Currently Accolades: People for Aug. 4, 2025

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  1. The Department of Sociology received the Chapter of the Year Award from the Alpha Kappa Delta - International Honor Society of Sociology, thanks to support from Hyeyoung Woo, Sociology faculty, Aaron Roussell, Sociology faculty, Dara Shifrer, Sociology faculty, Kris Lucht Adams, Sociology faculty, and Madi Lou Alexander, AKD graduate student representative.
  2. Talya Bauer, Business faculty, was elected to the Academy of Management's Organizational Behavior Division's Executive Committee for a 3-year term as Representative-at-Large.
  3. Maura Kelly, Sociology faculty, developed a toolkit for Portland General Electric, which will provide a guide for staff of community-based organizations to plan and implement listening sessions as part of Portland General Electric’s clean energy workforce development community outreach.
  4. Pronoy Rai, Geography faculty, will serve on the American Association of Geographers' Committee on International Research and Scholarly Exchange from 2025-27.
  5. Ken Ruoff, History faculty, was featured in the member spotlight for American Friends of the I-House.
  6. Suwako Watanabe, World Languages and Literatures faculty, co-led a new chairs workshop for the Association of Language Departments on June 16 and 17, 2025, as a pre-institute event for the Modern Language Association's Academic Programs Services (MAPS) Summer Institute.