Alex Ruzicka, Geology faculty, and student Thomas J. Schepker presented "Trace-Element Analyses of Pyroxene and Plagioclase in Three HED Meteorites" at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Matsue, Japan, July 28-Aug. 1.

Bid on art and provide student scholarships at the Art Department's online auction, A New Path to the Waterfall.

Christina Luther, International Affairs, received the Service to Homeland Award from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for her assistance coordinating, notifying, and hosting town hall meetings with academic stakeholders about the importance of the congressionally mandated Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

Craig Schiller, Information Technology, was interviewed by Dennis Carter for the article "Botnets: Beware the 'army of darkness,'" appearing in Ed Tech magazine, June 16. He also was interviewed by Oregon Public Broadcast reporter Pete Springer for the radio and Web page report, "Oregon Third in the Nation in Terms of Spam Rates," Aug. 8.

Dave Ervin, Environmental Sciences faculty, was a visiting scholar in the Department of Land Economy at Cambridge University May through June 2008. During his stay, he interviewed European scholars on the economics of business sustainability and university-industry research relationships for two book projects. He also presented seminars at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris on voluntary business environmental management and at University of Lancaster on university-industry relationships in biotechnology.

David Sailor and Graig Spolek, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, received a $149,500 grant from the U.S. Green Building Council and a matching grant of $75,000 from Oregon BEST for research leading to the development of a green roof energy savings calculator. The research also involves collaboration with colleagues at University of Toronto and the trade organization Green Roofs for Healthy Cities.

Eva Nunez, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored an article titled "La Diamela Eltit de Mano de obra: mistica de los trabajadores" published in Hispanofila, Vol. 152, 2008, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Gerardo Lafferriere, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-authored the paper "Control of Formations under Persistent Disturbances" published in the Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference that took place in Seattle in June. He presented the paper at the conference.

Gil Latz, International Affairs vice provost, will represent PSU on a United States advisory working group charged with formulating a set of recommendations on how to strengthen higher education cooperation between the United States and Vietnam. In June, the United States and Vietnam signed a memorandum of understanding to establish an education task force. The advisory will submit its recommendations to each government by January 2009.

Hiro Ito, Economics faculty, co-authored "A New Measure of Financial Openness" published in the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 2008. He also co-authored "Global Current Account Imbalances: American Fiscal Policy versus East Asian Savings" published in Review of International Economics, Vol. 16, Issue 3 (August 2008).

James White, Social Work faculty, co-authored “Effects of Enhanced Foster Care on the Long-term Physical and Mental Health of Foster Care Alumni” published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 65, No. 6, June 2008.

John Hall, Economics and International Studies faculty, co-authored the article "Continuity and Continuous: The Chain of Ideas Linking Peirce's Synechism to Veblen's Cumulative Causation” published in the Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XLII, No. 2 (2008).

Join the President's Commission on the Status of Women to help with campus concerns by contacting Nanci Feltner at nfeltner@pdx.edu or 5-8229.

Julie Rosenzweig and Eileen Brennan, Social Work faculty, 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 (2008).

Kimberly Willson-St. Clair, Library, served as a poetry judge for the Willa Awards 2008, Women Writing the West. The awards will be presented at the Willa Awards banquet in San Antonio in October.

Faculty and staff were welcomed back to campus at Fall Convocation September 23, 2008

Meiru Liu, Business Administration faculty, co-authored a book, Anatomy of the Chinese Business Mind, published by Cengage Learning in July 2008.

President Wim Wiewel presented five guilding themes for PSU at Fall Convocation, Sept. 23

Patricia Wetzel, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, and Masami Nishishiba, Public Administration faculty, received a three-year, $500,000 from the U.S. Department of Education International Research and Studies grant for a project to develop online training in interpretation and translation. The grant will be used to create e-learning modules for Japanese interpretation and Arabic translation.

For Queer History Month, the Queer Resource Center is showing free films Oct. 3, 10, 17 in 401 Smith Union.

Robert Strongin, Chemistry faculty, presented "Detection and Bioorganic Chemistry of Biological Thiols" at the fourth Sino-U.S. Chemistry Professors' Conference, Peking University Health Sciences Center, Beijing, China, June 12.

Students N. Nève, J.K. Lingwood, J. Zimmerman, and faculty Sean Kohles and Derik Tretheway, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, authored "The Micro-PIVOT: An Integrated Particle Image Velocimeter and Optical Tweezers Instrument for Microenvironment Investigations" published in Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 19, No. 9, 2008.

Steve Johnson, Urban Studies and Planning adjunct, co-presented the keynote speech "The Role of Arts and Civic Space in a Healthy Community" at the opening ceremony for the Arte Piazza Bibai in Bibai, Japan, July 3. Johnson also presented a paper on the role of civic engagement in creating sustainable communities at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan, July 7. Johnson was selected to be part of an international research group sponsored by the university and Japan's Ministry of Education, studying partnership developments of local governance.

Sue Taylor, Art History faculty, presented a lecture on "Andy Warhol: Postmodern Persona" at the Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Wash., July 24.

Susan Wladaver-Morgan, Pacific Historical Review, participated in a panel on "Publishing and the Profession" at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association in Pasadena, Calif., Aug. 7 -9. She also chaired a panel titled "Constructing Images of Women: Ideology and Material Culture" at the conference

Walk the Labyrinth tomorrow, Sept. 30, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in 328 Smith Union thanks to Growing Roots and the Spiritual Life Center.

A generous gift from Dark Horse, Inc., will result in a complete collection of the Dark Horse corpus to be preserved in the Portland State University Library Special Collections.

Study conducted by PSU professor finds previously deported immigrants are more likely to be rearrested after they are released from jail than other deportable immigrants without the prior history of expulsion.