Susan Stillwell, nursing, delivered the keynote address for Transforming Healthcare with Evidence-based Practice, Break-out Session on “From Evidence to Clinical Decision Making,” at the 9th Evidence–based Practice on the Frontline: Building a Culture of quality, Safety and Nursing Professionalism conference, on April 14, 2016 at Missouri University Sinclair School of Nursing, Columbia Missouri. She also presented on “From Evidence to Clinical Decision Making: Next Steps” at the 16th Nurse Educator Institute on April 12, 2016 in Branson Missouris, and delivered a keynote address at Transforming Healthcare with Evidence-based Practice, Breakout Session, “Synthesizing the Literature End-Note: Evidence-based Practice: Looking Back to Move Forward” At the Oregon Nursing Research and Quality Consorium April 18, 2016 in Oregon City, Ore.
Zia Yamayee and Robert Albright, engineering, had a peer reviewed session at the 2016 ABET Symposium in Hollywood, Florida, titled “Preparing a Self-Study Report: The role of an Annual Assessment, Evaluation and Documentation Process,” April 14-15, 2016.
Nicole Ralston, education, presented “The impacts of a new model for professional development for teaching GLAD” with Jacqueline Waggoner, Zuly Naegele, and Rebecca Smith) at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Washington DC, April 2016.
Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, presented “Spanish Golden Age Influences on the Jewishness of the Converso Poetry of João Pinto Delgado” at the Western Jewish Studies Association Annual Conference, held April 17 at Willamette University in Salem, Ore.
Hannah Callender, mathematics, presented “A Glimpse into Agent-Based Modeling: Using Turtles to Promote World Peace and Cure Disease” (with students Parkes Kendrick and Tsikata Apenyo) at the Pacific University Mathematics Colloquium Series, Forest Grove, Ore., April 2016.
Heather Dillon, engineering, presented “Backward Design to Improve Mechanical Engineering Curriculum” (with Kenneth Lulay, Karen Eifler, and Timothy Doughty) at the 2016 Summit for Transforming STEM Teaching in Higher Education, Boise, Idaho, April 2016.
Joanne Warner, nursing emerita, is the recipient of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s 2015 Sister Bernadette Armiger Award. Established to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to advancing nursing education and practice, this award was presented to Warner at AACN’s Spring Annual meeting held in Washington, DC in March.
Kevin Jones, social work, with student co-authors Sophia Colletti and A.J. Muth, presented a poster entitled “Using the Circle of Courage Youth Development Model to Predict Satisfaction and Success for LGBTQ Students in Undergraduate Social Work Programs in the U.S.” at the 6th European Conference for Social Work Research, held March 30-April 1, 2016 at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon.
Aziz Inan, engineering, had his article, “A Numerical Tribute to Cervantes on the 400th Anniversary of His Death” (with Baris Inan) published in The Beacon, and the website for KVAL Channel 13 in Eugene, Ore., on Friday, April 22.