by Currently June 6th 2024 Share Facebook Twitter Olamide Alo, EES-PhD candidate, was awarded the 2024 PSU Graduate Student Presidential Award for Service to the University for her work to enhance the student experiences at PSU in addition to her academic accomplishments.Arina Borodkina, Sociology undergraduate with a Psychology minor, was admitted to the University of Maryland Couple and Family Therapy M.S. program and will begin training for licensure with immigrant and Russian-speaking patients this coming fall. MacKenzie Christensen, who completed a Master’s in Sociology at PSU in 2018 with Dr. Emily Shafer, Sociology faculty, as her Advisor, will be starting a tenure-track job at University of Oregon’s Sociology department in fall 2024.Austin Dunham, EVSC student, presented a poster from work on an NSF funded social-ecological systems fellowship program, “Assessing risk across class, gender, and race for residents aged 18-30 in the Willamette Valley” on Mar. 22 at the Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting in San Diego, CA. Kevin Edenfield, Sociology undergraduate, was accepted to the Community Oriented Public Health Practice program at the University of Washington and will be starting the Problem Based Learning graduate program in person this Fall.Maya O’Boyle, Applied Ling Grad + TESL Certificate 2023, is a Finalist for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Bulgaria.Ned Tilbrook, Sociology graduate student, successfully defended his dissertation, Social Reproduction on Campus: Quantitative Investigations into the Reproduction of Gender and Socioeconomic Inequality through Higher Education, with the support of his Committee Chair Dara Shifrer, Sociology faculty, and committee members Lindsey Wilkinson, Sociology faculty, Sarah Kyte, and Byeongdon Oh, Sociology postdoc 2020-2022.Sri Vedantam, Sociology graduate student, secured a position as a Graduate Research Assistant, a Quantitative Data Analyst, on the Institute on Aging’s Behavioral Health Initiative project, a collaborative effort between the Oregon Health & Sciences University and Portland State University.Ariel Wilsey-Gopp, MA student, and Caleb Martin-Long, MA student, co-presented “Southernizing Applied Linguistics” on Mar. 17 at a colloquium during the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics in Houston, Texas.Portland State Interdisciplinary Neuroscience undergraduates completed their last school outreach visit at David Douglas High School on May 31. Currently Return to all news