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Date	Title
13 Oct 2008	Christine Cress discusses community-based learning at Southern Oregon University Christine Cress, Educational Policy, Foundations and Administrative Studies faculty, gave an invited presentation, "Integrating Community-Based Learning into the Curriculum: Course Design Strategies for CBL and Service Learning Instructors," at Southern Oregon University, Sept. 11.
13 Oct 2008	David Sailor presents at World Green Roof Congress David Sailor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, gave an invited talk, "Energy and Urban Climate Benefits of Green Roofs," to the World Green Roof Congress in London, Sept. 17. More than 300 researchers and government officials attended the congress.
13 Oct 2008	Hiro Ito presents at Asian Economic Integration in a Global Context conference Hiro Ito, Economics faculty, presented "U.S. Current Account Deficit Debate, with Japan Then, and China Now" at the Asian Economic Integration in a Global Context conference, organized jointly by the American Committee for Asian Economic Studies and the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis, at University of Bologna, Rimini, Italy, Aug. 29-31.
13 Oct 2008	Mara Tableman presents at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Mara Tableman, Mathematics and Statistics, presented a block course on Survival Analysis for the Weiterbildungs-Lehrgang in Angewandter Statistik of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, during August and September.
13 Oct 2008	Mark Chubb presents before Regenhard Center for Emergency Responder Studies Mark Chubb, Executive Leadership Institute faculty, presented the keynote paper at the Regenhard Center for Emergency Responder Studies' session of the Academy for Critical Incident Analysis symposium sponsored by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York in New York, Oct. 3. The presentation proposed a model for examining public policy and public management issues arising from disasters through the first-hand experiences of front-line responders.
13 Oct 2008	Mark Fishbein presents at Plant Taxonomists meeting Mark Fishbein, Biology faculty, presented "Are Milkweeds Getting Hairier? An Evaluation of Herbivore-Driven Escalation of Trichome Density in Asclepias (Apocynaceae)" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Vancouver, B.C., in July.
13 Oct 2008	Pamela Miller presents at Oregon Hospice Professional Practices Exchange Pamela Miller, Social Work, presented the plenary talk, "Communication at the End-of-Life: Social Work, Hospice and Oregon's Death with Dignity Act," at the Oregon Hospice Association's Professional Practices Exchange in Redmond, Oct. 3.
13 Oct 2008	Robert Strongin presents at American Chemical Society Robert Strongin, Chemistry faculty, presented an invited lecture, "Synthesis and Evaluation of Simple NIR Emitting Dyes with Large Stokes Shifts" at the 235th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Inc., Philadelphia, Aug. 19.
13 Oct 2008	Steve Johnson presents at Oregon Bus Project's Politicorps Steve Johnson, Urban Studies and Planning adjunct, gave a presentation on community organizing in watersheds at the Oregon Bus Project's Politicorps summer camp, July 22.
6 Oct 2008	Carl Wamser presents at Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines conference Carl Wamser, Chemistry faculty, presented an invited talk at the Fifth International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines held in Moscow, Russia, in July. The presentation described work carried out by his PSU research group in the area of artificial photosynthesis, specifically the synthesis and characterization of novel conductive polymers for use in solar cells.
6 Oct 2008	Christopher Monsere presents at North American Travel Monitoring conference Christopher Monsere, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, presented three papers at the North American Travel Monitoring Exhibition and Conference in Washington, D.C., Aug. 6-8. The co-authored papers were titled "Toward Incorporating Arterial Performance Quality in the PORTAL Archived Data User Service," "Building a WIM Data Archive for Improved Modeling, Design, and Rating" and "Techniques for Establishing and Measuring Data Quality in an Archived Data User Service."
6 Oct 2008	Debra Gwartney presents at Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Debra Gwartney, English faculty, was a research fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass., this summer. Last week, she presented her book--a memoir that will be published in February by Houghton Mifflin--to the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. The book was featured as part of the annual Feast of Authors.
6 Oct 2008	Franz Rad presents lecture series to U.S. Navy engineers Franz Rad, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, was invited by the American Concrete Institute to present a series of lectures to the U.S. Navy engineers in Silverdale, Wash., Sept. 15-16. Topics included the application of the 2008 ACI Building Code to the design of reinforced concrete structures, with an emphasis on earthquake-resistant provisions.
6 Oct 2008	Heejun Chang presents at American Geophysical Union Heejun Chang, Geography faculty, presented a paper, "Potential Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources in the Willamette River Basin" at the spring meeting of American Geophysical Union, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., May 30.
6 Oct 2008	John Hall presents to Economic Research fellows in Germany 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.
6 Oct 2008	Junghee Lee presents at Asian Women Artist conference Junghee Lee, Art faculty, presented a paper, "Refinement and Sexuality: Women Artists of the Choson Dynasty," at a conference titled "Places at the Table: Asian Women Artists and Gender Dynamics" at University of California Berkeley Art Museum on Sept. 13.
6 Oct 2008	Marjorie Burns presents at Smithsonian and at Central Connecticut State University Marjorie Burns, English faculty, presented "Journey to Vahalla: The Lasting Influence of the Old Norse World" at an Evening Seminar for the Smithsonian Associates at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., Aug. 7. She also presented "Saintly and Distant Mothers: George MacDonald, the Virgin Mary, and J.R.R. Tolkien" as a scholar guest of honor at the 39th Annual Mythopoeic Conference at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Conn., Aug. 16.
6 Oct 2008	Michael McGregor presents at Peace and Justice conference Michael McGregor, English faculty, presented "Pax and the Origins of Original Child Bomb: Thomas Merton, Robert Lax and the Poetics of Peace" at the Peace and Justice Studies Association "Building Cultures of Peace" Conference, Portland, Sept. 13.
6 Oct 2008	Steve Johnson co-presents at International Bike Conference Steve Johnson, Urban Studies and Planning adjunct faculty, co-presented the keynote speech at the International Bike Conference in Tokyo, Japan, July 10.