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JANUARY 23, 2017 EVENTS

January 23 OAI Faculty Event: Incorporating Open Educational Resource Scholarship into Your Courses

OAI Faculty Event: Supporting Students Through Political Transition

Listening to Student Voices

OIT Workshop: Intro to DataMaster

OIT Workshop: Exploring DataMaster Reports

Money and Power in Post- Soviet Cuba

Music Forward: French PSU’s MESA program improves Horn Masterclass science and math grades, study finds Planning in Trump's America The Oregon MESA program in Portland State’s Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science helped Salem middle school January 24 OIT Workshop: Excel and students do better in math and science classes than their peers, a new Spreadsheet Basics report shows. Researchers at Education Northwest found students who HR Training: Transition participated in the after-school MESA (Math, Engineering, Science from Peer to Manager Achievement) program consistently raised their grades above the Music Forward: Trumpet district average, after starting out behind. They also outperformed a Class with Dave Bamonte comparable group of students who were not in the program across Music Forward: PSU almost all demographic groups. READ MORE Orchestra Open Rehearsal

Music Forward: Masterclass for Strings Talk on 'The New Campus Thought with Tomas Cotik Asian Diplomat Lecture: Police' this Friday Taipei

The in Portland and the Freethinkers will present a January 25 Business Briefing live "fireside chat" on speech, gender, and culture on Friday, Jan. 27 at Breakfast: Innovative 7 p.m., in Parkway North, 101 Smith Union. Comedian will Management for Entrepreneurs moderate a conversation between , PSU Philosophy faculty, and bestselling author Christina Hoff on subjects of free speech OIT Workshop: Excel Introduction and political correctness on college campuses, including microaggressions, cultural appropriation, victimhood culture, and more. Education Abroad Fair The event costs $15 for the general public, but students get in free. OAI Faculty Event: TA More information is available online. Workshop on Formative Assessment Techniques & Giving Students Feedback

Gun Violence as a Public Health Issue

Salmon in the City

January 26 Improving Walkability at Signalized Intersections with Signal Control Strategies

HR Training: Onboarding New Employee

Music Forward: Man Choir & Vox Femina Open Rehearsals

We Are Living Memory: Impunity and Maya Survivors’ Struggle for PSU pursues LEED certification on Justicen i the Case of the Acteal Massacre existing buildings Music Forward: PSU Opera Open Rehearsal The University has set its sights on greening existing buildings through the LEED for Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance Faculty Focus Lecture: The Long Defeat - Cultural certification. This certification looks specifically at implementing Trauma, Memory and sustainable practices to reduce the environmental, economic and Identity in Japan occupant health impact of a building over its lifetime. PSU is initially Democratic Values after pursuing certification for the Joseph C. Blumel Residence Hall and the Trump: A Frank View

Urban Center Building, which the project team hopes to have by Chamber Music Northwest winter 2017. READ MORE Winter Festival: The Passionate Cello

January 27 HR Training: Hiring Find Your Voice Effectively jazz performance Transportation Seminar: Student Presentations and workshop from TRB: Week 2 Music Forward: Vocal As part of the PSU School of Masterclass with Christine Music's Audition Week, the PSU Meadows & Harry Baechtel

Jazz Department will present Chemistry Seminar: Istvan “Find Your Voice," a jazz Kiss celebration featuring Grammy- Maseeh Colloquium: winning bassist John Patitucci, Rational Thoughts on Surfaces with performances by noted PSU faculty George Colligan, Darrell The New Campus Thought Police Grant and Jeff Baker, as well as the award-winning PSU Jazz PAD YATRA: Documentary Ensemble. The concert is Friday, on Environmentalism and Tibetan Buddhism Jan. 27, at 7 p.m., in Lincoln Performance Hall. Tickets cost $8-$15 and are available through the PSU Box Office. A free Saturday Find Your Voice Jazz Concert afternoon workshop with Patitucci and others is open to the public. January 27-28 Julie Perini at Upfor Gallery

January 28 Portland State Bookstore extends Find Your Voice Jazz spring order deadline Workshop Women's Basketball: PSU Due to the inclement weather closures, the deadline for submitting vs. Sacramento State spring textbook and course material adoptions to the PSU Bookstore Chinese New Year has been extended to Jan. 31. Use the online form to submit orders or Celebration Gala for more information. On-time orders help keep the cost of course Mt. Hood Meadows Ski materials down for students. Shuttle

January 29 PSU Opera Winter Scholarship Competition

Chamber Music Northwest Winter Festival: The Montrose Trio

PEOPLE

Talya Bauer, Marek Elzanowski, Ted Khoury

PRESENTED

Maria Beebe, Gerardo Lafferriere, Cassio de Watch voice students compete Oliveira PUBLISHED/EXHIBITED Portland State voice students will perform a diverse selection of arias in a bid to win one of two $3,500 opera scholarships on Sunday, Jan. 29, Maria Beebe, Pat Boas, starting at 3 p.m. in the Lincoln Performance Hall. The afternoon Paula Carder, Andrew competition is free and open to public viewing. Fountain, Bennett Gilbert, Bruno Jedynak, Cassio de Oliveira, Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer, Gerry CURRENTLY IS PUBLISHED online every Monday during the academic year. News Sussman, Lindsey items should be sent to the Office of University Communications (mail code: UCOMM; e- Wilkinson mail address: [email protected]) b the Tuesday noon before publication.

GRANTS

Jay Gopalakrishnan, Maura Kelly, Lindsey Wilkinson

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