UPbeat

News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.

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Larizza Limjuco Woodruff, nursing, was invited to present at the SEHA International Nursing, Midwifery, and Allied Health Conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE on Monday, September 5, on “Dedicated Education Units: Bridging Nursing Education & Practice.”

Aziz Inan, engineering, published his article titled, “A Numerical Tribute to Claude Shannon for his Centennial Birthday,” in the IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 30-31, September 2016. See the article at this link.
Aziz Inan, engineering, published his article titled “A Numerical Tribute to Joseph M. Pettit for his Centennial Birthday” in the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) weekly newsletter Capitol Shorts, September 18, 2016. Pettit served as the President of ASEE between 1972 and 1973. See the article here.
Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, presented “Strategies promoting moral agency and resilience protective factors” at the Oregon Nurses Association. Tualatin, OR, September 2016. She also attended “Reaching Millennials: Promoting Student Engagement,” University of Portland, September 2016.

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Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, presented “Advocating amidst conflict: Embedding micro-ethical dilemmas within high fidelity simulation” at the Community Engagement and Healthcare Improvement Conference in San Antonio, Texas, September 2016.

Natalie Nelson-Marsh, communication studies, (with Lenhart, S.; Wilson, E.J.; & Solan, D.) had her article, “Electricity governance and the western energy imbalance market in the United States: The necessity of inter organizational collaboration,” published in In Energy Research and Social Science, v. 19, pp. 94-107.

Valerie Peterson, mathematics, facilitated a two-day minicourse for college mathematics instructors interested in inquiry-oriented teaching and learning at the Mathematical Association of America’s national conference, MathFest, held in early August in Columbus, Ohio.

Olivia Coiado, engineering attended the Integrating Curriculum with Entrepreneurial-Mindset (ICE) Workshop, Salt Lake City, Utah, in August 2016.

James Baillie, philosophy, reports that his book, The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hume on Morality, has been published in a Chinese translation.

Tisha Morrell, education, has been appointed to the Oregon Department of Education Science Advisory Panel. She will serve in this capacity for three years to “advise, assist, support and advocate for matters that will provide equitable educational access and opportunities for all students in Oregon.”

The UP STEM Education and Outreach Center partnered with Everfi (an educational technology company) this summer to provide professional development to middle school teachers in STEM education. The curriculum explored Future Goals, and connected various STEM concepts to the game of ice hockey. Presenters included Jacquie Van Hoomissen, biology; Paige Hoffert, engineering; Tamar More, physics; Tisha Morrell, education; and Stephanie Salomone, mathematics. Special thanks to Sam Williams and Maria Erb of academic technology services for making the PD synchronously available to teachers outside the Portland metropolitan area.

Patrick Murphy, performing and fine arts, has been named principal conductor of the Southwest Washington Wind Symphony, a professional-level wind band based in Vancouver. He is also conductor of the Portland Community Wind Band and the Symphonic Band of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony.

Lars Erik Larson, English, published “Academia’s Dialectical Dharma: How a Key Strategy from India’s Cultural History Inspires Stronger Classroom Thinking” in The International Journal of Humanities Education (14.2) 2016: 29-34.
September Nelson, nursing, successfully completed her Certified Nurse Educator exam, administered by the National League of Nursing.
Tori Culbertson, business, had her article, “Overconfidence in Personnel Selection: When and Why Unstructured Interview Information can Hurt Hiring Decisions” (with Edgar E. Kausel and Hector Madrid) published in Organizational Behavior. See the article at this link.

 

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Mark Eifler, history, had his book, The California Gold Rush: The Stampede that Changed the World, published by Routledge. 
Holly Simpson, nursing, received certification from the National League of Nursing as a Certified Nurse Educator on August 18, 2016.
Christin Hancock, history, published two articles in the special summer issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly. The first, an introduction to the special issue is titled, “Regulating Birth: Locating Power at the Intersection of Private and Public in Oregon History,” and the second, a research article, is titled “Health and Well-being: Federal Indian Policy, Klamath Women, and Childbirth.” Both articles are found in Oregon Historical Quarterly 117:2 (Summer 2016). She also served as guest editor for the special issue.
Alice Gates, social work, was awarded a grant for $9,222 from the Council on Social Work Education’s Policy Practice in Field Education Initiative to implement a community-based research and advocacy project with UP undergraduate students during the 2016-17 academic year.  The project includes work with Family Forward Oregon and five other grassroots community organizations to interview low-wage workers about their experiences related to work and caregiving.  Students will be involved in data collection and analysis and will gain skills and experience in policy advocacy around paid family and medical leave during the 2017 Oregon legislative session.

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Larizza Limjuco Woodruff, nursing, presented a poster, “Development and Implementation of an inter-professional patient presentation pilot with nursing and pharmacy students,” at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacist (ASHP) National Pharmacy Preceptors Conference in Washington DC.

Andrew Guest, psychology, was on a panel of speakers from the Portland Timbers, Portland Thorns and Mercy Corps for a World Affairs Council forum. The panel was titled “More than a Game: Soccer Connecting the World.

Kevin Jones, social work, with co-presenter Rhen Miles (Portland State University), conducted a webinar training, “Sustainable youth development: Promoting equity through youth engagement,” for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Region 10, as part of their Community College training series on Aug. 11.

Khadija Khalife, International Languages & Cultures, had her article on Carlos Fuentes’ novel Artemio Cruz published in Narrativas (Revista de narrativa contemporánea en castellano), in the July- September of 2016 issue. The article is written in Spanish, and is entitled”Muebles, cuerpos y espacios femeninos en La Muerte de Artemio Cruz.”

Ellen Lippman, business, co-presented with student Grace Holmes on “Crimes of our neighbors: a comparison of white collar crimes of accountants and teachers,” at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting.

Ellen Lippman, business, co-presented on the topic “When Governance Systems Fail: The Case of Long Island Hospital,” at the American Accounting Association Annual Meeting.

Ellen Lippman, business, co-presented on the topic “Auditing the university: learning through practice,” which was presented at American Accounting Association’s Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting

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Cara Poor, engineering, presented “Hydrology experiment design: an open-ended lab to foster student engagement and critical thinking,” (with student Evan Miller) at the 2016 Annual Conference of the American Society of Engineering Education, Paper ID #14671, New Orleans, LA, 2016. Poor also won Best Paper in Division of Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies, American Society of Engineering Education, June 2016.

Mead Hunter, performing and fine arts, participated in the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas’ annual conference, where he moderated a panel discussion entitled “The Importance of Being Local.”

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Craig Swinyard, mathematics, and Elise Lockwood (Oregon State University) had their paper entitled “An Introductory Set of Activities Designed to Facilitate Successful Combinatorial Enumeration for Undergraduate Students” published in the Journal of Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies.

Tish Tolentino and Montana Hisel-Cochran, Pamplin School of Business, presented “Teaching students how to treat you: Encouraging civility through the advising process” at the 2016 Drive-In Oregon Academic Advising Conference held on June 22nd in Monmouth, OR.

Heather Dillon, engineering (with Zielinski AJ, Baldwin B, Forinash CP, Zada KJ, Stillinger C, Dieter K. (2016) presented “Design and Performance of a Small Hybrid Solar Collector” at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Power and Energy Conference, Charlotte, NC, June 2016.

Zia Yamayee and Peter Osterberg, engineering, had a peer reviewed paper for presentation at the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, and inclusion in the 2016 ASEE Conference and Exposition Proceedings: “Annual Documentation of Assessment and Evaluation of Student Outcomes Simplifies Self-Study Preparation,” June 26-29, 2016.

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Eric Anctil, education, presented the keynote address at the annual conference of the Pacific Northwest Association for College Admission Counseling at St. Martin’s University on May 25, 2016. His address, “Goodness of Fit and the Future of Higher Education,” explored the pressing need for colleges and universities to be relevant to future generations of college students amid many challenges to the existing higher education model.

Patrick Murphy, performing an fiune arts, was featured in a story, “Symphonic journey into the Soviet era: Vancouver music director studies, introduces American audiences to Russian composer,” in the June 26 edition of The Columbian.

Valerie Peterson, mathematics, co-facilitated a workshop for collegiate mathematics instructors held June 22-24 at North Carolina State University. The focus of the workshop was on teaching linear algebra, abstract algebra, and differential equations with inquiry-oriented curricular materials.

Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, presented “Teaching Trans-Atlantic Secret Judaism in Fact and Fiction: Iberian New Christians in Latin American History and Literature” at the 2016 Biennial Scholars’ Conference of the American Jewish Historical Society, held June 19-21 in New York City.

Heather Dillon, engineering, (with Schmedake NJ, Eifler KE, Doughty TA, and Lulay KE) presented “Design of a Curriculum- Spanning Mechanical Engineering Laboratory Experiment” (see link here) at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA, in June 2016.

Peter Osterberg and Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, presented their paper entitled, “Teaching Electronic Conduction Phenomena to Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Students using Purdue University’s New ‘Bottom-Up’ Approach” at the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference in New Orleans on June 28, 2016.
Aziz Inan and Peter Osterberg, Shiley School of Engineering, presented their paper entitled, “Revisiting the One-Dimensional Elastic Collision of Rigid Bodies on a Frictionless Surface Using Singularity Functions” at the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference in New Orleans on June 28, 2016.

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Sarina Saturn, psychological sciences, was quoted in an article titled “Could wear and tear on the ‘love hormone’ gene make us less social?” in the June 20 edition of the L.A. Times. See the article at this link.

Steve Kolmes, environmental science, spoke at the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Annual Conference, June 2016, at American University, on “Education for Sustainability: Robust Framing and System Viability Assessment” (with Will Focht). He also presented “Epigenetics, Toxic Exposure, and the Common Good: a Perspective on the Human Genome and Catholic Social Teaching” (with Russell Butkus).

Kim Spir, engineering, was awarded the 2016 Rich Clarkson Photography Award for excellence in track and field/cross country/ running still photography on Friday, June 10, during the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore. The award was presented by the Track and Field Writers of America (TAFWA).

Jeff Kerssen-Griep, communication studies, led two workshops for training faculty in “Skilled Interpersonal Feedback and Instruction” at the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics (VSAA), a public middle- and high school in the Vancouver, Wash. school district.

Sr. Angela Hoffman, chemistry, gave an invited seminar at Oregon State University for the chemistry department entitled “Of Taxanes and Fungal Endophytes” and visited with several OSU faculty members on June 1, 2016.

Ami Ahern-Rindell, biology, was invited to participate in a round table discussion sponsored by the College Board in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 6-7, to discuss the new Advanced Placement (AP) Capstone courses. Colleges and Universities nationwide are considering different models for how to give incoming undergraduates college credit for these new AP high school classes that provide valuable skills and abilities pertaining to research and scholarly activities.

Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, wrote The Perils of Living the Good and True Law: Iberian Crypto-Jews in the Shadow of the Inquisition of Colonial Hispanic America, a book published by Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs as part of its series “Estudios judeoespañoles Samuel G. Armistead y Joseph H. Silverman” (June 2016).

Mead Hunter, performing and fine arts, presided over The New Harmony Project’s annual conference of new writing for performance (May 20-June 5) in New Harmony, Ind., where 11 writers drawn from theater, film and television developed original scripts. Conferees included Andrea Stolowitz, who teaches playwriting and screenwriting at UP, and also produces PFA’s New Play Festival every spring.

Alice Gates, social work, chaired the session on Migration and Human Rights and presented “A critical exploration of rights education with undocumented immigrants in the U.S.,” a paper co-authored with Kathleen Tipler, at the Borders, Otherness, and Public Law meeting of ICON-S, the International Society of Public Law at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, June 19, 2016. Gates was also selected to receive a $5,000 planning grant by the Council on Social Work Education Policy Practice in Field Education Initiative. The proposed project, “Planning for partnership and community engaged policy practice,” will prepare UP social work students for community-based policy research and advocacy with Family Forward Oregon, a statewide policy organization dedicated to advancing economic security for women and families.

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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).

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The summer 2015 Mock’s Crest production of “HMS Pinafore” was nominated for 5 Drammy awards recently, including Best Musical Production, Best Direction for Bruce Hostetler; Best Musical Direction for Tracey Edson, performing and fine arts; Best Choreography for MFA student Jessica Wallenfels; and Best supporting Actress in a musical for Cassi Kohl. The Drammy Awards are a local theater tradition along the lines of the Tony Awards, and take place at the end of June.

Sr. Angela Hoffman, chemistry, peer-reviewed 10 symposium series for next year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) national meeting in 2017.

Ellen Lippman, business, presented “Problems in the Procurement Process: 1861 United States Civil War and 21st Century Iraq and Afghanistan Operations” at the Academy of Accounting Historians 14th World Congress of Accounting Historians, June 2016.

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