Update

Hannah Highlander, mathematics, was a faculty mentor at the Intercollegiate Biomathematics Alliance’s Cross-Institutional Undergraduate Research Experience (IBA-CURE) workshop, at Illinois State University in Normal, IL, from May 30-June 1.  She served as a faculty research mentor to undergraduate participants (one of which was UP math major Meghan Childs) and presented a talk entitled “Mathematical Modeling of Suicide Risk and Assessment of Preventative Measures for American Veterans.”

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his article, “Papal Numbers,” published in the June 4 edition of the Catholic Sentinel. See the article here.

Martin Cenek, Shiley School of Engineering, presented “Alaska Water and Sewer Challenge: Per Capita Water and Fixture Use in Rural Alaksa” (with co-presenters Aaron Dotson, Mia Heavener, Laura Eichelberger and student co-presenter Cameron Wilson) at the 49th Conference of Alaska Water and Wastewater Management Association. Anchorage AK. May 13-16, 2019 (Best Poster Award).

Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, had his article, “‘May Your Holy Inspiration Call Me in the Desert’: New Jewish and Baroque Identity in the Poetry of João Pinto Delgado” published in Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry (24.1, June 2019).

Amber Vermeesch, nursing, wrote “Inappropriate Patient Sexual Behavior in Nursing Education” (with Halina Wyss) in Archives of Women Health and Care, 2 (1), 1-1, February 2019.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his article, “Queen Victoria’s 200th birthday adds to royal numbers,” published in the Portland Tribune. See the article here.

Blair Woodard, history, presented his paper “Visual Diplomacy and the U.S. Embassy in Havana, 1951-2018” at the Latin American Studies Association Congress in Boston, MA.

Benjamin Gallegos, education, had his paper, “Students with autism spectrum disorders who participate in FIRST robotics” (with Karin Fisher, Taylor Bousfield) published in Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching and Learning Conference : Vol. 3, Article 5. DOI: 0.20429/stem.2019.030105, April 2019. He also had his paper, “Middle school students in a rural community having conversations with a STEM professional before playing a science video game in their after school program: Students talking to a TeachLivE adult virtual avatar before gaming” in Proceedings of 6th Annual TeachLivE Conference 2018. Virtual Human Interactive Performance (VHIP) , 110-117.

Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, presented “Spreading Evidence-Based Pedagogical Practices: Leveraging Peer Observation for Instructional Change,” a Webinar presentation hosted by the Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN) (with Tara Prestholdt, Valerie Peterson, Eric Anctil, Heather Dillon, Carolyn James) in May 2019.

Amber Vermeesch, nursing, received an $800 grant for “Prevalence of Coping Strategies for Inappropriate Patient Sexual Behavior in Nursing Baccalaureate Education” from Sigma Theta Tau International, with Halina Wyss, March 2019. She also presented “Effect of mindfulness on perceived stress by graduate nursing students,” the 3rd International Integrative Nursing Symposium, Galway, Ireland, May 22-24, 2019 (with Patricia Cox, Pamela Potter).

Martin Cenek, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote “Studying Kenai River Fisheries’ Social-Ecological Drivers Using a Holistic Fisheries Agent-Based Model: Implications for Policy and Adaptive Capacity” (with Jamie Trammell and Maxwell Franklin) in MDPI Fishes 2019, 4(2), 33, May 2019.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his article, “Happy 199th birthday to Florence Nightingale,” published by the Florence Nightingale Foundation on May 21, 2019. See the article here.

Anissa Rogers, social work, co-wrote an opinion piece, “Opinion: Lowering educational requirements for child-welfare workers isn’t the answer,” in the May 22 edition of OregonLive. She was joined by Stephanie Bryson from PSU and Christine Saladino from George Fox University, as well as representatives from Concordia University, Pacific University, and Warner Pacific University.

Samuel Holloway, business, presented “From Curious To Connoisseur: How Craft Breweries Create Loyal Customers Through Customer Experiences,” an invited lecture at the 2019 China Craft Beer Conference. Shanghai, China, May 2019. He also delivered the keynote, “Consumption Driven Market Emergence: How Craft Beer Consumers Are Changing The Global Beer Industry” at the same conference.

Cara Poor, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote “Variation in Nutrient and Metal Retention in Bioretention Systems with Mycorrhizae-Inoculated Soil” (with student co-author Jenna Kube) in Proceedings of the EWRI World Environmental and Water Resources Congress: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater; Urban Water Resources; and Municipal Water Infrastructure, p. 71-79, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2019.

Natalie Nelson-Marsh, communication studies, wrote “Learning to rock the boat” in Bisel, R.S. & Kramer, M. Case studies in organizational communication: A lifespan approach, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, July 2019.

Janet Banks, nursing, attended the 2019 Palliative Care Institute Conference , Bellingham, WA, May 2019.

Jeff Kerssen-Griep, communication studies, was invited to offer four workshops about communicating, connecting, and advocating across ingroup-outgroup barriers, for the staff of the Holden Village community near Chelan, WA, May 13-19, 2019.

Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, wrote “Enhancing access to student nurse athletes: Office hours on the road” (with Benjamin Kahn and Samuel Williams, information services) in Nursing Education Pespectives 40(3), May 2019.

Nicole Ralston, education, serves as a member of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) Committee as of May 2019. She attended the U.S. Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS), State College, PA, May 2019, and the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 2019.

Eli Goldwyn, mathematics, had his article, “Stochastic Models of Influenza Outbreaks on a College Campus” (with Subkshya Bidari) in Letters in Biomathematics, DOI: 10.1080/23737867.2019.1618744, May 2019.

Christina Ivler, Shiley School of Engineering, had her papers, “System Identification Guidance for Multirotor Aircraft: Dynamic Scaling and Test Techniques” (with student coauthors Elizabeth Rowe, James Martin) and “Handling Qualities Based Assessment of Scalability for Variable-RPM Electric MultiRotor Aircraft” (with coauthor Farhan Gandhistudent and student coauthors Ariel Walter, Mathew McKay) in Proceedings of the 75th Annual Vertical Flight Society Forum, Philadephia, PA, May 2019.

Sharon Jones, Shiley School of Engineering, was an invited panelist for the ABET and BOK Updates session at the Environmental Engineering Program Leaders Meeting, held at the 2019 AEESP Biennial Research and Education Conference at Arizona State University, May 2019. Her co-presenters were Allison McKay and David Vaccari.

Jonathan Stanfill, theology, wrote “The Body of Christ’s Barbarian Limb: John Chrysostom’s Processions and the Embodied Performance of Nicene Christianity” in Revisioning John Chrysostom: New Approaches, New Perspectives , Critical Approaches to Early Christianity 1, edited by Chris L. de Wet and Wendy Mayer, 670-97. Leiden: Brill, March 2019.

 Simon Aihiokhai, theology, had his book, Fostering Interreligious Encounters in Pluralist Societies: Hospitality and Friendship, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. ISBN: 978-3-030-17804-8 (Hardcover). ISBN: 978-3-030-17805-5 (eBook). Number of Pages: XIII, 239. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17805-5, May 2019.

Heather Dillon, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote “Balancing Technological Innovation with Waste Burden Minimization: An Examination of the Global Lighting Industry” (with Dzombak R, Antonopoulos CA) in International Journal of Integrated Waste Management, Science and Technology . Vol 92, no 1, Pages 68-74. doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2019.04.037, May 2019.

Michael Prendergast, theology and music, had an article in the March 2019 issue of Pastoral Music, Journal of the National Association of Pastoral Musician (NPM): “Revisiting Communal Reconciliation.”

Michael Cameron, theology, wrote “Letter and Spirit: Latin Patristic and Early Medieval and Christianity” in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, eds. Christine Helmer, et al. (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2018), vol. 16: 237-42; “Regnum [Kingdom]” in Augustinus-Lexikon, vol. 4, fasc. 7/8 (Basel: Schwabe, 2019): pp. 1112-19 as well as “Rex [King]” pp. 1208-13. He also presented “Augustine on Genesis in Confessions 11-12: The Case for Hermeneutical Rhetoric” at the Sixth Annual Northwest Early Christian Studies Seminar, University of Portland: March 2019.

Christin Hancock, history, presented “Mad Women in the Interwar Era: Gender and Syphilis-Induced Mental Illness in Middle America, 1918-1941,” at the Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) Annual Conference, April 27, 2019, Portland, Oregon.

Nicole Ralston, education, presented “The growing pains of a new preventative model of alternative school: A mixed methods study” (with student Cara Wright) at the Hawaii International Conference on Education (HICE) annual conference, Honolulu, HI, January 2019. She also attended the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Conference, Reno, NV, October 2018. She served on the Search Committee for ESOL/Reading Faculty Member, October 2018-April 2019, and on the Search Committee for Science/Research Methods Faculty Member, September-November 2018.

Trudie Booth, French studies, published her book, Les mots français: Vocabulaire, lectures et sujets de conversation, throughRoutledge on May 3.

Carolyn James, mathematics, presented “Institutional Change: the Role of Peer Observation in the Adoption of Evidence-Based Instructional Practices” (with Tara Prestholdt, Valerie Peterson, Eric Anctil, Stephanie Salomone, and Heather Dillon) at Pacific North West Section of the Mathematical Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2019.

Sarina Saturn and Deirdre Katz, psychological sciences, had two students from their research lab present findings at the Western Psychological Association 99th Annual Convention. Rachel Mehlman presented “How the Stigma of Mental Illness Influences College Student’s Likelihood of ​Seeking Psychological Help​,” and Brittney Kawakami presented “Cultural Values’ Effects on Coping Strategies Among Various Racial and Ethnic Identities.”

William Curtis, political science, presented “The Second Dewey-Lippmann Debate: Democracy vs. Rule of Law?” at the Western Political Science Association conference in San Diego, CA, April 18-20, 2019.

Carolyn James, mathematics, attended the Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Conference, Oklahoma City, OK, February 2019.

Laura Dyer, biology, “The role of neural crest in cardiac development” (with Margaret Kirby) in The ESC Book on Cardiovascular Development, Perez-Pomares JM and Kelly RG (Eds.) Oxford: Oxford, UK., December 2018.

Christin Hancock, history, presented “Unspeakable: Sex, madness, and the malarial treatment of syphilis in Middle America, 1925-1940,” as an invited lecturer for OHSU History of Medicine Lecture Series, April 24, 2019.

Carolyn James, mathematics, presented webinars, “Metacognition Development for Undergraduate Math Tutors” and “Supporting Productive Failure for Undergraduate Math Tutors” (with co-presenter Megan Ryals) at the National Math Tutoring Center Directors Association, April 2019. She presented “Who is Talking and Who is Thinking? The Distribution of the Cognitive and Conversational Load during Undergraduate Mathematics Tutoring” (with Linda Burks) at the Pacific North West Section of the Mathematical Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2019.

Rachel Wheeler, theology, has her article, “Of Trash and Treasure: Implications of Zero Waste for the Spiritual Life,” published in Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 19, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 81-101.

Kevin Jones, social work, with social work student Faith Marcelo ’20, presented, “Poetry Power: An innovative brief therapeutic poetry writing intervention for older adult survivors of abuse” at the National Association for Poetry Therapy 39th Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD on April 13, 2019.

Matthew Kuhn, Shiley School of Engineering, will serve as Visiting Professor of Engineering – University of Lyon, INSA-Lyon, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France, in May 2019.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his article, “My View” Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth,” published in the April 21 edition of the Portland Tribune. See the article here.

Sister Angela Hoffman, chemistry, and four of her students presented their research at the spring 2019 National American Chemical Society meeting in Orlando Florida March 31-April 4:

• Antimicrobial natural products from ancient actinomycete bacteria (S. Angela Hoffman)
• Antibiotic and anticancer activity from bacteria collected at a Roman archeological site (Astrid Schick)
• Isolation of Natural Insecticides from Yew Trees (Connell Morantte)
• Purification and isolation of natural compounds found in ancient soil (Casey Raul)
• Purification and isolation of antibiotic compounds from archeological site soil (Anthony Gutierrez)

The ACS student club also won a third place award and plaque for their activities from the past year.

Anissa Rogers, sociology and social work, published the 5th edition of her textbook, Human Behavior in the Social Environment, with Routledge Publishers.

On Tuesday, 16 April, Bohn Lattin, communication department, conducted two public speaking workshops for “Young Leaders from Africa with World Oregon.” Each year, World Oregon, in conjunction with the United States Department of State, hosts several youth leadership exchange programs which brings young leaders from around the world to the U.S. for a three-week leadership development course. The public speaking workshops were a part of the “Young Leaders from Africa” leadership development courses. Students from The Gambia, Mozambique, Sudan, and Kenya attended.

Lora Looney, Spanish, presented “Uncovering Spain’s Genocidal Puericulture State through Allegories of Disobedience in Ana Maria Matute’s 1956 ‘Los niños tontos’ (‘The Foolish Children’)” at the conference on Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide at the Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Nicole Ralston, education, presented “A program evaluation of an innovative alternative school: Preventing dropout and promoting post-secondary success” (with James Carroll, Jacqueline Waggoner, Rebecca Smith, and student co-presenters Zuly Naegele and Cara Wright) at a roundtable session at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 2019. Ralston also presented “Longitudinal impacts of a pre-kindergarten summer transition program on attendance and early literacy skills” (with Jacqueline Waggoner, Beth Tarasawa, and student co-presenters Matthew Thul, Danielle Trollinger, Karen Apgar) at a paper session at the same conference.

Rachel Wheeler, theology, was invited to attend the Madeleva Lecture and New Voices Seminar at St. Mary’s College, IN, Center for Spirituality, St. Mary’s College, April 2019.

September Nelson, nursing, presented “Relationships among workload, teamwork, and missed nursing care in nursing homes” at the Western Institute of Nursing Research Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2019.

Matthew Kuhn, Shiley School of Engineering, served as moderator and discussant for the workshop “Granular Matter Across Scales,” Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, March 18-22, 2019.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote an article, “My View: Cleary’s literary life summed up on 103rd birthday,” published in the April 12, 2019 edition of the Portland Tribune. See the article here.

Bro. Thomas Giumenta, C.S.C., will celebrate 50 years as a Holy Cross brother with a Renewal of Vows ceremony during the 10:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, April 28, in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher. All are invited to wish Bro. Thomas well and congratulate him on his milestone year.

Mehmet Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his paper “Structural Performance of Residential Settlements in Western South America” accepted for the 43^rd IAHS World Congress on Housing to be held in Cochabamba, Bolivia on October 7-9, 2019.

Andrew Guest, psychological sciences, has in the last month presented “Three dimensional Sport Psychology: Conceptualizing public issues as integrated with performance and mental health” at the annual Social Justice Through Sport & Exercise Psychology conference at Pacific University; “Using Research to Make, Measure, and Meet Youth Development Goals” at the US Soccer Foundation Urban Soccer Symposium in Washington DC; and a guest lecture at Pacific University (with UP alum and professor of political science at Pacific Dr. Jules Boycoff) on Sports, Politics, and International Development.

Jakob Kotas, mathematics, presented “Optimal airline de-ice scheduling,” University of Hawaii at Manoa Applied Mathematics Seminar, Honolulu, HI (Sep 26, 2018), “Optimal airline de-ice scheduling,” Oregon Liberal Arts Mathematics Colloquium, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR (Feb 23, 2019), “Standards-based grading for ordinary differential equations: a parallel study,” MAA Pacific Northwest Section Annual Meeting, University of Portland, Portland, OR (Apr 13, 2019), “Optimal airline de-ice scheduling” at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM), Baltimore, MD (Jan 16, 2019), and  “A model for prion fibril growth based on oligomeric building blocks,” AMS Spring Central and Wester Joint Sectional Meeting, Honolulu, HI (Mar 24, 2019). He also wrote “Optimal stopping for response-guided dosing” in Networks and Homogeneous Media 14 (2019), no. 1, 43-52, March 2019.

Buck Taylor, chemistry, had his paper, “Computational and Experimental Investigation of Alkene Hydrogenation by a Pincer-Type [P2Si]Rh Complex: Alkane Release via Competitive σ-Bond Metathesis and Reductive Elimination” (with Matthew Whited and student coauthors Michael Trenerry, Kaitlyn DeMeulenaere) published in Organometallics, 2019 , 38 , 1493–1501.

Elizabeth Aguilera, Office of Student Activities, presented “Coyolxauhqui’s Serpents,” (co-written with Emily Umberger) at the Animal Symbolism in Postclassic Mesoamerica symposium at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) 84^th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 13, 2019.

Cara Poor, Shiley School of Engineering, presented “Integrating Ethics Across the Civil Engineering Program” (with Mehmet Inan and student coauthor Abigail Chase) and published in Proceedings of the 2019 American Society of Engineering Education Pacific Northwest Section Conference. Corvallis, Oregon, March 2019.