Currently Accolades: People for January 4, 2021

Every week during the academic year, Currently celebrates faculty and staff accomplishments, including appearances on panels, presentations, recent publications or performances, and research grants.

1. Idowu (Jola) Ajibade, geography faculty, was featured in the “Climate Migration” episode of New Hampshire Public Radio’s Outside/In on Dec 3.  
2. Bruno Jedynak, Daniel Taylor-Rodriguez and Dorcas Ofori-Boateng, mathematics and statistics faculty, analyzed data from the federal government's relief program for small businesses at the request of the Portland Business Journal. The results were highlighted in the article “Analysis: PPP Date Shows Reach, Shortcomings of $659B Relief Program,” published on Dec. 7.
3. Ryan Petteway, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health faculty, was nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize for his National Poetry Month Award-winning poem “TOGETHER//Untethered.”
4. Ryan Petteway, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health faculty, was featured on OPB’s Think Out Loud for his efforts to humanize and expand public health outreach through poetry and art.
5. Gerry Sussman, urban studies and planning and international and global studies faculty, was interviewed for an article titled “Welcome to ‘Crazytown’: An Unprecedented Frenzy In Georgia Shows How Democracy Breaks Down”  in Alternet’s Raw Story on Dec. 4.
6. Suwako Watanabe, world languages and literatures faculty, was quoted in the article “Learn Japanese: A U.S. News Guide” by Clare Becker in U.S. News and World Report on Dec. 7.