Currently Accolades: People for June 1, 2026

Talya Bauer, School of Business faculty, was a panelist in the session “The New Psychological Contract: From Loyalty to Learnability” at the annual meeting of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. April 30. New Orleans, LA.

Maura Kelly, sociology faculty, was elected to serve on the 2026-2027 Nominations Committee for the Pacific Sociological Association.

Melissa Thompson, sociology faculty, was interviewed for a Street Roots article: Oregon’s Guilty Except for Insanity defense and Oregon’s Psychiatric Security Review Board.

Hyeyoung Woo, sociology faculty, organized an invited talk, “The Hitchhiker's Guide to Social Network Analysis,” by Dr. Eun Kyong Shin, an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Korea University and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University (2025-2026) for the graduate students in the Department of Sociology at PSU.

Hyeyoung Woo, sociology faculty, organized an informal discussion between sociology students and Dr. James Raymo from Princeton to explore their studies and life in academia.