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Date	Title
27 Apr 2009	Robert Strongin presents at American Chemical Society National Meeting Robert Strongin, Chemistry faculty, presented "Optical Detection of Carbohydrates" at the 237th American Chemical Society National Meeting in Salt Lake City, March 24.
27 Apr 2009	Rosalyn McKeown participates in World Conference on Sustainable Development Rosalyn McKeown, Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies faculty, organized and wrote a background paper for the workshop "The Role of Higher Education and Research in Education for Sustainable Development" at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development in Bonn, Germany, March 31-April 2.
27 Apr 2009	R. Kevin Hill participates in "Nietzsche and Kantian Ethics" workshop R. Kevin Hill, Philosophy faculty, was an invited participant in the workshop "Nietzsche and Kantian Ethics," which was part of a three-year research project titled "Nietzsche and Modern Moral Philosophy" funded by the United Kingdom's Arts and Humanities Research Council. The workshop was held at University of Southampton April 2-3.
27 Apr 2009	Oscar Fernandez presents at Annual American Literature Association Conference Oscar Fernandez, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "Otto; or Up with Dead People: Towards a Queer Zombie Aesthetics" at the Annual American Literature Association Conference at Harvard University, March 26-29.
27 Apr 2009	Christine Cress presents at Continuums of Service Conference Christine Cress, Educational Leadership and Policy faculty, co-presented “Faculty Fellows and Professional Learning Communities” and “Service-Learning in the 21st Century: Just Click” at the Continuums of Service Conference, Seattle, April 16.
27 Apr 2009	Roberto De Anda presents at Pacific Sociological Association conference Roberto De Anda, Chicano/Latino Studies faculty, was invited to comment on the book Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation and Race (E. Telles and V. Ortiz), at an Author Meets Critics session at the Pacific Sociological Association annual conference, San Diego, April 8-11. He also presented a co-authored paper titled "Generation, Underemployment and Mexican-Origin Workers' Labor Market Incorporation."
27 Apr 2009	Jack Corbett presents at Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting Jack Corbett, Public Administration faculty, co-authored and presented "Depression and Migration in a Mexican Community" at the Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 17. Corbett also chaired "Social Challenges in Oaxaca Valley Archaeology" at the same conference.
27 Apr 2009	Randy Bluffstone discusses financial crisis on Better TV Randy Bluffstone, Economics faculty, was interviewed on Better TV (bettertv.com) about the financial crisis and its impacts on personal finance. The interview aired on Fox 12 and is on the Web.
20 Apr 2009	Swapna Mukhopadhyay presents at Tlingit tribes and clans conference Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Education faculty, presented “The Appreciation of Pattern: Beauty and Structure” at the Sharing Our Knowledge: A Conference of Tlingit Tribes and Clans in Juneau, Alaska, March 25.
20 Apr 2009	Jose Padin presents at Pacific Sociological Association meeting Jose Padin, Sociology faculty, organized a panel on “Education Processes and Stratification of New Immigrants” and presented “How School Structure, Ideology, and Leadership Add to the Disadvantage of the New Latino 2nd Generation,” at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, April 8-11.
20 Apr 2009	Steve Johnson presents at Institute of Behavioral Sciences Steve Johnson, Urban Studies and Planning adjunct faculty, presented the paper “Citizen Participation in Developing Sustainable Communities” at the Institute of Behavioral Sciences, in Tokyo, March 11.
20 Apr 2009	G.L.A. Harris chairs panel at American Society for Public Administration conference G.L.A. Harris, Public Administration faculty, served as an invited chair for a panel on “Organizational Barriers to Diversity” during the American Society for Public Administration annual national conference in Miami, March 20-24. Harris also delivered a paper titled “Multiple Marginality.”
20 Apr 2009	Eleanor Erskine mentors students at Southern Graphics Council Conference Eleanor Erskine, Art faculty, attended the Southern Graphics Council Conference on Global Implications, where she mentored six PSU students during the open portfolio sessions, in Chicago, March 25-29.
20 Apr 2009	Christine Cress presents at Vermont Campus Compact Christine Cress, Educational Leadership and Policy faculty, presented the invited keynote speech “Curricular Strategies for Student Success and Engaged Learning” at Vermont Campus Compact, a consortium of 22 universities in Middlebury, Vt., on April 1.
13 Apr 2009	Kimberly Willson-St. Clair presents at Oregon Library Association conference Kimberly Willson-St. Clair, Library faculty, presented “Oregon Authors 2008: 2-Minute Reviews” and “Oregon Authors Website: Where Libraries & Oregon Authors Connect!” at the Oregon Library Association Conference in Salem, April 2-3.
13 Apr 2009	Masami Nishishiba presents at Public Administration conference Masami Nishishiba, Public Administration faculty, presented “Applying the VEM (Valuing, Enabling, Managing diversity) Model in the Local Government Context” at the American Society for Public Administration 2009 Annual Conference in Miami, March 23.
13 Apr 2009	Pamela Miller participates in panel at Violence Against Older Women conference Pamela Miller, Social Work faculty, participated in a panel discussion at the Breaking the Taboo: Violence Against Older Women in Families conference hosted by the College of Medicine, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, and sponsored by the European Commission and the Daphne Project.
13 Apr 2009	Dr. Wendy Machalicek presents at Positive Behavior Support conference Dr. Wendy Machalicek, Special Education faculty, presented "Videoconferencing: A Novel Way to Support Members of PBS Teams" at the Sixth International Conference on Positive Behavior Support in Jacksonville, Fla., in March.
13 Apr 2009	Richard Lycan presents at Western Canadian Association of Geographers conference Richard Lycan, Population Research Center, presented the paper "Older Moms Deliver: More Births to Older Moms, Gentrification, and School Enrollment Trends" at the annual meeting of the Western Canadian Association of Geographers in Nanaimo, B.C., March 7.
13 Apr 2009	Steve Johnson presents paper in Japan, Nepal, and Thailand Steve Johnson, Urban Studies and Planning adjunct faculty, presented the paper "Community Governance and Sustainable Development" at Toyota Motor Company world headquarters in Toyota City, Japan, March 9; Mitsui Corporation in Tokyo, March 10; Katmandu Municipal government in Nepal, March 20; and at the Thailand Environmental Institute in Bangkok, March 26.
13 Apr 2009	Eleanor Erskine presents at Foundations in Art: Theory and Education Conference Eleanor Erskine, Art faculty, discussed the Kansas City Art Institute's Foundations of Art Program during a roundtable discussion at the Foundations in Art: Theory and Education Conference in Portland, April 1-4.
13 Apr 2009	Heejun Chang, Martin Lafrenz, Il-won Jung, and Miguel Figliozzi present at geographers meeting Heejun Chang, Martin Lafrenz, and Il-won Jung, Geography faculty, and Miguel Figliozzi, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented a paper titled "Climate Change and Urban Flooding: Impacts on Transportation Infrastructure" at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas. Jung and Chang also presented the paper "Quantifying Uncertainty of Climate Change on Regional Water Resources using Multi-Model Ensemble."
13 Apr 2009	Mike Burton presents at Montreal University Mike Burton, Extended Studies vice provost, presented "Marketplace for Nature: Ecosystems Markets" and conducted a workshop titled "Melbourne Principles for Sustainable Cities, United Nations Environment Program" at the Americana International Environment and Technology Conference at Montreal University's College of Urbanization in Montreal, March 18-19.
06 Apr 2009	Suwako Watanabe presents at Association of Teachers of Japanese Seminar Suwako Watanabe, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented the paper “Japanese Temporal Connectives in Spoken and Written Narrative” at the Association of Teachers of Japanese Seminar in Chicago, March 26.
06 Apr 2009	Sue Taylor presents keynote at Indiana Graduate Student Symposium Sue Taylor, Art History faculty, presented a lecture on American artist Grant Wood as the keynote speaker for Indiana University's 19th Annual Graduate Student Symposium “Art on the Edge: Contested Boundaries in Art and Art History” in Bloomington, March 28.
06 Apr 2009	Vivek Shandas presents at doctoral education conference Vivek Shandas, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented “Opportunities and Barriers to Interdisciplinary Research for Doctoral Students: Perspectives from the Field” at the Forces and Forms of Doctoral Education Worldwide conference, held in Kassel, Germany, March 23-29.
06 Apr 2009	Robert Schroeder co-presents at Association of College and Research Libraries Conference Robert Schroeder, Library faculty, co-presented two panel sessions, “Creating a Learning Continuum: P-20 Information Literacy Collaboration” and “Eight is Enough: State and Local Collaborations Towards a Set of Shared Information Literacy Proficiencies” at the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference in Seattle, March 12-15.
06 Apr 2009	Jose Padin presents at Social Research on Race conference Jose Padin, Sociology faculty, was invited to present the paper “The ‘Whats' and ‘Hows' of Latino Second-Generation ‘Segmented Assimilation' at School in a New Immigrant Destination,” as part of the conference Social Research on Race: Building Bridges Across the Academic Pipeline, hosted by the Indiana University Department of Sociology in Bloomington, March 27-29.
06 Apr 2009	Steve Johnson presents at Gyankunj College in Katmandu Steve Johnson, Urban Studies and Planning adjunct faculty, presented the paper “Community Governance and Sustainable Development” at Gyankunj College in Katmandu, Nepal, March 19. He was given the position of visiting professor at the college for three years.
06 Apr 2009	Jeffer Daykin presents at Pacific Northwest Historians Guild conference Jeffer Daykin, University Studies, presented “Japan as a Modern World Power at the A-Y-P” at the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild conference titled Meet Me at the Fair: Exploring the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, March 7. The conference was held in Seattle to celebrate the centennial of the 1909 World's Fair, which was also held in the city.
06 Apr 2009	Mike Burton presents to mayor and city council of Quebec City Mike Burton, Extended Studies vice provost, presented “Sustainability and Regional Governance in Portland, Oregon” to the mayor and city council in Quebec City, March 16-17. While in Quebec City he also gave the keynote speech “Towards Sustainable Communities: Smart City Trends” at a Forum on Mobilization for Action, Vivre en Ville, and conducted a workshop on “Action Steps to Create Smart Cities: Smart Growth, Smart Grid, Smart Ecosystems.”