In celebration of Veterans Day and recently passed national service legislation, UO theater department head John Schmor and two UO student veterans will travel to Washington, D.C. for a production of the play, “Telling.”

Schmor will direct, and the UO student veterans will act in the play. Three other Oregon veterans and a UO graduate who is a military spouse will also be traveling to DC for the performance. A live stream of the performance will be available online.  Access will be available from the UO homepage, www.uoregon.edu, at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11.

The Telling Project, thetellingproject.org was created in 2007 to help provide veterans and their families with the chance to tell others about their experiences transitioning back to civilian life after deployment. The Telling Project’s Veterans Day play will be drawn from previous productions performed in Eugene and Portland.

Service Nation, a non-profit, non-governmental organization, invited The Telling Project to present a 25-minute excerpt of the previous plays at George Washington University in conjunction with the Veterans Day events on Nov. 11 and 12. Representatives from government, the military and the entertainment industry are expected to attend.

The play is based upon interviews with veterans. The interviews were sifted down into scripts by co-authors Jonathan Wei, executive director and founder of The Telling Project, and UO comparative literature graduate student Max Rayneard. Schmor, who is head of the UO Theatre Arts Department, directed the Eugene play and will serve as director for the Washington D.C. performance.

In Telling, the veterans interviewed for the script also perform the material. “The individual talking on stage is telling about his or her own experience,” said Wei. “We needed to let that material be in the possession of, and delivered by, the person to whom it happened.”

A total of five vets from Oregon — from different branches of the military, most of whom served in Iraq and Afghanistan — will perform.

The Telling Project is part of an international movement called “verbatim theatre,” a form of documentary theater in which scripts are based upon the language used by interviewees. And then the interviewees take the stage as actors in the resulting plays.

The Telling Project also has created a 50-state expansion initiative, with the goal of creating opportunities for all veterans and family members to tell their stories through performance art. The organizers currently are seeking partnerships and funding to help support the initiative.

David Tyler has been named the first recipient of the Charles J. and M. Monteith Jacobs Professorship in Chemistry. Appointment to an endowed professorship recognizes outstanding contributions to a research discipline and teaching.  Candidates are expected to have achieved a level of national and international recognition.

Tyler, a member of the Materials Science Institute, is widely recognized as a dedicated teacher and mentor, and has a long history of productive research.  His CV lists 174 papers in print, and several articles accepted or submitted for publication. Tyler’s general research area is inorganic and organometallic chemistry.

The Charles J. and M. Monteith Jacobs Professorship in Chemistry is a newly created endowed professorship. It was made possible by two gifts from the late Charles J. Jacobs, and was named for both himself and his brother.

John Willinsky, a visionary leader and author in the area of digital scholarship and open access, will give a talk entitled “Open Access to Knowledge and the Intellectual Properties of Learning” on Friday, Dec. 4, at 3 p.m. in Knight Library’s Browsing Room. A reception will follow.

With faculty appointments at both the Stanford School of Education and the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, Willinsky has been an innovator in the field of open access. As founder of the Public Knowledge Project, he developed the Open Journal Systems for serials publishing, and, more recently, the Open Monograph Press for book-length works. He was instrumental in convincing the Stanford School of Education to adopt an open access deposit mandate for all of its faculty members.

Willinsky describes his research as focusing on “analyzing and altering scholarly publishing practices to understand whether this body of knowledge might yet become more of a public resource for learning and deliberation.” He argues that the use of new publishing technologies and new economic models will improve access to scholarly work for the advancement of public knowledge.

Willinsky has written on such topics as Wikipedia and the effects of open access initiatives on public knowledge and academic scholarship. His most recent book, “The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship,” was published by MIT Press.

Sponsored by the UO Libraries, the Oregon Humanities Center and the Oregon State University Libraries, the lecture is part of the “Year of the Book” series at the UO.

For more information, contact JQ Johnson, Scholarly Communications, 346-1746, jqj@uoregon.edu.

The University of Oregon Department of Dance presents Gabe Masson Dance in a concert that will also feature performance and choreography by new faculty members Brad Garner and Shannon Mockli. The two performances are on Nov. 20 and 21, at 8 p.m. in the Dougherty Dance Theatre, on the third floor of the Gerlinger Annex, 1484 University St. Tickets, available at the door, are $10 general admission, $5 for students and seniors. The house opens at 7:30 p.m. and seating is limited for these performances.

Award-winning choreographer Gabriel Masson, whose work the New York Times called “breathtaking” and “deeply human,” brings his professional company to the UO with his latest tour de force, “A Place To Hang Your Hat.” The piece leads four dancers through a costume- and prop-filled landscape as they frantically search for the one thing that ties them all together. They sing, they dance, they talk to the audience, they talk to each other, all in a mad quest to make sense of their rapidly changing world.

Working with frequent collaborators, including dancers Cortney McGuire, Josselyn Levinson and Michael Richman, Masson delivers one of his trademark investigations of the human heart—laying bare our deep desire to connect—and the extremes we sometimes go to feel like we belong.

Also featured in the concert are a solo performed by new UO dance faculty member Brad Garner, and a new trio choreographed and performed by second year faculty member Shannon Mockli.

For more information, call 541-346-3386.

Bora Simmons, a researcher at University of Oregon’s Institute for a Sustainable Environment, has received an award from the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) for “Outstanding Service to EE by an Individual at the Global Level.” The award is given each year to an individual who has made a significant contribution to environmental education (EE) that has impacted people throughout the world. Simmons accepted the award in October at the NAAEE conference in Portland.

For more than 15 years, Simmons has led the effort on behalf of NAAEE to design, develop, print and implement several volumes of the Guidelines for Excellence in Environmental Education. The Guidelines for Excellence are a bridge between the formal and nonformal education communities, providing a pedagogy resource to those who have the environmental content knowledge, but who lack the skills and creative methods to convey that knowledge to a variety of audiences with different learning styles.

Peggy Pascoe, history professor, continues to be recognized for her recent book, “What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America” (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Pascoe, whose research and teaching focuses on the history of race, gender and sexuality, will be honored with two of the major annual prizes given by the American Historical Association: the John H. Dunning Prize, given for the best book in U.S. history (any field, any period) and the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History. The AHA award ceremony will take place in January.

Earlier this year, Pascoe’s book was awarded two major prizes from the Organization of American Historians: the 2009 Ellis W. Hawley Prize and the 2009 Lawrence W. Levine Award. Pascoe was a finalist for the 2009 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies Association, which recognizes the best book published in the field.

Pascoe is Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and Professor of Ethnic Studies. She said she is “fascinated by the cultural and historical processes that make race, gender, and sexuality seem like ‘natural,’ common-sense differences rather than the power-laden hierarchies they really are.”

“What Comes Naturally” has been a vehicle for Pascoe to delve into these themes. The book shows these dynamics at work in the passage, spread and enforcement of American laws against interracial marriage. Marked by the invention of the term “miscegenation” and justified by the claim that interracial marriage was “unnatural,” they prohibited marriage between “whites” and “Negroes,” “Mongolians,” “Chinese,” “Japanese,” “Indians,” “Kanakas,” and “Hindus,” says Pascoe. Yet race is only one part of this story, for the nature of race was (and is) deeply interwoven with claims about the nature of gender and sexuality.

Josh Faught, professor of art, has received the 31st annual Betty Bowen Award, an unrestricted prize of $15,000 open to Northwest artists. Faught accepted the honor on Oct. 23 at a ceremony at the Seattle Art Museum, which will also exhibit a selection of his work.

Since 1977, the Betty Bowen Awards have recognized emerging artists working in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho in the spirit of longtime Seattle-based arts patron Betty Bowen. Two special recognition awards of $2,500 each were also granted. Faught was selected from a pool of 494 applicants.

His work with textiles and fibers addresses multiple histories and mythologies, both personal and social. He juxtaposes more traditional fiber craft with sculptural, multimedia elements that incorporate political and pop artifacts and slogans. Faught received a master’s of fine arts with an emphasis in fiber and material studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. He also received a degree in textile and surface design from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 2004.

Faught, who joined the UO faculty in 2007, plans to apply the grant back into his practice, whether in terms of materials or research. He is currently preparing for his first solo show in January 2010 at the Lisa Cooley Gallery in New York.

Robyn Hathcock, UO Housing Recycling Coordinator, has been recognized by the Lane County Resource Recovery Advisory Committee with the School Program Trashbuster award.

During her 11 years, Hathcock has developed one of the most successful housing waste reduction and recycling programs in the country. As a result of her efforts, each residence room contains recycling bin and instructions and each incoming student is given a UO reusable water bottle. She has worked with students to encourage housing to implement a voluntary option of reusable plates in the campus meals program which allowed that program to reduce trash generation by one third.

Hathcock has also been involved in growing the national Recyclemania competition from two schools in 2000 to more than 500 colleges and universities in 2008.

Two UO professors were selected to each receive a Sony Scholar Award worth $2300 in new technology. Allison Carruth is a professor of English and John Fenn is an arts and administrationprofessor.

Sony Electronics, with support from Intel, recently launched the education scholarship program that provides students and faculty with the latest Sony technology to help them continue to achieve academic excellence. Five UO undergraduate students and two faculty members were chosen for their outstanding scholarly work and potential to make significant contributions in their fields of study.

The award includes a technology package from Sony valued at $2,000 including a VAIO notebook computer, camcorder, reader, memory stick, and display monitor.  In addition, the UO Bookstore/Duck Store has donated a Microsoft Office software package.

Mike Posner, professor emeritus of psychology, shakes hands with President Obama during a White House ceremony Oct. 7 for the winners of the 2008 National Medal of Science and Technology, the government’s highest honor bestowed upon scientists. A video of the 25-minute ceremony is available on the Web, with the presentation of Posner’s award coming 18 minutes into the ceremony.

David Conley, professor of education has been appointed to Validation Committee for the Common Core State Standard Initiative. The 25-member committee with be tasked with reviewing and verifying the standards development process and the resulting evidence-based college-and career-readiness standards. The standards are intended to be research and evidence-based, aligned with college and workforce training program expectations, reflective of rigorous content and skills, and internationally benchmarked.

The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) announced the appointments.

Dennis Jenkins, professor of archaeology and researcher at the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is the winner of the 26th annual Earle A. Chiles Award given by the High Desert Museum in Bend. Jenkins was recognized for his more than two decades of research into human ecology and cultural history in the High Desert.

Jenkins published a paper in the journal Science last year documenting his 2002 discovery of genetic evidence that humans were living in the Paisley Caves in south central Oregon 14,000 years ago. That challenged the theory of how and when the first people came to North America and attracted worldwide attention.

The discovery involved interdisciplinary research and an international team of scientific experts, noted the Bend museum’s announcement. “It was a milestone in archaeology and in his long career, throughout which he succeeded in finding common ground with diverse groups of Native American tribes and other interest groups in Oregon through sometimes complex and sensitive negotiations. He also has shared his knowledge, traveling throughout Oregon, enthusiastically educating the public about the meaning of archaeological findings in the High Desert.”

The $15,000 award was established in 1983 in honor of Earle A. Chiles, Oregonian, businessman and philanthropist. It is funded by the Chiles Foundation and will be presented Dec. 1 at the Earle A. Chiles Award Banquet in Portland.

The Association of University Architects awarded Chris Ramey, university architect and associate vice president for Campus Planning and Real Estate, an award of merit in recognition of the significant contribution the planning and design of the Many Nations Longhouse has made to the campus.

The award was one of five given at the association’s annual meeting in Saskatoon, Canada in June. This is the fourth time the UO and Ramey have been honored by the association in the last 12 years.  Part of the award included a case study presentation focusing on diversity in design and the Many Nations Longhouse.

The Association of University Architects was founded in 1956, is limited to one member per campus and consists of 120 members from universities in the US and Canada.  Its purpose is to promote the effective planning of the physical environments of higher education, improve the design and construction of university buildings and campuses, and exchange ideas on best practices between its members.

Eileen Otis, assistant professor of sociology, has received honorable mentions by the American Sociological Review for her 2008 article “Beyond the Industrial Paradigm: Consumer Markets and the Gender Politics of Labor in China’s Globalized Service Workplaces.”
The article was nominated for best publication awards in both the “Sex and Gender” and “Asia/Asian American” sections. She received honorable mentions in both.
The ASA describes her article:

How Do Local Consumer Markets Impact Staff-Customer Relationships?
Are relationships and interactions between staffs and customers influenced by gender and local communities and markets? Why, in service work, such as hospitality services where women constitute the majority of the workforce, do workers display different gender norms or organize customer relations differently in different settings? Sociologist Eileen Otis studies this phenomenon by comparing two luxury hotels in two Chinese cities, Beijing and Kunming, both run according to the same business plan created by a U.S. corporation. She finds that in the Beijing hotel, which caters largely to Western businessmen, female service workers use feminized practices, which originated in the United States, to anticipate and cater to customer needs. In the Kunming hotel, female service workers display their expertise at their jobs to maintain control over their customers, who are largely Chinese businessman entertaining clients. One reason for this type of interaction is that workers do not want to be mistaken for sex workers, who are common in the area. The hotels are both working off of the same business plan, but the workers’ on-site interpretations of the plan vary widely due to localized customs.

The University of Oregon’s architecture program has announced new and returning leadership for the 2009-10 year.

Christine Theodoropoulos, associate professor, will continue as head of the department until June 2012.  She was appointed by Frances Bronet, dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, to a third three-year term.  Theodoropoulos is a registered architect and civil engineer in California.  She is president of the Building Technology Educators Society and has served on the National Architectural Accrediting Board as well as the boards of the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the American Institute of Architecture students.  Theodoropoulos has assembled a leadership team for the department to advance its curriculum, graduate studies, and Portland program.

Howard Davis, professor, will serve as graduate studies director.  He is the co-author of The Production of Houses (Oxford University Press, 1985), and author of The Culture of Building (Oxford University Press, 1999), and Living Over the Store: Architecture and Local Urban Life, to be published next year by Princeton Architectural Press. Davis is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Architectural Education, Urban Morphology and Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum (for which he served for three years as co-editor).  This year he received the Distinguished Professor Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

Nancy Cheng, associate professor, will direct the department’s Portland program at the White Stag Block. She researches how digital tools shape design thinking. Cheng will be the President of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) in 2010.  She chaired the national American Institute of Architects’ Technology in Architectural Practice group in 2004, co-chaired a Fabrication conference in Toronto and has edited issues of the International Journal of Architectural Computing. Cheng is a licensed architect in Massachusetts.
Brook Muller, associate professor, has been appointed associate head for curriculum and curricular innovation. He is the director of the UO ecological design certificate program and is an active lead consultant with Portland METRO’s Nature in Neighborhoods Program.  He was awarded the 2009 Oregon Campus Compact Faculty Award for Civic Engagement in Sustainability.

Alison Snyder, associate professor and architect, has been appointed to a second term as director of the Interior Architecture Program. She works from an interdisciplinary view weaving architecture with archaeological and anthropological investigations to reveal how places, buildings, and interiors transform over time. She writes for academic and architectural design journals and recently published a book chapter, “Flexibility and Hybridity: Learning from the Contemporary Village in Anatolian Turkey, “ in the book On Global Grounds: Urban Change and Globalization.  Snyder is a licensed architect in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

Other faculty members who continue on the administrative team include Glenda Fravel Utsey, associate professor and associate head for student affairs, and Alison Kwok, director of the technical teaching certificate program.  Kwok is a registered architect in California. The department’s affiliated research units are directed by architect and professor G.Z. “Charlie” Brown, Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory in Eugene and in Portland; professor Don Corner, Center for Housing Innovation, and associate professor Hajo Neis, Portland Urban Architecture Research Lab.

This fall term, the department of architecture will have 686 students studying in the undergraduate and graduate programs in Eugene and Portland.   There are approximately ninety faculty and design professionals who teach in the program each year.  The UO’s teaching and research strengths are in green building technologies, sustainable cities, housing, urban design, interior design, and vernacular architecture.

As reported in this year’s DesignIntelligence journal, the UO’s architecture program ranked as number one in the nation for sustainable design education.  Overall the UO’s undergraduate architecture program was ranked as 18th and the journal recognized the department as a “program of high distinction.”

The department’s interior architecture program was voted in the top two graduate programs in the nation by other deans. It was cited for its strong applied design with theory and its variety of approaches to graduate students not offered at other institutions. The undergraduate program was ranked ninth in the nation.

DesignIntelligence is a monthly journal produced by the Design Futures Council, a Washington D.C.-based think tank exploring trends, changes, and innovations in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.

Don Truax, professor emeritus of mathematics, has received the 2009 Carver Medal from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). The presentation of the medal took place in August at a special ceremony at the IMS Annual Meeting/Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington, D.C.

Professor Truax received the award for his many years of outstanding and dedicated services to IMS, especially for his sterling contributions to IMS publications as managing editor and as member and chair of the Committee on Publications and Committee to Select Editors.

The Carver Medal was created by the IMS in 2002 in honor of Harry C.
Carver, Founding Editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics and one of the founders of the IMS. The medal is for exceptional service specifically to the IMS and is open to any member of the IMS who has not previously been elected president. Created in 1933, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics is a member organization which fosters the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability. The IMS has 4,500 active members throughout the world.

Mike Eyster, assistant vice president for Student Affairs, and director, University Health Center, was awarded the James C. Grimm Leadership & Service Award at the recent Association of College and University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I) annual conference.

The award is given to an individual each year by the association based on leadership and service to the association and the field of student housing.

ACUHO-I is made up of thousands of housing professionals at over 900 colleges and universities in 22 countries. The purpose of ACUHO-I is to provide first rate programs, research, services and information to university and college housing professionals toward the goal of providing college students with housing that adds educational value to their college/university experience.

Mike has served in a number of leadership capacities in ACUHO-I during the past 30 plus years. Mike was the Housing Director at UO from 1991-2008.

Architectural design, technology and an interest in helping others are bringing students from the University of Oregon together with artisans in a city in southeastern Mali.

Peace Corps volunteers, Karmen Unterwegner and Maridee BonaDea, reached across the continents to bring architectural design assistance to an artisan center in Koutiala, Mali. Unterwegner received her bachelor’s degree in architecture in 2008 and posed a design opportunity on email to her former instructors in Eugene. When the department received word of this opportunity, Naoto Sekiguchi, adjunct instructor, seized the idea for his summer course. He contacted BonaDea to start up this cultural exchange project.

Sekiguchi and 12 students are developing design concepts for a new facility for the Union of Associations of Artisans of Koutiala (UAAK). Koutiala, population of 110,000, has the largest cotton mill in Mali and cotton is the country’s biggest export. The intended uses of this center are to support a diverse group of craftspeople to make and sell their work, to have a meeting place for business development trainings and to provide a daycare center. Craftspeople who are members of the union include tailors, Bogolan mud cloth makers, weavers, metal smiths and members of the building trades. The class will present final designs from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 12, in room 279 Lawrence Hall, 1190 Franklin Blvd.

The students have used the Internet to post their ideas, models, designs and sketches. They have also added profiles and photos or sketches of themselves, as well as background research on the art and craft of Mali. They conducted studies on available building materials, climate and other details pertinent to building design. The studio website is http://uoarchkoutiala.com.

Recently, the students conducted a Skype conference with BonaDea and others involved with UAAK. Subsequently, the presidents of the different artisans’ associations began discussions about the possibilities for the building.

“The designs have stimulated the artisans of Koutiala to dream of possibilities,” said BonaDea. “This project brings that dream a bit closer.”

Terry E. Sebastian has been named managing director of the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship (LCE) at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business. He started his new role on Aug. 3

A successful principal investor and senior executive in the food industry, Sebastian is a founder and managing director of Lake Pacific Partners LLC, a private equity investment firm focused on consumer products, consumer services and related industries. He will bring his entrepreneurial skills to bear as the director of the center, which, since 1989, has educated, inspired and empowered future entrepreneurs.

“Terry has led successful business turnarounds and growth investments, making him an ideal resource for our center that seeks to instill in its students the ability to inform and evaluate their business ideas with real world perspective,” said Dennis Howard, dean of the Lundquist College of Business. “I have no doubt he will further the LCE’s reputation as a leader in entrepreneurial education.”

Sebastian previously served as senior vice president of Natural Nutrition Group (NNG), a leading manufacturer of branded organic food products, where he led a successful operational turnaround of the Health Valley Company. He also served as an executive with McCain Foods, where he implemented key strategy initiatives and major performance improvements. As a management consultant with the firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, he worked on corporate strategy, reorganization and cost-reduction engagements for Fortune 500 clients in several industries.

After four months of cross-country visits from Kansas and introductory meetings with students, faculty, staff and others, Richard Lariviere officially became the president of the University of Oregon on Wednesday, July 1.

For his first day on the job, Lariviere arrived at 5:30 a.m. to learn from grounds keepers, food service employees, public safety officers and others what it takes to serve the community of 25,000 students, faculty, staff and visitors daily. He also toured the UO Institute of Molecular Biology where he met the university’s Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) students and faculty who are conducting life science research this summer.

The campus community, as well as many students and their parents attending IntroDUCKtion, welcomed Lariviere and his wife Jan with an afternoon ice cream social on the lawn in front of the Pioneer Mother. The day concluded with a pizza gathering with student leaders and others where the new president and his wife experienced their first taste of Eugene’s great local pizza.

Photos, video and updates of the first day can be found on the president’s office website, http://president.uoregon.edu.

In mid-June, UO President Richard Lariviere announced organizational changes and staff appointments.

Most notably, Jim Bean has agreed to continue permanently as senior vice president and provost. In addition, Charles Martinez, will report to Lariviere as the vice president for Institutional Equity and Diversity. Lariviere also appointed Michael Redding, previously vice president for University Advancement, as the chief of staff for the Office of President and vice president of University Relations.

University Relations includes units that were part of University Advancement, except Development. The University Relations unit includes the Alumni Association, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and Public and Government Affairs. Development will become a separate unit reporting directly to Lariviere. A national search for the vice president of Development will begin this summer with Provost Jim Bean leading the search.

Lariviere emphasized the university’s ability to support a clearly articulated academic vision, and its ability to continue to offer an outstanding educational experience in a unique learning environment, is dependent on our ability to successfully raise private support.

Seven UO faculty members have received Fulbright Scholar awards to teach and conduct research abroad during the 2009-10 academic year. Fulbright award recipients are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. The seven UO recipients are Dennis Galvan, Renee Irvin, John Miller, Doris Payne, William Rossi, Marc Schlossberg and Magid Shirzadegan.

Dennis Galvan, professor of international studies and political science, will depart this fall for a research grant in Senegal, West Africa. In his Fulbright year, Galvan is developing a network of scholars from across the West African region to explore hybrid institutions for managing conflict between ethnic groups. Over the last 20 years Galvan has done field work in and around Toucar, a small village in rural Senegal. His interest is in politics and economic development as seen, felt and understood from the bottom up. By doing research that’s very close to the lives and experiences of ordinary people, Galvan is able to show how, in places like Toucar, people neither fully embrace nor completely reject new, foreign ways of organizing free markets, setting up democracy or building nations.

“Instead they borrow a bit from their old traditions and mix in what they consider the best of modern models to make syncretic blends or hybrids,” says Galvan. “The resulting versions of markets, democracy and the nation might look pretty strange to Western eyes, but make a lot of sense to local people and, critically, hold their trust.”

For Renee Irvin, professor of planning, public policy and management, director of the nonprofit graduate certificate program, and coordinator of finance and operations for the school of architecture and allied arts, the lectureship award presents a wonderful opportunity to study personal income and wealth policy from an international perspective. Irvin will teach for one semester at Zhongshan University (also known as Sun Yat-Sen University) in Guangzhou, a heavily developed province in the South, close to the industrial powerhouse regions of Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

“I will also be able to observe China’s nonprofit/nongovernmental sector growth up close, which may lead to future comparative studies of U.S./Chinese civil society and social entrepreneurship,” she said.

John Miller, professor of couples and family therapy in the College of Education, will also travel to China. The objective of his project is to develop and study solution-focused therapy service to be piloted at the Institute of Developmental Psychology at Beijing Normal University. While most Chinese therapies are based on Western models, few studies have explored how to adapt the practice of therapy to fit the Chinese culture. The results of this project will help inform the development of culturally congruent therapies and aid in the effort to overcome common barriers to service around the world.

“It is a great honor for me to have a chance to conduct this research in China as a Fulbright scholar,” said Miller. “The award will provide a rare opportunity to spend a significant amount of time in China at a moment in history when there are many changes and advances occurring. My hope is that this will foster a line of research and scholarship that will continue for many years into the future.”

Doris Payne, professor of linguistics, will participate in the African Regional Research Program in Tanzania. She will work on linguistic analysis of Il-Parakuyo Maa (Masai), which is spoken in south-central Tanzania. The focus of the research is on verb and clause structure of the language, how many varieties are spoken in Kenya and the implications for developing a dictionary, grammar and other language materials for Maa speakers. The last research of the language was conducted around 1850 and a goal of the project is to evaluate how the language has changed.

This is the second Fulbright Scholar award for  William Rossi, professor of English. His first award was in 2002-03 when he received a lectureship in Heidelberg, Germany. His second award, this time in Freiburg, Germany, is a senior lecture/research award to “transplant Oregon Green Studies in Germany.” As a specialist in American literature and environmental humanities with particular interests in the writings of Henry David Thoreau, and a member of the English Department’s Environmental Literature faculty group, Rossi will teach courses in ecocriticism while collaborating with American Studies faculty at the University of Freiburg. Rossi’s project calls for transplanting Oregon approaches to Germany with the expectation that those approaches will be hybridized in return.

“Like many U.S. American Studies scholars, much of my work as a scholar and teacher of American transcendentalism and environmental studies has been pursued within an exclusively U.S. framework,” said Rossi.

Marc Schlossberg, professor in the department of planning, public policy and management, will depart for the United Kingdom in August where he has accepted a Fulbright award with the University of Sheffield. His research project, “Sustainable City Design, Active Transportation and Citizen Engagement,” will examine how urban form influences walking and biking. Specifically, he will look at neighborhood design, children’s travel routes to school, and citizen’s role and engagement in neighborhood mapping. Schlossberg will also teach two courses.

“I expect this Fulbright award to open many doors, initiate a new avenue of applied research for me personally, and add breadth and depth to the new Sustainable Cities Initiative at the University of Oregon,” said Schlossberg.

Magid Shirzadegan, director of international student and scholar services, participated in an international education administrators award in Korea last month.

“Participation in the Fulbright in Korea opened my eyes to a very rich culture. In spite of the small size of the Korean peninsula and constant threat by its powerful neighbors, it has been thriving economically and technologically. I believe one of the main explanations for this success story lies in the strength and resilience of Korean people,” said Shirzadegan.

Shirzadegan and other participants visited more than 10 institutions of higher education in Seoul, Taegu, Daejeon and Pusan. “Most major universities in Korea teach hundreds of courses in English attracting thousands of students from all over the world, primarily from East and South-East Asia,” he said. “The experience and knowledge I gained from the Fulbright would not only benefit me and my own work, but it could also be useful to the larger community of faculty and administrators at the UO.”

The Fulbright Scholar Program, sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is America’s flagship international educational exchange program. Since its inception in 1946, the Fulbright Program has sponsored approximately 273,500 American and foreign scholars. Recipients are selected based on academic or professional achievement as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.

Louis Moses, head of the UO psychology department, and Marjorie Taylor, a professor in the department, have been elected as fellows of the Association for Psychological Science, formerly known as the American Psychological Society.

Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service and/or application. The 20,000-member association, founded in 1988, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national and international level.

Moses studies young children’s developing appreciation of mental states like belief, desire and intention. Taylor studies the cognitive development of young children’s imagination, including pretend play and imaginary companions.

According to the APS Web site, there are now 15 UO-affiliated faculty members on the current roster of 2,037 fellows.