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

Alan Yeakley, Environmental Science and Management faculty, presented a research seminar, "Riparian Ecology and Management in Portland, Oregon," at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., June 27. He also presented "Changes in Riparian Vegetation Buggers at both the Patch and Landscape Scales in Response to Development in Three Oregon Cities from 1990 to 2002" at the American Water Resources Association Specialty Conference on Riparian Ecology and Management in Virginia Beach, Va., June 30. He co-authored the paper with Connie Ozawa, Urban Studies and Planning faculty.

Christine Cress, Educational Policy, Foundations and Administrative Studies faculty, authored "Creating Inclusive Learning Communities: The Role of Student-Faculty Relationships in Mitigating Negative Campus Climate" published in the Learning Inquiry Journal, Vol. 2.

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

Grace Dillon, University Studies faculty, authored "Indigenous Scientific Literacies in Nalo Hopkinson's Ceremonial Worlds" published in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 48, No.1 (Spring 2008).

Jan Haaken, Psychology faculty, has had her documentary film, Queens of Heart, chosen by Cinema Libre for distribution. The DVD is being released on September 30.

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."

Paul Collins, English faculty, received the Lancia Celebration of Lives Award in a special tribute at the Biografilm Festival in Bologna, Italy, June 11-15. Recognized for his book of biographical essays, Banvard's Folly, Collins is the first foreign writer to receive the award.

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

Sharon Elteto, Rose Jackson and Adriene Lim, Library faculty, authored "Is the Library a 'Welcoming Space'? An Urban Academic Library and Diverse Student Experiences" published in portal: Libraries and the Academy, July 2008.

Silvia Boero, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored "Metodologie di Sovversione in Monte Ignoso" published in Forum Italicum, Vol. 42, No. 1, Spring 2008.

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.

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

Portland State University will host its award-winning summer lecture series showcasing visiting professors.

Professor Emeritus Frank S. Cater has generously established a Portland State University Library endowment to purchase journals and mathematics materials for the Library collection

The College of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University is pleased to announce a new program of its Institute on Aging that will influence how we as a community address the issues of aging both here and internationally.

Portland State University will graduate its largest class ever Saturday, June 14, 2008.

The Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium selects third year's projects.

Portland State University's Community Watershed Stewardship Program won the first-ever United States National Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus Community Collaboration.

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

Part of a study - PSU expert will add his years of experience to a national VA panel

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.

Hamid Moradkhani, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, provided three presentations at the European Geophysical Union's General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, April 13-18.

Jennifer Ruth, English faculty, presented "Neoliberalism and Higher Education in the United States" at Maoming University; "Where Have all the Literary Critics Gone?" at Nanjing University of Science and Technology; "Neoliberalism and Higher Education in the United States" at Ginling Collegek; and "The Impact of Michel Foucault on American Literary Criticism" at Nankai University in the People's Republic of China.

Jong Sung Kim, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-authored the article "Prediction Model for Estimating the Survival Benefit of Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Gallbladder Cancer" published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 26, 2008.

Kathi Ketcheson, Office of Institutional Research and Planning director, presented "Different Approaches to Charting Transfer Student Pathways to the Baccalaureate: Examples from Two States" at the Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research held in Seattle, May 25-28.

Micki Caskey, Curriculum and Instruction faculty, edited the book Middle Level Education Research Annual: Middle Grades Teachers and Teacher Education, published by the National Middle School Association.

Oscar Fernández, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored a review of Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary, by Paul Giles, published in Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 44, Issue 3, Fall 2007. Fernández also translated and authored a foreword for Los Amantes, by Jorge Debravo, for the Oregon Literary Review: An Online Collection of Literature, Hypertext, Art, Music, and Hypermedia, Summer/Fall 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.

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.

Carl Abbott, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, and doctoral student Joy Margheim have authored "Imagining Portland's Urban Growth Boundary: Planning Regulation as Cultural Icon" published in the Journal of the American Planning Association, 74 (Spring 2008).

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.

Jennifer Dill, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, participated in a congressional briefing sponsored by the Congressional Bike Caucus and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on "Biking Your Way to a Healthier Community" in Washington, D.C., May 15.

L. Rudolph Barton and Jeffrey Schnabel, Architecture faculty, were design resource team members at the Mayors' Institute on City Design held in Portland May 7-9. The event was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts with local cooperation from PSU, Metro, and University of Oregon. It brought together 10 mayors (five from the Portland region and five from other western states) for three intensive days of design education.

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."

Paul Collins, English faculty, authored "Seize the Daylight" published in New Scientist, May 17, 2008.

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.

Mark Kaplan, PSU professor, appointed to national suicide expert panel.

The Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices and the Center for Design and Innovation for Business & Sustainability at the School of Business Administration in Portland State University is pleased to announce its second annual International Conference on Business & Sustainability. This year's conference will be held October 15-17, 2008 in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Dan Rogers, Business faculty, was elected vice president-program elect for the Eastern Finance Association.

Eileen Brennan and Julie Rosenzweig, Social Work faculty, presented "Parents of Children with Disabilities and Work-Life Challenges" at the Alfred P. Sloan Work and Family Research Network Panel Meeting at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., May 6.

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.

Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Curriculum and Instruction faculty, presented "Ethnomathematics: Legitimizing the Link Between Mathematics and Culture" at the Oregon National Association for Multicultural Education conference in Corvallis, May 6.

Robert D. Dryden, dean of the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science (MCECS) for the past 13 years, has announced that he will step down, effective June 30, 2008. Dick Knight, a 32-year veteran of the high tech industry, will be the interim dean during the search for Dryden's replacement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

Over 350 Middle School and High School Students to Compete

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.

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.

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.

Kevin Kecskes, Academic Excellence faculty, and Barry Messer, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented a peer-reviewed session, “The New ‘Hard Skills’: Connecting Social Sustainability and Partnerships to Update What Really ‘Counts’ in 21st Century Learning,” at the 2008 Continuums of Service Conference in Portland, April 18.

Mark Fishbein, Biology faculty, co-authored the paper "Resurrection of Asclepias Schaffneri (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae), a Rare, Mexican Milkweed," published in Madroño, Vol. 55, 2008.

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

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.

Michael Smith, Educational Policy, Foundations & Administrative Studies faculty, presented "Low SES African American Parents in College Choice: Opportunity for Service & Early Outreach for the Greater Good" at the 2008 Continuums of Service Conference in Portland, April 18.

Paula Stanovich, Special and Counselor Education faculty, presented "Removing Barriers to Learning: An Overview of Effective and Inclusive Instructional Practice" and co-presented "Unlocking the Power of Parent-Teacher Partnerships: Tools and Strategies for Shared Success" at All Born "In": A Cross Disability Inclusion Conference in Portland, April 26. Stanovich also provided closing remarks.

Richard Lycan, Population Research faculty, presented "Linking Tax-Lot and Student Record Data: Applications in School Planning" at the Population Association of America Meeting in New Orleans, April 17.

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

Testing assumptions. A Portland State academic's study adds to a debate that remains far from settled.

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.

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.

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.

Philip Ratliff and Kimberly Willson-St. Clair, Library faculty, co-edited the Oregon Authors Bibliography 2006-2007, an Oregon Library Association publication.

Rita Robillard, Art faculty, has been awarded a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission. The grant will be used for two upcoming exhibitions in Southern California and in Portland in fall and winter 2008-2009.

The Organization of International Students will host its 32nd Annual International Night, celebrating international diversity at Portland State University.

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.