by Currently January 14th 2021 Share Facebook Twitter Cynthia Carmina Gómez, executive director of the Cultural Resource Centers, moderated a panel titled “Latinidad and Change,” organized by Centro Cultural and co-sponsored by Pacific University’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Panelists Narce Rodriguez, Giovana Oaxaca, and Katherine Porras examined the needs of those hit hardest by COVID-19 and how to create systems change. The event was held on Dec. 8. Óscar Fernández, University Studies, commissioned “Portland Beauty,” an orchestral piece from Venezuelan-Spanish composer and conductor Giancarlo Castro D’Addona. The piece is slated to debut in 2022. The commission is part of University Studies’ Race and Social Justice Dialogues focusing on immigration, art and activism. A 2017 external grant from Bringing Theory to Practice — a national project seeking to transform higher education — funds this commission. Hau Hagedorn, associate director of Portland State University’s Transportation Research and Education Center and the National Institute for Transportation and Communities, has been selected by the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) and the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) as the winner of the 2020 CUTC-ARTBA Award for Administrative Leadership. This award honors individuals who have made outstanding administrative leadership contributions to promote transportation research, technology transfer and education/workforce development activities. John Hall, economics faculty, organized the panel “On Neoliberalism’s Appearances and Machinations” and co-presented the co-authored paper “On Thorstein Veblen and the Emergence of Neoliberalism” at a virtual conference organized by the American Economic Association from Jan. 2-5. Mitra Naseh, social work faculty, won the 2021 outstanding social work doctoral dissertation award from the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR). Naseh completed her Ph.D. dissertation at Florida International University in Miami, Florida and started at Portland State this fall. Her work focuses on well-being, inequality and poverty among minorities with migration and forced migration backgrounds. Currently people Return to all news