Bob Butler, environmental studies, was an organizer and lead instructor of a teacher workshop on Cascadia Earthquake Hazards, Engineering, and Preparedness on Saturday February 27 at Highline College in Des Moines, Wash. The workshop was offered by the Cascadia EarthScope Earthquake and Tsunami Education Program (CEETEP) and was funded by a grant from the Puget Sound Energy Foundation. The 28 workshop participants are teachers of Earth Science in Kitsap, Pearce, King, and Snohomish counties.
At the recent conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education in Pittsburgh, Valerie Peterson, mathematics, presented “Eliciting Mathematicians’ Pedagogical Reasoning” with collaborators from Florida State and Virginia Tech. Mathematics student Branwen Schaub presented “Reinventing the Multiplication Principle” on research conducted over the summer at Oregon State University.
Richard Gritta, business, has been awarded his third Fulbright. He will be a Senior Fulbright Specialist to the Lithuanian Christian College in Klaipeda, May-June 2016. His previous Fulbrights were a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to the Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland (1996) and a Senior Fulbright Specialist award to the Toulouse School of Business in France (2007).
Aziz Inan, engineering, published his article titled, “A Numerical Tribute to Frederic Chopin on His 206th Birthday,” in Polish News (polishnews.com), March 1, 2016. See the article at http://tinyurl.com/z4yy687.
Sharon Jones, engineering, was mentioned in an opinion piece on “Black History Month, Women’s History Month and STEM” in the March 3 edition of Oregonlive.com. See the article at http://tinyurl.com/jqmzc57.
Ted Eckmann, environmental science, presented “A Storm Chaser’s Analysis of In Situ Surface Measurements Made Inside Hurricane Irene,” published in Proceedings of the Oregon Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Volume LXXV: February 27, 2016, Forest Grove, Ore.
Jacqueline Waggoner, Hillary Merk, Bruce Weitzel, and James Carroll, education, presented three papers at the annual conference of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) in Las Vegas, Nev., February 22-26. The title of the first paper was “P-12 Achievement Gains in Program Completers’ Classrooms;” the second paper was titled “Efficacy of Research Curriculum in Educator Preparation Programs;” the third paper was “Teacher Leadership Network: Promoting Professional Collaboration.”