, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Seattle, April 8-9.

Interactive exhibit at Simon Benson House May 22 from 3 to 5 p.m.

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.

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.

Paul Collins, English faculty, presented "The Autisphere" at the Minnesota State Autism Conference, May 3.

Robin Paynter, Library faculty, presented "Commercial Serials Decision Support Databases" at the Oregon and Washington Library Association Joint Meeting in Vancouver, Wash., April 17-18.

Sue Taylor, Art faculty, authored "The Erotic Eye," a review of three new books on art and sexuality, published in Art in America, May 2008.

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."