Alice Gates, social work, testified in the Oregon House Business and Labor Committee at the State Capitol on February 15, 2016 regarding SB 1532, a bill to raise Oregon’s minimum wage.
Anne Santiago and Gary Malecha, political science, presented “Integrating Technology to Teach Research Methods” at the Annual American Political Science Association’s Teaching and Learning Conference, February 12-14, in Portland, Ore. The presentation demonstrated revisions to the University’s required Political Inquiry and Analysis course using videos, podcasts, screen-captures, and new sub-disciplinary assignments. The production of technology modules was supported by an 2015 Innovation Grant from the Pamplin School of Business.
College of Arts and Sciences dean Michael Andrews had his book chapter, “A Phenomenology of Ethics and Excess: Experiences of Givenness and Transcendence,” published in Women, Social-Political Philosophy, Metaphysics and Public History: New Approaches and Applications, ed. Antonio Calcagno, Springer International Press: Geneva, 2015 (January 2016).
Katie O’Reilly, biology, wrote (with Redmond, L., M. Murphy, N. Cooper) “Testosterone secretion in a socially monogamous but sexually promiscuous migratory passerine” in General and Comparative Endocrinology 228: 24-32. She also presented a paper, with co-authors J.S. Lamb and P.G.R. Jodice, “Feather corticosterone as a possible index of developmental conditions and probability of post-fledging survival in brown pelicans” at the Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting, Feb 10-14, 2016 Turtle Bay, Oahu.
Ian Parkman, business, was quoted in a story, “The Pink Tax: Why Womens’ Products Cost More” in U.S. News & World Report on Wednesday, February 17. See the article at http://tinyurl.com/jjtkkwa.
Geneviève Brassard, English, wrote the chapter “Virginia Woolf in Translation,” in the volume A Companion to Virginia Woolf, edited by Jessica Berman (Wiley-Blackwell), and her review of Communal Modernisms: Teaching Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Twenty-First Century Classroom appears in the peer-reviewed journal The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945, Volume 11 (2015). See the review at http://tinyurl.com/h7osqon.
Aziz Inan, engineering, published his article titled, “Copernicus’s 543rd Birthday Reveals the Date of His Death,” in Polish News on February 18, 2016: http://www.polishnews.com/.