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Thursday, January 3, 2019
»Helping close the gap between scientists and the public
Monday, January 7, 2019
»Gina L. Greco, World Languages and Literatures faculty, was elected to the executive committee of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, a branch of the Modern Language Association of America.
»Rachel Webb, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, received a 2018 Digital Learning Innovation Award from the Online Learning Consortium for her work in using an Active and Adaptive course model for introductory probability and statistics courses at Portlan
»Leni Zumas, English faculty, had her novel Red Clocks chosen as a Best Book of 2018 by The Atlantic.
»Kathi Inman Berens, English faculty, presented "Populist Modernism: Printed Instagram Poetry and the Literary Highbrow" at the 2018 Electronic Literature Organization conference.
»Kathi Inman Berens, English faculty, presented "Playable Books: Ludic Reading and Critical Code Studies in Living Will" at the 2018 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing conference.
»Cassio de Oliveira, World Languages and Literatures, delivered a talk titled "Tolstoy's Hadji Murad and the Legacy of Stalinism in Iskander's Story 'The Shepherd Makhaz'" at the 50th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eura
»David Ervin, Environmental Management and Economics emeritus faculty and Sustainable Solutions fellow, presented a paper, “Principles to Guide Comprehensive Ecosystem Service Valuation – Insights from Assessments of the Great Dismal Swamp and Hurricane Sa
»Marie Lo, English faculty, presented "Technologies of Removal: Drones, Deportation, and Pipelines" at the American Studies Association Conference in Atlanta, Nov. 9.
»Julius McGee, Sociology faculty, gave an invited talk titled "Prison Abolition and Environmental Justice" at the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies at Lewis and Clark College.
»Timm Menke, World Languages and Literatures emeritus faculty, presented a paper, "Cultural Memory in Two Novels by Jenny Erpenbeck," at the conference of the German Studies Association of Australia in Wellington, New Zealand, during November.
»Ken Ruoff, History faculty, gave a lecture titled “How to Prevent Populism and Protect Democracy” as part of an international symposium sponsored by the City of Gwangju’s (South Korea) May 18 Memorial Foundation to commemorate the May 18, 1980, Pro-Democr
»Steve Thorne, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a keynote address, "Desire Lines, Community Engagement, and Rewilding Language Education,” at the 16th Conference for Community Languages and English for Speakers of Other Languages, Christc
»Steve Thorne, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a keynote address, “Interactivity across Persons, Artifacts, and Environments,” at the 4th International Conference on Interactivity, Language & Cognition, Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 4.
»Elena Avilés, Chicano/Latino Studies faculty, authored "Rethinking the Lens of Spanish: Grounding a Chicana Feminist Language" in Contemporary U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish: Straddling Identities.
»Peter Boghossian, Philosophy faculty, and James Lindsay, co-authored a response to “What Comes After Postmodernism?” published in the peer-reviewed Educational Philosophy and Theory, Nov. 25, pp. 1346-1347.
»Virginia Butler, Anthropology faculty, with former master’s student Alex Stevenson, co-authored a paper, “Anthropogenic Habitat Alteration Leads to Rapid Loss of Adaptive Variation and Restoration Potential in Wild Salmon Populations,” published in the Pr
»Rowanna L. Carpenter and Seanna M. Kerrigan, University Studies faculty; and Vicki L. Reitenauer, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies faculty, co-authored "Capstone Assessment as Faculty Development" in the November/December 2018 issue of Assessment Upda
»Kathryn Farr, Sociology emeritus faculty, authored “Lifetime Punishments for Mentally Ill Juvenile Rampage School Shooters: No Hope for the Future?” published in the International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology, Dec. 2, pp. 1-23.
»Jon Holt, World Languages and Literatures faculty, authored an article, "X-Rated and Excessively Long: Ji-Amari in Hayashi Amari's Tanka," in the U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, Vol. 1:53, 2018. He discusses how the radical poet Hayashi Amari boldly breathed
»Julius McGee, Sociology faculty, and Richard York co-authored a paper, "Asymmetric Relationship of Urbanization and CO2 Emissions in Less Developed Countries," accepted at PLOS ONE.
»Eva Núñez, World Languages and Literatures faculty, authored a new book, Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact: Sociolinguistics Case Studies, published by Routledge.
»Amiee Potter, Anthropology faculty, co-authored a paper titled “Ancient Human Parallel Lineages within North America Contributed to a Coastal Expansion,” published in Science, Vol. 360, No. 6392.
»Cameron Smith, Anthropology faculty, co-authored a paper titled “Two Cognitive Traditions Underlying the Capacity for Cultural Evolution,” published in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences, Vol. 96.
»Jeremy Spoon, Anthropology faculty, and former student Kate Barcalow, co-authored a paper titled “Traditional Cultural Properties or Places, Consultation, and the Restoration of Native American Relationships with Aboriginal Lands in the Western United Sta
»Sarah Sterling, Anthropology faculty, co-authored a paper, “Building a Landscape History and Occupational Chronology at Čḯxwicən, a Coastal Village on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington State, U.S.A.,” published online in the Journal of Archaeological
Thursday, January 10, 2019
»Tim Krause, MA TESOL alum to lead discussions on Everybody Reads 2019 TED Talk
Monday, January 14, 2019
»Isabel Jaén-Portillo, World Languages and Literatures faculty, authored an article, "Body, Interiority and Affect in Memoria Histórica Cinema: Can Cinema of Empathy Advance the Cause of the Victims of Fascism?", published in the French journal Épistémocri
»Aleksandar Jokic, Philosophy faculty, authored a new book, International Justice After the Cold War: Essays with Applications, published by Peter Lang, 2018.
»Vicki Reitenauer, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies faculty, authored a poem, "The Group," published in the January/February 2019 issue of The Women's Review of Books.
»Graduate student Katricia Stewart and Greg Townley, Psychology faculty, co-authored "Intrapersonal and Social-contextual Factors Related to Psychological Well-being Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness," published in the Journal of Community Psychology.
»Angela Strecker, Environmental Science and Management faculty, co-authored “Macroecological Drivers of Zooplankton Communities Across the Mountains of Western North America” in press with Ecography.
»Ken Ruoff, History faculty, had a new book published in Japanese by the Asahi Publishing Company. The English translation of the book title is The Japanese and the Emperor: The Heisei Era and the New Reign.
»Susan Kirtley, English faculty, presented as part of a panel on "Making Comics, Making Meaning” at the 2019 Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago. She currently serves as the chair of the MLA Forum for Comics and Graphic Narratives.
»Steve Thorne, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a keynote address, “From Culture to ‘Culturing’ in Online Intercultural Pedagogy,” at the 5th International Conference for Functional Aspects of Cross-Cultural Communication and Translation
»David Ervin, Environmental Management and Economics emeritus faculty and Sustainable Solutions fellow, co-authored “Farmer Attitudes Toward Cooperative Approaches to Herbicide Resistance Management: A Common Pool Ecosystem Service Challenge,” published in
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
»MA TESOL fellowship and TA ship applications for 2019/2020 school year due February 1st
Thursday, January 17, 2019
»Black Studies' Dr. Ethan Johnson Published in "Relating Worlds of Racism" Anthology
»Washington Post: Setbacks for Women’s March reveal what can go wrong for progressive movements protesting Trump
»Dr. Shirley Jackson's MLK Keynote Address at University of Idaho
Friday, January 18, 2019
»2019 Heritage Spanish Language Contest
»CLAS Dean Team committed to advancing student success, research
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
»Maura Kelly, Sociology faculty, became a member of the Oregon Commission for Women after being nominated by the governor and confirmed by the Oregon Legislature.
»Maura Kelly, Sociology faculty, gave a presentation to the Oregon State Apprenticeship Training Council based on a recent report co-authored with Lindsey Wilkinson, Sociology faculty, titled “Continuing to Build a More Diverse Workforce in the Highway Tra
»Ken Ruoff, History faculty, presented a lecture titled “Contextualizing the Film Grave of the Fireflies” before the showing of the film at OMSI on Jan. 10.
»Hyeyoung Woo, Sociology faculty, was granted $13,000 from the Academy of Korean Studies for a conference on "Education, Work, Family, and Health in South Korea.”
»M.A. TESOL application deadline for 2019/2020 extended to April 1st
»MA TESOL students from all western states are eligible for Oregon in-state tuition rates
Thursday, January 24, 2019
»Understanding the Great Lakes’ Smallest Organisms
»Black Studies Chair, Dr. Jackson Featured on KATU Afternoon Live for MLK Day
Monday, January 28, 2019
»Susan Kirtley, English faculty, is winner of the annual Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award named for the founding curator of the Billy Ireland Carton Library & Museum at Ohio State University. The award will allow her to travel to Columbus, Ohio, and use
»Leni Zumas, English faculty, was a featured author at the Winternachten Literary Festival in The Hague, Netherlands, in January.
»Scott Burns, Geology emeritus faculty, presented a paper, "The Importance of Soils in the Terroir of Wine in North America - An Example from Oregon," at the International Soil Conference sponsored by the Soil Science Society of America held in San Diego,
»Sarah Key-DeLyria, Speech and Hearing Sciences faculty, authored a paper titled "Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Interacts with Ambiguity During Sentence Comprehension" in the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
»Andres La Rosa, Physics faculty, co-authored “Instrumentation-level Improvements in Shear-force Near-field Acoustic Microscopy,” published in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 1143, Conference 1, Dec. 21.
»Andres La Rosa, Physics faculty, co-authored “Finite Element Method Analysis of Whispering Gallery Acoustic Sensing,” published in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 1143, Conference 1, Dec. 21.
»Jack Straton, Physics and University Studies faculty, had one of his photographs chosen to be part of After Dark 7, a national joint show of all fine art media, in Taos, N.M., June 9 through June 30, 2018.
Thursday, January 31, 2019
»BREATHE Oregon empowers communities to speak up about air quality