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A lot depends on your boss / 8 Business as art / 12 Prepared for growth / 14 Portland State University's Twelfth Annual HOW TO PARTICIPATE Become a sponsor or purchase tickets by calling SIMON BENSON AWARDS DINNER Debbie Hutchins at 503-725-8135 Wednesday, October 19, 2011 or e-mail [email protected] Welcoming PRESENTING SPONSOR KEYNOTE SPEAKER Condoleezza Rice, Ph.D. 66th Secretary ofState (2005-2009) 2011 AWARD RECIPIENTS The William Furman Family The Mark Family MI LLER FAMILY HOLDINGS, LLC ASSOCIATE SPONSORS .\KMI LXX A~IBASSADOR I Charles and Caroline MaybelleClarkMacdon..@ld'd Swindells 11m Peter W Stott Howard S. Wright STIMSON LUMBER FOUNDATION a Balfour Bean, company COMPANY SUPPORTING SPONSORS BNSF Foundation GBD Architects/R&H Construction Jack and Lynn Loacker Henry W Schuette Canadian Pacific Geffer, Mesher & Company, P.C. lhe Melvin Mark ompanies kanska Con-way Gerding Edlen/Beecher Carlson Pere and Chris ickerson Stevens Integrated Solutions Jeannine B. Cowles Harry A. Merlo Foundation, Inc./ Oregon Business Magazine Tonkon Torp LLP Tom and Marilyn Fink Global Aviation Inc. Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. Wells Fargo PIONEER SPONSORS American Campus ommunities Fortis Construction, Inc. Lorentz Bruun Construction Bill and Julie Reiersgaard Bank of America Fred Meyer ODS Health Schlesinger Companies Becker Capital Management Glumac Oregon Health & Science University The Standard Dave and Debbie Benson JPMorgan Chase The Oregon Historical Society Marra and Ken Thrasher/Compli Phil Bogue (for the School of Business) KeyBank Oregon Transfer Company TMT Development The Burns Family Heather Killough Paradym Events Turner Construction Cascade Pacific Holdings, LLC Knowledge Universe Perkins & Company, P.C. Umpqua Bank lark Foundation KPFF Consulting Engineers Port of Portland Van Duyn Chocolates Scott and Carol Ehlen KPMG Portland Arr Museum Vernier Sofrware & Technology Catherine and Brian Faris Milt and Bobbi Lampros PSU Athletics Washington Trusr Bank Ferguson Wellman Capital Lease Crutcher Lewis PSU Foundation Roberr Zagunis Management, Inc. Legacy Health Regence ZGF Architects LLP PSU WEEKEN CONTENTS Departments 2 FROM THE PRESIDENT 6 FANFARE Revitalizing our urban campus Art intersects with angst 'The Knowledge' mural 3 LETTERS What do you know? Color does maccer New Works 4 PARK BLOCKS 18 GIVING Good design for all Transplanting a dream Green wineries uncorked The scoop on the new 19 ATHLETICS Ben & Jerry's Football returns to Banner fund-raising year downtown Portland 20 ALUMNI Longtime director retires Board of Directors transitions You're all members! Serving P U and our community together Guarding against toxic produces A pioneer for women engineers Helping women Dress for Success Creating new technology "Canine Surprise" by award-winning Portland artist Ralph Pugay '07, MFA '10. ON THE COVER Bad bosses can make their employees not just miserable, but actually sick. See story on page 8. Illustration by Dan Selleck. MAGAZINE FALL 2011 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 1 PORTLAND ~ STATE i FROM THE PRESIDENT FALL 2011 / VOL . 26 NO. 1 EDITOR Kathryn Kirkland CONTRIBUTORS Tyler Brain, Chris Broderick, Scott Gallagher, Sean Martinez, David Santen COPY EDITOR President Wim Wiewel charges Martha Wagner up an all-electric Tesla at the opening of the University's DESIGN new Electric Avenue. Brett Forman LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 730 Market Center Building PO Box 751 Portland OR 97207-0751 503-725-4451, fax 503-725-4465 [email protected] ADDRESS CHANGES Revitalizing our urban campus PSU Alumni Association www.alumni.pdx.edu click on "update your info" TH IS FA LL marksanotheryearofvibrant Broadway. The hisroric building houses our or call 503-725-4948 growth and development at Portland Scace cheater, music, film, and dance classrooms ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT OFFICE University. and performance spaces. Solar panels being Mary Coniglio, Associate Director Over the summer, we opened Electric installed on the roof of Lincoln Hall will Simon Benson House Avenue, a block of parking on campus dedi­ make it PSU's first LEED Platinum build­ 1803 SW Park Ave. cated co charging stations for electric and ing-status that was earned, in part, as a PO Box 751 Portland OR 97207-0751 hybrid cars as well as electric bicycles. This is resulr of philanthropic support. 503-725-4948 a collaborative research project with Portland Also this fall, we extend our campus [email protected] General Electric and the city of Portland and easrward by breaking ground on the Col­ PSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION the first of its kind in Oregon. Car and bike laborative Life Sciences Building, a joint BOARD OF DIRECTORS owners pay to park, but the battery charg­ $110 million projecr with Oregon Health David Keys '81, MBA '92, President ing-from a variety of test stations-is free, & Science University and Oregon Scace Ron Adams '60 thanks co renewable energy from PGE. University along the South Wacerfronr. An Leila Aman '99 Casa Lacina, a new academic and cultural Sarah Bracelin '01 architectural rendering of the building is Chris Cooper MBA '06 support center for Latino students, is up and included in this issue along with om College Aubre Dickson '98 running in Smith Memorial Student Union. Station residence hall, which is quickly going Al Fitzpatrick MA '83 Nicole Gallagher '01 In addition co computers and study areas, up on the south end of campus. The featme Jerry Gordon '68 the center features striking murals created by "Prepared for Growth" visually lays out Richard Helzer '62 students from PSU and local high schools. recent projects and proposed plans for the Kelly Hossa1n1 '90, MURP '93 Shelby Kardas '96 A new Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop opened next two decades as Pordand Scace expands Bill Lemman, Vanport, HD '04 in the Urban Center Plaza, which is giving co serve the growing number of students Dan McDonald MBA '91 job training co ac-ri k youth through an who make us Oregon's largest and most Kendal McDonald MA '02 Knshnakumar Regupathy MS '99 inspired partnership berween Porcland Scace diverse university. John Whearty '91 and New Avenues for Youth. I invite you co come to campus and see Portland State Magazine 1s published In October, we unveil the Science these many changes for yourself. The most three times a year, during fall, winter, Research and Teaching Center, a huge frequent comment I hear from visitors is: and spring terms. Contents may be modernization project for Science Building ''I've never seen the campus look chis good!" reprinted only by perm1ss1on of the editor. The magazine is printed on 2 and a vital link in the chain of science recycled paper. Portland State University education, advanced research, and workforce is an affirmative action / equal development for health care, manufaccming, opportunity institution biocech, and high-tech businesses. We al o are opening a new entrance and Wim Wiewel lobby for Lincoln Hall that faces Southwest PRESIDENT, PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY 2 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 Porcland rare Magazine wants to hear .from you. E-mail your comments to [email protected] or send them to Portland rare Magazine, Office of University Communications, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751. We reserve the right to edit for space and clarity. EDITOR 'S NOTE The debate continues on experiencing education in the same way to say char I do not see differences. Bur it "Color Matters," the cover article from as whites. Ir's like raking a helicopter to is up co us to transcend those prejudices the Fall 2010 magazine, and letters from the top of a mountain and criticizing and biases. We can do chis through hard the Winter 2011 issue . All are available people who have been climbing from work, education and personal sacrifice, on line at pdx.edu/magazine. the bottom for not racing with you to no matter our color, our gender or our the summit! social or economic status. We should nor Racism in our community be so dismissive of ocher people's struggle Brendon Bassett 'OJ (and sometimes failure) to fir in nor I was very impressed with the article should we say it cannot be done. "Color Matters" that was published in the Fall 2010 issue of your magazine. Firsthand experience Priscilla Rushanaedy I strongly agreed with the author's sug­ I wanted to let you know that I agree gestion that a "progressive" community whole-heartedly with rhe article, "Color like Portland can overlook subtle expres­ Matters," (Fall 201 0) and we should Continental divide sions of bias and, more importantly, the never forger char it continues to matter. The problem with Joyce Brusrand reality of institutionalized racism. As I attended Monroe and Franklin high Gordon's letter (Winter 2011) is when impressed as I was with the article, schools, PSU (1976-79), and University she suggests that we refer to races by I was equally shocked by the subsequent of Porcland, and my educational experi­ continental origin. Using the label Euro­ response from some of your readers in ences left a lot to be desired, although pean Americans to identify all white the Winter 2011 issue. I had both good and bad teachers, black people is bogus, because all European One reader stared in his letter char and white and other.