Kevin Jones, social work, presented “Mental Health First Aid: 8-Hour Certification Training” at United Way of the Columbia-Willamette in Portland on November 14 and 28, 2018.
Jon Stanfill, theology, presented “A Deafening Silence: The Challenges of Writing an Environmental History of the Goths,” at Climate Science and Ancient History: Decoding ‘Human’ and ‘Natural’ Archives, University of Basel, Switzerland, 27 November 2018.
Kimberly Ilosvay, education, had her article, “Understanding comlpexities: Teacher voices on differentiating literacy practices” (with student Elise Pepe) published in Northwest journal of Teacher Education, 13 (2), December 2018.
Jeffrey Gauthier, philosophy, wrote “Gender, Social Construction, and The Second Sex,” a review of Bonnie Mann and Martina Ferrari, eds., “On ne naît pas femme: on le devient”: The Life of a Sentence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), Radical Philosophy Review 21 (2018): 355–359, September 2018.
Simon Aikiokhai, theology, presented “Encountering Other Cultures in a Time of Cultural Pluralism,” a talk given to participants at the Moreau Center Immersion Seminar (with co-presenter Lara Trout) on November 30, 2018. He reviewed Born from Lament. The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa by Emmanuel Katongole in the journal Horizons, volume 45, issue 2, pp. 471 – 472, December 2018.
Larry Larsen, performing and fine arts, designed the scenery for the Portland Revel’s production of “Highland Voyage,” which is performing in the Newmark Theater at the Portland Performing Arts Center from December 14 through December 22.
Several faculty members from international languages and cultures participated in the Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference, November 9-11, at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash. María Echenique presented “El pacto con el lector en los cuentos de Magela Baudoin”; Giannina Reyes-Giardiello presented “Beyond the Long Shadow of Magic Realism: Mexican Gothic Fiction” and also chaired a panel entitled “Spain, Portugal, and Latin America: Jewish Culture and Literature in Trans-Iberia”; and Matthew Warshawsky presented “The Excellencies of the Hebrews of Isaac Cardoso: Shades of Spain in an Iberian Diasporic Denial of Anti-Jewish Calumnies.”
Stephanie Meyer and Michelle Collazo, nursing, successfully passed the Certified Healthcare Simulation Educators exam and are the first CHSE’s in the School of Nursing. This certification is integral to growing a program aligned with best practice simulation healthcare education standards.
Rebecca Smith, education, wrote “Supporting the social emotional health of teachers: Building resilience when teaching students with trauma” in WERA Educational Journal (WEJ), November 2018. She presented “Critical professional development: Meeting the needs of teachers and students” at the annual meeting of National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), Memphis, TN, November 2018, and “Let’s get appy: Technology-based formative assessment” at the annual Washington Educational Research Association (WERA) conference, Seattle, WA, December 2018.
Andrew Guest, psychological sciences, wrote the chapter “SDP [Sport for Development and Peace] and Sport Psychology” in the Routledge Handbook of Sport for Development and Peace edited by Holly Collison, Simon C. Darnell, Richard Giulianotti and P. David Howe.