Printed & Presented Archive
Spring 2007
Kellar Autumn, associate professor of biology, coauthored two articles included in the Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Adhesion Society: “Geometry-based Model of Tape Peeling Applied to the Gecko Adhesive System,” 99-101; and “Frictional Adhesion of Natural and Synthetic Gecko Setal Arrays,” 58-60.
Autumn coauthored an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled “Adhesion and Friction in Gecko Toe Attachment and Detachment,” 103: 19320-19325.
Autumn coauthored an article in the Journal of Adhesion titled “Peel Zone Model of Tape Peeling Based on the Gecko Adhesive System” (2007).
Autumn coauthored an article in the Journal of the Royal Society: Interface titled “Frictional and Elastic Energy in Gecko Adhesive Detachment” (2007).
In January, Autumn spoke at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Phoenix, Arizona. Autumn was also an invited speaker at the Adhesion Society meeting in Tampa, Florida in February. In March, he was the spring 2007 Graduate Student Invited Speaker at University of California at Irvine.
Autumn’s chapter “Geckos: Evolutionary Nanotechnology” will be published in the Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships (Greenwood, 2007).
Autumn will be a visiting scholar at the Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution, (ESPCI) in summer 2007.
David M. Becker, senior lecturer and chair of music, presented two clinic sessions at the British Columbia Music Educators Association’s annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Becker’s clinics were titled “Selecting Music for Bands with Less than Ideal Instrumentation” and “So Much to Do, So Little Time: Efficient Ways to Teach Fundamentals.”
Becker also conducted the Oregon Music Educators Association District VI High School Honor Band in Baker City, Oregon and guest conducted two new band works with the Oregon Symphonic Band at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois.
Additionally, Becker organized and conducted secondary school band directors on a session featuring new music for high school bands at the Music Educators National Conference Northwest Division Convention in Portland, Oregon.
In February, Douglas Beloof, associate professor of law and executive director of the National Crime Victim Legal Institute, spoke twice at the Utah College of Law. He first spoke to the faculty on integrating crime victim law into the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. He then spoke to faculty, students, and others on victims' rights and domestic violence.
In March, Beloof was the keynote speaker at the McGeorge School of Law’s Victim Symposium.
On January 23, the Oregonian published an op-ed piece by Michael Blumm, professor of law. His work was titled “Inject Some Clarity in Our Land Use Laws: Measure 37 and the Legislature.” Blumm was responding to an op-ed piece that the Oregonian published on January 18 by Jim Huffman, Erskine Wood Sr. Professor of Law, titled “Measure 37 and the new NIMBYs.”
In March, Blumm spoke at a conference sponsored by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission on the 50th anniversary of the drowning of Celilo Falls, the most important Indian fishing site on the Columbia River. Blumm discussed the U.S. Supreme Court’s foundation Indian treaty fishing rights case. He also published an article on this topic, “‘Not Much Less Necessary Than the Atmosphere They Breathed’: Salmon, Indian Treaties, and the Supreme Court - A Centennial Remembrance of United States v. Winans and Its Enduring Significance.” The article was published in Natural Resources Journal, 46, 489 (2006). The article was co-authored with James Brunberg, J.D. ’06.
Blumm also authored a tribute to Jim Huffman, Erskine Wood Sr. Professor of Law and former dean of the law school, that was published in Environmental Law, 37 (2007).
Ed Brunet, Henry J. Casey Professor of Law, presented his paper “The Minimal Role of Federalism and State Law in Arbitration” at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
A piece by Brian Detweiler-Bedell and Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell, assistant professors of psychology, was published in a book titled Developing & Sustaining a Research Supportive Curriculum: A Compendium of Successful Practices. Their contribution is titled “Transforming Undergraduates into Skilled Researchers Using Laddered Teams.”
Brunet co-authored an article, “Substantive Fairness in Securities Arbitration,” with Jennifer Johnson, professor of law. The article will be published in volume 76 of the Cincinnati Law Review. Brunet presented the article at the University of Cincinnati College of Law in March.
In January, Brunet spoke before the Committee on Civil Rules, which drafts the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. He also attended a workshop on possible amendments to Rule 56, which is the summary judgment rule.
David Campion, assistant professor of history, won a grant for his project “From Rubble to Republic: The Decolonization of Malta, 1940-1974” from the National History Center and the Library of Congress through a program funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The funding will allow Campion to participate in the History of Decolonization Seminar, which will be hosted by the National History Center and the Library of Congress during the summer of 2007 in Washington, D.C. The funding will also help Campion spend four weeks researching on this project in the Library of Congress. Campion will also present his research findings at a roundtable session on decolonization at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, D.C.
Linda Christensen, director of the Oregon Writing Project received a grant of $45,000 from the National Writing Project for the Oregon Writing Project.
Christensen will deliver the keynote address at the annual conference of the Association of Teachers of English in Quebec in Montreal, Quebec, in April. Her talk will be titled “Writing the Word and the World: Crafting Literacy in Troubled Times.”
She will also read from “Reading, Writing, and Rising Up” at Busboys & Poets in Washington, D.C. in March.
In February, Christensen gave the keynote address at a meeting of the California Association of Teachers of English in Fresno, California. Her talk was entitled “Teaching for Justice.”
Also in February, Christensen delivered a lecture, “Teaching Writing,” at a daylong institute hosted by Americorps in San Francisco, California.
Christensen provided the keynote address at the National School Reform Faculty Research Forum in Seattle, Washington, in January. Her presentation was called “Teaching for Equity & Justice.”
Maya Crawford, public interest law coordinator, has been selected as a fellow of the Oregon State Bar’s Leadership College.
Crawford has also been named to the Board of Directors of the Multnomah Bar Association Foundation.
James Duncan, professor of chemistry, presented a poster before the organic division at the 233rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago in March. The poster, which Duncan presented with two colleagues, was titled “Roles of the Nitrogen Lone-pair and the Terminal Carbon-carbon Pi-bond in the Electrocyclic Ring Closure of 7-azahepta-1,2,4,6-tetraene: A CASSCF MO Study.”
Sara Exposito, assistant professor of teacher education, has been consulting with the American International School in Costa Rica through Targeted Leadership Consulting. She has visited Costa Rica on a monthly basis to work with the school board, administrators, teachers, and parents in “Writing Across the Curriculum.”
Maggie Finnerty, clinical professor of law, was a recipient of one of the Portland Business Journal’s “Forty Under 40” awards.
In March, Meg Garvin, director of programs at the National Crime Victim Law Institute, was a panelist at the Equal Justice Conference in Denver, Colorado, on the topic of “Non-traditional Pro Bono: New Ideas for Involving Attorneys.”
In April, Garvin was a keynote speaker for the Colorado Victim Assistance Victims' Rights Week events.
In May, Garvin delivered two presentations at the National College of District Attorneys in Savannah, Georgia: “Elder Abuse: Overcoming Unique Challenges,” and “Assistance and Support for Victim Advocates & Prosecutors.”
In May, Garvin will be presenting at the National Sexual Assault Response Team Training in Tampa, Florida on “Use of Private Attorneys to Represent Victims in Criminal and Civil Cases.”
In June, Garvin is scheduled to present in Washington D.C. at the National Center for Victims of Crime's annual conference on “Strategic Litigation of Victims' Rights.”
Tami Gierloff, associate director of the Paul L. Boley Law Library, is the local advisory committee chair for the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting that will be held in Portland, Oregon in July 2008.
The eighth edition of Education Department Chair Vern Jones’ book “Comprehensive Classroom Management,” Boston, Allyn & Bacon (2007), has been translated into Taiwanese. A previous edition was translated into Chinese.
In May, Oren Kosansky, assistant professor of anthropology, will deliver a presentation at a workshop for early career faculty in Jewish Studies. The workshop, which is sponsored by the American Academy for Jewish Research and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, will take place at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In April, Kosanksy delivered a lecture at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. His lecture was titled “Jewish Icons in Morocco: Discursive Traditions and Modern Forms.”
In March, Kosansky presented his paper, “Mahia, or Alcohol and the Distillation of Jewish-Berber Identity,” at the Western Jewish Studies Association’s conference in Portland, Oregon. Kosansky also organized a panel, “Articulated Others: Jews and Berbers in Modern Morocco,” at the conference.
A book by Ron Lansing, professor of law, is being used as an assigned class text in a Washington State University course on Pacific Northwest History. The book, Juggernaut: The Whitman Massacre Trial (Ninth Circuit Historical Society), has previously been used in other undergraduate colleges, including the University of Oregon.
Lansing also published a tribute to James Huffman, former dean of the law school. The tribute, titled “A Crowning of Hearts: A Tribute to Dean Huffman” was published in Lewis & Clark’s Environmental Law Review 37, i-iii.
In January, Lydia Loren, interim dean of the law school, presented a draft of her work in progress “Using Motivation for Creation to Shape the Scope of Copyright Protection for Certain Types of Works” at the University of Michigan Law School as part of its Intellectual Property Workshop series.
A chapter by Loren was recently included in a multi-volume set, Intellectual Property and Information Wealth (Praeger Publishers, 2007). Loren’s contribution was titled “Understanding the Complexity of Music Copyrights in the United States.”
Jens Mache, associate professor of computer science, published an article in the February issue of the journal IEEE Transaction on Education, 50 (1), 3-9. The article, which was coauthored with Amy Apon of the University of Arkansas, was titled “Teaching Grid Computing: Topics, Exercises, and Experiences.”
Mache also published a paper titled “The Cost of Preserving Privacy: Performance Measurements of RFID Pseudonym Protocols” in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2007 with coauthor Chris Allick B.A. ‘06. Allick presented the paper at the second International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security held in April in Vienna, Austria.
Bob Miller, associate professor of law, wrote 21 entries for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Federal Indian Policy and Law (Congressional Quarterly).
Miller’s book Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny is now in its second printing. This spring, he gave book talks in Manhattan, Portland, and Seattle.
Miller published two editorials about Indian health and property issues on TomPaine.com.
He also published a book review in the Spring 2007 issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly, 138-39.
Nancy Nagel, graduate school associate dean and professor of education, published the fourth edition of her book Early Childhood Education (Allyn & Bacon). Nagel coauthored the book with her colleague Amy Driscoll.
Roger Nelsen, professor of mathematics, published an article, “Extremes of Nonexchangeability” in the journal Statistical Papers, 48 (2007), 329-336.
Nelsen also published an article titled “On the Relationship Between Spearman’s Rho and Kendall’s Tau for Pairs of Continuous Random Variables” in the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137 (2007), 2143-2150. The article was coauthored with Gregory Fredricks.
Nelsen also wrote “A Visual Proof of the Erdös-Mordell Theorem” with Claudi Alsina. The article was published in Forum Geometricorum, 7 (2007), 99-102.
Michael Olich, associate professor of theatre, will design the scenery and costumes for Arthur Honnegar’s King David at the 2007 Oregon Bach Festival in Eugene.
John Parry, associate professor of law, completed a short introduction, “Sanchez-Llamas in Context,” for a Lewis & Clark Law Review symposium on the Supreme Court’s decision last term in Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon.
Parry’s essay “Finding a Right to be Tortured” has been accepted for a symposium in the journal Law & Literature.
On April 5, Parry gave a talk titled “Torture Warrants and the Rule of Law,” at Albany Law School’s Conference on the Work and Scholarship of Alan Dershowitz.
An article coauthored by Parry and Andrea Hibbard, adjunct professor of the humanities and research fellow in law, has been awarded the 2007 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Studies Association Essay Prize. The article is titled “Law, Seduction, and the Sentimental Heroine.”
Mitch Reyes, assistant professor of communication, published an article, “A Kantian Theory of Charisma,” in the International Journal of the Humanities, 3, 185-194.
Reyes also published a piece in the journal Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 9, 571-600. His article was titled “The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the Politics of Realism, and the Manipulation of Vietnam Remembrance in the 2004 Presidential Election.”
Reyes presented a lecture, “Toward an Ethics of Dissent and Marginality: Latinos and Social Justice,” at the 2007 Western States Communication Association’s conference in Seattle, Washington.
In April, Bill Rottschaefer, professor emeritus of philosophy, gave a presentation titled “Are there any Biological Explanations in Experimental Biology: Reflections on Marcel Weber’s Account of Heteronymous Explanation in Experimental Biology” at the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in San Francisco, California. Rottschaefer also presented a paper titled “Moral Emotions: Detectors or Projectors.”
In February, Rottschaefer presented his article “Not by Genetically Based Tribal Social Instincts: A Critique of Richerson’s and Boyd’s Co-evolutionary Account of the Origins of Human Ultra-sociality” at a meeting of the Oregon Academy of Science held at Western Oregon University. An abstract of his presentation was published in the Proceedings of the Oregon Academy of Science, XLIII, 39-40.
Mike Sexton, dean of admissions, presented on the Portfolio Path option for admissions at the Western Regional College Board Forum in San Francisco. The session was titled “Assessing Non-Traditional Credentials in the Admission Process.”
Sexton also presented at the joint meeting of the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain Associations for College Admission Counseling, in Denver. Along with admissions officers from Bates and Middlebury, their session was titled, “How Do They Really Do It?! The Selective College Decision-Making Process.”
Stepan Simek, assistant professor of theatre, was extensively quoted in an article that appeared in the February 2007 issue of the American Theatre Magazine. Simek discussed the Havel Festival.
Gregory Smith, professor of teacher education, delivered a lecture, “Learning to Be Where We Are,” at the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators’ annual conference in Salem, Oregon, in January.
Smith also presented at the Oregon Association of Teacher Educators’ annual conference in Portland, Oregon, in February. His talk was titled “Grounding Learning in Place.”
He published an article, “Grounding Learning in Place,” in WorldWatch Magazine’s March 2007 issue (pp. 20-24).
Assistant Professors of Mathematics Liz Stanhope and Yung-Pin Chen, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Peter Drake, and Associate Professor of Computer Science Jens Mache have been awarded approximately $108,150 from the National Science Foundation. Their award is part of a $491,400 grant that mathematics professors at Willamette University applied for to benefit four institutions. The award will fund eight-week mathematics research experiences for undergraduates and teachers at Lewis & Clark, Willamette, Linfield, and University of Portland during the summers of 2007, 2008, and 2009.
In February, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, assistant professor of Hispanic Studies, participated in the “Cuba-USSR and the post-Soviet Experience” conference, which was held at the University of Connecticut and cosponsored by Lewis & Clark College. This conference was the first of its kind and brought together Cuban specialists from all over the world. Toledano was on a panel that focused on utopias.
Kathryn Tucker, adjunct professor of law, published a review of William Colby’s newest book, Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America, in the Journal of Palliative Medicine 10, (1), 260-61.
Tucker also participated in creating the educational documentary “Three Farewells: Medicine & the End of Life.” The video, part of the Ethics in America II series, explores ethical dilemmas pertaining to the end of life.
Tucker was awarded The Regan Writing Award by the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys, for her article “U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Preserves Oregon's Landmark Death with Dignity Law,” which was published in the NAELA Journal 2, (2), 291-301. This award is presented on an annual basis to the best original article published in the NAELA Journal during that year. Articles considered for the award must be original, in-depth articles exploring a single topic which has an impact on the field of Elder Law.
In March, Tucker gave a speech titled “Patient Choice at the End of Live: Getting the Language Right” to the American College of Legal Medicine’s Annual Meeting in Orlando.
In April, Tucker spoke to a meeting of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers in Boston. Her talk was titled “When the Client is Terminally Ill: Ensuring Appropriate Care.”
Tucker also has recently contributed a book chapter titled “The Sky is Not Falling, Disability and Patient Directed Aid in Dying.” The chapter is part of the book End of Life Issues and Persons with Disabilities.
An article by Chris Wold, associate professor of law and director of the International Environmental Law Project, was translated into Spanish and published in the book Instrumentos Internacionales y la Conservacion de las Tortugas Marinas (J. Frazier 2006). Wold’s article was titled “El Estado de las Tortugas Marinas bajo el Derecho Ambiental Internacional y los Acuerdos Ambientales Internacionales” (“The Status of Sea Turtles under International Environmental Law and International Environmental Agreements”).
Theresa (Terry) Wright, clinical professor of law, and Maya Crawford, public interest law coordinator, have been appointed to the Oregon Bar’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program’s nine-person advisory board.
The Kinsman Foundation awarded a $5,000 grant to Rishona Zimring, associate professor of English, Mary Szybist, assistant professor of English, Doug Erickson, head of special collections for Watzek Library, and Paul Merchant, special collections associate for Watzek Library. The grant will help fund a creative writing reading series and a symposium on poetry and the humanities during the 2007-08 academic year.
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