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24 Jun 2008	Announcing a New Initiative: Aging Matters, Locally and Globally 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.
11 Jun 2008	PSU Celebrates Largest Graduating Class at Spring Commencement, June 14 Portland State University will graduate its largest class ever Saturday, June 14, 2008.
9 Jun 2008	Oregon BEST Invests in State's Sustainability Sector 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.
9 Jun 2008	Portland State Wins First U.S. National Carter Foundation Partnership Award 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.
6 Jun 2008	PSU's Art Department Launches Online Art Auction, Bidding Starts June 6 Portland State's Department of Art presents its first annual online auction. Bidding starts June 6, 2008.
5 Jun 2008	New Master's Degree in Architecture Added to Portland State's Graduate Programs The State Board of Higher Education has approved a new master's degree program in Architecture at Portland State University.
2 Jun 2008	Cassie McVeety and Julie Smith present at Development Officers conference 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.
2 Jun 2008	Chip Long presents at University of Texas Humanities Research Center Chip Long, University Studies Faculty, presented "The Men Were Old: Waugh and Twelfth Night" at the Evelyn Waugh and His World conference held at the University of Texas Humanities Research Center in Austin, May 21-24.
2 Jun 2008	Christine Cress presents at Community College Engagement conference 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.
2 Jun 2008	Darrell Brown presents at two sustainability conferences Darrell Brown, Business faculty, presented a poster, "What is the Measure of Success: Is the GRI Driving Reporting or Sustainability?" at the 2008 Global Reporting Initiative Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency, May 8-9. Colleague R. Scott Marshall co-authored the poster. Brown also served on the panel "Perspectives on Developing Sustainability and Stakeholder Issues into MBA-level Accounting" at the Western Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association in San Francisco, May 2.
2 Jun 2008	David Burgess presents at annual Institutional Research forum 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.
2 Jun 2008	Faculty to receive top honors at commencement Spring Commencement scheduled for June 14 in the Rose Garden Arena
2 Jun 2008	Gretta Siegel presents for Portland Area Library System workshop Gretta Siegel, Library faculty, presented "Saving the Environment, One Reference Question at a Time" at a Portland Area Library System workshop, May 9.
2 Jun 2008	Hamid Moradkhani presents at European Geophysical Union in Vienna Hamid Moradkhani, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, provided three presentations at the European Geophysical Union's General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, April 13-18.
2 Jun 2008	Jack Corbett talks on immigration and integration 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.
2 Jun 2008	Jennifer Ruth lectures in People's Republic of China 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.
2 Jun 2008	Jesse Dillard presents at Critical Perspectives on Accounting conference 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.
2 Jun 2008	Jong Sung Kim co-authors article in Journal of Clinical Oncology 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.
2 Jun 2008	Juliette Stoering, Rowanna Carpenter and Lina Lu present at annual Institutional Research forum 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.
2 Jun 2008	Kathi Ketcheson presents at annual Institutional Research forum 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.
2 Jun 2008	Mark Kaplan appointed to Department of Veterans Affairs panel 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.
2 Jun 2008	Micki Caskey edits Middle Level Education Research Annual 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.
2 Jun 2008	Miguel Figliozzi presents at Advanced Technologies in Transportation conference 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.
2 Jun 2008	Oscar Fernández writes review, forward and translates a poem 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.
2 Jun 2008	Pre-college TRIO students earn Gates Scholarships Students from Portland State programs earn six out of eight Gates Millennium Scholarships
2 Jun 2008	Rehabilitation Counseling rates nationally Program is rated top 25 in nation by US News and World Report
2 Jun 2008	Richard Lycan authors chapter in Applied Demography in the 21st Century 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.
2 Jun 2008	School of Extended Studies relocates School of Extended Studies is now in the Market Square Building
2 Jun 2008	Scott Burns gives talks ranging from earthquakes to terroir 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.
2 Jun 2008	Steven Bleiler receives National Science Foundation grant Steven Bleiler, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, received a $27,892 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Cascade Topology Seminar.”
2 Jun 2008	Tom Hastings receives grant from Jubitz Family Foundation 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.