The 2012 Branford Price Millar Award was recently presented to Portland State Professor Linda Walton for her outstanding scholarship and service to the university. Walton, an internationally renowned Chinese and world historian, has been a PSU professor for more than 30 years.
Coco Fusco is a New York-born Cuban American, multimedia and interdisciplinary artist perhaps best known for her performance and video pieces. Her work falls squarely into the category of what is referred to as “social practice”—art whose primary focus is a social, political or economic critique/exploration.
Portland State broke numerous conference and school records last weekend at the Big Sky Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The women’s 4x100 relay team broke the conference championship record en route to winning their event. Senior Dominique Maloney broke the Portland State record in the women’s 400-meter. And to top it off, senior Sean Mackelvie was the Big Sky Champion in the men’s javelin.
It’s not every day that we see a practical application of what we learn in the classroom toward our day-to-day lives.
Rarely do we sit in our statistics classes and daydream about all the ways we can change the world through data collection—or maybe it’s just me.
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