PSU Magazine Fall 1993

based at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania in Philadelphi a. Univer ities selected were those commi tted to rethinking or restructur– ing themse lves in the face of changing times, says Juan Mestas, vice provost and dean of students, and PSU's liaison to the Pew Round table. As part of the program, a "PSU Round table" group of 25 PSU faculty , students, staff, and administrators– plus several civic leaders-will meet periodica lly over the next few months to discuss how the Uni versity might address key issues that already have been identified. The group will sum– marize their findings in a paper to be publi hed in a future issue of the Pew Roundtable's quarterly journal, Policy Perspectives, recognized by educato rs as one of the most influential publica tions in higher education today. Faculty in the news Roger Ahlbrandt was appointed dean of the chool f Business Admin– istration on July l. A fo rmer associate dean of busine at the University of Pittsburgh, Ahlbrandt received a bachelor's degree from Yale Univer ity, and a master's in business administra– tion from Harvard. He received a doc– torate in economics from University of Washington in Seattle in 1972. Joel Arick, David Krug, and Ruth Falco, special education faculty in the School of Education, rece ived a 152,891 two-year contract from the Oregon Department of Education to coordinate a full eva luation of the O reg n upported Education Plan in 30 school district across O regon. The plan is an experiment involving inclu ive education for pecial educa– tion student . Teresa Bulman, geography faculty, was one of eight college-level teachers from 11 regions in the United States and Canada to rece ive the annual Distin– guished Teaching Achi evement Award for 1993 from the National ouncil for Geographic Education . Lee Casperson rece ived the Branfo rd Price Millar Award fo r Faculty Excel– lence during spring commencement ceremonies. Casperson, professor of electrica l engineering and a fac ulty member since 1983, is an international– ly known expert in la er dynamics. Hamilton Cheifetz, professor of music and a Portland ce llist, has released a new compact disc "Jubilatum." The eclectic recording includes two contem– porary pieces by fe ll ow PSU fac ulty member Bryan Johanson. Music Profe - or Harold G ray prov ide piano accom– paniment. John Damis, politica l science and inter– national studies professor, was appo int– ed as a con ul tant to the United Nations this summer. Damis worked on a referendum that will determine whether Western Sahara becomes inde– pendent or is integrated into Morocco. The region has been at war since 1975. Warren Harrison, Richard Hamlet and Sergio Antoy, computer science faculty, received a $145,614 research contract from Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories to investigate software quality assurance and valida– ti on in Battelle's res idual radioactive contamination limits fo r decommiss ion– ing project. Marvin Kaiser became dean of the Co llege of Liberal Arts and Sciences on ept. 1. Kaiser was assoc iate dean of the College of Arts and Science at Kansas State Uni versity and a professor in the Department of ociology, Anthropol– ogy, and ocial Work. Hugo Maynard, assoc iate profe or of psychology and urban studi es, rece ived the Hof– fmann Award fo r Faculty Exce ll ence la t spring. He was cited fo r his work with the O utside In Socio-Medi cal Aid Station, the Metropoli tan Lea rn– ing Center, and the Peer Counseling Program of the Portland Public chool . Juan Mestas, vi ce provost and dean of students, donated a special Student Achievement Award presented to PSU student Nicole Wright during May. The award recognize out tanding academic achievements of a student who was admitted to PSU under spe– cial action; in Wright's case, her high school GPA was under the required minimum. Wright , a single parent, graduated from PSU in June with a degree in English. A $500 cash award accompanied the recognition. Earl Molander, professor of business administration and executive director of the Free Market Business Develop– ment Institute (FMBDI), was appointed by the Clinton administra– tion to the board of the newly created Russ ian-American Enterprise Fund. The Fund, headed by Gerald Corrigan, departing pres ident of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will over– see more than $300 million in govern– ment money ea rmarked fo r promoting private-sector deve lopment in Russ ia over the next three to four yea rs. Gertrude Rempfer, professor emerita of phys ics and envi ronmental sciences, has rece ived a National Science Foun– dation grant for $302,256 jo intly with O. H. G riffith of the University of O regon. The grant will support a two– yea r creativity extension for the ir project, "Development and Testing of an Advanced El ectron Optica l System fo r Photoelectron Mi cro copes and Other High Resolution Imaging Sy tems." Rempfer also received a Presidential Citation from President Judith Ramaley at PSU's spring com– mencement ceremonies June 12 in recognition of her "ground -breaking work." Tomas Svoboda, profe sor of mu ic, won an American S ciety of Com– posers, Authors and Publishers Award. The international award is based upon a writer's catalog of original compo i– tions and the performance of the e pieces. Svoboda has written 31 orchestral works, over 100 opuses of piano and chamber music, and created six symphonie . His mu ic ha rece ived more than 800 performances. 0 FALL 1993 5