Miriam Abelson, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies faculty, gave an invited lecture, “More Guns than Masks: Queer Survival and Far Right Visibility Politics in the Inland Northwest.” at Dartmouth College, Society of Fellows on April 16, 2026, in Hanover, NH.
Talya Bauer, School of Business faculty, was a speaker at the session “Optimizing Quality of Hire: Insights From Best-In-Class Fortune 500 Companies” at the annual meeting of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. May 1. New Orleans, LA.
Ramin Farahmandpur, education faculty, was selected as a 2026 Fellow in the Fellowship and Summer Institute on Antisemitism and Jewish Identity in Educational Settings, hosted by the George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development in Washington, D.C., June 22–25.
Sally Guyon, Ed.D., Leadership, Learning, & Counseling, Early Childhood Faculty, and Infant Toddler Mental Health Graduate Certificate alum, Melissa Williams, M.Ed., IMH-E, were interviewed on OPB's Think Out Loud on March 27, 2026.
Ryan Petteway, public health faculty, organized and co-hosted "Stats & Stanzas 2026: Living Room", held at the Hilton Downtown Portland during the 2026 Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) conference (April 2026).
Ryan Petteway, public health faculty, organized and co-facilitated a poetry workshop, “Dreaming Poetic Health Justice: Writing, Reading, & Teaching Poetry for the Public’s Health”, as part of the 2026 Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) conference in Portland, OR (April 2026).
Dilafruz Williams, education professor emerita, gave a talk in May 2026 at the Garden Club of Los Altos, California: "Art, Craft, and Culture and in the Garden" drawing upon her national and international travels to Austria, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.