Celebrating PSU student success, fall term 2022
In support of the first goal of Portland State’s five-year strategic plan — elevating student success — Currently features student success each term, acknowledging achievements such as publications, scholarships, grants, presentations and more. Here are some of the students who made us proud during fall term. Want your students to appear in our next roundup? Send information to currently@pdx.edu.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND OTHER HONORS
- Axcelle Bell, Earth, Environment & Society Ph.D. student, received the Key Contributor award from the Student Employee Leadership Development group.
- Lynn Black, Creative Writing student, received the Rising Star award from the Student Employee Leadership Development group.
- Surya Creighton Koshy, Criminology and Criminal Justice student, received the Leadership award from the Student Employee Leadership Development group.
- Martha Dane, Architecture and Design master’s student, received the 2022-2023 Selected Professions Fellowship from the American Association of University Women.
- Sarah Dawson, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages master’s student, received the Rising Star award from the Student Employee Leadership Development group.
- Gabriella Hernandez Garcia, Social Work student, received the Incredible Service to the Community award from the Student Employee Leadership Development group.
- Samantha Kemp, Communication Studies student, received the Student Employee of the Year award from the Student Employee Leadership Development group.
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- Amy Lin, Pre-Clinical Health Science student, and Natalie Robison, biology student, joined the Council on Undergraduate Reseach Scholars Transforming through Research program in September.
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Natalie Robison
- Alecsandra Renfroe, Education: Counseling master’s student, received the Outstanding Advocacy award from the Student Employee Leadership Development group.
- Fatemeh Sheikholya Lavasani, Architecture and Design master’s student, received the 2022-2023 Selected Professions Fellowship, from the American Association of University Women.
- Jennifer Ugarte, Social Work master’s student, received the 2022-2023 Career Development Grant from the American Association of University Women.
- AmandaLyn Wayland, Jamal Ford, and Abbee Mortensen, Applied Linguistics students, won the Student Research Symposium Poster contest for the poster “Activist Applied Linguistics: Increasing Accessibility to Domestic Relations Trials,” which they presented in May at the PSU Student Research Symposium.
PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
- Peter Domine, Nick Meusch, Asif Haque, Angie Martínez, Sean Doyle, and Meisha Whyte, Urban and Regional Planning master’s students, provided the Portland Bureau of Transportation with recommendations to reduce the risk of pedestrian fatalities among the city's vulnerable houseless communities.
- Ivory Fields, Book Publishing master’s student, developed a publishing course for underrepresented authors as part of her role as Ooligan’s first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion publishing assistant.
- Daniel Mackin Freeman, Sociology Ph.D. student, was featured on CBS News Boston, ScienceDaily, NewsWise, Lab Manager, and the PDXPLORES podcast for the study he co-authored with Dara Shifrer, Sociology faculty: “Arts for Whose Sake? Fine Arts Course-Taking and Math Achievement in US High Schools.”
- Daniel Mackin Freeman, Sociology graduate student, Byeongdon (“Don”) Oh, Sociology postdoc, and Dara Shifrer, Sociology faculty, co-authored a study, “Economic Disadvantages of Young Black Men without a College Degree: Color Lines in Earnings Disparities among Non-college-educated Youth,” presented at the American Sociological Association in Los Angeles.
- Barbara Imle, Sociology graduate student, was featured in an episode of ABC’s investigative docu-series, “The Price of Care: Taken by the State.”
- Ned Tilbrook and Carly Hollabaugh, Sociology graduate students, co-authored a study, “Transit Food Access in Portland, Oregon,” presented at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the American Sociological Association.
SHARE SUCCESSES WITH THE COMMUNITY
We want to celebrate your students! Email submit student success items to currently@pdx.edu and include the following information:
• The student’s full name
• The student’s year and area of study (example: Jane Doe, a junior studying art history)
• If applicable, the student’s job, volunteer or research position. For example, if a student won an award for their work as an employee with the PSU Residence Hall Association, their position with residence life would be necessary for the write-up
• The full name of the award, honor, scholarship or fellowship the student received
• The date the award was given
• Any other relevant information about the award, such as length of fellowship, total scholarship amount, location of award ceremony
• A horizontal image, if you have one (600x400 pixels)
• Links to any other additional information you would like to be included in the write-up, such as news stories; web pages or documents for the awards/scholarships/fellowships; and accessible pages for publications (such as the Amazon listing for a student book available for purchase, or the article's journal web page for an academic publication)
If you have news about PSU alumni, please send it to the alumni magazine at psumag@pdx.edu.