Will Macht wins ULI award for Leadership of Distinction

Carl Abbott, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, is the author of How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America, published by University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

Charles Deemer, English adjunct faculty, has published online and as a DVD a silent comedy, The Heirs, written, directed, and edited by Deemer. It is available online at http://www.ibiblio.org/cdeemer/Heirs.htm.

Cynthia Mohr, Psychology faculty, and student Debi Brannan co-authored "Evidence for Positive Mood Buffering Among College Student Drinkers" published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 34, Issue 9, 2008.

Elise Granek, Environmental Sciences faculty, was selected to participate in Women Evolving Biological Sciences, an annual three-day symposium aimed at addressing the retention of female scientists and issues related to the transition of women from early career stages to tenure track positions and leadership roles in academic and research settings.

Gerry Sussman, Urban Studies and Planning and Communication faculty, has been chosen for the editorial board of the newly formed Central European Journal of Communication.

Hiro Ito, Economics faculty, authored a book review of Monetary Policy with Very Low Inflation in the Pacific Rim, published in the International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2008.

John Hall, Economics and International studies faculty, delivered the lecture "Neoclassical Versus Keynesian Approaches to Eastern German Unemployment" to fellows of the institute for Economic Research in Halle, Germany, Sept. 17.

Katherine McDonald, Psychology faculty, and student Shannon Myrick co-authored "Principles, Promises, and a Personal Plea: What is an Evaluator to Do?" published in the September issue of the American Journal of Evaluation.

Lynn Fox, Speech and Hearing Sciences, authored “Interactions: A Therapeutic Consideration for Adults with Aphasia” published in Perspectives in Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Vol. 17.

Marie Lo, English faculty, authored "Model Minority, Models of Resistance: Native Figures in Asian Canadian Literature" published in Canadian Literature, Vol. 196, 2008.

Mark Fishbein, Biology faculty, co-authored “Rediscovery of Mirabilis hintoniorum (Nyctaginaceae), a Striking Four-o'clock Endemic to the Sierra de Coalcomán, Michoacán, México” published in the Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Vol. 2, 2008.

Natalie Vasey, Anthropology faculty, co-authored "A Reconstruction of the Vienna Skull of Hadropithecus Stenognathus" published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 105, No. 31, August 2008.

Robert Strongin, Chemistry faculty, and students Jorge Escobedo and Martha Sibrian-Vazquez co-authored "Seminaphthofluorones are a Family of Water-Soluble, Low Molecular Weight, NIR-Emitting Fluorophores" published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Vol. 105, 2008.

Teresa Bulman, Geography faculty, received a $50,000 grant from the National Geographic Society for geography education programs and a $2,500 grant from the Government of Canada for a Canada/Oregon geography conference for K-12 teachers.

Brad Tuttle and Jessie Dillard who received the Accounting Horizons Best Paper Award for their article, "Beyond Competition: Institutional Isomorphism in U.S. Accounting Research." This AAA award, which is sponsored by McGraw Hill, was presented to Professor Tuttle and Professor Dillard in the form of a plaque and a $2,500 prize for each recipient on Wednesday, August 6th at the AAA 2008 Annual Meeting held in Anaheim, California.

Alex Ruzicka, Geology faculty, and student Thomas J. Schepker presented "Trace-Element Analyses of Pyroxene and Plagioclase in Three HED Meteorites" at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Matsue, Japan, July 28-Aug. 1.

Bid on art and provide student scholarships at the Art Department's online auction, A New Path to the Waterfall.

Christina Luther, International Affairs, received the Service to Homeland Award from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for her assistance coordinating, notifying, and hosting town hall meetings with academic stakeholders about the importance of the congressionally mandated Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

Craig Schiller, Information Technology, was interviewed by Dennis Carter for the article "Botnets: Beware the 'army of darkness,'" appearing in Ed Tech magazine, June 16. He also was interviewed by Oregon Public Broadcast reporter Pete Springer for the radio and Web page report, "Oregon Third in the Nation in Terms of Spam Rates," Aug. 8.

Dave Ervin, Environmental Sciences faculty, was a visiting scholar in the Department of Land Economy at Cambridge University May through June 2008. During his stay, he interviewed European scholars on the economics of business sustainability and university-industry research relationships for two book projects. He also presented seminars at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris on voluntary business environmental management and at University of Lancaster on university-industry relationships in biotechnology.

David Sailor and Graig Spolek, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, received a $149,500 grant from the U.S. Green Building Council and a matching grant of $75,000 from Oregon BEST for research leading to the development of a green roof energy savings calculator. The research also involves collaboration with colleagues at University of Toronto and the trade organization Green Roofs for Healthy Cities.

Eva Nunez, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored an article titled "La Diamela Eltit de Mano de obra: mistica de los trabajadores" published in Hispanofila, Vol. 152, 2008, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Gerardo Lafferriere, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-authored the paper "Control of Formations under Persistent Disturbances" published in the Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference that took place in Seattle in June. He presented the paper at the conference.

Gil Latz, International Affairs vice provost, will represent PSU on a United States advisory working group charged with formulating a set of recommendations on how to strengthen higher education cooperation between the United States and Vietnam. In June, the United States and Vietnam signed a memorandum of understanding to establish an education task force. The advisory will submit its recommendations to each government by January 2009.

Hiro Ito, Economics faculty, co-authored "A New Measure of Financial Openness" published in the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 2008. He also co-authored "Global Current Account Imbalances: American Fiscal Policy versus East Asian Savings" published in Review of International Economics, Vol. 16, Issue 3 (August 2008).

James White, Social Work faculty, co-authored “Effects of Enhanced Foster Care on the Long-term Physical and Mental Health of Foster Care Alumni” published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 65, No. 6, June 2008.

John Hall, Economics and International Studies faculty, co-authored the article "Continuity and Continuous: The Chain of Ideas Linking Peirce's Synechism to Veblen's Cumulative Causation” published in the Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XLII, No. 2 (2008).

Join the President's Commission on the Status of Women to help with campus concerns by contacting Nanci Feltner at nfeltner@pdx.edu or 5-8229.

Julie Rosenzweig and Eileen Brennan, Social Work faculty, authored “Child Care and Employed Parents of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders” published in the Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2008).

Kimberly Willson-St. Clair, Library, served as a poetry judge for the Willa Awards 2008, Women Writing the West. The awards will be presented at the Willa Awards banquet in San Antonio in October.

Faculty and staff were welcomed back to campus at Fall Convocation September 23, 2008

Meiru Liu, Business Administration faculty, co-authored a book, Anatomy of the Chinese Business Mind, published by Cengage Learning in July 2008.

President Wim Wiewel presented five guilding themes for PSU at Fall Convocation, Sept. 23

Patricia Wetzel, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, and Masami Nishishiba, Public Administration faculty, received a three-year, $500,000 from the U.S. Department of Education International Research and Studies grant for a project to develop online training in interpretation and translation. The grant will be used to create e-learning modules for Japanese interpretation and Arabic translation.

For Queer History Month, the Queer Resource Center is showing free films Oct. 3, 10, 17 in 401 Smith Union.

Robert Strongin, Chemistry faculty, presented "Detection and Bioorganic Chemistry of Biological Thiols" at the fourth Sino-U.S. Chemistry Professors' Conference, Peking University Health Sciences Center, Beijing, China, June 12.

Students N. Nève, J.K. Lingwood, J. Zimmerman, and faculty Sean Kohles and Derik Tretheway, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, authored "The Micro-PIVOT: An Integrated Particle Image Velocimeter and Optical Tweezers Instrument for Microenvironment Investigations" published in Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 19, No. 9, 2008.

Steve Johnson, Urban Studies and Planning adjunct, co-presented the keynote speech "The Role of Arts and Civic Space in a Healthy Community" at the opening ceremony for the Arte Piazza Bibai in Bibai, Japan, July 3. Johnson also presented a paper on the role of civic engagement in creating sustainable communities at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan, July 7. Johnson was selected to be part of an international research group sponsored by the university and Japan's Ministry of Education, studying partnership developments of local governance.

Sue Taylor, Art History faculty, presented a lecture on "Andy Warhol: Postmodern Persona" at the Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Wash., July 24.

Susan Wladaver-Morgan, Pacific Historical Review, participated in a panel on "Publishing and the Profession" at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association in Pasadena, Calif., Aug. 7 -9. She also chaired a panel titled "Constructing Images of Women: Ideology and Material Culture" at the conference

Walk the Labyrinth tomorrow, Sept. 30, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in 328 Smith Union thanks to Growing Roots and the Spiritual Life Center.

New talent; Winning volleyball women return

Student rock band wins the battle; See artists at work; Off campus: Love at the Artists Repertory Theatre; New works

A $1 million gift from alumni Keren Brown Wilson and Michael DeShane is creating "Aging Matters, Locally and Globally" in the PSU Institute on Aging.

Portland State honors advocate Debbie Murdock with clock tower.

Dark Horse Comic's full colletion is on the shelves in the PSU Library.

Wim Wiewel takes the helm as Portland State University's new president.

Architecture students learn their trade from newly renovated Shattuck Hall.

A generous gift from Dark Horse, Inc., will result in a complete collection of the Dark Horse corpus to be preserved in the Portland State University Library Special Collections.

Oregon Community Foundation Grant Awarded.

Register now for the 2nd Annual International Conference on Business & Sustainability: Designing Sustainability

Joined by Mayor-elect Sam Adams, new PSU President Wim Wiewel, rode his bicycle to Portland State for his first day.

Starting fall 2008, Portland State University will have a Russian Language Flagship program, aimed at creating superior speakers of Russian.

Objects and artifacts held by the Portland State University will be preserved for future generations with help from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Connecting to Collections Bookshelf

Bin Jiang, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-authored "Bioinspired Broadband Antireflection Coatings on GaSb" published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 92, Issue 14, April 9.

Dirgham Sbait, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored the essays "A Tribute to Nazik al-Mala'ikah, Poetess & Scholar Par Excellence" and "Debate in the Improvised-Sung Folk Poetry of the Palestinian Poet-Singers" published in Oregon Literary Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2008.

Elizabeth Almer, Business Administrative faculty, is president-elect for the Accounting, Behaviors, and Organization section of the American Accounting Association.

PSU is hosting a summer term Red Cross blood drive Wednesday, Aug. 13, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Smith Union Ballroom. To schedule an appointment go online to www.givelife.org/index.cfm?Sponsor=PortlandState or contact Gwyn Ashcom at gwyn@pdx.edu or 5-5123.

Gretta Siegel, Library faculty, guest edited a "Libraries and Graduate Students: Building Connections” issue of Public Services Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 3-4.

Janet Walker, Daniel Coleman, Junghee Lee, Peter Squire, and Barbara Friesen, authored an article, "Children's Stigmatization of Childhood Depression and ADHD: Magnitude and Demographic Variation in a National Sample," published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol. 47, No. 8, 2008.

Julie Rosenzweig and Eileen Brennan, Social Work faculty, co-authored "Child Care and Employed Parents of Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders" published in the Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 16, No. 2.

Margaret Neal, Institute on Aging faculty, was elected by the Gerontological Society of America membership as social research, policy, and practice section secretary.

Mark Fishbein, Biology faculty, co-authored "Evolution of Latex and its Constituent Defensive Chemistry in Milkweeds (Asclepias)" published in Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Vol. 128.

Michaela Brenner, Library faculty, co-authored "Discovering the Library with Google Earth" published in Information Technology and Libraries, Vol. 27, No. 2, June 2008.

Miguel Figliozzi, Civil Environmental Engineering faculty, received the Best Paper Award in the Transportation Planning category at the 10th International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation held in Athens, Greece, in May. His award-winning paper is titled, "An Iterative Route Construction and Improvement Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft and Hard Time Windows."

The Women's Resource Center at Portland State will hold a fall Feminism Conference titled "Under Pressure: Women, Oppression, and Leadership" Friday, October 31, in Smith Union. Students, staff, and community members of all genders are invited to participate. To register for the student-run conference, visit www.wrc.pdx.edu/conference. The conference planning committee is also accepting workshop proposals.

Pelin Basci, Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, authored "Türk Edebiyatı Kanonu ve Ulusal Kimli in Sınırları" (The Canon of Turkish Literature and the Limits of National Identity) published in Pasaj Edebiyat, Vol. 6 (November 2007-May 2008), a special issue on the literary canon.

Robert Strongin, Chemistry faculty, co-authored "Gold Nanoparticle Sensor for Homocysteine Thiolactone-Induced Protein Modification" published in Langmuir, Vol. 24; "Chiral Recognition of Amino Acids by Use of a Fluorescent Resorcinarene" in Applied Spectroscopy, Vol. 62; "Determination of Enantiomeric Compositions of Analytes Using Novel Fluorescent Chiral Molecular Micelles and Steady State Fluoresence Measurements" in the Journal of Fluorescence, Vol. 18. (2008); "Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Chiral Ionic Liquids and Investigation of Their Enantiomeric Recognition Properties" in Chirality, Vol. 20; and "Iron(III)-Salophene: An Organometallic Compound with Selective Cytotoxic and Anti-Proliferatice Properties in Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer Cells," in Public Library of Science One, Vol. 3.

Sherry Buchanan, Library staff, presented "Just in Time Acquisitions via Interlibrary Loan: Purchasing Models and Workflows" at the 40th Annual State University of New York Library Association Conference in Potsdam, N.Y., June 11.

Twenty-four Ronald E. McNair student scholars will be presenting their summer research projects from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 13, in 228 Smith Union.

William Lang, History faculty, authored "Swimming Canaries: What the Fate of Anadromous Fish Tells Us about the Pacific Northwest Environment" published in the Oregon English Journal, Spring 2008.

Government Relations Legislative Update for July 29, 2008

On July 12, 2008, 15 Portland State physics students exhibited their physics knowledge at OMSI by displaying posters on a variety of topics.

Effective July 1, 2008, annual Unsubsidized Stafford loan limits will increase by $2000 for all undergraduate students.

Most managers have heard from their company leaders that leadership talent is—or will shortly be—a scarce resource.

Recognizing and discussing defining moments in your professional and personal lives make you a better leader. Those defining moments--called crucibles--can shape who you are as a leader.

As a supervisor or department head faced with a department that’s about to implode, take a candid look at either reinventing the structure of the group or replacing certain key individuals within it.

The Pacific Northwest Children's Book Conference for writers and illustrators, sponsored by Portland State University, will be held on the campus of Reed College, July 14-18, 2008.

a review of the new entrance counseling requirement or Graduate PLUS loan borrowers

Robert Bertini testifies on sustainable, energy efficient transportation infrastructure.

Newest faculty member joins Department of Music in the Fall.

The Oregon Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies Center, one of Oregon's new signature research centers, is investing $480,000 in 10 faculty teams at Oregon universities whose work has the potential to fuel the state's growing sustainability and renewable energy sectors.

Portland State's Department of Art presents its first annual online auction. Bidding starts June 6, 2008.

The State Board of Higher Education has approved a new master's degree program in Architecture at Portland State University.

Cassie McVeety, University Relations vice president, and Julie Smith, University Communications, presented "Building and Managing Your Institutional Brand" at the 2008 Willamette Valley Development Officers Regional Conference in Portland, May 16. McVeety and Smith discussed the importance of developing an integrated marketing program and the relationship of branding to fundraising at Portland State.

Christine Cress, Educational Policy, Foundations and Administrative Studies faculty, presented “Integrating Service Learning into the Curriculum: Course and Syllabus Design Strategies for Service Learning Instructors” at the Community College National Center for Community Engagement Annual Conference, Scottsdale, Ariz., May 21.

David Burgess, Office of Institutional Research and Planning, presented "Using Time Series Graphs to Quantify and Analyze Undergraduate Admissions Data" at the Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research held in Seattle, May 25-28.

Gretta Siegel, Library faculty, presented "Saving the Environment, One Reference Question at a Time" at a Portland Area Library System workshop, May 9.

Jack Corbett, Public Administration faculty, was interviewed on Radio Movimiento´s "Hora Campesina" about immigration policy and prospects for undocumented workers. Corbett also presented "Research Questions and Research Methods: Strategies for Integration in Field Settings" at the Center for Advanced Research in Social Anthropology in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Jesse Dillard, Business faculty, presented "Green Owl and the Corn Maiden" at the Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference in New York City, April 24-26.

Juliette Stoering and Rowanna Carpenter, Office of Institutional Research and Planning, presented "Student Enrollment Pattern Characteristics: Contributors to Community College Student Transfer and Bachelor's Degree Attainment in an Urban Metropolitan Region" at the Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research held in Seattle, May 25-28. Colleague Lina Lu with Stoering and Carpenter also presented "Evaluation of a Co-Admission Program: Community College Transfer Students' Experiences and Outcomes" at the forum.

Mark Kaplan, Community Health faculty, was appointed to an experts panel that will make recommendations to the Department of Veterans Affairs on ways it can improve its programs in suicide prevention, research, and education.

Miguel Figliozzi, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented "An Iterative Route Construction and Improvement Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft and Hard Time Windows" at the 10th International Conference on Application of Advanced Technologies in Transportation in Athens, Greece, May 27-31. The paper has been published in the conference proceedings. Figliozzi also chaired a session on transportation and logistics modeling.

Students from Portland State programs earn six out of eight Gates Millennium Scholarships

Richard Lycan, Population Research Center, authored the chapter "Linking Tax-Lot and Student Record Data: Applications in School Planning" published in Applied Demography in the 21st Century, Springer, March 2008.

Scott Burns, Geology faculty, presented "Earthquakes in Oregon: Past, Present and Future" to the Portland area emergency managers conference sponsored by Legacy Health Systems, May 27; "The Mystique of Terroir in the Pacific Northwest: The Relationship between Climate, Soils, Geology and Wine" at the Spokane Community College in Spokane, May 27; and "Debris Flow Formation on Cascade Volcanoes in November 2006" and "Landslide Hazard map for the Portland West Hills Based on LiDAR and GIS" at the Geological Society of America meeting in Las Vegas, March 20-21.