Michael Munk, author of Portland Red Guide, published by PSU's Ooligan Press, will speak on "Portland's Radical Past" at the Retirement Association of Portland State (RAPS) meeting Thursday, May 15, at 1:30 p.m. in the Astoria Room, University Place, 310 Lincoln St. The talk is free and open to the public. In his book and his talk, Munk tells the stories of Portland radicals and refers to specific places in Portland that one can visit today.

Dan Rogers, Business faculty, co-authored the paper "Does Hedging Reduce Economic Exposure? Hurricanes, Jet Fuel Prices, and Airlines" presented at the Eastern Finance Association meeting in St. Pete Beach, Fla., April 9-12.

Dilafruz Williams, Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies faculty, authored "Sustainability Education's Gift: Learning Patterns and Relationships," published in the International Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2008.

Franz Rad, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented the paper "Behavior of Grouted Conduit Connections Under Cyclic Loading" at the Annual Convention of the American Concrete Institute in Los Angeles, March 30-April 3. The paper was co-authored by student Mike Pyszka.

The Center for Academic Excellence is accepting proposals from faculty for scholarship related to partnerships. Proposals are due May 19. Funding will range from $1,000 to $3,000 and will be announced the first week of June. For complete information and the RFP, visit www.pdx.edu/cae/partnershipinitiative.html.

Harrell Fletcher, Art faculty, started a new participatory Web site titled “Some People” at http://www.somepeoplepeople.com. “Some People” invites participants to submit documentaries about interesting people, with the goal of revealing otherwise hidden lives and creating new documentary approaches on the Web.

Jesse Dillard, Business faculty, presented the keynote address "Emergent Information Systems for Alternative Value Based Organizations" at the Annual Conference of the British Accounting Association, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, April 2.

Ladis Kristof, Political Science faculty emeritus, was designated an Association of American Geographers Fifty-Year Member at the association’s annual meeting in Boston during April.

Jan Semenza, former PSU faculty member; Linda George, Environmental Sciences faculty; Dave Sailor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty; and students Daniel Wilson and Jeremy Parra co-authored the article "Public Perception and Behavior Change in Relationship to Hot Weather and Air Pollution" published in Environmental Research, April 2008.

The Civil War Round Table at PSU will feature Matthew Dennis, author and Oregon State University history professor, Wednesday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m. in 447 Cramer Hall. Dennis, author of the best selling book, Red, White and Blue Letter Days, will discuss the rumor and legends surrounding the founding of Lincoln's birthday and the origins of Memorial Day. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 5-5473.

Paul Collins, English faculty, presented "The Autisphere" at the Minnesota State Autism Conference, May 3.

Robin Paynter, Library faculty, presented "Commercial Serials Decision Support Databases" at the Oregon and Washington Library Association Joint Meeting in Vancouver, Wash., April 17-18.

Sue Taylor, Art faculty, authored "The Erotic Eye," a review of three new books on art and sexuality, published in Art in America, May 2008.

Talya Bauer, Business faculty, and Donald Truxillo, Psychology faculty, co-hosted with others the Applicant Reactions Cross-Cultural Organizational Surveys research incubator at the Interactive Research Agenda Session at the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology Annual Meeting in San Francisco in April. Bauer also served as a panelist on the topic of mentoring and participated in the symposium discussion on "Multi-level and Multi-Perspective Research in Leader-Member Exchange Leadership."

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Christine Cress, Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies faculty, presented "Pedagogical and Ethical Dilemmas of Teaching Service-Learning: Promises and Practices of Community Engagement" at the 2008 Continuums of Service Conference in Portland, April 18.

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Eric Fruits, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, testified to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague on the statistics of alleged deportations and murders of Kosovo Albanians during the March-June 1999 NATO air campaign. April 23-24.

The campus community is invited to attend the Helen Gordon Child Development Center Annual Fundraising Auction Friday, May 9, at the Tiffany Center, 1410 SW Morrison St. The event will include a buffet dinner and live music. For tickets, call 5-3093.

Jennifer Perlmutter, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "Anne de La Roche-Guilhen's Power-Hungry Heroines" at the 40th annual meeting of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature at Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., April 24-26.

Karen Gibson, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented "Revisiting the 1968 'Report on Problems of Racial Justice in Portland" at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, April 24, in Baltimore.

Keith Hadley, Geography faculty, was co-recipient of a $260,000 National Science Foundation collaborative research grant to examine "The Occurrence of Severe Pacific Northwest Windstorms: A Multi-Century Dendroclimatic Assessment of Their Ecological Impacts."

Linda George, Environmental Sciences faculty, and alumnus Matt Mavko co-authored "A Sub-Neighborhood Scale Land Use Regression Model for Predicting NO2," published in Science of the Total Environment, April 2008.

Martin Zwick, Systems Science faculty, presented "Systems Metaphysics: A Bridge from Science to Religion," at the Center for Cooperative Phenomena at the University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Mo., April 17.

Masami Nishishiba, Public Administration faculty, presented "Valuing, Enabling and Managing Client and Staff Diversity" at the Oregon Department of Human Services, State Family Planning Program, Family Planning Coordinators' Meeting in Portland, April 21.

Michael Clark, English faculty, has received a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship in Croatia for the 2009 academic year. He will teach courses on film and U.S. law.

Patti Duncan and Priya Kandaswamy, Women's Studies faculty; and Marie Lo, English faculty, received the Asian Reporter Foundation's Exemplary Community Volunteer Award for their work with Asian Pacific American Compass Collective at KBOO radio, 90.7 FM. Asian Pacific American Compass is a monthly Asian Pacific American public affairs program.

Radu Popa, Biology faculty, has received a $195,741 research grant from the NASA Astrobiology program to study how microbes extract energy from crystals of peridote, to describe the fingerprints of this activity and use them to search for evidence of past life in Martian meteorites.

Sarah Eppley, Biology faculty, co-authored the paper "Moving to Mate: The Evolution of Separate and Combined Sexes in Multicellular Organisms," published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 21, 2008.

Sue Taylor, Art faculty, presented "Grant Wood's Self-Fashioning" at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Ga., April 23.

State Board of Higher Education (the “Board”) president, Kirby Dyess, announced today that Dr. Wim Wiewel (pronounced Vim Vee-vell), provost and senior vice president of the University of Baltimore, has been named the new president of Portland State University.