Kris Lucht Adams, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences staff, and Hyeyoung Woo, sociology faculty, spoke with approximately 70 high school students about sociology at the PSU Bridges Event.
Alida Cantor, geography faculty, was interviewed for an article in OPB on regional energy infrastructure and community impacts titled Clark County Residents Say They’ll Get All the Burdens and None of the Benefits of Proposed PacifiCorp Transmission Line.
Óscar Fernández, university studies faculty, presented a mock class in Spanish, The Poetry of Violeta Parra (Chile, 1917-1967), to Latinx families considering admission to PSU on Dec. 10, ‘25 at Westview High School in Beaverton, Ore.
Will Parnell, College of Education faculty, recently completed his final conference as president of the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators Foundation, concluding more than 15 years of board service with a celebratory fundraising reception event.
Ryan Petteway, public health and Black studies faculty, was an invited organizer, co-host, and featured poet for Stats & Stanzas: Poetry for the Public's Health at Busboys & Poets in Washington, DC, hosted by APHA Press as part of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association in Nov. ‘25.
Aaron Roussell, sociology faculty, Shirley A. Jackson, sociology faculty, served on the Applying to Grad School panel, facilitated by Dara Shifrer, sociology faculty, for PSU students of any level and major/discipline.
Hyeyoung Woo, sociology faculty, founded the PSU Korean Outreach, Research, and Education (KORE) Initiative and launched the PSU KORE Undergraduate Fellowship program and Korean Studies Course Development Grant program at the Initiative, selecting two students to award the fellowship and three faculty members to support their work to develop Korean Studies related courses.
Hyeyoung Woo, sociology faculty, was invited to discuss papers for the Gender and Education, Immigration, and Sexuality sessions at the 1st Global Korea Agenda Roundtable for Dating and Intimacy in South Korea: Diverse Stories at the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.