Portland State Magazine Fall 2009

CONTENTS Departments 2 FROM THE PRESIDENT A bountiful experience 3 AROUND THE PARK BLOCKS Enjoy the walk In support of green building What's new? State stimulus dollars Intel invests in international students Students care at stroke camp 5 LETTER Just throwing it our there 6 22 23 24 26 33 FANFARE The music of Ernest Bloch Daring feminist plays Prospero's enchanted isle Alumni art on exhibit New Works GIVING Class of $20.09 ATHLETICS 1he legend has retired ALUMNI CONNECTIONS My srory, your story Changing of the board Lives worth remembering Just click and salute ALUMNI NOTES Helping companies turn it around Charter school champion LOOKING BACK College Center for students ON THE COVER Dorothea Lange's 1939 photographs of rural Oregon, featured on pages 14-17, are on display in a new campus exhibit. Lange photographed chis young mother in front of her home near Klamath Falls. Senior Capstone students document tobacco advertising at convenience stores close to schools in Multnomah County. FALL 2009 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 1