PSU Magazine Spring 2006

campaign at a glance Pumping up athletics Leadership, team building, physical prowess-athletics programs provide all of this for students. That's why donors earmarked more than $6.8 million to PSU Athletics for scholarships and facility reno– vations.Athletics sponsors 14 intercolle– giate varsity programs, six for men and eight for women .The new Bob and Jane Morrow Team Room has become a hub for coaching and team strategizing .The team room is an appreciated addition to the Morrow Academic Center, where stu– dent athletes study, receive tutoring, and work from the center's 16 computers. 8 PSU MAGAZINE SPRING 2006 Help for startup companies Melissa Appleyard, an Ames Professor in the Management of Innovation and Tech– nology, spearheaded a proposal to guide 12 startup technology companies through Oregon's Lab-to-Market Initia– tive housed at PSU. By networking pri– vate-sector business expertise and research at Oregon's un iversities, the initiative is faci litating the commercializa– tion of novel technologies. Appleyard represented the business side of the proposa l, which also included faculty in chemistry and physics. She and Prof. Pam Tierney hold the first Ames endowed professorships, which were created through a generous campaign donation from Gary and Barbara Ames. The renew– able, three-year appointments encourage resea rch on strategic issues relevant to the management of innovation and tech– nology, while attracting and retaining outstanding faculty like App leyard and Tierney. Opera program draws elites Conductor Steven Crawford of the Metropolitan Opera was on campus this spring working with the student orches– tra and coaching singers for the three-act opera Tartuffe. Hewas just the latest in a series of renowned operatic artists who have accepted the Jeannine B. Cowles Distinguished Professorship in Residence created through the campaign. Marilyn Horne, Sherrill Milnes, Tito Capobianco, and Martina Arroyo have all tutored rising stars in PSU's award-winning Opera Theater Program. Knowledge central The use of technology in libra ries has emerged at an astonishing speed . Data ports and wireless access within the library and Web access from remote sites link patrons to an unbelievable amount of information-much of it delivered through agreements with other libraries. This describes Portland State's Branford P. Mi llar Library, which houses 1.3 million volumes and serves more than 800,000 patrons annual ly. The Library's major $2 .8 million renovation included a state– of-the-art research center and reorgani– zation of its entire col lection, thanks in part to the Building Our Future campaign . Clockwise starting upper left: Heather Arns, women's basket– ball; Cenerentola performed by PSU Opera Theater; Melissa Appleyard, Ames Professor in the Management of Innovation and Technology; and new Millar Library Research Center.