by Currently July 29th 2021 Share Facebook Twitter Talya Bauer, business faculty, was a United States Congressional Briefing panelist and presented on “Applying Science for the Effective Onboarding for the Federal Workforce” in the briefing entitled “Rebuilding the Federal Workforce.” Introductions were made by Senator Gary Peters (Michigan), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee of the United States of America Senate, on May 20. Erika Carpenter, sociology graduate student, and Amy Lubitow, sociology faculty, gave a virtual presentation on “Focus Groups with Youth on Zoom: What the COVID-19 Pandemic has Taught Us and What the Future of Online Data Collection Looks Like” at the Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference. Berrin Erdogan, business faculty, was panelist on the virtual workshop “The Many Ways Of Ensuring Analytic Reproducibility,” co-organized by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis (CARMA) on June 9. Roberta Hunte, social work faculty, and Kevin Kecskes, public administration faculty, co-presented “Leadership for the Collective Good: Crisis, Conflict, Connection and Change” at the U.S. Department of State-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) leadership development cohort on June 29. Angela Jackson, President’s Office Industry and Entrepreneurial Engagement executive director, presented on “Overcoming Structural Barriers for Women in Entrepreneurship: A Workshop,” hosted by the National Academies of Sciences. Shirley A. Jackson, sociology faculty, was an invited speaker on “Smoke and Mirrors: Black Lives Matter and the Illusion of Change” at the Lake Oswego Equity Summit on May 15. Shirley A. Jackson, sociology faculty, was an invited speaker with Marcus Mundy, executive director of Coalition of Communities of Change, for a Juneteenth event on “Creating a Legacy of Equity,” sponsored by Legacy Health’s Black Employee Resource Group on June 29. Shirley A. Jackson, sociology faculty, and Marvin Lynn, College of Education dean, were invited panelists for a discussion on “Critical Race Theory: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Where It’s Being Taught Locally” on KOHI 1600 AM Radio’s “Setting the Record Straight with Melissa Bernert” on June 25. Susan Kirtley, English faculty, presented on a panel titled “Teaching and Learning with Comics” for the virtual San Diego Comic Con. Amy Lubitow, sociology faculty, co-presentation on “Enhancing Survey Research Methods for English Learner Populations” at the virtual American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences annual conference. L. David Ritchie, communication faculty, presented “Understanding and Expressing Complex Experience: Metaphors as Cognitive and Expressive Resources” at the virtual 2021 Conference of Researching and Applying Metaphor in Vilnius, Lithuania. L. David Ritchie, communication faculty, co-presented “‘Climbing the Ladder’ and ’Breaking the Glass Ceiling’: Metaphors Surrounding Women in U.S. Politics in 2020” at the virtual 2021 Conference of Researching and Applying Metaphor in Vilnius, Lithuania. L. David Ritchie, communication faculty, co-presented “A Conceptual Metaphor Study of the 2020 Supreme Court Nomination” at the virtual 2021 Conference of Researching and Applying Metaphor in Vilnius, Lithuania. Hyeyoung Woo, sociology faculty, presented a paper on “Family Structure and Child Well-being: Roles of Afterschool Activities,” at the virtual International Sociological Association Research Committee 28 Spring Conference in Turku, Finland. Hyeyoung Woo, sociology faculty, served as a faculty panelist on “Article Publication: From Editor’s Perspectives” for the Association of Korean Sociologists in America’s (virtual) Professional Development Series on June 22. Hyeyoung Woo, sociology faculty, was as a panelist on “Anti-Asian Racism and Discrimination,” organized by the PSU Institute for Asian Studies on May 12. Currently presented Return to all news