Anthropology Department

Currently Accolades: Presented for November 1, 2021

by Currently October 27th 2021

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  1. David Banis and Hunter Shobe, geography faculty, spoke about their book, “Upper Left Cities: A Cultural Atlas of San Francisco, Portland and Seattle” on Oct. 21 and Oct. 28 as part of the Geography Department’s fall term speaker series.
  2. John Bershaw, geology faculty, gave a talk titled, “The Spatial and Temporal Evolution of the Portland and Tualatin Forearc Basins, Oregon, USA” at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America at the Oregon Convention Center in October.
  3. Scott Burns, geology faculty emeritus, presented two talks titled “Lakeridge Rhyolite Boulder Transported to Lake Oswego by the Missoula Floods” and “Slope Stabilization of Homesites on Loess Soils in the Portland West Hills, Oregon” at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America at the Oregon Convention Center in October.  
  4. Jack Corbett, public administration faculty, presented “The Fulbright Oaxaca Cluster: Synergies and Multiplier Effects” at the Fulbright Association’s Virtual 44th Annual Conference on Oct. 22 in Washington, D.C.
  5. Dacian Daescu, mathematics faculty, presented “Adaptive Tuning of Innovation Weight Parameters: Formulation and Results with NAVDAS-AR/NAVGEM” at the Joint World Climate Research/ World Weather Research Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis,  Sept. 13-18, 2021.
  6. Michele Gamburd, anthropology faculty, presented a paper titled “Daily Doses: Elder Care, Consumption, and the Crafting of Medical Identities in Sri Lanka” on a panel titled “Unseen Labor: Caring For Households and Reputations in Sri Lankan Families” on Oct. 22 at the Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin
  7. Michele Gamburd, anthropology faculty, organized and participated in a roundtable titled “Global Garment Workers, Entrepreneurship, and Neoliberal Family Dynamics in Rural Sri Lanka” on Oct. 22 at the Annual Conference on South Asia.
  8. Richard Hugo, Melinda Hutson, Richard Pugh and Alex Ruzicka, geology faculty, presented three works titled “Probing the Thermal and Deformation Histories of Chondrules in a Cluster Chondrite Lithology of Northwest Africa 5205 with Electron Backscatter Diffraction techniques,” “Untangling the History of a Chondrule in Northwest Africa 5205 (LL3.2) with Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Transmission Electron Microscopy” and “Harold (a) and Harold (b): Two New Meteorites from Ness County, Kansas” at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Chicago, Aug. 15-21. Pugh, who died in June 2020, contributed to the presentation through outreach that led to the study of the two meteorites. 
  9. Monika Mulder, Intensive English Language Program, and Lara Nardone, graduate student, presented “ESOL Online Resources for Students & Teachers” at the Oregon Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 2021 Virtual Fall Conference. 
  10. John Nimmo, curriculum and instruction faculty, presented on anti-bias education at the Northwest Teachers for Social Justice Conference on Oct. 23.
  11. Dilafruz Williams, education faculty, presented “Garden Pedagogy from Below: Humus as Poetic and Critical Text” as part of a panel on “Edges in Garden-Based Learning: Embracing Reciprocal Relationships with Humus, Hills, and Weeds,” at the North American Association for Environmental Education’s Annual Research Symposium, Oct. 4-15.
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