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.

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.

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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.

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.

Christine Cress, Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies faculty, presented "Playing Soccer on the Football Field: The Persistence of Gender Inequities for Women Faculty" at the 2008 Pacific Sociology Conference in Portland, April 10.

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

Harrell Fletcher, Art faculty, presented a lecture at the California College of the Arts Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, April 24.

Hunter Shobe, Geography faculty, and Alan DeLaTorre, staff, presented "Graffiti and the Interface of Public and Private Space: The Writing on the Walls in Portland and San Francisco" at the annual meeting of American Association of Geographers in Boston.

Jennifer Dill, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented "Where do People Bicycle? The Role of Infrastructure" at the Active Living Research conference of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Washington, D.C., April 10-12

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."

Chris Cartwright, Continuing Education faculty, presented "Bridging the Experience from Cultural Curiosity to Cultural Capacity: A Personal and Collective Journey for Orientation Directors" at the National Orientation Directors Association Regional conference in Portland, April 4.

David Sailor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, authored the article "Thermal Property Measurements for Ecoroof Soils Common in the Western U.S.," published in Energy and Buildings.

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.

Gerry Sussman, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, authored the article "Ownership in the Media" published in The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Blackwell.

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.

Jorge Walter, Business Administration faculty, co-authored "Disentangling Alliance Processes: Managerial Decision Making in Strategic Alliances," published in the Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2008.

L. David Ritchie, Communication faculty, and student Valrie Dyhouse co-authored "Hair of the Frog and Other Empty Metaphors: The Play Element in Figurative Language," published in Metaphor and Symbol, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Masami Nishishiba and Craig Shinn, Public Administration faculty, presented "Building Communities to Last: Linking Social Capital and the IR Concept of Relative Political Capacity" at the 49th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 27.

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.

Terry Ann Rohe, Library faculty emerita, has a linoleum block print, "Russian Dancers," on display in a juried show at the Cannon Beach Gallery in Cannon Beach during the month of April.

Wende Morgaine, Child and Family Studies faculty, presented "AAC&U Portfolio Assessment Grant: How You Can Be Involved " at the Making Connections: Eportfolios, Integrative Learning, and Assessment conference at LaGuardia Community College in New York City, April 12.

Four undergraduate Portland State University Students will travel to NASA Johnson Space Center's Ellington Field in Houston to participate in the Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program (RGSFOP).

Chris Cartwright, Continuing Education, presented "Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Develop a Professional Partnership" at the University Continuing Education Association International conference in New Orleans, March 29.

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.

Joanne Cooper, Higher Education faculty, and Dannelle Stevens, Curriculum and Instruction faculty, co-presented "Assessment of Classroom Journal Writing: Meeting the Goals of Reflective Judgment and Civic Engagement" at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New York, March 26.

Micki Caskey, Curriculum and Instruction faculty, presented "Lesson Study in Middle Grades Education" and co-presented "Programs, Principals, and Practitioners: Alignment of Expectations and Realities" at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New York, March 24 and 27.

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.

Trevor Smith, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, was awarded a two-year, $240,000 grant from the Oregon Department of Transportation research program for Phase II of his calibration of Load Resistance Factor Design for Bridges. This research will improve the cost-effectiveness and design reliability of bridges founded on driven pile foundations.

Portland State University's Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies holds a Food Sustainability Forum

Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Biology faculty, co-authored "Volcanic Calderas Delineate Biogeographic Provinces among Yellowstone Thermophiles," published online in Environmental Microbiology, March 19, 2008.

Christine Cress, Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies faculty, presented "Connective Leadership: New Pathways for Individual Development and Organizational Change" and "Assessing the Outcomes of Service-Learning: Strategic Techniques" at the American College Personnel Association National Conference in Atlanta, April 1.

Eric Fruits, Urban Studies and Planning adjunct, co-authored "A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Comparative Cost of Negotiated and Competitive Methods of Municipal Bond Issuance," published in the Municipal Finance Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4, Winter 2007.

The month marks the 20th anniversary of the Friends of History Endowed Lecture. Iranian expert and CUNY Distinguished Professor Ervan Abrahamian will speak on "The Crowd in the Iranian Revolution."

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.

Nancy Dillard and Jesse Dillard, Business Administration faculty, co-authored "The Portland State Project," published in the Social and Environmental Accounting Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2007.

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.

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

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

Barbara Tint, Conflict Resolution faculty, was awarded a $150,000 grant from the Andrus Family Foundation to do dialogue and reconciliation work with African refugee communities.

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).

Dacian Daescu, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-authored the paper "Predicting Air Quality: Improvements through Advanced Methods to Integrate Models and Measurements" published in the Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 227, 2008.

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

Grace Dillon, University Studies faculty, presented “‘Outrunning that Monster Revenge’: Flight and The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto" at the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Fla., March 22.

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.

Janine Allen, Educational Policy, Foundations and Administrative Studies faculty; and Cathleen Smith, Psychology faculty, presented a paper titled "Faculty and Student Perspectives on Academic Advising: Charting a Course for Student Success" at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators annual conference in Boston, March 11.

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.

Mary King, Economics faculty, authored "What Sustainability Should Mean" published in Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Vol. 51, No. 2, March/April 2008.

Mel Gurtov, Political Science faculty, was interviewed on the topic of reconciling China and Japan by Radio Adelaide in Australia, Sept. 17.

Pauline Jivanjee, Social Work faculty; Barbara Friesen, Regional Research faculty, and others co-authored "Family Perceptions of Participation in Educational Planning for Children Receiving Mental Health Services" published in the School Social Work Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2007.

Scott Wells, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented an invited seminar titled "River Basin Modeling using CE-QUAL-W2" at the Geologic Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, March 6.

Sean Larsen and Luis Saldanha, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-presented "Leveraging Teachers' Informal Understandings of Function for Conceiving Composition of Functions as Combining Transformations" at the 11th Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education in San Diego, Feb. 28-March 1. Larsen also presented with students Joanna Bartlo and Elise Lockwood "Scaling Up Instructional Activities: Lessons Learned from a Collaboration between a Mathematician and Mathematics Education Researcher."

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.

Sully Taylor, Business faculty, co-authored "Global Mindset: A Review and Proposed Extension" published in The Global Mindset (Advances in International Management), Vol. 19, JAI Press, 2007.

Author and Cuban musicologist Ned Sublette will discuss his new book, "The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square."

Portland State University has been awarded funds to launch a new certificate program: Preparation for Instruction of Science and Math.

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

Christine Rose, English faculty, authored an essay, "Glossing Griselda in a Medieval Conduct Book: Le Ménagier de Paris," published in Medieval English Mirror, Vol. 4, titled “The Propur Langage of Englische Man.”

Kathy Rupley, Business faculty, presented "Internal Governance, External Governance, and Internal Control Remediation" and "Internal Control Quality's Impact on Auditor Going Concern Assessments" at the American Accounting Association Audit Conference in Austin, Texas, Jan. 18-19.

Ken Ruoff, History faculty, presented the paper "Postwar Nationalisms in Japan and the United States" at a global symposium on American Nationalism and Empire in an Age of Globalization held in Tokyo, March 2-3.

Marcus Ingle, Public Administration faculty, and student Chuck Fisher presented "Strangers in a Strange Land: Overcoming Partnership Challenges and Distilling Best Practices for Community-Based Service-Learning and Community Engagement in Vietnam" as part of the Conference on International Service Learning held in Indianapolis, March 1.

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.

Robert Harmon, Business Administration faculty, presented "Entrepreneurial Marketing: Five Tools for Developing Market Power" at the Portland State Business Accelerator, Jan. 23; and he presented "Value-Based Software Engineering" at Novellus Systems, Inc., on Feb. 4.

Steve Bleiler, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, presented "Schooling, Implicit Collusion, and the Fundamental Theorem of Poker, or What to Do When the Guppies Are Eating the Sharks" as part of the Spring 2008 Mathematics Lecture Series at California State University in Fresno, Feb. 29.

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.

Chris Cartwright, Continuing Education faculty, presented "Managing a Virtual Project Using Online Tools" at the e-Learning meeting of the Cascadia Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development in Portland, Feb. 2.

Grace Dillon, University Studies faculty, authored the article "Totemic Human-Animal Relationships in Recent SF," published in Extrapolation, Vol. 49, No. 1, Spring 2008.