Vail Fletcher, communication studies, and graduate student Amelia Cole presented the results of their Dundon-Berchtold Institute Ethics Fellowship study, titled, “The Changing Role of Technology in United States´ Prisons: Rethinking (Re)Habilitation Programs and Pro-Social Skills for the Currently Incarcerated” at the International Communication Association’s (ICA) Conference. The study was a collaboration between a team of undergraduate students, graduate students, Fletcher, and the Oregon Department of Corrections, and involved collecting data from over 400 men and women in custody in Oregon. The conference was held in Kyoto and Fukuoka, Japan, in June 2016.
Geneviève Brassard, English, presented a paper titled “Bad Wartime Mothers in Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others and The World my Wilderness,” at the 18th Annual conference of the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, hosted by McGill University, Montréal, June 2-4.
Hannah Callender, mathematics, published “Modeling Epidemics on a Regular Tree Graph” in Letters in Biomathematics 3(1) 59-74. doi:10.1080/23737867.2016.1185979 Student coauthor: Claire Seibold, June 2016.
Jeffrey White, international languages and cultures, gave the opening remarks and introduced the keynote speaker of the Northwest College and Reading Association conference held on May 14 on the UP campus. He led a session and was elected treasurer of the Northwest CRLA. Fourteen higher education institutions were represented at the conference (11 community colleges and 3 four-year universities).
Sruthi Rothenfluch, philosophy, wrote “A Subjectivist Solution to the Problem of Harm in Genetic Enhancement” in Journal of Cognition and Neuroethics 3 (4) (2016) 113–130, and presented “Defeaters to Best Interests Reasoning in Genetic Enhancement” at the Ability and Enhancement Colloquium April 7-8, 2016 at the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies.
Lars Larson, English, presented “How to Do Things with Time: Five Western Directions for Pluralizing Temporality, from Alexie to Dillard” at the American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, 28 May 2016.
Larry Larsen, performing and fine arts, has his set design for “Adrift in Macao” at Broadway Rose Theater in Tigard nominated for a PAMTA (Portland Area Musical Theater Award).