In support of the first goal of Portland State’s five-year strategic plan — elevating student success — Currently features student success each term, acknowledging achievements such as publications, scholarships, grants, presentations and more. Here are some of the students who made us proud during fall term. Want your students to appear in our next roundup? Send information to currently@pdx.edu.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND OTHER HONORS
- Alison Hunt, Applied Psychology doctoral student, received the APA’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Conference Scholarship for being a first generation student.
- Shani Johnson, Educational Leadership doctoral student, was awarded the Steven R. Nelson Native Educator Scholarship 2023.
- Yue Ni, Psychology faculty, received the Diversity Science Innovation Graduate Student Award from the Society for the Study of Human Development. Ni was nominated while still a doctoral student earlier this year.
- Kayla Sorrenson, Civil & Environmental Engineering PhD student, received a $10,000 Graduate Fellowship from the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program.
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PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS, AND EXHIBITIONS
- Soh Ferguson, Ruth E. Hale, Nathan LaMora, Francisco Cabre Vazquez, and Kyra Walters, Comics Studies students, shared their work at a panel titled “A Comics Education: Studying Comics in College” on Sept. 23 at Rose City Comic Con.
- Alison Hunt, Applied Psychology doctoral student, presented the research “Which jobs have the most fatigue? An inductive, exploratory investigation using O*NET data to discover dimensions of occupational characteristics related to work-related fatigue risk” Nov. 8-11 at the APA's Work Stress and Health Conference in Miami.
- Jordyn Leslie, Applied Psychology doctoral candidate, presented “What about the leader?: A review integrating leader-centric research and work-life supportive leadership” and “Branching out: A review and conceptual model of nature and employee outcomes” Nov. 8-11 at the Work, Stress, and Health conference in Miami.
- Laura Yang, Applied Industrial Organizational Psychology graduate student and graduate research assistant in the RESET (Researching Employee Sleep, Equity, and Time for family) Lab, co-authored the book chapter “Psychological recovery from work demands and employee mental health” in The Routledge Companion to Mental Health at Work (A. Day & C. L. Cooper, Eds.), which was recently published.
- Laura Yang, Applied Industrial Organizational Psychology graduate student and graduate research assistant in the RESET (Researching Employee Sleep, Equity, and Time for family) Lab, presented “The dark side of servant leadership: Investigating health outcomes of servant leaders” Nov. 8-11 at the 2023 Work, Stress, and Health Conference in Miami.
- The undergraduate Northwest Noggin volunteers from the PSU Neuroscience Club presented original posters at the Society for Neuroscience conference, joined BrainFacts.org for a neuroscience night at Right Proper Brewing, delivered a formal briefing co-sponsored by the Allen Institute and the Dana Foundation to the House Neuroscience and STEAM caucuses in Congress, and spent a full day exploring brain research and crafting cells with K-8 students and neuroscientists from the NIH Brain Initiative in DC public schools.
SHARE SUCCESSES WITH THE COMMUNITY
We want to celebrate your students! Email submit student success items to currently@pdx.edu and include the following information:
• The student’s full name
• The student’s year and area of study (example: Jane Doe, a junior studying art history)
• Student’s job, volunteer or research position if applicable. For example, if a student won an award for their work as an employee with the PSU Residence Hall Association, their position with residence life would be necessary for the write-up
• The full name of the award, honor, scholarship or fellowship the student received
• The date the award was given
• Any other relevant information about the award, such as length of fellowship, total scholarship amount, location of award ceremony
• A horizontal image, if you have one
• Links to any other additional information you would like to be included in the write-up, such as news stories; web pages or documents for the awards/scholarships/fellowships; and accessible pages for publications (such as the Amazon listing for a student book available for purchase, or the article's journal web page for an academic publication)
If you have news about PSU alumni, please send it to the alumni magazine at psumag@pdx.edu.