Currently Accolades: Published/Exhibited for January 4, 2021

A woman poses in the stacks of the PSU library

 

Every week during the academic year, Currently celebrates faculty and staff accomplishments, including appearances on panels, presentations, recent publications or performances, and research grants.

  1. Mike Bartlett, biology faculty, co-authored “Direct Binding of TFEα Opens DNA binding Cleft of RNA Polymerase” in Nature Communications.
  2. Sarah Dys, Institute on Aging graduate research assistant; Lindsey Smith, Institute on Aging graduate research assistant; Ozcan Tunalilar, Institute on Aging and urban and public affairs faculty; and Paula Carder, Institute on Aging PhD director and OHSU-PSU School of Public Health faculty, co-authored “Revisiting the Role of Physicians in Assisted Living and Residential Care Settings,” published in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine.
  3. Berrin Erdogan, David Caughlin and Talya Bauer, business, published “Employee Overqualification and Manager Job Insecurity: Implications for Employee Career Outcomes” in Human Resource Management. 
  4. Stephanie Erev, political science faculty, published “Eco-Critique and Thought as a Force of Nature” in New Political Science.
  5. Cass Hausserman, business faculty, published “The Effects of Level of Government and Use of Funds on Trust in Revenue Agencies” in Advances in Taxation.
  6. Daniel Jaffee, sociology faculty, published a chapter titled “Enclosing Water: Privatization, Commodification and Access,” in the book “The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology” published by Cambridge University Press.
  7. Maura Kelly, sociology faculty, published a column titled “Pre-apprenticeships: A Pathway into the Construction Trades for Women in Oregon” in Pride and a Paycheck, an e-magazine for women in the trades. The research on pre-apprenticeship discussed in the column was conducted with Lindsey Wilkinson, sociology faculty, and Luis Nuñez, sociology graduate student.
  8. Mary C. King, professor emerita of economics, co-authored “On Universal Preschool, Multnomah County, Oregon, Moves to the Head of the Class” in The American Prospect. The article describes why the universal preschool program approved by Multnomah County voters this November should be a national model.
  9. Andy McEvoy MS ’20; Max Nielsen-Pincus, environmental science and management faculty; Andres Holz, geography faculty; Arielle Catalano, geography post-doctoral scientist; and Kelly Gleason, environmental science and management faculty, co-authored “Projected Impact of Mid-21st Century Climate Change on Wildfire Hazard in a Major Urban Watershed Outside Portland, Oregon USA” in Fire on Dec. 8.
  10. Byeongdon (Don) Oh, sociology postdoctoral researcher, co-authored “The Contradictions of Liminal Legality: Economic Attainment and Civic Engagement of Central American Immigrants on Temporary Protected Status,” published by Social Problems on Nov. 23.
  11. Jennifer Peterson, Honors College, co-authored “Preliminary Characterization of Triatomine Bug Blood Meals on the Island of Trinidad Reveals Opportunistic Feeding Behavior on Both Human and Animal Hosts” published in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease on Nov. 4.
  12. Ryan Petteway, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health faculty, published “Health Impact Assessment and City Council Policy: Identifying Opportunities to Address Local Social Determinants of Health & Place-Health Relationships, 10 Years Later” in the Chronicles of Health Impact Assessment in November.
  13. Aaron Roussell, sociology faculty, and Paul Deppen MS ’18, co-authored “The Dark Footprint of State Violence: A Synthetic Approach to the American Homicide Decline,” accepted by Theoretical Criminology.
  14. Charles Rynerson, urban and public affairs, wrote “Housing Development and Enrollment Trajectories in K-12 School Districts” in the book Population Change and Public Policy, published by Springer.
  15. Emily Shafer, sociology faculty, wrote an invited commentary titled “The Uneven Gender Revolution and the Gender Gap in Depression in the US,” accepted by the American Journal of Epidemiology.
  16. Patricia Wetzel, emerita professor of Japanese, published “Intertextuality in Japanese Advertising: The Semiotics of Shared Narrative” in the book Bonding Through Context: Language and Interactional Alignment in Japanese Situated Discourse, published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.