PSU Magazine Winter 1987

---·AROUND THE PARK BLOCKS·--- New magazine editor With this issue, PSUMagazine has a new editor, Kathryn Kirkland. She recently joined the staff of Portland State's News and Information Services as editor of this publication and the faculty and staff newsletter, PSU Currently. Kirkland, a Portland resident, most recently served as a communications specialist for the Visiting Nurse Asso– ciation of Portland. Prior to that, she performed similar work for Southwest– ern Oregon Community College in Coos Bay. She has a bachelors degree in journalism from University of Oregon. Kirkland replaces Cynthia Stowell, who edited both publications for the past five years and earned several awards for excellence. Stowell, who recently authored Faces of a Reservation, a book on Oregon's Warm Springs tri– bal people, is pursuing other career interests and traveling. Teaching excellence awarded Four members of the Portland State faculty were recognized for outstand– ing teaching by the Burlington North– ern Foundation. The foundation's faculty achievement awards were established by Burlington Northern · Inc. to reward teaching excellence, encourage achievement among faculty, and help participating colleges and universities retain talented teachers. This year's honored faculty at PSU represent a broad spectrum of the university, from professional schools to the arts and sciences. They are: Hugo Maynard, professor of psy– chology and urban studies, who created a unique course in community psychology that enabled students to combine academics, practical expe– rience and community service while organizing an annual child abuse con– ference. Nancy O'Rourke Tang, assistant professor of business administration, who is consistently ranked by students This year's Burlington Northern Award winners are: Larry Crawshaw, Nancy O'Rourke Tang, Deeanne Westbrook and Hugo Maynard. in the top 10 percent of accounting faculty at PSU because of her original and energetic teaching style. Tang developed a plan to integrate micro– computers into the accounting curricu– lum at PSU and is an advocate for required continuing education for cer– tified public accountants. Deeanne Westbrook, assistant pro– fessor of English and director of com– position, described as "everything that students are told college professors should be," who has helped expand the English department offerings at PSU through proposing, developing and teaching several new courses. Larry Crawshaw, professor of biol– ogy, a pioneer in the research of com– parative physiology of temperature regulation in animals. His original experimental design using computer imaging is held by colleagues to be the best of its kind in the world. Special VISA card Portland State alumni may soon apply for a special VISA credit card carrying a photo of the campus and the name of the university. The Office of Alumni Affairs has signed a con– tract with U.S. Bank to provide these customized VISA cards at the low annual interest rate of 14.9 percent, said Mary Lou Webb, alumni affairs. In return, the alumni office will receive an ongoing royalty from U.S. Bank depending on the success of the program, said Webb. Applications will be mailed to the PSU community in March 1988. PSU MAGAZINE PAGE2 Historical drama earns national award The 1987 Summer Session Program, "Episodes and Characters in the His– tory of Oregon (ECHO)," has won a national award for bringing Oregon history to life. This fall the North American Association of Summer Ses– sions (NAASS) presented ECHO with an Innovative and Creative Program award for its study and dramatic pre– sentation of wartime internment of Japanese-Americans in Oregon. The ECHO program at PSU allows history, education and theatre arts stu– dents to study specific episodes in Oregon history and recreate them in 15-minute dramas to be presented to middle and high school students. Working this summer with playwright Charles Deemer, ECHO students pre– pared a play depicting a confrontation between a government agent trying to relocate a Japanese family and a reporter for the Hillsboro, Ore. Argus. More than 400 colleges and univer– sities in the U.S. and Canada belong to NAASS. Only two awards for innova– tive and creative programming are given each year. Changes in Trade Institute University President Natale Sicuro announced this fall a reorganization of the International Trade Institute (ITI) at PSU. D.James Manning, who had directed the institute since its inception three years ago, relin– quished the directorship to become Professor of International Business and launch a new bachelor's degree program in international business. Assistant Professor of Geography Gil Latz was named interim director of ITI pending a search for a permanent director. ITI is a statewide program offering education, research and ser– vice to the international business community, including internships, seminars for small businesses, consul– tation and data bases.