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.

Center for real estate real estate conference is June 5, 2008.

Michael Munk, author of Portland Red Guide, published by PSU's Ooligan Press, will speak on "Portland's Radical Past" at the Retirement Association of Portland State (RAPS) meeting Thursday, May 15, at 1:30 p.m. in the Astoria Room, University Place, 310 Lincoln St. The talk is free and open to the public. In his book and his talk, Munk tells the stories of Portland radicals and refers to specific places in Portland that one can visit today.

Dan Rogers, Business faculty, co-authored the paper "Does Hedging Reduce Economic Exposure? Hurricanes, Jet Fuel Prices, and Airlines" presented at the Eastern Finance Association meeting in St. Pete Beach, Fla., April 9-12.

Dilafruz Williams, Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies faculty, authored "Sustainability Education's Gift: Learning Patterns and Relationships," published in the International Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2008.

Franz Rad, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented the paper "Behavior of Grouted Conduit Connections Under Cyclic Loading" at the Annual Convention of the American Concrete Institute in Los Angeles, March 30-April 3. The paper was co-authored by student Mike Pyszka.

The Center for Academic Excellence is accepting proposals from faculty for scholarship related to partnerships. Proposals are due May 19. Funding will range from $1,000 to $3,000 and will be announced the first week of June. For complete information and the RFP, visit www.pdx.edu/cae/partnershipinitiative.html.

Harrell Fletcher, Art faculty, started a new participatory Web site titled “Some People” at http://www.somepeoplepeople.com. “Some People” invites participants to submit documentaries about interesting people, with the goal of revealing otherwise hidden lives and creating new documentary approaches on the Web.

Jesse Dillard, Business faculty, presented the keynote address "Emergent Information Systems for Alternative Value Based Organizations" at the Annual Conference of the British Accounting Association, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, April 2.

Ladis Kristof, Political Science faculty emeritus, was designated an Association of American Geographers Fifty-Year Member at the association’s annual meeting in Boston during April.

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.

The Civil War Round Table at PSU will feature Matthew Dennis, author and Oregon State University history professor, Wednesday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m. in 447 Cramer Hall. Dennis, author of the best selling book, Red, White and Blue Letter Days, will discuss the rumor and legends surrounding the founding of Lincoln's birthday and the origins of Memorial Day. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 5-5473.

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."

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Christine Cress, Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies faculty, presented "Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas of Teaching Service-Learning: Promises and Practices of Community Engagement" at the 2008 Continuums of Service Conference in Portland, April 18.

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Eric Fruits, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, testified to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague on the statistics of alleged deportations and murders of Kosovo Albanians during the March-June 1999 NATO air campaign. April 23-24.

The campus community is invited to attend the Helen Gordon Child Development Center Annual Fundraising Auction Friday, May 9, at the Tiffany Center, 1410 SW Morrison St. The event will include a buffet dinner and live music. For tickets, call 5-3093.

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.

Karen Gibson, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented "Revisiting the 1968 'Report on Problems of Racial Justice in Portland" at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, April 24, in Baltimore.

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."

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.

Martin Zwick, Systems Science faculty, presented "Systems Metaphysics: A Bridge from Science to Religion," at the Center for Cooperative Phenomena at the University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Mo., April 17.

Masami Nishishiba, Public Administration faculty, presented "Valuing, Enabling and Managing Client and Staff Diversity" at the Oregon Department of Human Services, State Family Planning Program, Family Planning Coordinators' Meeting in Portland, April 21.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sue Taylor, Art faculty, presented "Grant Wood's Self-Fashioning" at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Ga., April 23.

State Board of Higher Education (the “Board”) president, Kirby Dyess, announced today that Dr. Wim Wiewel (pronounced Vim Vee-vell), provost and senior vice president of the University of Baltimore, has been named the new president of Portland State University.

Andree Tremoulet, Institute on Aging faculty, presented "Manufactured Home Parks: An Endangered Affordable Housing Option for Older Adults" at the annual meeting of American Association of Geographers in Boston.

Campus Rec is hiring two new full-time positions to support the planning and operating of the new student rec center, planned to open in Winter 2010.

Dave Ervin, Environmental Sciences faculty, presented "New Economics of Business Environmental Management and Ecosystem Services" to a seminar on ecosystem service markets at Oregon State University, April 18.

Gil Latz, International Affairs faculty, presented "Ei'ichi Shibusawa and Japan's Early Modernization: Significance and Implications" at the annual meeting of American Association of Geographers in Boston.

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."

Jack Straton, University Studies faculty, authored the paper "Quantum Physics and Welfare Policy," published in BRIDGES: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science, Vol. 14, No. 3/4, Fall/Winter 2007.

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.

Meg Merrick and Diane Besser, Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies faculty, received a $999,382 grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History Program for a joint project with the institute and three local school districts. The grant will provide training for social studies teachers focusing on "Great Decisions in U.S. History" and using drama and historical geography as inquiry tools. Other project collaborators include David del Mar, History faculty; Gayle Thieman, Graduate School of Education faculty; Karin Magaldi, Theater Arts faculty; Craig Wollner, Urban and Public Affairs faculty; and Carl Abbott, Urban Studies and Planning faculty.

Nancy Becker, Chemistry faculty, presented a talk on obesity and nutrition policy at Wayo University in Japan, on April 26.

Richard Lockwood, Community Health instructor, and PSU alumna Julie Anne Chinnock co-presented "Naturopathic Physicians in the Public Health Workforce: Processes of Internal Differentiation" at the 79th meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association in Portland, April 10-12.

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."

Alex Accetta, Student Affairs, presented the annual William Wasson Student Academic and Leadership Awards at the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association Conference Student Business Meeting in Austin, Texas, April 4.

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.

Dennis Stovall, English faculty, participated in a panel discussion on poetry publishing at the Writer's Dojo Poetry Weekend in Portland, April 12.

Emily Gilliland, Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty, presented "Civic Engagement a.k.a. How to Be a Superhero in Your Community!" at the 2008 University of Oregon Leadership Summit in Eugene, April 12.

Jack Straton, University Studies faculty, authored the chapters "Converting Emotional Reactivity To Conscious Awareness," “Imagining What They Mean," and co-authored the chapter "How To Deal With The Guilt That Results From Societal Racism," in the anthology Lessons from the Color of Fear, Volume IV, Field Reports: Using the Color of Fear in the Classroom, published by Speak Out: The Institute for Democratic Education and Culture, Emeryville, Calif., 2008.

Jenny Welnick, Student Development, presented "A New Practitioner's Guide to Sport Clubs" at the pre-conference seminar of the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association Conference in Austin, Texas, April 1.

Judy Patton, Fine and Performing Arts faculty; Candyce Reynolds, University Studies faculty; and Wende Morgaine, Child and Family Studies faculty, co-presented "Eportfolios: Can We Have it All? Balancing Student Learning and Assessment" at the Making Connections: Eportfolios, Integrative Learning, and Assessment conference at LaGuardia Community College in New York City, April 12.

Martin Zwick, Systems Science faculty, was selected to participate in the 2008 Faculty Fellowship Summer Institute in Israel. This competitive academic fellowship seeks to promote exchanges and collaborations between scholars from diverse disciplines and their Israeli counterparts at major institutions.

Michelle Schwartz and Perla Pinedo, Admissions, Records, and Registration, co-presented "Diversity: Recruitment is Everyone's Job" at this year's annual meeting of American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. Schwartz also presented "Using Co-Admission to Increase Degree Attainment." A Professional Travel Grant Program through the office of Graduate Studies provided part of the funding for this opportunity.

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

Richard Clucas, Political Science faculty, presented "Making Elections More Responsive to Changes in Citizen Preferences: Do Term Limits Help?" at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association in San Diego, March 20-22.

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

Todd Bauch, Student Development, presented "Coaching People through Heuristic Decision Making" at the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association Conference in Austin, Texas, April 3.

Government Relations Legislative Update for April 16th, 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.

The Women's Resource Center is sponsoring an inter-faith vigil, march, and rally to address issues of sexual violence Thursday, April 24, staring at 6 p.m. in the Park Blocks. For more information, contact Melanie Smith at 5-5640 or e-mail psutbtn@gmail.com.

All the professional staff that attended the NIRSA (National Intramural-Recreation Sports Association) National Conference in Austin, Texas from April 1-4 were part of presentations.

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."

The Center for Academic Excellence is accepting applications for the 2008 Civic Engagement Awards through Monday, April 28. The award categories are excellence in community-based teaching and learning, department civic engagement, partnerships for student learning, and community-based research. To apply and review criteria, visit www.pdx.edu/cae/civicwards.html.

DeLys Ostlund, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, was appointed associate dean of Graduate Studies. Ostlund will remain on faculty in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in the Spanish division. For the past two year, she was chair of the University's Graduate Council.

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.

Ken Ruoff, History faculty, presented "Japanese Wartime Tourism to Port Arthur: Self-Administered Citizenship Training" at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, April 3-6.

Miguel Figliozzi, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, was appointed to a National Academies' Freight Cooperative Research Program panel that focuses on urban freight and logistics problems. Figliozzi was appointed by the Transportation Research Board, and as a panel member, he will help provide technical guidance and counsel throughout the life of the project. The panel will prepare project statements and select the project contractor based on evaluation of the proposals received. Project review and guidance is anticipated to continue until 2011.

Robert Fountain, Mathematics and Statistics faculty; and graduates John Herman and Leif Rustvold co-authored "An Application of Kendall Distributions and Alternative Dependence Measures: SPX vs. VIX," published in Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Vol. 42, Issue 2, April 2008.

Susan Chan, Music faculty, performed a piano recital and taught a master class at Transylvania University in Lexington and Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in March. The master class at Transylvania University was jointly hosted by the university's Fine Arts Division and the Bluegrass Area Music Teachers Association in Lexington.

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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.

David Ervin, Environmental Sciences faculty, co-authored "Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics: A Synthesis" in Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics: Human-Nature, Rural-Urban Interdependencies, published by Resources for the Future: Washington, DC, 2008.

Faculty teams selected for National Science Foundation grant

Students, state lobbyists, and representatives from local action groups will explore the roots of hunger and discuss resources to help those who cannot help themselves Monday, April 14, 7 p.m. at the Spiritual Life Center, in the basement of 633 SW Montgomery. The event is sponsored by the center and Growing Roots student group at PSU. For more information, e-mail tayj@pdx.edu or call 503-226-7807.

J. Alan Yeakley, Environmental Sciences faculty, co-authored the article "Differential Effects of Understory and Overstory Gaps on Tree Regeneration," published in The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, Vol. 135, No. 1, 2008.

Kenneth Stedman, Biology faculty, was awarded a three-year, $142,084 grant from NASA for "Biomolecular Substrates for Extraterrestrial Life: Revealing the Secrets of Extremophilic Archea and their Viruses."

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.

Mike Bartlett, Biology faculty, co-authored "Archaeal Transcription: Function of an Alternative Transcription Factor B from Pyrococcus Furiosus" in the Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 190, January 2008.

Summer term at Portland State University

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.

Jackie Balzer, dean of Student Life at Oregon State University, has been named vice provost for Student Affairs at Portland State University effective July 1, 2008.

PSU Student Employee Reception and Recognition April 16

Susan Masta, Biology faculty, authored "Parallel Evolution of Truncated Transfer RNA Genes in Arachnid Mitochondrial Genomes," published in Molecular Biology and Evolution.

The Oregon Opportunity Grant is not a new grant, however, the State of Oregon is changing the way that schools award this grant

Anna Malsch, Regional Research Institute faculty, co-presented the paper "Building Capacity of Community-Based Preschool Programs: The Process and Outcomes of an Organizational-Level Intervention" at the 21st Annual Research Conference: A System of Care for Children's Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base in Tampa, Fla., Feb. 24-25.

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

Carl Abbott, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, and Margery Post Abbott authored "Redefining Quaker Simplicity: The Friends Committee on National Legislation Building, 2005" published in Quaker Studies, 12 (March 2008).

Connie Ozawa, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, co-authored "Mining Negotiation Theory for Planning Insights" published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2008.

The Spiritual Life Center will celebrate rebirth and new life Thursday, April 3, at noon in the basement of 633 SW Montgomery. Coffee and tea will follow the service. For more information, contact Carol Joy at 503-348-2182 or caroljoy@pdx.edu.

Eva Nunez, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored the article "Cognitive Advantages of Bilinguals over Monolinguals" published in Linguistica, Vol. 47, 2007.

G.L.A. Harris, Public Administration faculty, served as chair for a panel on "Affirmative Action and Social Equity: The Challenges of 'Fitting In' the 21st Century Workplace" at the American Society for Public Administration's 69th Annual Conference in Dallas, Texas, March 10. Harris also presented a paper titled “The Role of Affirmative Action in Leveling the Playing Field: Who Have Been the True Beneficiaries Anyway?”

Harrell Fletcher, Art faculty, was on a panel that marked the fifth-year anniversary of the war in Iraq at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, March 20. He also presented a lecture at University of Victoria, Department of Visual Arts, March 25.

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.