Briefly. .. Computer applications minor offered PSU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ((LAS) now offers a computer applications minor in response to student need to apply computer technology to academic majors outside the computer science field. The new minor is available to-any students admitted to PSU. Students will be required to complete 12 credit hours of computer science courses and 15 hours of related course work. Child abuse conference held "Breaking the Cycle: Understanding the Genesis of Abuse," a two-day conference on child abuse, was held at Smith Center on April 17-18. Speakers included Oregon Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer plus Hugo Maynard, Psychology and Urban Studies, Nanette Davis, Sociology, and Dan Sheans, Anthropology. The conference was sponsored by the Community Psychology Group. Engineering society starts at PSU Twenty-six students and eight faculty members have been initiated as charter members of a new PSU chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, the national electrical engineering society. Eta Kappu Nu membership is open to junior and senior students with high academic standing. FLY YOUR SCHOOL COLORS... with a handsome imprinted, double hemmed, durable nylon windsock. Ideal for patios, porches, game rooms, dorms, etc. Send $16.95 plus $2.00 shipping and handling to: QUAIL COVE ENTERPRISES Dept. 21 116 Quail Run Fripp Island, SC 29920 Allow 4-6 weeks delivery School of Business Adminislration schedules seminars A variety of courses and seminars of interest to profesSionals are offered by the School of Business Administration in the Continuing Professional Education program, Subjects addressed include computer applications, management and communication skills, personnel issues, finance and law, and personal and professional development. For a catalog of courses or more information, call 229-4820. Accounting Department wins grant A $20,()(X) development grant plus $15,000 worth of in-kind software and training contributions have been awarded to PSU's School of Business Administration. Faculty members Rosanne Mohr and Nancy O. Tang of the Accounting Department will use the development grant to design a curriculum development program for PSU. Portland State is the first school in Oregon to win the development grant from the Coopers & Lybrand Foundation. Only eight other West Coast schools have been so honored. Faculty Notes Na nrK"lIe Davis, Sociology, is the author of From Crime to Choice: The Transformation of Abortion in A.merica, published by Greenwood Press, 1985. JoIQnna 8. Fedde, Foreign languages and literatures, was awar3ed the St. Olav's Medal for her many years of volunteer service in promoting NOIWe8ian culture, heritage and language in Oregon. The fll4!dal was presemed on behalf of King Ola\l V by Norwegian Con!oUl Kjell Lund in a ceremony at the Oregon Art Institute Dec. 4. Nona GI.u:ef. Sociology, has been appointed associate editOf for a three·year term of Sex and Gender, a new publication of Sociologists fOf Women in Society. Danieilonnson, Geography, hai received a Natu)fl.ll Science Foundation trallel granlto Spain, where he will be ~ d i n g his sabbatical winter and spring terms 1986. He will be conducting research on "The Assessment of ClimaTIC Variability as I( R e l a t ~ to Water Resources in Spain." Harold linstone:, Systems Science and Management, traveled to jdkarta, Indonesia , where he w a ~ the American ~ e s e n t a t i v e at the meeting of the United NatIons Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of TechnologV, held in collaboration with the Indonesian Institute of Scieoces in January. William A. Litlle, Black Studies, received the 1986 aw,ud dIne National Council fOf Blaclc Studies for "Outstanding Contributions in the Promotion and Devefopment of Black Studies in the PaCific Northwest." The award WiH presented during the 5th annual conference of the NCB5·Pacific Northwest Region, held in Portland, Feb. 6-8. Jeff Mouochi, Health and Physical Education, head "olleyball coach, was named the recipient of the 1985 Slats Gill Award on Feb. 3, during the 38th annual Bill Hayward B.lnquet of Champions. The coveted award is made 10 the top Oregon coach of the year by Oregon sports writers andsporISCasters. Whale skeleton displayed in Science II A 6OO-pound, 28·foot gray whale skeleton now hangs over the circular stairwell in Science Building II. It was officially welcomed to campus on March 31 during a ceremony which included presentation of a $1,000 check from Sea World of San Diego Lind. Parshall, Foreign languages and LIteratures, Acting Associat.e Dean of eLAS, has been awarded a Senior Fellowship for Studies in landscape Architecture for the 1986 fall semester at Dunbarton Oaks in Georgetown. With the fellowship, awarded by the Trustees of Harvard University, she Wilt be r ~ .... rching theories of late 18th century German landscape. Rhe. P. ul, Speech Communication, is the author of a study enlllied "Oulcomt"S of Severe Oisorders of language Acquisition," which waJ OrigInally published in journal of AutIsm and c:>eveIopmental Di50ffierJ and has been cho5en as one of last year's three o u ~ t a n d i n g studies in ~ e l o p m e n t a l disabilities. It has been reprinted m the 1985 volume of Annual PrOSfeSS in Child PsychiiJlry and Child t:Jevelopmenl. Gary Pfl'istein, AdmH1istration of lustice, has been appointed to a two-year term on the Slate Indigent Defense Board, created by the 1965 Legislature to manage the S34.8 mllllQll budge( .. Uocated fOf indigent defense. He and six other board membeP.i will atlempt to resolve the problems of high cost of defense and inappropriate payments for legal services. Amold D. Picbr, PhysiCS, has been awarded a Welkome Research Travel Grant by the 8urroughs-Wel1come Fund In support of collaboratille ",'Ork he will be doing In England at the f'flysiological Laboratory of Cambridge Unillef'lity spring term. Pickar's research w!1l focus on mechanisms of anesthesia, with partICular ~ , " I S on the interKtion between anesthelics and the lipid portIOn of cell membranes. fo,in ShimNII, Social WOf'k, is co-author WIth William fv'Ieelan, Un;v. oflilinois-Chicago, of Care and Commitment, State UniVffSity of New York Press, 1985. Fr.nk Vtcchio, fOrt':tgn languages and U t e f a t u ~ , is the author of Textos De Ayer De Hoy, published by .Iohn Wiley and Sons, New York, 1985. to President Blume!. The funds will be used to finance biology displays. The hanging of the gray whale is the first ina series of steps to make the Biology department's collection more accessible to the public. Cb.riH R. While, Political 5cienl:e, and Shekton Edner. Center for Urban Studies, presented fiodings from their nationwide study of management issues in the transit mdustry to the 65th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board In Washington, D.C., Jan. 13-16. At the meeling, White w a ~ selected 10 seNe on a natIonal committee charged with "defining a future research agenda on main power issues in the transit industry." In Memoriam D a n ~ Newberry, humanities librarian, died March 10 of cancer in a Berkeley, Ca lifornIa hospital. Newberry, 49, came to Portland State in 1967 as a library department head. A native of Oregon, he graduated from Willamette Unilfersity in 1958 and completed hIS MA at the University of Oregon III 1960. Tile follOWing year, he traveled to the University of liege in Belgium on a Fulbright Fellowship Nev,.oberry earned his profe!isionallibrary degree from the Simmons CoUege library School In Bostoo in 1964. The Oaniel Newbe«y Memorial Book Fund has been established for the purchase of art books Remembrances may be §entlo ~ PSU lib-ary. len Padrow, proftssor of speech communication, died February 8 at his home at the age of 5B. In 1956, Paclrow JOIned the faculty of PSU where he coached tn@ record·setting "GE College Bowl" learn In 1964 and served as department head from 1964 to 1969. In 1966 he won the Mosser Award for distinguished undergraduate leaching. He had published more than (41) pro(essiornl l artlc:'es and ro-authorl!d the book You Can Tallo: to (Almost) An)'Ot'Jf' about (A/mos() lInythmg. r a ~ ~ ~ d t : ! C : J t ~ ~ t ~ ~ ~ ~ . : : t ; : ; ~ over 3,500 speeches during his career. From 1971 to 1974, he took a lealle of absen<e from PSU to serve as a Multnomah County Commissioner. Padrow is surVived by his wlf@, Dee, a daughter, i 50(1 and a siSler. Remembr.nces may be sent to the Ben Padrow Scholarship Fund in care of [he PSU Foundation. PSU Perspective, Spring 1986 / fM&" 9
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