by Currently May 26th 2021 Share Facebook Twitter Scott Burns, geology faculty emeritus, was featured on Channels 2, 6 and 8 in Portland on May 17 and 18 talking to students at Lake Oswego’s Lakeridge Middle School about a rare rhyolite boulder discovered on the property during construction of the new building. The boulder was transported there by the great Missoula Floods. Veronica Hotton, university studies; Karen Bjork, library; Óscar Fernández, university studies; and Kam Moi Lee and Scott Robison, Office of Academic Innovation, were accepted to the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) 2021-2022 Institute on Open Educational Resources. Joel Owens, business faculty, had his recent article “Recruiting Dark Personalities for Earnings Management,” published in the Journal of Business Ethics, go viral on Reddit, with more than 49,000 upvotes and 1,500 comments in r/science as of May 26. Thea Prieto, English, received the Red Hen Novella Award for her first book, “From the Caves,” which is available for pre-order. Carolyn Quam, speech and hearing sciences faculty, presented “English-Learning Children’s Processing of Salient Phonetic Distinctions Varying in Phonological Relevance for Word Identity” and “A Protracted Developmental Trajectory for English-Learning Children’s Detection of Consonant Mispronunciations in Newly Learned Words” at the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Ethan Sperry, music faculty, and the Portland State University Chamber Choir were honored with the Jordan Schnitzer Wonder Award for 2021. The award, which comes with a $10,000 prize, is given to a youth arts organization that builds community through outstanding work inspiring the next generation of artists or student musicians. Currently people Return to all news