Currently Accolades: Presented for November 9, 2020

Every week during the academic year, Currently celebrates faculty and staff accomplishments, including appearances on panels, presentations, recent publications or performances, and research grants.

1. Jola Ajibade, geography faculty, gave a colloquium talk titled “Retreat as a Socio-spatial Resilience Fix: An Examination of Ten Years Post-disaster Reconstruction and City Transformation in Two Global South Cities” at MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism on Oct. 28.  
2. Rowanna Carpenter, university studies faculty, presented on a panel titled “Fireside Chat on Equity and Assessment: Examples from Practice” at the Assessment Institute on Oct. 26.
3. Eric Einspruch, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health and urban and public affairs, presented as a member of the panel titled “An Examination of Needs Assessment Case Studies” during the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association in October.
4. Joel Owens, business faculty, presented “The Sound of Silence: What Does a Standard Unqualified Audit Opinion Mean Under the Recent Going Concern Financial Accounting Standard?” at the 2020 Accounting Behavior and Organizations Research Conference on Oct. 3. 
5. Patricia Schechter, history faculty, participated in a panel “What is Moral Leadership?” sponsored by the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education and WorldOregon, on Oct. 29.