by Currently
January 15th 2026
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Bright Alozie, Black studies faculty and affiliate faculty in the history and women, gender and sexuality students (WGSS) departments, was selected as a 2026 Oregon Humanities Community Storytelling Fellow to support his oral history project on African immigrants in Oregon.
Shannon Blajeski and co-authors' work, Addressing Injustices Towards People with Schizophrenia-spectrum Conditions: A Call to Action for Social Work Practice, recently published in Social Work in Mental Health journal is featured in an article in Mad in America, Social Workers Warn Current Systems Entrench Poverty and Trauma for People With Psychosis.
Óscar Fernández, University Studies faculty, organized and co-hosted a visiting Japanese scholar, Chie Fujikake, a doctoral student from Nagoya University, Japan, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, dissertation title, Supporting Minority Students to Ensure Inclusiveness in Higher Education: Analysis of the Current Status and Future Development of Support Systems to Ensure Fulfilling Learning for Students with Diverse Backgrounds. The scholar met various University Studies leaders and Office of Academic Innovation staff, on campus, January 8-9, 2026.
Alison Nimura, Christina White, and Allyson Meyers, Office of Institutional Research, received the 2025 Pacific Northwest Association for Institutional Research and Planning (PNAIRP) Best Presentation Award for Better Together: A Partnership Between Business Intelligence and Institutional Research.
Ken Ruoff, history faculty and Director of the Center for Japanese Studies, finished 15 months of community service on the Search Committee tasked with identifying a new CEO for the Portland Japanese Garden. The new leadership will be announced soon.