Update

Rich Gritta, business, wrote “Have the Major US Air Carriers Finally Turned the Corner? A Financial Condition Assessment” in Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, LVI(3), September 2016. (Co-authored with Brian Adams.) An earlier version of the paper was presented at the International Atlantic Economic Conference in Milan, Italy, March 2015. He wrote “Problems with the Dow Jones Industrial Average-A Simple Unweighted Arithmetic Mean: An Issue Re-Revisited,” in Global Review of Accounting & Finance, VII(2), September 2016. (Co-authored with Brian Adams.) An earlier version of the paper was presented in Stockholm at the 14^th Annual International Conference on Economic and Financial Research, Sweden, on April 3, 2016. He also wrote “The Use of the DuPont Formula and a Bankruptcy Forecasting Model: Their Use  in Turnaround & Liquidation Situations,”  a paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the European Business Society (Co-authored with James Jurinski) on November 2, 2016. During the month of November he was interviewed on Marketplace Radio LA on airline pricing, NPR on the airline situation, and KXL Radio on the WTO decision on Boeing’s tax policies and its implications on the competition between Boeing and AirBus.

Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, received a grant of $640 for “Transdiciplinary communication education for clinical instructors: Promoting moral agency and effective advocacy among clinical role models,” Sigma Theta Tau International, November 2016. Collaborators: Jeff Kerssen-Griep, Larizza Limjuco Woodruff. She also received a $1,500 grant for “BUDDY-UP: An educational innovation to enhance nursing student retention,” Sigma Theta Tau International, with collaborators Elisa Majors, Henry Valdez, and Jon Rompel, November 2016.

A research group made up of Edward Valente and Eugene Urnezius, chemistry, and Celia M. Gendron-Herndon (BS in Chemistry, 2013), Amanda N. Graveson (BS in Biology/Minor in Chemistry, 2015), Alexander N. Erickson (BS in Chemistry, 2015), Carolyn N. Virca (BS in Chemistry, 2013), and Michael A. Paton (BS in Chemistry, 2013) have had a research paper, “Discrete bimetallic Co(II) phosphinate complexes supported by 2,6-dimesitylphenylphosphinate ligand,” published in Polyhedron, 2017, Volume 123, p. 12-22, in the online edition of the journal; the printed edition will appear in February 2017.  The paper is based on a research project carried out in 2011-2014.  Three of the student authors continued their studies in graduate schools–Celia already got her masters in chemistry from University of Toronto, Carolyn is a third-year Ph.D. student at Portland State University, and Alexander is a second-year Ph.D. student at University of Notre Dame. The article can be accessed for free (until Jan. 20) at https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1U8eG-6k4cCXO.

Steven Mayer, chemistry, (with Yuka Kobayashia and Jae W. Park), published “Gelation properties of tilapia fish protein isolate and surimi pre- and postrigor,” in Food Bioscience 17 (2017) 17–23.

Andrew Downs, psychological sciences, published “Does facial expression recognition provide a toehold for the development of emotion understanding?” in Developmental Psychology and “Physically Active Adults: An Analysis of the Key Variables that Keep Them Moving”  in the American Journal of Health Education.

Alexa Dare, communication studies, presented “’Livestock” and “Wildlife’: The Rhetoric of Rights in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Standoff” (co-authored with Vail Fletcher) and “’Sure, you can touch my belly’: Rethinking bodies, agency, and individuality while ‘teaching when pregnant'”at the National Communication Annual Convention in Philadelphia. She also responded to four papers presented in the session, “Collaboration and Collaborative Challenges,” which was sponsored by the Organizational Communication Division.

Natalie Nelson-Marsh, communication studies, presented her coauthored manuscript, “’Lights Must Stay On’: The Communicative Roles of Boundary Spanning” (with J. Kopczynski) at the National Communication Association conference on Friday, November 11, in Philadelphia, Pa. The paper is from a 3-year National Science Foundation grant studying the role of collaboration in the development of policy to integrate renewable energy into the electricity system.

Jennette Lovejoy, communication studies, published her article, “Three Decades of Reliability in Communication Content Analyses: Reporting of Reliability Statistics and Coefficient Levels in Three Top Journals” in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, winter 2016, with co-authors Brendan Watson and Stephen Lacy, Michigan State University, and Daniel Riffe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mehmet Inan, engineering, was interviewed on KOIN as well as KATU TV regarding the recent Fukushima earthquake. See the KOIN story at this link.

Maria Echenique and Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, presented papers at the 114th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), held November 11-13 in Pasadena, Calif. Echenique’s paper was entitled “Documenting Realities of Oppression: The Latin American Genre of Testimonio in Literature and Film,” and Warshawsky’s was called “Seeing La Reyna Ester of João Pinto Delgado through the Lenses of Spanish Golden Age Poetics and a Converso Worldview.” Echenique also chaired a panel on film and literature.

Michael Andrews, College of Arts and Sciences, contributed “The Ethics of Keeping Secrets: Edith Stein and Philosophy as Autobiography,” a book chapter in Alles Wesentliche Lasst sich nicht schreiben: Leben und Denken Edith Steins im Spiegel ihres Gesamtwerkes, Andreas Speer and Stephan Regh, editors, Verlag Herder Publications: Freiburg, 2016. pp.381-401, November 2016.

Amber Vermeersch, nursing, presented Lessons Learned in Conducting Community-engaged Nursing Research at a Private, Teaching-Intensive Institution (with Mayer, K.), a podium presentation at the 144^th Annual Meeting & Exposition of the American Public Health Association, Creating the Healthiest Nation: Ensuring the Right to Health, Denver, CO, November 02, 2016. She also received a Diversity and Inclusion Grant of $500 (with P. Potter) in support of their work to enhance the curriculum of NRS 310 Multicultural Population Health Promotion to include more diverse and  inclusive perspectives.

Richard Gritta, business, completed his third Senior Fulbright this past May and June.  Gritta was invited and assigned to the Lithuanian Christian College (LCC). He taught a video recorded six-week course and designed the materials for an ongoing semester long international investments course.  He also gave seminars in the port city of Klaipeda and in Vilnius, the capitol of Lithuania, to Chamber of Commerce members and business executives. The topic at these presentations was on the moral, ethical, and legal consequences of the real estate bubble that led to the “Great Recession.” Finally, he met with staff directors and advisors to U.S. Senators and U.S. House Representatives from the states of NY, California, Illinois, Arkansas, and Tennessee when they visited the LCC. His prior Fulbright Grants were to Warsaw School of Economics, Poland in 1996 and to the Groupe ESC (Toulouse School of Business) in 2007.  Research projects completed during the first two Fulbright Grants have resulted in publications in two major international refereed journals.

Andrew Guest, psychology, presented a paper titled “‘You Better Feel Some Love’: Social and Psychological Perspectives on Fandom Where (Women’s) Professional Soccer Matters” at the annual meetings of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport in Tampa Florida on November 3.

Jeff Gauthier, philosophy, gender and women’s studies, published his paper “Oppression, Legal Reform, and Hegel’s Natural Law Internalism” in Creolizing Hegel, ed. Michael Monahan (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).

On Sunday, October 30, the University’s Omicron Upsilon chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, International, the honor society of nursing, inducted 39 undergraduate and 2 graduate students at a ceremony in the Bauccio Commons. School of Nursing dean emeritus Joanne Warner was the guest speaker. New officers were also installed and Janet Banks, nursing, is the new president of the chapter.

Sarina Saturn, psychology, partnered with the nonprofit Voices Set Free to provide workshops to clinicians and social service workers on how childhood domestic violence affects the brain and body, and ways that prosociality can counteract the damage caused by stress and trauma, on November 4 and December 2, hosted by Cedar Hills Hospital and NW Health Foundation.

Jeff Gauthier, philosophy and gender and women’s studies, published his article “Equal Opportunity and Its Discontents: Comments on Joseph Fishkin’s Bottlenecks,” in Social Philosophy Today 32 (2016).

Tisha Morrell, education, co-authored an article with Ian Morrell (Washington State) entitled “Using Pokemon Go to Meet NGSS Science and Engineering  Practices!” published in the November edition of  The Oregon Science Teacher.

Susan Stillwell, nursing, presented “Infusing Evidence into Practice to Reflect the Changing Nursing World” at the Kaiser Northwest Nursing Conference, Portland OR, November 2, 2016.

Aziz Inan, engineering, wrote “Opinion: Brainteasers to celebrate Walter Cronkite’s centennial birthday,” published in The Beacon on Wednesday, November 2. See the article here. 

Jeromy Koffler, student activities, received the distinction of “Best Program of the Conference” for his session on “Transforming Our Habits in Student Affairs” at the Northwest Association of Student Affairs Professionals (NWASAP) conference held on October 9-12 in Lincoln City, Ore.

Sr. Angela Hoffman, OP, chemistry, was featured in an article titled “Career Ladder: Angela Hoffman,” in Chemical & Engineering News, volume 94, issue 39. See the article here.

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Nicole Ralston, education, presented “How to read and use data: A road trip” with Jacqueline Waggoner) as an invited presentation for the Kappa Delti Pi International Honor Society in Education in September 2016. Ralston and Waggoner were also awarded a $25,000 grant from the Spirit Mountain Community Fund for “Impact of a New Alternative School Model: Open School Investigation.”

Lars Erik Larson, English, presented a paper on September 24 in Big Sky, Montana for the Western Literature Association Conference.  The paper, “Quiet Violence in Willy Vlautin’s Novels,” explored the American epidemic of domestic brutality as represented in the Portland novelist’s work. Vlautin will present a reading on the UP campus on Monday, November 28.

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