Currently Accolades: People for Feb. 3, 2025

Madeline Frisk, Coordinator of Student Government Relations, was selected for the 2025 Students Learn Students Vote coalition advisory board.

Jacen Greene, Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative faculty, was quoted in a KOIN article: Oregon sees highest level of sheltered homelessness on record, study shows.

Catherine McNeur, History faculty, is a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards' Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction for her book, Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science (Basic Books, 2023).

Marisa Zapata, Urban Studies & Planning, Urban & Public Affairs and Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative faculty, was interviewed by the following news organizations:

• KGW: Tri-County homeless count begins in Portland area with new survey tools
• KATU: Annual count of homelessness is happening, but some say it is not accurate
• KOIN: Officials launch 2025’s Point-in-Time homeless count effort
• KGW: Oregon prepares for Point-in-Time Count, a one-night survey of the homeless population
• The Oregonian: Federal count of homeless people in Portland area to happen this week
• OPB: Portland Mayor Keith Wilson pitches $28 million plan to end unsheltered homelessness
• Fox12: Oregon sees 32% increase in shelter beds over past year