PSU Magazine Winter 1992

ACHIEVEMENT AccoMPLISHMENTS ~ Anne Tarver, a high school drop-out, carpenter, and self-described "hiking bum" who entered PSU after 11 years out of school, won a prestigious 1991 Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities (one of only 99 in the nation and PSU's first). Tarver earned her bachelor's degree with a 4.0 grade point average and will use the $11,500 award to con– tinue her philosophy studies in graduate school. ~ Education professor William Greenfield was awarded a 1991 Fulbright grant to study and teach in Thailand this fall. ~ Professor of Public Administration Sheldon Edner accepted a one-year Intergovernmental Per– sonnel Act assignment with the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration in Washington, D.C., to prepare a study of institu– tional decision making processes for improving transportation congestion problems. A respected authority on public policy planning, Dr. Edner was asked to develop a national research study model for metropolitan-area decision making processes. ~ Professor of Mathematics Marjorie Enneking was invited to fill a one-year post as a Visiting Scientist with the National Science Foundation's Education and Human Resources Department in Washington, D.C., to direct a program of teacher enhancement. Dr. Enneking is widely known for her work at Portland State to improve the teach– ing of mathematics in K-12 schools. ~ The Burlington Northern Foundation continued its recognition of faculty excellence with four cash awards to Portland State faculty: Gregory Goek- j ian, English; Jack Semura, Physics; George Tson– gas, Mechanical Engineering; and Lawrence Wheeler, University Honors Program. The four were honored for quality classroom teaching, high scholarly standards, and significant student impact. 'i' Graduate students Shawna Adams, Social Work, and Douglas Albertson, Music, received two of the four new University Club Scholarships worth $5,000. 'i' Sixty-five PSU graduate students received Oregon Laurels State System tuition waivers, 25 more than the previous year. 'i' Three marketing students, with a production budget under $100, won the National Clio College Advertising Award, placing first over 500 other television advertising campaigns developed at in– stitutions across the country. ~ Students in the Master of Urban Planning Regional Planning Program Workshop received the Student Achievement Award for Oregon from the American Planning Association for their work on the Albina Community Plan. ~ PSU's Middle East Studies Center and a similar center at the University of Washington were joint– ly granted "Title IV National Resource Status" by the U.S. Department of Education - only the twelfth such designation in the country. The desig– nation, accompanied by a $150,000 grant, recog– nizes the University's expertise and commitment to Middle East studies. 'i' The Czechoslovakian government awarded a Silver Medal of Honor to the Soviet and East European Business Administration program (SEEBA) for its contributions to business educa– tion in Eastern Europe. SEEBA also trained more than 20 Russian managers in the city of Khaborvsk and has agreed to offer business training in Novograd in cooperation with Rochester University. 'i' Thanks to an international effort spearheaded by Physics Professor Pavel Smejtek, the University has added a powerful new research tool to the Environmental Sciences and Resources Doctoral Program, the Scanning Tunneling Microscope, a microscope so sensitive it can provide images of atoms. And, this highly sophisticated device was built by an international research team at PSU at a cost of $26,000, about a quarter of the value of a commercial instrument. The (STM) reveals THREE