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Aziz Inan, engineering, published his article titled “Most trusted man in America born 100 years ago,” on kval.com, KVAL News, in Eugene, Oregon, November 4, 2016. Last Friday, November 4 marked the centennial birthday of legendary broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite who served as the CBS Evening News anchorman for 19 years between 1962 and 1981. See the article at this link.

Vail Fletcher, communication studies, presented two papers at the National Communication Association Conference in Philadelphia: “’Livestock’ and ‘Wildlife’: The Rhetoric of Rights in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Standoff” (coauthored with Alexa Dare), and “Babies behind bars: The (dis)embodiment of mothers and newborns in the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC).” This project was supported the Dundon Berchtold Ethics Grant, and was co-authored by CST graduate student Amelia Cole. 

Bob Butler, physics emeritus, did two presentations at the National Science Teachers Association Are Conference on Science Education in Portland on November 10: “Feeling the Earth Move: GPS and how it teaches us about future earthquakes” and “Surviving the Shake: Engineering activities for earthquake resilience.”

Bryan Rookey, sociology and social work, was quoted in a story titled “Is crime as bad as it seems on Nextdoor?” on KGW.com. See the segment at this link.

Kevin Jones, social work, presented a paper, “The Circle of Courage: Applying Native American Principles to Improve Social Work Field Education,” on November 6, 2017, at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ami Ahern-Rindell, biology, was invited to be a member of a panel of women scientists to talk after the Nov. 13th performance of the play, “The How and The Why” by Coho Productions. The play features  2 women scientists  debating controversial hypotheses in evolutionary biology. The script uses biology as a doorway into contemplating complex social issues, the role of women in scientific fields, and how our understanding of human biology affects how we view our place in the world.

Heather Dillon, engineering, presented “Design of a Power Waveform Capture Platform for Plug Load Monitoring,” coauthored with Joseph Hoffbeck and student Stephen Hildebrand, at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Mechanical Engineering Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, November 2016.

Jeff Gauthier, philosophy and gender and women’s studies, had his review of Implicit Bias and Philosophy: Moral Responsibility, Structural Injustice, and Ethics, ed. Michael Brownstein and Jennifer Saul (Oxford University Press, 2016), published in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, November 2016. See the article at this link.

Jeff Kerssen-Griep, communication studies, and communication masters graduate Clayton Terry published “Communicating instructional feedback: Definitions, explanations, principles, and questions” in P. L. Witt (Ed.), in Handbooks of Communication Science: Vol. 16. Communication and Learning (pp. 287-318). Berlin, Germany: DeGruyter Mouton.