Jackie Waggoner, education, published “Increasing parental involvement of English Language Learner families: What the research says” (with Tarasawa, B.) in Journal of Children and Poverty (http://tinyurl.com/o8l4y9e). She also presented (with McGunnigle C., O’Connor, D., Treasure, T., Cranley, L., and Davie, S.) “It’s okay. I’m a…teacher. Is professional status important to teachers?” in the Proceedings at the 7th Interna­tional Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona, Spain, ISBN: 978-84-606-8243-1, 650-655.

Peter Rachor, Franz Center, was quoted in an article, “Thinking Outside the Cube,” in the September 4 edition of the Portland Tribune. See the article at http://tinyurl.com/ng295ag.

Ami Ahern-Rindell, biology, and 2013-2014 Dundon-Berchtold Biology Fellow, and her student collaborator and Dundon-Berchtold Scholar, Alex Quackenbush, had a peer-reviewed paper published in the Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR) Quarterly fall issue (Vol. 36 No. 1) dedicated to “Ethics and the Responsible Conduct of Undergraduate Research.” The paper is entitled “Applied Ethics Can Foster the Teacher-Scholar Model and Impact Undergraduate Research Campus-Wide.” The article highlights UP’s efforts to support faculty-student scholarly collaborations pertaining to applied ethics and provides a specific example in the biology discipline. UP’s Dundon-Berchtold Initiative is featured in the article and suggested as a possible model for other higher education institutions to emulate.

Amber Vermeesch, nursing, wrote “Biological and Sociocultur al Differences in Perceived Barriers to Physical Activity among 5th– 7th Grade Urban Girls” (with Ling, J., Voskuil, V., Bakhoya, M., Wesolek, S., Bourne, K., Pfeiffer, K., & Robbins, L.) in Nursing Research, 64(5), 342-350. doi: 10.1097/NNR. 0000000000000113.

Karen Eifler, education, presented “Ways to Pray: Visio Divina” (with Beth Barsotti, Campus Ministry) at the Wake Up the World: 2015 Year of Consecrated Life Conference hosted by Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon. Beaverton, Oregon, Sept. 2015.