Currently Accolades: Published/Exhibited for September 21, 2020

Two people read the back cover of a book at the Portland State University bookstore.

 

Every week during the academic year, Currently celebrates faculty and staff accomplishments, including appearances on panels, presentations, recent publications or performances, and research grants.

  1. Talya Bauer, business faculty; Donald Truxillo, psychology faculty; Mark Jones, computer science faculty; and Grant Brady, business adjunct faculty, published “Privacy and Cybersecurity Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations: Personnel Selection in an Era of Online Application Systems and Big Data” in the book “Big Data in Psychological Research.”
  2. Amy E. Borden, film faculty, published “Shadows, Screens, Bodies and Light: Reading the Discursive Shadow in the Age of American Silent Cinema” in Screen Bodies.
  3. Grant Brady, business adjunct faculty; Donald Truxillo, psychology faculty emeritus; Todd Bodner, psychology faculty; David Cadiz, business faculty; David Caughlin business adjunct faculty; and Jennifer Rineer MS ’12 PhD ’15, published “Opening the Black Box: Examining the Nomological Network of Work Ability and its Role in Organizational Research” in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
  4. David Cadiz, business faculty, and Donald Truxillo, psychology faculty, published “Who Benefits More? The Moderating Role of Age on the Relationship Between Work and Person Characteristics and Employee Attitudes and Wellbeing” in Occupational Health Science.
  5. Kelly J. Clifton, civil and environmental engineering faculty, co-authored “Towards Measures of Affective and Eudaimonic Subjective Well-being in the Travel Domain,” published in the journal Transportation.
  6. Óscar Fernández, university studies faculty, authored the two chapters “Email” and “Zotero” in “Guide to Making Time to Write: 100+ Time & Productivity Management Strategies for Textbook and Academic Authors,” published by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association.
  7. Michael Flower, university studies faculty emeritus, wrote “How to Visualize Cells as Overlapping Trajectories of Profiles” in “Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth,” published by The MIT Press.
  8. A. Eliza Greenstadt, film faculty, authored a chapter titled “Balthazar’s Beard: Looking (Again) Into the Merchant’s Closet,” in the book “The Merchant of Venice: The State of Play,” published by The Arden Shakespeare.
  9. Jan Haaken, psychology faculty emeritus, directed a documentary titled “Our Bodies Our Doctors,” which tells the rarely-discussed story of what it means to be an abortion provider today: confronting threats of violence and facing intensified political threats and efforts to criminalize abortion. The film can be purchased or rented on iTunes, Amazon, VUDU and Amazon Prime. 
  10. Susan Kirtley, English faculty, published “Considering the Alternative in Composition Pedagogy: Teaching Invitational Rhetoric with Lynda Barry’s ‘What It Is’” in the anthology “Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric” published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in August. 
  11. Arielle Catalano, geography postdoctoral student, and Paul Loikith, geography faculty, published a paper titled “Evaluating CMIP6 Model Fidelity at Simulating Non-Gaussian Temperature Distribution Tails” in Environmental Research Letters.
  12. John MacArthur, TREC Sustainable Transportation Program Manager, and Joe Broach and Nathan McNeil, urban and public affairs research associates, co-authored “Adaptive Bike Share: Expanding Bike Share to People with Disabilities and Older Adults,” published in the Journal of the Transportation Research Board.
  13. Carlos Mena, business faculty, published “Sourcing Decisions Under Conditions of Risk and Resilience: A Behavioral Study” in Decision Sciences.
  14. Chris Monsere, civil and environmental engineering faculty, and Frank Boateng Appiah and Jason Anderson, civil engineering research assistants, co-authored “Best Practices For Installation of Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons With and Without Median Refuge Islands,” published by the Oregon Department of Transportation.
  15. Amaradri Mukherjee, business faculty, published “Retail Safari: Systematically Walking the Retail Store with Buyers and Suppliers” in Marketing Education Review. 
  16. Steve L. Reichow, chemistry faculty, and Bassam G. Haddad, Kimberly A. Dolan, and Janette B. Myers, chemistry research assistants, co-authored “Connexin-46/50 in a Dynamic Lipid Environment Resolved by CryoEM at 1.9 Å,” published in Nature Communications.
  17. Jack Straton, physics and university studies faculty, had one of his photographs chosen to be part of Habitat California: Flora & Fauna, an international joint show of all art media, at Palos Verdes Art Center from Feb. 8 through April 18.
  18. Gerry Sussman, urban studies and international and global studies faculty, published an article titled “The Russiagate Spectacle: Season 2” in CounterPunch. 
  19. Mrinalini Tankha, anthropology faculty, co-authored “Mapping the Intermediate: Lived Technologies of Money and Value” in the “Journal of Cultural Economy.” Tankha also served as co-editor of the themed section of the journal, also titled “Mapping the Intermediate: Lived Technologies of Money and Value.”
  20. Mrinalini Tankha, anthropology faculty, published “Detained Settlements: The Infrastructures and Temporalities of Digital Financial Transactions Between the United States and Cuba” in the journal Economic Anthropology. 
  21. Quang Truong, architecture adjunct faculty, published “Does Architecture Have a Framework for Applying Material Innovation?” on June 3 and “Where Will Innovation in Architecture Come From Next?” on July 21 in The Architect’s Newspaper.
  22. Quang Truong, architecture adjunct faculty, published “Composite Architecture: the Technology and Design of Carbon Fiber and Frps” with Birkhauser Architecture.
  23. L. S. Fox, mathematics PHD student, P. Oberly, MA ’20, and J.J.P. Veerman, mathematics faculty, authored the paper “One-sided Derivative of Distance to a Compact Set,” published in the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics
  24. Jian Wang and Elsa Loftis, library, published “The Library Has Infinite Streaming Content, but Are Users Infinitely Content? The Library Catalog Vs. Vendor Platform Discovery” in The Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship.
  25. Maika Yeigh, curriculum and instruction faculty, published “Using Time and Talk to Support the Writing Development of Children Learning English” in the New Mexico English Journal.