Larry Larsen, performing and fine arts, designed the scenery for Oregon Children’s Theater’s production of “Junie B. Jones: The Musical” which opens on October 24 in the Newmark Theater at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. The show runs through November 22.

Eugene Urnezius, chemistry, had his article, “Metal–Halogen Secondary Bonding in a 2,5-Dichlorohydroquinonate Cobalt(II) Complex: Insight into Substrate Coordination in the Chlorohydroquinone Dioxygenase PcpA” (with Schofield, J. A.; Brennessel, W. W.; Rokhsana, D.; Boshart, M. D.; Juers, D. H.; Holland, P. L.; Machonkin, T. E.) published in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, October 2015, 4643-4647.

Hannah Callender, mathematics, co-organized and co-chaired a mini symposium on “Individual-Based Models in Ecology and Epidemiology” at the International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. She also co-organized and co-chaired an invited session on “Advising Student Research Using Individual-Based Models” and delivered a talk during that session entitled “IONTW: An Agent-Based Application for Modeling Infectious Diseases on Contact Networks.” Former UP mathematics major Claire Seibold also presented a poster at the meeting. The poster was coauthored by Callender and current UP students Todd Graham and Rebecca Seibold and was entitled “Modeling Infectious Diseases Through Contact Networks”.

Sarina Saturn, psychological sciences, presented on the biology underlying emotions at the Portland Chapter of Advancing Science in America (ARCS) on October 16. On October 14, she gave a presentation to the Multnomah County Library directors about the biology underlying stressful and prosocial emotions. Saturn served as presenter at the Grand Rounds at Portland Providence Medical Center on October 7.

Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, gave an invited presentation on October 11 as part of “Cultures of the Sephardic Diapora: A Weekend of Music and Learning,” a program organized by the Judaic Studies Program at Portland State University and the Sephardic Cultural Center of Portland. The title of his talk was “From Jews to New Christians to Secret Jews: An Iberian Geographic and Literary Journey.”