Joined by Mayor-elect Sam Adams, new PSU President Wim Wiewel, rode his bicycle to Portland State for his first day.

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

Objects and artifacts held by the Portland State University will be preserved for future generations with help from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Connecting to Collections Bookshelf

Bin Jiang, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-authored "Bioinspired Broadband Antireflection Coatings on GaSb" published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, Issue 14, April 9.

Dirgham Sbait, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored the essays "A Tribute to Nazik al-Mala'ikah, Poetess & Scholar Par Excellence" and "Debate in the Improvised-Sung Folk Poetry of the Palestinian Poet-Singers" published in Oregon Literary Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2008.

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

PSU is hosting a summer term Red Cross blood drive Wednesday, Aug. 13, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Smith Union Ballroom. To schedule an appointment go online to www.givelife.org/index.cfm?Sponsor=PortlandState or contact Gwyn Ashcom at gwyn@pdx.edu or 5-5123.

Gretta Siegel, Library faculty, guest edited a "Libraries and Graduate Students: Building Connections” issue of Public Services Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 3-4.

Janet Walker, Daniel Coleman, Junghee Lee, Peter Squire, and Barbara Friesen, authored an article, "Children's Stigmatization of Childhood Depression and ADHD: Magnitude and Demographic Variation in a National Sample," published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 47, No. 8, 2008.

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."

The Women's Resource Center at Portland State will hold a fall Feminism Conference titled "Under Pressure: Women, Oppression, and Leadership" Friday, October 31, in Smith Union. Students, staff, and community members of all genders are invited to participate. To register for the student-run conference, visit www.wrc.pdx.edu/conference. The conference planning committee is also accepting workshop proposals.

Pelin Basci, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored "Türk Edebiyatı Kanonu ve Ulusal Kimli in Sınırları" (The Canon of Turkish Literature and the Limits of National Identity) published in Pasaj Edebiyat, Vol. 6 (November 2007-May 2008), a special issue on the literary canon.

Robert Strongin, Chemistry faculty, co-authored "Gold Nanoparticle Sensor for Homocysteine Thiolactone-Induced Protein Modification" published in Langmuir, Vol. 24; "Chiral Recognition of Amino Acids by Use of a Fluorescent Resorcinarene" in Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 62; "Determination of Enantiomeric Compositions of Analytes Using Novel Fluorescent Chiral Molecular Micelles and Steady State Fluoresence Measurements" in the Journal of Fluorescence, Vol. 18. (2008); "Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Chiral Ionic Liquids and Investigation of Their Enantiomeric Recognition Properties" in Chirality, Vol. 20; and "Iron(III)-Salophene: An Organometallic Compound with Selective Cytotoxic and Anti-Proliferatice Properties in Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer Cells," in Public Library of Science One, Vol. 3.

Sherry Buchanan, Library staff, presented "Just in Time Acquisitions via Interlibrary Loan: Purchasing Models and Workflows" at the 40th Annual State University of New York Library Association Conference in Potsdam, N.Y., June 11.

Twenty-four Ronald E. McNair student scholars will be presenting their summer research projects from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13, in 228 Smith Union.

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.