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This Week
This Week at Portland StateNovember 5, 2007 Glengarry Glen Ross opens FridayThe School of Fine and Performing Arts presents David Mamet's Pulitzer-Prize winning comedy Glengarry Glen Ross Nov. 8-17 in 175 Lincoln Hall. Directed by Devon Allen, the gritty dark comedy exposes a dog-eat-dog world of real-estate salesmen as they scramble for their share of the American Dream. Tickets are $8.50 for PSU students, staff, and faculty and available at PSU Box Office. read more > Help a student-parent familyPSU departments are invited to "adopt" a PSU student-parent family this holiday season. The timeline is short: interested departments need to complete a form, available in Student Parent Services (124 Smith Union) by Nov. 13. A department will receive the adopted family's list of needed items, which should be purchased and ready for pick up Dec. 9. For more information, call 5-5655. Professor receives prestigious national awardLisa Zurk, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, was in Washington, D.C., last week to receive a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset to their academic careers. Zurk is one of two Oregonians to receive the award this year, and the second professor to receive it from PSU. read more > Breakfast discussion of 'Citizen Science' Nov. 8Faculty and staff are invited to "Citizen Science: Exploring Community-Engaged Research in the Natural Sciences," a free Civic Engagement Breakfast Thursday, Nov. 8, from 8:30 to 10 a.m. in 238 Smith Union. The discussion will focus on natural scientists' service roles as citizens in communities. Discussion leaders are Roy Koch, Gregory Ruiz, Mark Sytsma, and Carl Wamser. RSVP to the Center for Academic Excellence at caestaff@pdx.edu or call 5-5642. Giving to the annual Charitable Fund DriveCan't decide which organization to give to through the annual Charitable Fund Drive? CFD has a new Web site listing them all at www.oregoninvolved.org/cfd/, including two PSU funds listed under the Equity Foundation. Information packets on the statewide workplace-giving campaign went out last week to all faculty and staff. Gifts can be made one time or through payroll deduction. Printed schedule to no longer include room numbersStarting winter term, building and room locations for classes meeting on campus will no longer be printed in the Schedule of Classes. Locations for off-campus and online classes will continue to be printed. This printing change is a direct result of new classroom scheduling policies communicated by Lindsay Desrochers and Provost Roy Koch in a memo dated July 17, 2007. read more > For November 2007Notices | People | Presented | Published/Exhibited | Grants |
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