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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.

Dragan Milosevic, Engineering Management faculty, was awarded the Project Management Institute Research Achievement Award at the institute's biennary research conference in Warsaw, Poland, July 13-16. The award recognizes a person who has significantly advanced the concepts, knowledge, and practice of project management through professionally conducted and authored project management research.

F. Rudolf Beyl, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, had his article "Isoclinisms of Groups Extensions and the Schur Multiplicator" republished in "Groups-St Andrews 1981, Revised Edition," London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 71, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007.

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

Jesse Dillard, Business Administrative faculty, co-authored "Green Owl and the Corn Maiden" published in the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, (Spring 2008) Vol. 21, No. 4.

Kathy Rupley, Business Administrative faculty, presented "Internal Governance, External Governance, and Internal Control Material Weakness Remediation" at an Oregon State University workshop, May 22.

Maria DePriest, English faculty, authored "Once Upon a Time, Today: Hearing Fleur's Voice in Tracks" published in the Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol. 38, No. 2, Summer 2008.

Mellie Pullman, Business Administrative faculty, earned a second place best article award for her co-authored piece, "Visual Methods using Photography to Capture Customers' Experience with Design," published in the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly for 2007.

Michihiro Kosuge, Art emeritus faculty, is exhibiting his stone sculptures at the Laura Russo Gallery in Portland during August.

Mike Burton, Extended Studies provost, authored a requested article, "Connecting to the Part-time Adult Student," published in Revista Panamericana de Pedgogia, Universidad Panamericana, No. 11, May 2008.

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.

Victoria Pohl, University Studies and Theater Arts faculty, was awarded the Leslie Fulton 2008 Fellowship by the Portland Civic Theatre Guild at its 30th annual Drammy Award event June 9. The fellowships are awarded to theater artists of high merit to sustain and enhance their creative process.