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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
»The Oregonian: Portland colleges make changes to accommodate more veterans
»The Oregonian: How much should we emulate South Korea's path to student achievement?
»From the President: Fall 2012
»Letters: Fall 2012
»Park Blocks: Fall 2012
»Fanfare: Fall 2012
»Giving: Fall 2012
»Athletics: Fall 2012
»Alumni: Fall 2012
»Looking Back: Fall 2012
»A more perfect union
»Living large
»Asking the right questions
»Walls of green
»Open Innovator
»Portland State University featured in the Princeton Review book “The Best 377 Colleges” 2013 edition
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
»PSU computer scientist with 3-D expertise wins Intel’s early-career faculty award
Thursday, September 6, 2012
»New York Times: School district bets future on real estate
Monday, September 10, 2012
»The Oregonian: Portland State University's architecture lecture series presents six international speakers
»USA Today: In Portland, bikes rule the road
»PSU offers Oregon's first Persian minor
»OPB: Young and creative -- Does the "Portlandia" hypothesis hold true?
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
»PSU lands big gift for new Viking Pavilion
Thursday, September 13, 2012
»"Placing": Portland State University School of Architecture 2012-2013 Lecture Series Announced
»Portland Tribune: (P)retirement's new frontier
»U.S. News ranks Portland State University among top 10 “up-and-coming” national universities
Friday, September 14, 2012
»September 22-23: National Plug in Day at Electric Avenue
Sunday, September 16, 2012
» PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT AMBASSADOR ALUMNI REUNION
Monday, September 17, 2012
»Portland State will launch Instagram platform
»University Housing goes green
»Amber Whiting, Art BFA Student, Wins Contemporary Sculpture Award!
»Erik Geschke, Art Faculty, Exhibits at Southern Oregon University
»Eliminating bottled water saves money, reduces waste
»Erik Geschke, Art Faculty, Visiting Artist Lecture at Lewis & Clark College
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
»September Digital Marketing Breakfast a success
»Social enterprises deliver healthy food to needy Portlanders
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
»'Portlandia' may claim otherwise, but new study finds young people come to Portland to work
»School of Community Health Professor has article cited in Surgeon Generals Report
Thursday, September 20, 2012
»Is Portland really the place where young people go to retire? New study says ‘No’
»Changing world of higher ed outlined at convocation
»Driving on Domestic Energy
Friday, September 21, 2012
»The Oregonian: Public employees base salary only half of total compensation, PSU study shows
Monday, September 24, 2012
»Talya Bauer, Business Administration faculty, was invited to join the editorial board of the newly formed management journal titled Oxford Research Reviews: Business and Management. The Oxford University Press will publish the journal.
»Karen L. Karavanic, Computer Science faculty, presented "Power and Cooling Aware Parallel Performance Diagnosis" at the 41st International Conference on Parallel Processing in Pittsburgh, Sept. 11.
»Christine Cress, Education faculty, wrote the lead article, "Civic Engagement and Student Success: Leveraging Multiple Degrees of Achievement" published in Diversity & Democracy, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2012.
»Kenneth M. Ames, Anthropology emeritus faculty, has been awarded a three-year, National Science Foundation grant for a project titled "Settlement Pattern Dynamics and the Evolution of Social Complexity on the Northern Northwest Coast," which looks at shif
»Pat Boas, Art faculty, was awarded a fellowship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation for a July residency at Byrdcliffe Artist Colony in New York and a Ford Family Foundation Golden Spot Artist Residency Fellowship. The Ford Family Foundation award support
»Ted Khoury, Business Administration faculty, presented three papers titled “Exclusivity in Biotech Licensing: What Makes Licensors Restrict their Options?” “The Response of Inventors to IPR Reform,” and “How do Developing Country Entrepreneurs Navigate Ex
»Paul Collins, English faculty, had an essay, "Vanishing Act," which originally ran in Lapham's Quarterly, selected for Best American Essays 2012, which is to be released next month by Houghton Mifflin.
»Teresa Bulman, Geography faculty and Oregon Geographic Alliance, has received a $200,000 grant from the John and Betty Gray Geography Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation to improve geography education in Oregon’s K-12 schools. The grant will support O
»Gerasimos Fergadiotis, Speech and Hearing Sciences faculty, received a Research Mentoring-Pair Travel Award to attend the research symposium held at the annual American Speech and Hearing Association Convention in Atlanta. The award is co- sponsored by th
»Eric Mankowski, Psychology faculty, presented a paper, "Assessing Proximal Outcomes in Batterer Intervention Programs" at the International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference, in Portsmouth, N.H., July 9. His co-author was graduat
»G.L.A. Harris, Public Administration faculty, authored an article entitled "Multiple Marginality: How the Disproportionate Assignment of Women and Minorities to Manage Diversity Programs Reinforces and Multiplies Their Marginality" published in Administra
»Tom Larsen, Library faculty, has been awarded a $3,000 grant from the Library Education Assistance Foundation for Vietnam to conduct library cataloging training in a new program for a library in Vietnam. The foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicate
»Emily Ford, Library faculty, and others received a Salem Press Library Blog award in the general blog category for "In the Library with the Lead Pipe," a peer-reviewed blog for librarians across the United States. Ford is a founding member of the blog as
»Nathan McClintock, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented a paper, "Loam, Lead, and Land Use: Towards an Interdisciplinary Study of Urban Soils," at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Portland on Aug. 8.
»Tom Johnson, Business Administration faculty, will have syllabi from two of his courses published by the Business History Initiative of the Harvard Business School in its Guide to Teaching Business History. One course covers the financial industry's conqu
»Jill Rissi, Public Administration faculty, along with PSU co-investigators Neal Wallace and Sherril Gelmon, received an 18-month research award totaling $126,984 to evaluate Oregon’s Patient-Centered Primary Care Home initiative. The PSU faculty will be w
»Linda George, Environmental Science and Management faculty, is on an intergovernmental assignment as program officer with the National Science Foundation - Atmospheric and Geospace Science Division until September 2013. Her portfolio will be Interdiscipli
»Leerom Medovoi, English faculty, presented "Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging in a Global Age: An International Research Initiative" at the annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, National University of Australia
»Susan Kirley, English faculty, authored "Rendering Technology Visible: The Technological Literacy Narrative" published in Computer and Composition, Vol. 29, 2012.
»Graig Spolek, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, received an $80,000 grant for a collaborative project involving green roof researchers at PSU and Columbia Green Technologies, a Portland company with a green roof system it hopes will become an
»Ray Johnson, Business Administration faculty, was appointed to the American Institute of CPA’s Professional Ethics Executive Committee that sets ethical standards for its members—almost all CPAs in the United States.
»Eva Nunez, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented her research, "Text Analysis of the Sephardi Spanish Jew Narrative Poetry in the XV Century" at the International Conference of History of the Spanish Language held at University of Cadiz, Spai
»Timm Menke, World Languages and Literatures faculty, authored "Arno Schmidt: Leviathan” and "Arno Schmidt: Brand’s Haide” published in The Literary Encyclopedia, London, 2012.
»Mellie Pullman, Business Administration faculty, won one of the prestigious 2012 Emerald Management Reviews Citations of Excellence Awards for an article titled “Unraveling the Food Supply Chain: Strategic Insights from China and the 2007 Recalls,” which
»Desiree Pacheco, Business Administration faculty, was an organizer of the session “Exploring Opportunities for Knowledge Transfer, Social Entrepreneurship, and Constructive Engagement in Local Initiatives around the Globe: An AOM Volunteer Corp?" at the a
»Elizabeth Norton and Pam Miller, Social Work faculty, co-authored "What Their Terms of Living and Dying Might Be: Hospice Social Workers Discuss Oregon's Death with Dignity Act" published in the Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care, Jul
»Robert Schroeder, Library faculty, has been appointed an editor of the open-access peer reviewed journal Communications in Information Literacy.
»Joan Petit and Tom Bielavitz, Library faculty, presented "Thriving in a Challenging Environment: Creating Technology-Rich, Collaborative Learning Spaces on a Shoestring" at the Pacific Northwest Library Association Annual Conference in Anchorage, Ala., Au
»Cristine Paschild, Library faculty, authored "Community Archives and the Limitations of Identity: Considering Discursive Impact on Material Needs" published in The American Archivist, Vol. 75, Spring/Summer 2012.
»Elizabeth Almer, Business Administration faculty, presented “Determinants of Accounting Faculty Salaries” at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., Aug. 5-8.
»Tom Potiowsky, Economics faculty and Northwest Economic Research Center, presented "The Morning After: How Long Will the Oregon Economy Nurse This Recession Hangover?" as the keynote speech at The Oregon Community Foundation Statewide Leaders Gathering, C
»Lee Shaker, Communication faculty, co-authored a piece with colleagues at Princeton and BYU, "Gender Inequality in Deliberative Participation" published in the American Political Science Review.
»Melissa Appleyard, Business Administration faculty, was a presenter in the session titled “Theory, Data, and Methods for Examining Interdisciplinary Research & Development: Interdisciplinary R&D” at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston,
»Neil Ramiller, Business Administration faculty, presented "Sociomateriality as Radical Ontology: Insights for ICTs from the Phenomenology of Sport" at the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems in Seattle, Aug. 9-11. The article was also publishe
»Shung Jae Shin, Business Administration faculty, was chair of a session titled "Feedback and Training Mechanisms" at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Aug. 3-7. He also presented a paper titled "HRM Systems, Intrinsic Motivation, an
»Steven Bleiler, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, presented "Modeling with Computational Probability" at the 13th International Pure Mathematics Conference, Islamabad, Pakistan, Sept. 1-3.
»Kathy Rupley, Business Administration faculty, served as discussant for the paper “Corporate Social Responsibility, Audit Fees, and Audit Opinions” at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5-8.
»Margaret Shirley, Art adjunct faculty, is exhibiting her work at the Laura Russo Gallery during September. Her paintings on wood panels incorporate plant and other natural materials.
»Marek Elzanowski, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, gave an invited talk, "Modern Mathematical Theories of Defective Elastic Crystals," at the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.
»Charles Rynerson and Richard Lycan, Population Research Center, presented “Housing Based School Enrollment Forecasts” at the Environmental Systems Research Institute Education User Conference, San Diego, July 22.
»Pete Tashman, Business Administration faculty, was the discussant of the session titled “Drivers and Effects of Green Technology Innovation: Green Technology Innovation” at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Aug. 3-7. Tashman was als
»Berrin Erdogan, Business Administration faculty, was a presenter at the organizational behavior doctoral consortium and a facilitator in the session “OB research incubator” at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Aug. 3-7. She also pre
»Sue Taylor, Art History faculty, wrote an article on the psychoanalysis of the magic act in the 2012 volume of Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus.
»Elise Granek, Environmental Science and Management faculty, presented a co-authored paper, "Growing Cities Depend on Ecosystem Services," at the National Science Foundation's 2012 Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Principal Investiga
»Sully Taylor, Business Administration faculty, co-authored a research-based report titled “HRM’s Role in Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Sustainability” released by the Society for Human Resource Management Foundation, the World Federati
»John Hall, Economics and International Studies faculty, presented the lecture "Die Ursprung und Verwendungen des Evolutionaer Theorie: Kants Erschleichung, Veblens Subreption, und die Soziale Analyse von Dugger, Mills, und Galbraith" (The Origins and Appl
»Erica Wagner, Business Administration faculty, presented a paper titled “Characterizing Work Practices in Packaged Software: A Metaphorical Analysis” at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Aug. 3-7.
»Rachel Hitchcock, University Advancement; and J.R. Tarabocchia, Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, presented "How to Start a Major Gift Campaign with a Non-Traditional Student Population" at the Student Affairs Development Conference in Louisville
»Heejun Chang, Geography faculty, and graduate student Madeline Steele authored a paper titled "Spatial Patterns of March and September Streamflow Trends in Pacific Northwest Streams" published in Geographical Analysis, Vol. 44.
»B.D. Wortham-Galvin, Architecture faculty, authored a chapter, "Making the Familiar Strange: Understanding Design Practice as Cultural Practice," published in The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs, Sonia Hirt and Diane Zahm editors.
»Portland's economic creativity gap
»Lost in the health care debate: Let's focus on beginnings
»Sustainable Business Oregon: PSU named 'Changemaker Campus' by Ashoka
»Notice of revised University policies
»PSU named a “Changemaker Campus” by global organization for social entrepreneurship
»PSU assists "big data" analysts with new course
»Portland State University named 'Changemaker Campus' by Ashoka
»The Oregonian: Portland State University lands on U.S. News list of growing schools
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
»Shawn Smallman, International Studies faculty, presented a paper titled "Biopiracy and Vaccines: the New Pandemic Influenza Plan" at the Influenza 2012 conference, University of Oxford, U.K., Sept. 13.
»Christof Teuscher, Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, gave an invited presentation, "From Intrinsic to Designed Computation with Turing's Unorganized Machines" at the Incomputable workshop, Newport Pagnell, U.K., June 12-13. The workshop was hel
»Leni Zumas, English faculty, presented "Working the Hole: Notes on Scavenging" at the Tin House Writer's Workshop, Portland, July 11.
»PSU welcomes ACE fellow Eugenio E. Yarce Alfaro
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
»PSU Adoptions Therapy program receives regional award
»WSU Student's Passion for Math Supported by LSAMP Mentors
»Carl Wamser Symposium
Thursday, September 27, 2012
»Vietnamese delegation attends political leadership training at Portland State University’s Hatfield School of Government
»Central City Concern and My Street Grocery partner to bring nutritious groceries to clients with histories of homelessness
»Pacific Light Technologies: Energy Efficient LED Lights
Friday, September 28, 2012
»The Oregonian: Springboard to Oregon universities: community college
»The 2012-2013 academic year is off to a good start--thanks to our supporters!
»The 2012 PSU Clery & Fire Act Report is now available!
»Erik Geschke, Art Faculty, Conducts Artist Talk
Monday, October 1, 2012
»Nathan McClintock, Urban Studies and Planning, presented "Bridging University and Community through Urban Agriculture Education: Experiences from Portland" at the Urban Agriculture Summit in Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 17, and at the Sustainable Agriculture Ed
»Anmarie Trimble, University Studies faculty, authored "No Theory But for Practice: Born, Multimedia, and the Avant-Garde" published in the anthology The New Work of Composing, Computers and Composition Digital Press, Utah State University Press. The eBook
»DeLys Ostlund, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "La prueba de los ingenios: En defensa del ingenio femenino" at the Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas, pre-1800 2012 Conference in Portland, Sept. 13-15.
»Margaret Everett, Graduate Studies and Sociology faculty, was awarded a $23,000 grant from the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund for a study, Healing and Gender in Urban Oaxaca: A Medical Anthropology Study of Mexico's Pentecostal Movement. The award is
»Vicki Reitenauer, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Seanna Kerrigan, University Studies, presented "Facilitating Critical Thinking in Cooperative Education Settings" at the 9th International Conference on Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education
»Jill Rissi, Public Administration faculty, received a $225,223 contract from the Oregon Health Authority to evaluate the PEBB Health Engagement Model. She will be working with Leslie McBride, Community Health faculty, researchers from the Providence Healt
»Sully Taylor, Business Administration faculty, presented a paper, “Career Management and Social Capital in MNCs,” at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Aug. 3-7.
»Christof Teuscher, Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, presented the paper "Memristor-Based Reservoir Computing" at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures held in Amsterdam, July 4-5. The work was done by graduate student
»Donald Truxillo, Psychology faculty, presented a workshop, “Age in the Workplace: Myths, Realities, and Emerging Questions for Employers and Society,” at the 19th annual Oregon Diversity Conference in Salem, Sept. 12-13.
»Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan, Business Administration faculty, co-authored a chapter titled “Organizational Socialization Outcomes: Now and Into the Future” published in The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Socialization, Oxford University Press.
»Jennifer Dill, Urban Studies faculty and OTREC, co-authored an article with doctoral students Arlie Adkins (lead author) and Gretchen Luhr, and Community Health faculty Margaret Neal, “Unpacking Walkability: Testing the Influence of Urban Design Features
»Marion Sharp, Education faculty; Kellie Herold, Social Work faculty; and others in Oregon's services community, received a regional award for PSU's Therapy with Adoptive and Foster Parents program, which Sharp heads. The collaborative program was the 2012
»Emily Ford, Library faculty, authored a blog post, “What Do We Do and Why Do We Do It?” for the group, peer-reviewed blog In the Library with the Lead Pipe on Aug. 8.
»Laura Schott, Athletics, was recently inducted in the Jesuit High School Hall of Fame. Schott is head soccer coach at PSU. While at Jesuit, she scored 116 career goals, helping to lead the school to four state titles.
»Becki Hunt Ingersoll, Advising and Career Services, and James Ofsink, Student Financial Aid and Scholarships, authored an article, "Pushed Across the Finish: One University's Success in Helping Students Complete Their Degrees Despite Obstacles," published
»Harry Anastasiou, International Peace and Conflict Studies faculty, was invited by the U.S. Department of State to present an up-to-date analysis of the Cyprus conflict and the effect of regional developments on the country. The event took place in Washin
»Richard Lycan, Urban and Public Affairs; Mark Sytsma and Rich Miller, Center for Lakes and Reservoirs; Will Garrick and Morgan Harvey, Academic Research and Computing; and Dave Banis, Geography, co-authored an article, “Developing the On-Line Atlas of Ore
»Heather Burns, Education Leadership and Policy faculty, presented "Cultivating Integrative, Engaged and Transformative Learning: Lessons from the Learning Gardens Laboratory" at the Sustainable Agriculture Education Association national conference in Corv
»Leerom Medovoi, English faculty, authored “Dogma Line Racism: Islamophobia and the Second Axis of Race” published in Social Text, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 2012.
»Marek Elzanowski and Serge Preston, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, organized the session Geometric Methods in Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the Algebra Geometry Mathematical Physics 8 meeting at the Technical University of Brno, Brno, Czech Republi
»Eva Nunez and Raven Chakerian, World Languages and Literatures faculty, authored an article, "A Comparative Linguistic Study Between Sicilian and Spanish," published in International Journal of Literature and Linguistics, (2012) Vol. 25: 249-274.
»Jon Holt, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "'Thus Have I Heard': the Auditory Hallucination Poetry of Miyazawa Kenji" at the 2012 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Sept. 21.
»Lee Shaker, Communication faculty, authored "Local Political Knowledge and Assessments of Citizen Competence" published in Public Opinion Quarterly.
»Jodi Lapidus, Mathematics & Statistics adjunct faculty and OHSU faculty, presented an invited talk, “A Variable Selection Method for Logistic Regression Models Based on the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve” at the Seminar on Applied Statistics spon
»Vivek Shandas, Urban Studies and Planning, authored a paper with graduate research assistants Meenakshi Rao and Moriah McSharry McGrath entitled "The Implications of Climate Change on Residential Water Use: A Micro-Scale Analysis of Portland (OR)" publish
»Eric Mankowski, Psychology faculty, delivered a keynote address, "Better Practice in Batterer Intervention: What Does Research Tell Us?" at the annual conference of the Northwest Association of Domestic Violence Treatment Professionals, Vancouver, Wash.,
»Michael J. Smith, Educational Leadership and Policy faculty, authored “Cooperation, College Knowledge, and Strong Parent Communities in the L.A. Concrete Jungle: The Case for Family-Centered Outreach" published in the Metropolitan Universities Journal, Vo