Dilafruz Williams, Education faculty, presented a paper, "The Landscape-Mindscape Connection: Why Learning Gardens are Relevant to Urban Education," at the Council of Great City Schools Annual Meeting in Houston, Oct. 23. Williams as served as a facilitator for "Standards Based Progress Reports" at the meeting.

Leerom Medovoi, English faculty, presented "The Public Humanities at Portland State" at the national meeting of Imagining America, University of Southern California, Oct. 2.

Rudi Nussbaum, Physics and Environmental Sciences emeritus faculty, gave an invited presentation, "Mysterious Excess of Childhood Leukemia Around 16 German Nuclear Reactors?" at the 2008 conference Prescriptions for Survival, sponsored by Physicians for Global Survival, the Canadian affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sept. 25-57. In his presentation, he described a government-sponsored study that was expected to disprove claims of increased incidence of leukemia in children under the age of five, who live in the vicinity of nuclear power plants. To the consternation of the researchers and their sponsors, the study found an undisputed increase of childhood malignancies out to distances of about 30 miles.

Dennis Stovall, English faculty, presented "What It Takes to Publish a Book" at the Arlington Club, Portland, Oct. 7.

Heejun Chang, Joe Poracsky and Teresa Bulman, Geography faculty, gave a poster presentation, “Numeric Visualization: A New Pathway for Teaching Quantitative Methods?” at the 2008 Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Conference in Washington, D.C., Aug. 13-15. The conference was hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Education and Human Resources Programs, and the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education.

Stephen Walton, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "Teaching Our Students How to Pronounce French" at the Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching and Washington Association for Language Teaching joint conference in Vancouver, Wash., Oct. 11.

Christine Cress, Educational Policy, Foundations and Administrative Studies faculty, gave an invited presentation, "Integrating Community-Based Learning into the Curriculum: Course Design Strategies for CBL and Service Learning Instructors," at Southern Oregon University, Sept. 11.

Hiro Ito, Economics faculty, presented "U.S. Current Account Deficit Debate, with Japan Then, and China Now" at the Asian Economic Integration in a Global Context conference, organized jointly by the American Committee for Asian Economic Studies and the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, at University of Bologna, Rimini, Italy, Aug. 29-31.

Mark Chubb, Executive Leadership Institute faculty, presented the keynote paper at the Regenhard Center for Emergency Responder Studies' session of the Academy for Critical Incident Analysis symposium sponsored by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York in New York, Oct. 3. The presentation proposed a model for examining public policy and public management issues arising from disasters through the first-hand experiences of front-line responders.

Pamela Miller, Social Work, presented the plenary talk, "Communication at the End-of-Life: Social Work, Hospice and Oregon's Death with Dignity Act," at the Oregon Hospice Association's Professional Practices Exchange in Redmond, Oct. 3.

Steve Johnson, Urban Studies and Planning adjunct, gave a presentation on community organizing in watersheds at the Oregon Bus Project's Politicorps summer camp, July 22.

Christopher Monsere, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented three papers at the North American Travel Monitoring Exhibition and Conference in Washington, D.C., Aug. 6-8. The co-authored papers were titled "Toward Incorporating Arterial Performance Quality in the PORTAL Archived Data User Service," "Building a WIM Data Archive for Improved Modeling, Design, and Rating" and "Techniques for Establishing and Measuring Data Quality in an Archived Data User Service."

Franz Rad, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, was invited by the American Concrete Institute to present a series of lectures to the U.S. Navy engineers in Silverdale, Wash., Sept. 15-16. Topics included the application of the 2008 ACI Building Code to the design of reinforced concrete structures, with an emphasis on earthquake-resistant provisions.

John Hall, Economics and International studies faculty, delivered the lecture "Neoclassical Versus Keynesian Approaches to Eastern German Unemployment" to fellows of the institute for Economic Research in Halle, Germany, Sept. 17.

Marjorie Burns, English faculty, presented "Journey to Vahalla: The Lasting Influence of the Old Norse World" at an Evening Seminar for the Smithsonian Associates at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., Aug. 7. She also presented "Saintly and Distant Mothers: George MacDonald, the Virgin Mary, and J.R.R. Tolkien" as a scholar guest of honor at the 39th Annual Mythopoeic Conference at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Conn., Aug. 16.

Steve Johnson, Urban Studies and Planning adjunct faculty, co-presented the keynote speech at the International Bike Conference in Tokyo, Japan, July 10.