Sr. Carol Dempsey, O.P., theology, spoke on “Hearing the Prophets from the Bowels of the Earth: A Dominican Perspective” as a guest of the Sister Maura Campbell, O.P. Lecture Series on October 19. The theology and philosophy department at Caldwell University initiated the lecture series in celebration of the 800th anniversary of the Order of Preachers.

Joanne Warner, nursing emerita, was officially inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN) on Saturday, October 17, during the Academy’s annual policy conference, “Transforming Health, Driving Policy,” in Washington, D.C. She was the only nursing leader inducted from Oregon this year. The FAAN’s approximately 2,200 fellows are nursing leaders in education, management, practice and research. Fellows represent association executives; university presidents, chancellors and deans; state and federal political appointees; hospital chief executives and vice presidents for nursing; nurse consultants; and researchers and entrepreneurs.

Eugene Urnezius, chemistry, coauthored “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.

Tisha Morrell and Julie Kalnin, education, presented the workshop “Integrating CCSS and NGSS Using Children’s Literature” at the Oregon Science Teachers Association Annual Conference in Bend, Ore., on October 17. They led a group of teachers through an exercise to connect engineering design standards with the common core state standards in English and language arts.

Lars Erik Larson, English, presented a paper exploring how the highway can aid awareness of planetary deep time, using the example of John McPhee’s Pulitzer-winning geologic biography of America, Annals of the Former World (Western Literature Association Conference, Reno, Nevada, Oct. 16).

Bob Butler, environmental studies, was an organizer and lead instructor of an Earthquake and Tsunami Education Workshop in Arcata, California. The workshop was offered by the Cascadia EarthScope Earthquake and Tsunami Education Program (CEETEP) funded by a grant from the EarthScope Program of the National Science Foundation. Participants in the October 9-12 Workshop included 10 K-12 Earth Science teachers, 7 parks and museum interpreters, and 10 emergency management educators from communities on the California North Coast. The workshop was held at Humboldt State University. Butler also presented “Teaching Resources on Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami Science and Hazards” at the Oregon Science Teachers Association Meeting in Bend, Ore., on October 17.