Printed & Presented Archive
Fall 2006
Paula Abrams, professor of law, moderated a panel on “The Unitary Executive,” at the Oregon State Bar, Constitutional Law Section fall seminar titled “The U.S. Constitution—Alive and Breathing: The Oregon Constitution—Still Original.” She also served on the planning committee for the seminar.
Jeff Allman, digital resources coordinator, was featured in the article “Online Law Library Maps” in the Law Library Journal, 98, (4), for his map of the Paul L. Boley Law Library.
Associate Professor of Biology Kellar Autumn coauthored an article for the Journal of Zoology titled “Analysis of the Locomotor Activity of a Nocturnal Desert Lizard (Reptilia: Gekkonidae: Teratoscincus scincus) Under Varying Moonlight,” 110: 104-117.
Autumn also coauthored two articles for the Journal of Experimental Biology: “Effective Elastic Modulus of Isolated Gecko Setal Arrays,” 209: 3558-3568; and “Frictional Adhesion: A New Angle on Gecko Attachment,” 209: 3569-3579.
Autumn coauthored an article in Physical Review Letters titled “High Friction From a Stiff Polymer Using Micro-fiber Arrays,” 97, (7).
Autumn was the corecipient of U.S. Patent No. 7, 011, 723, “Adhesive Microstructure and Method of Forming Same (Part 2).”
Autumn authored the article “How Gecko Toes Stick,” which appeared in the journal American Scientist, 94: 124-132. He also wrote a book chapter titled “Properties, Principles, and Parameters of the Gecko Adhesive System” in Biological Adhesives (Springer Verlag).
Autumn presented the Gentile Interdisciplinary Lecture at Hope College in October.
Stephen Dow Beckham, Pamplin Professor of History, served on Portland Monthly magazine’s selection panel when the publication compiled and debated a list of Portland’s “100 historical figures.” The resulting list appeared in the magazine’s September 2006 issue.
In September, Beckham gave the keynote address at the Columbia Forum speakers series in Astoria, Ore. He discussed his new book “Oregon Indians: Voices from Two Centuries.”
Andrew Bernstein, associate professor of history, received the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction for his book titled “Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan” (University of Hawaii Press, 2006)
Greta Binford, assistant professor of biology, received a two-year, $35,000 grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust for her project, “A Phylogenetic Framework for Studying the Evolution of the Toxic Enzyme Sphingomyelinase D in Venom of Loxosceles and Sicarius Spiders.” This project will also support two undergraduates each year of the award.
An article by Jack Bogdanski, professor of law, was published in the January 2007 issue of the journal Estate Planning, 34 (6), 43. His piece was titled “Revisiting the Burden of Proving Fair Market Value.”
Another article by Bogdanski, titled “For Appraisers, New Tax Qualification Rules and Special Penalty,” has been accepted for publication in the June 2007 issue of Estate Planning.
In June, Bogdanski will deliver the inaugural Dr. Thomas C. Stanton Memorial Lecture at the annual Symposium of the Institute of Business Appraisers in Denver. The title of the lecture is “The Business Appraisal Profession and the Federal Tax System.”
Ed Brunet, Henry J. Casey Professor of Law, published the third edition of his book Summary Judgment: Federal Law and Practice (Thomson).
Brunet also published the third edition of Alternative Dispute Resolution: The Advocate’s Perspective (LEXIS).
Naiomi Cameron, assistant professor of mathematics, received a $3,000 grant from the Mathematical Association of America for undergraduate travel to and from the 2007 Pacific Coast Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. The conference is designed to provide a forum for undergraduates to learn more about the opportunities available to mathematics majors during and post-college, to give students the opportunity to share research projects on expository mathematics, and to encourage the participation of undergraduates at all levels.
Bill Chin, professor of legal analysis and writing, was appointed by Governor Kulongoski to a seat on the Oregon Commission on Asian Affairs for a three-year term. The appointment was approved by the Oregon Senate in April.
Linda Christensen, director of the Oregon Writing Project, received a two-year grant with an annual funding of $66,777 from the Title II-A University School Partnerships grant competition. Her project is titled, “Oregon Writing Project: Improving the Teaching of Writing from the Inside.” She will work with Grant High School and Lincoln and King Elementary Schools for two years.
In November, Christensen was a leader at “Teachers Working Together: Expanding the Canon and Creating Social Justice Curriculum,” an institute hosted by the National Council of Teachers of English in Nashville, Tennessee. She also delivered a talk, “Teachers Teaching Teachers: Teacher-Centered Professional Development.”
Mark Dahl, assistant director for systems and access services Watzek Library, attended the Frye Leadership Institute in June. The purpose of the intensive, two-week residential program is to develop creative leaders to guide and transform academic information services for higher education. Dahl was nominated by Dean Julio de Paula and was selected in a national competition for this year’s participants in which only 18 percent of applicants were selected. In addition, Dahl received a Mellon scholarship to cover full expenses for the program.
Dahl also published a book titled “Digital Libraries: Integrating Content & Systems” (Chandos, 2006) with coauthors Michael Spalti of Willamette University and Kyle Banerjee of the Oregon State Library.
Julio de Paula, dean of the college of arts and sciences and professor of chemistry, released the eighth edition of a textbook titled “Physical Chemistry” (Oxford University Press and W.H. Freeman and Co., 2006). The textbook, coauthored with Peter Atkins from Oxford University, is a best-selling textbook on physical chemistry.
Sara Exposito, assistant professor of teacher education, delivered a lecture on, “Teaching and Learning Through the Transformative Practice of Storytelling,” at the December conference of Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education. The conference was held in Rotorua, New Zealand.
In November, Bill Funk, professor of law, presented his paper, “Federal Agency Preemption of State Tort Law,” at a forum at Duke Law School.
Eban Goodstein, professor of economics, published an article in the journal Worldwatch. The article titled “Climate Change: What the World Needs Now is... Politics” (19-1, January/February 2006), argues that the obstacles to progress on global warming are not economic or technical, but political.
Goodstein launched an educational initiative on global warming called Focus the Nation. The project coordinates teams of faculty and students at more than 1,000 colleges, universities, and high schools in the United States to engage in a nationwide, interdisciplinary discussion on stabilizing the climate in the 21st century. The kick-off meeting for the project takes place at Middlebury College in September.
Jim Grant, associate professor of economics, and Ben Westervelt, associate professor of history, received a $42,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation for their project, “Assessing Classmate Peer Effects on Student Learning: Statistical and Qualitative Evidence for Gateway Courses at Three Liberal Arts Colleges.” Grant and Westervelt are collaborating with colleagues from Reed College and Willamette University.
John Grant, professor of law, has published the International Criminal Law Deskbook, (Cavendish Publishing 2006) co-authored by Professor J. Craig Barker of Sussex Law School in England.
Jerry Harp, visiting assistant professor of English, released his third book of poems titled “Urban Flowers, Concrete Plains” (Salt Publishing, 2006). His review of Harold Bloom’s “Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine” appeared in the journal Pleiades, 26 (2), along with a poem titled “Creature’s Job Search,” and translations of two poems by the Cuban poet Victor Rodriguez Nunez.
Tom Hochstettler, president, has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the Board of Trustees for the World Affairs Council of Oregon.
In June, Jane Hunter, professor of history, was appointed associate dean of the college of arts and sciences.
In April, she gave the opening keynote talk at a three-day conference titled “Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation and American Empire 1812-1938” held at Oxford University."
Brooke Ingersoll, visiting assistant professor of psychology, received a $137,264 grant from the Cure Autism Now Foundation for its Treatment Award program. Her project is titled “Teaching imitation skills to young children with autism: Predicting response to a naturalistic social-communication intervention.”
Her article titled “Teaching reciprocal imitation skills to young children with autism using a naturalistic behavioral approach: Effects on language, pretend play, and joint attention,” coauthored by Laura Schreibman, was published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36, 487-505. Another article by Ingersoll, titled “Including parent training in the early childhood special education curriculum for children with autism spectrum disorders,” coauthored by Anna Dvortcsak, was published in the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 8, 79-87.
Michael Johanson, visiting assistant professor of music, has been chosen as an ASCAPLUS Award recipient by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers. Awards are granted by an independent panel and are based upon the unique prestige value of each writer’s catalog of original compositions, as well as recent performances in areas not surveyed by the Society.
Curtis Johnson, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Professor of Government, published an article in the January issue of the Journal of the History of Biology. The article is titled “The Preface to Darwin’s Origin of Species: The Curious History of the ‘Historical Sketch.’”
Gordon Kelly, visiting assistant professor humanities, published A History of Exile in the Roman Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Ron Lansing, professor of law, presented his most recent book, NIMROD: Courts, Claims, and Killing on the Oregon Frontier (Washington State University Press), at an Authors Fair sponsored by the Portland City Club.
Janis Lochner, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr., Professor of Science, received a three-year, $195,711 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) Grant for her project, “Real-Time Imaging of tPA Flourescent Hybrids in Hippocampal Neurons.”
Jens Mache, associate professor of computer science, published a paper titled “Sensor Network Lab Exercises Using TinyOS and MicaZ Motes” with coauthors Chris Allick ’06, John Charnas ’08, Alex Hickman ’07, and Damon Tyman ’07. The paper was presented at the International Conference on Pervasive Systems and Computing held in June in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In July, Mache published a paper titled “Performance Implications of Using VPN Technology for Cluster Integration and Grid Computing.” He delivered the paper at the IEEE International Conference on Networking and Services in Silicon Valley. Coauthors included: Damon Tyman ’07, Andre Pinter ’07 and Chris Allick ’06.
In October, Mache presented a tutorial titled, “Hands-On Grid Computing With Globus Toolkit 4,” at the Eighth Annual Northwestern Regional Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges at Eastern Washington University. His paper was published in the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, volume 22, issue 2.
In August, Robert Miller, associate professor of law, was a featured speaker at North Dakota’s Three Affiliated Tribes’ commemoration of the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The event was titled “Reunion at the Home of Sakakawea.”
Miller also published a book, Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny (Praeger 2006) which is a legal history tracing the development and use of the international Doctrine of Discovery into American colonial, state, and federal law and then its use by Jefferson and Lewis and Clark to claim the Pacific Northwest for the US.
Miller's book Native America, Discovered and Conquered was named the book of the month for December 2006 by Native America Calling. Miller was a guest on a one hour nationwide radio program on December 27.
Clayton Morgareidge, professor emeritus of philosophy, has a chapter titled Beyond the Walls: Dispersing the Responsibility for Crime in the new book “Prisons and Punishment: Reconsidering Global Penality” (Africa World Press, 2007). The volume is edited by Mechthild Nagel and Seth N. Asumah.
In March, Joanne Mulcahy, assistant professor, Northwest Writing Institute, spent a month as a writer in residence at the Espy Foundation, an artists’ retreat in Oysterville, Washington. She also won third place in this year’s Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspective Essay Contest and read her winning essay in June at the University of Oregon.
Adrienne Nelson, adjunct professor of law, received a judicial appointment to the Multnomah County Circuit Court by Governor Kulongoski.
Janet Neuman, associate dean of law faculty and professor of law, delivered the Fall 2006 Distinguished Lecture at Florida State University College of Law. Her lecture on October 10, Chop Wood, Carry Water: Cutting to the Heart of the World's Water Woes, will be published in FSU’s Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law.
John Parry, visiting professor of law, edited a collection of essays titled Evil, Law, and the State: Perspectives on State Power and Violence (Rodopi Press 2006), which includes his own essay Pain, Interrogation, and the Body: State Violence and the Law of Torture.
Parry also co-authored an article with Andrea Hibbard, adjunct professor of the humanities at Lewis & Clark College and research fellow in law and the humanities at the law school, titled Law, Seduction, and the Sentimental Heroine: The Case of Amelia Norman, which was published in the June 2006 issue of American Literature.
James Proctor, professor of environmental studies, and Director of the Environmental Studies Program, received a $300,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation for the project, “Advancing Environmental Studies via Interdisciplinary Student Research.” The project is designed to further scholarly rigor and coherence in the field of environmental studies by cultivating interdisciplinary research skills among undergraduate students at Lewis & Clark and other American institutions.
In October, Matthieu P. Raillard, assistant professor of Hispanic studies, presented a paper at the 56th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Raillard’s paper was titled “Magister Dixit: Mariana Jose de Larra and the Romantic Improvisation of Power.”
C. Gary Reiness, professor of biology, received a $37,500 grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust for its Murdock College Research Program for Life Sciences. His project is titled “Characterization of a Secretory Signal for Chicken Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor.”
Mitch Reyes, assistant professor of communication, delivered a lecture at the 2006 convention of the National Communication Association in San Antonio, Texas. Reyes’s lecture was titled “Examining the Debate over an Apology for Slavery.”
Reyes also gave a presentation on “Navigating the Color Line: The Politics of Apology” at a meeting of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association in Sydney, Australia.
Bill Rottschaefer, professor emeritus of philosophy, published an abstract in the Proceedings of the Oregon Academy of Science, XLII, 48. The abstract was titled, “Are there any Biological Explanations in Experimental Biology: Reflections on Marcel Weber’s Account of Heteronymous Explanation in Experimental Biology.”
Rottschaefer also published an article, “The New Scientific Naturalistic Metaethics: A Critical Review,” in the journal Bridges, 13, 125-140.
On November 4, Rottschaefer presented a paper at a meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association in Vancouver, British Columbia. His presentation was titled “Parenting and Moral Learning: How Scientifically Based Moral Realism Justifies Moral Claims.”
In November, Rottschaefer presented three papers at the Northwest Conference on Philosophy in Portland, Oregon. His presentations were titled “Modest and More Modest Autonomy: A Reply to Kumar,” “Are there any Biological Explanations in Experimental Biology: Reflections on Marcel Weber’s Account of Heteronomous Explanation in Experimental Biology,”and “Oh Happy Accident, or How to Found Inferential Practices Without Much A-Do: Comments on Slater’s ‘An Explanation for the Explanatory Utility of Species.’”
Rottschaefer was also awarded a travel grant by the Philosophy of Science Association.
Liz Safran, associate professor of geological science, received a $78,184 grant from the National Science Foundation for her project, “Impact of Extrafluvial Events on River Valley Evolution.” She also received an $8,200 grant from the Geological Society of America for her project, “Geomorphology Research in Semi-Arid Landscapes; Dating Some Key Landforms.”
Donna Seifer, instructor in Russian, received a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to participate in the American Councils 2006 Summer Russian Teachers Program at Moscow State University, June 15 through August 16. She will attend seminars in Russian language, literature and culture, developing curriculum materials, and continuing research in Russian cinema.
In August, Seifer served as interpreter for award-winning Russian filmmaker Victor Yelmanov, during his visit to Portland. Seifer provided interpretation for Yelmanov at Oregon Public Broadcasting, KBOO Community Radio, Weiden+Kennedy, and the Northwest Film Center. She also interpreted for Yelmanov at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center in the presentation and discussion of his documentary films: “I Remember That Vanino Port” and “I Was Killed at War.”
Stepan Simek, assistant professor of theatre, was published in the 50th anniversary issue of the Literary Review, 50 (1). Simek’s translations of Iva Volankova’s Three Sisters, 2002.CZ and Peter Zelenka’s Theremin were published alongside his essays about the authors.
In late 2006, Simek’s authorized translation of Vaclav Havel’s play The Increased Difficulty of Concentration was staged at the Ohio Theatre in New York City. The performance was part of the Havel Festival.
In June, Greg Smith, professor of education, gave a presentation at the Montana Heritage Project’s 12th summer conference on place-based learning.
Smith also published an op-ed piece, “Uniformity Does Not Equal Equity,” in the Oregonian (December 29, 2006).
Kim Stafford, director of the Northwest Writing Institute, wrote the introduction for a new edition of William Stafford’s “Down in My Heart: Peace Witness in Wartime,”(Oregon State University Press, 2006).
He published a reprint edition of “A Thousand Friends of Rain: New & Selected Poems” (Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2005).
He published poems and articles in Speakeasy, The Writer, Grove Review, Orion, Flint Hills Review, Camas Review, Cottonwood Review, Oregon English, Pilgrimage, Oregon Quarterly, High Desert Journal, North American Review, Image, The Texas Observer, Portland Magazine, and Open Spaces; an interview and poems in Cafe Review; and his spoken poems were included in “The Unfinished Journey: The Lewis and Clark Expedition,” a 13-part radio series created and produced by Lewis & Clark College, in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting.
In spring of 2006, Stafford published chapters in several books including The Writer as Professional Eavesdropper in “Writing True: The Art & Craft of Creative Nonfiction” (Houghton Mifflin, 2006); the chapter A Separate Hearth in “Reading Portland” (Oregon Historical Society Press, 2006); Beads & Thread in “Twentieth Century Writing” (Heineman Press, 2006); College Recruitment Night in “College Unranked: Ending the College Recruitment Frenzy” (Harvard University Press, 2005); Twenty Landscape Terms in “A Handbook of Landscape Terms” (Trinity University Press, 2006); My Father Wrote Each Day in “Artful Leadership: Finding Wholeness in Our Personal and Common Life” (Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2006); and Prompts for Writing about Place in “Writing About Place: A Teacher’s Guide” (Orono, ME: Maine Writing Project, 2005).
Stafford’s presentations include “The Muses Among Us,” a talk and workshop at the University of Tennessee at Martin in September; “Writing for the Healing of the World,” a writing workshop at the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology” in Neskowin, Oregon, in January; “Writing for Artists,” a talk and workshop at the School of Visual Arts, Penn State University in February; a keynote address “Hearing the Unwritten” at the National Council of Teachers of English conference in Portland in March; “The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft” at the University of Central Arkansas in April; “Things I Learned Last Week,” a reading and workshop at the Wordstock Literary Festival in Portland in May; “Your Pilgrim Journal,” a writing workshop at the Santa Sabina Center in San Rafael, California, in May; “Kim Stafford Day,” a workshop for teachers at the SE Louisiana Writing Project in June; and “Teaching Stories,” a writing workshop at the University of North Dakota in July.
Stafford’s book “Having Everything Right: Essays of Place” was chosen by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission as one of the essential 100 books from Oregon for an exhibit at the Oregon State Library.
Juliet Stumpf, associate professor of law, published Penalizing Immigrants in the Federal Sentencing Reporter in April 2006. The piece critiques the increasing harshness of deportations based on criminal and immigration-related offenses and proposes a graduated system of sanctions for immigrants modeled on the criminal sentencing regime. Her article entitled English-Only Cases: Litigating the Diverse Workplace appeared in the summer 2006 issue of the ABA’s Employment and Labor Law publication. It highlights a new approach to workplace discrimination cases when an employer seeks to restrict the use of languages other than English.
In May, Mary Szybist, assistant professor of English, and Jerry Harp, visiting assistant professor of English, gave a poetry reading of their works at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. While at Knox College, Szybist served as the judge of a student poetry contest and Harp acted as the outside examiner in an honors project in poetry.
Linda Tesner, director of the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, was appointed to the Public Art Advisory Committee for the Regional Arts and Culture Council. The committee is responsible for selecting all public artwork in Portland. Tesner’s appointment complements her continuing tenure as chair of the Art Advisory Committee for Tri-Met, in which she guides selection of all public art for the light rail route between Union Station and Portland State University.
Carl Vance, vice president for business and finance and treasurer, has been appointed to a three-year term with the Oregon 529 College Savings Board. The Oregon 529 College Savings Network is a set of qualified college savings plans established by the State of Oregon to help families and individuals save for future higher education expenses.
In September, Ted Vogel, assistant professor of art and program head in ceramics, was awarded the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program Grant by the Kansas City Artists Coalition. This $5000 grant enabled Vogel to participate in a two-month residency at the Center for Ceramics in Berlin, Germany during the Fall 2006. There, he held a one-person exhibition and lectured on his work. While in Europe, Vogel also was invited as a visiting artist and lecturer at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin, Ireland.
Greg Walters, director of human resources, will continue for another three years his role as treasurer on the board of directors for the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. Walters has been a member of the board since 1999.
Terry Wright, clinical professor at the law school, began her term of service on the Oregon Board of Bar Governors on January 1, 2006. The Board of Governors governs the Oregon State Bar, determines the general policies of the Bar and approves its budget each year. The Board of Governors consists of twelve lawyers elected from six regions and four public members appointed by the board. Wright’s term will expire in 2009.
Elliot Young, associate professor of history, won the Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History for his book titled “Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas Mexico Border” (Duke University Press, 2004). The award recognizes and encourages research and documentation of regional history through publication of original material, which preserves, records, or recounts local or regional history.
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