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Portland State University PDXScholar University Archives: Campus Publications & Portland State Magazine Productions Spring 5-1-2010 Portland State Magazine Portland State University. Office of University Communications Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/psu_magazine Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Portland State University. Office of University Communications, "Portland State Magazine" (2010). Portland State Magazine. 112. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/psu_magazine/112 This Book is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Portland State Magazine by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. CONTENTS Departments 2 FROM THE PRESIDENT 18 GIVING Taking an alternative route, together A love of teaching; a life of purpose 3 PARK BLOCKS Energy savings pay off 19 ATHLETICS Helping to right social wrongs First to impress Student aves Intel millions Football returns to Hillsboro Growing small businesses worldwide Stadium Startling study on smokeless tobacco 20 ALUMNI 6 FANFARE Affording higher education True to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Scholarship for children of vision alumni Inside the Oregon State Hospital Nicholas Kristof to keynote New Works PSU Weekend Did you know? Fathering hope in Ghana Diplomatic assignment Bringing justice to the people Center of hope for Oregonians 29 LOOKING BACK Loyal 'Sharkey' Nelson, 1913-2009 Students have a new building and a new view as they play and exercise in the Academic and ON THE COVER Portland State student protests against the Vietnam Student Recreation Center. War came ro a head after the killing of students at Kent State. See story on page 8. Photo from the 1970 Viking yearbook. SPRING 2010 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 1 PORTLAND STATE SPRING 201 0 / VOL. 24 NO. 3 EDITOR Kathryn Kirkland CONTRIBUTORS Scott Gallagher, Eric Gold COPY EDITOR Martha Wagner DESIGN Brett Forman LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 730 Market Center Building PO Box 751 Portland OR 97207-0751 503-725-4451, fax 503-725-4465 Taking an alternative [email protected] ADDRESS CHANGES route, together PSU Alumni Association www.alumni.pdx.edu click on "update your info" or call 503-725-4948 GET OUT your transit pass, put on your June, PSU will receive 10 new Prius plug-in ALUMNI RELATIONS OFFICE bike helmet, or prepare to plug in your hybrid vehicles from Toyota to help in Pat Squire MPA '95, car-sustainable alternative transportation evaluating the lithium-ion battery-equipped Assistant Vice President continues to roll into our region, and Port car. We also expect to be a research partner Simon Benson House 1803 SW Park Ave. land State is helping pave the way through when Mitsubishi Motors rolls out its electric POBox751 new partnerships and research projects. vehicle. That's three major car companies all Portland OR 97207-0751 Over 70 percent of faculty, staff, and reaching out to PSU to help them push the 503-725-4948 [email protected] students use alternative transportation to adoption curve on electric vehicles. get to campus. In fact, our Urban Center Even the federal government has rec PSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Plaza is the busiest transit hub in the city ognized PSU's importance for the future Kori Allen '84, President with buses, MAX trains, and the streetcar of alternative transportation. The Oregon Gary Barth '86 all coming together. So it should be no Transportation Research and Education Steve Brannan '57 Chris Cooper MBA '06 surprise that PSU is a sought-after partner. Consortium, better known as OTREC, is a Aubre Dickson '98 Portlanders are fanatic about bicycling, federally funded national cooperative based Al Fitzpatrick MA '83 and so are many of our professors. Faculty in our Center for Transportation Studies. Dave Friesen '03 Jerry Gordon '68 from our Initiative for Bicycle and Pedes Working with OTREC, our faculty are Eric Graham '87 trian Innovation are measuring bicycle forecasting Oregon's rural transit needs, Linda Hamilton '90 Richard Helzer '62 behavior, evaluating Portland's bike lanes, studying route and driver issues for TriMet, Behzad Hosseini '96, MBA '97 and analyzing the local Safe Routes to and exploring automated methods for truck David Keys '81, MBA '92 School Program. Last year, Portland's first identification, to mention just a few projects. Bill Lemman, Vanport, HD '04 Gina Leon '95 bike lane sited between the curb and parked More and more, PSU is looking to Milica Markovic '04 cars opened on Southwest Broadway in the partnerships to identify what is needed and Karen McCarty '06 heart of campus. PSU researchers are what we can provide. For transportation Kendal McDonald MA '02 Tamara "TJ'' Newby '90 helping the city evaluate its effectiveness. that need is finding modes and systems that Krishna Regupathy MS '99 Bur rhe news is nor all about bikes. Did are economically sound and environmen Barbara Verchot MPA '97 tally efficient in promoting quality of life. Rick Watson MBA '00 you know char the largest introduction of electric vehicles and charging stations Whether traveling by bicycle, electric in U.S. history is coming to Oregon this car, or mass transit, PSU is leading the way Portland State Magazine is published three times a year, during fall, winter, December? Nissan and engineering firm through partnerships to a more sustainable and spring terms. Contents may be ECOrality chose Oregon, with Portland future. Hang on-it's going to be a great reprinted only by permission of the General Electric as lead, to be one of five ride! editor. The magazine is printed on recycled paper. Portland State University test markets. Portland State is helping PGE is an affirmative action / equal study consumer response, policy develop opportunity institution. ment, and other issues affecting the hun dreds of charging stations it's building for Wim Wiewel the new Nissan Leaf electric cars. And this PRE SIDENT, PORTLAND STATE UNIVER SITY G 2010 Shattuck Hall earns a top award for its energy-saving mechanicals, which are exposed as a teaching tool for architecture students. Two other water- and energy saving projects on campus are also bringing kudos to the University. Photos by Kelly James. Energy savings pay off MORE FRESH A I R and less water and energy use in campus 1.4 million buildings not only provide a teaching cool for students, it's kilowatt hours earned the University more than $1 million. or $126,000 in In December, the University was awarded a $1 million grant annual energy to drill geothermal wells and purchase a 1,000-ton heat pump costs. Purchased by the University in 1997, the Fourth Avenue for the heating and cooling of 13 campus buildings. It was Building houses engineering departments and classrooms as one of 18 renewable energy projects chat received funding by well as PSU Information Technologies offices. the state in December through the American Recovery and Also in January, Portland State and PAE Consulting Reinvestment Act, also known as the Stimulus Acc. Engineers won Project of the Year, the American Council of In January, President Wim Wiewel accepted a $313,114 Engineering Companies of Oregon's top award, for last year's incentive check from Energy Trust of Oregon for energy remodel of Shattuck Hall. Judges were most impressed with efficiency improvements to the Fourth Avenue Building the energy-saving electrical and mechanical upgrades to the on Southwest Fourth and Harrison. Improvements to the former grade school, built in 1914, and the exposure of chose building's heating and cooling system are saving an estimated systems as a "reaching tool for the architects of the future." SPRING 20 10 PORTLAN D STATE MAGAZINE 3 PARK BLOCKS Helping to right social wrongs The University's new Social Innova tion Incubator is helping Portland CERVICAL CANCER coffee importer, Sustainable Harvest, start a roasting business and training kills an estimated 300,000 center for farmers in Mexico. Photo women worldwide each ©Sustainable Harvest. year. Many of these deaths could be prevented with early diagnosis. Portland-based company Preciva understands planning advice, while introducing entrepreneurs to investors, the numbers and has developed a simple, inexpensive test for accountants, and lawyers. the disease that may be used on women in areas of the world Sustainable Harvest, a Portland coffee importer, is also a where health services are limited. client of the SIL It wants to develop "intrapreneurial" proj PSU's new Social Innovation Incubator (SII) is helping ects-initiatives within its existing business. With the incu entrepreneurs such as Preciva CEO Craig Miller, launch busi bator's help, the company is starting a roasting business and ness solutions that address some of the world's most pressing training center in Oaxaca, Mexico, and a pilot program in environmental, social, and economic challenges. Tanzania that will let farmers use tl1e Web to crack sales and "Entrepreneurial activity creates jobs and economic growth," connect with buyers. says incubator director Cindy Cooper. "The objective of social Companies such as Sustainable Harvest will typically be entrepreneurship is to right a social wrong, something that members of the SII for a year, while startups may get longer isn't addressed by normal market activity." term help. Cooper hopes to expand the program to include The II taps into the intellectual assets of Portland State about 20 ventures and is now reviewing applications. "We staff, faculty, and student consulting teams to provide business believe in trying novel ideas," she says. INTEL IS FAIRJCATI G nuicr.to1~es,o,,s for a Mistkawi mentally friendly 11\Cthocl that is saving millions of dollars, cbank, u, Jun IQd.uate ii Mistbwi, a neer at Intel Hillsboro facility; will recd a doctorate· clu:mumyat the Juae 13 Cltll'linenc.,e,.