PSU Magazine Winter 1987

f ACULTY HONORS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS In 1986-87, members of the Portland State University published over 200 arti– cles and presented over 200 papers at meetings, symposiums and scholarly conventions across the country. At the same time they maintained their own high standards of teaching excellence and continued to contribute important work on behalf of the progress and well being of the community, our culture, and the larger society, nationally and internationally. Four members of the University fac– ulty in September 1986 , and four more in 1987, were recipients of Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achieve– ment Awards. The awards were estab– lished by the Foundation to reward outstanding teaching, to motivate good teachers to become even better and to encourage good teachers to remain in education. Nominated and selected by their colleagues, the recipients repre– sented a broad spectrum of the Univer– sity, from professional schools to the arts and sciences. The Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Awards 1986: James Nattinger, Professor of English Bruce Browne, Professor of Music Janice Jackson , Professor of Business Administration Wendelin Mueller, Professor of Civil Engineering 1987: Hugo Maynard, Professor of Psychology and Urban Studies Nancy O'Rourke Tang, Assistant Professor of Business Administration Dee Anne Westbrook, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Composition Larry Crawshaw, Professor of Biology Other Awards and Honors, 1986-1987 Arthur C. Emlen , Professor of Social Work and Director of the Regional Research Institute for Human Services, was honored by his peers with the Bran– ford Price Millar Award for Faculty Excel– lence and honored by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for his work in develop– ing the policy of permanency planning, a concept that encourages states to plan toward a permanent famil y status for all children who receive public child-welfare services. Emlen shared the award with Victor Pike, past director of the Regional Research Institute. Marjorie A. Enneking, Professor of ·Mathematics, received the George and Virginia Hoffmann Award for Excellence. Widely known for her love of teaching and her commitment to the improvement of the teaching of mathematics, Enneking is the director of a national model project for alternative approaches to the teaching of secondary mathematics. The project is based at PSU and funded by the National Science Foundation. Gertrude F. Rempfer, Professor Emerita of Physics, received the Howard Vollum Award for Science and Technol– ogy, presented by Reed College in recog– nition of exceptional achievement by a member of the Northwest scientific and technical community. Rempfer is a spe– cialist in the fi eld of electron physics and is known fo r her role in the development of special electrostatic lens systems for the photoelectron microscope. Thomas Svoboda, Professor of Music, received the "Meet the Composer"Award of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Svoboda, whose fourth symphony was recently recorded by the Louisville Orchestra, also was commissioned to write a work in honor of the 85 th birthday of composer Aaron Copland. Gerald F. Blake, Professor of Urban Studies, was awarded a Certificate of Special Recognition by the secretaries of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Devel– opment for his role in identifying exem– plary local activities that explore new ways of improving shelter and neighbor– hoods of low-income families th rough use of local activities involving the pri– vate sector. The project is part of the United States contribution to the United Nations International Year of Shelter for the Homeless. VIII