In October, the SOJC's graduate students hosted the Northwest Graduate Student Conference, titled "Communication and Social Change," at the University of Oregon.

Jon Arakaki presented his paper "Best of Both Worlds: Western Science, Native American Culture, and Salmon Management on the Columbia River" at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific Division Conference in June. His paper "Still the Manager…In Letter and Spirit: The East Oregonian and Absentee Ownership" was the runner-up for Best Student Paper in the history division at the AEJMC annual conference in August.

Dennis Dunleavy presented his paper "The Reformist Journalism of Clarence Leroy Andrews (1862-1948): Saving the Reindeer and the Eskimo at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" at the annual conference of the American Journalism Historians' Association.

Colleen Kaleda, a second-year literary nonfiction student, received a fellowship to attend the Scripps-Howard Institute on the Environment, a week-long environmental journalism symposium offered by the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She was one of 25 students from around the country selected for the interactive workshop and fieldwork program.

Micky Lee co-edited a collection of student essays on Hong Kong popular culture titled "Cultural Feeling 2: Sentiment, Passion, Obsession and Others" to be published by Enterprise in Hong Kong. She also co-edited a report to the Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission on stereotypes in the content of textbooks and teaching materials.

Kim Mangun, a first-year doctoral student, presented a paper "New Images, New Paradoxes: How Representations of Race and Gender were Re-created to Fight World War II" at the American Journalism Historians' Association conference in October and another paper "The Modern-day Circuit Rider: Hands-on Technology Assistance for the Developing World" at the Northwest Graduate Student Conference in Eugene.

Mangun also contributed a case study on Clara Barton's PR campaign for the American Red Cross to a textbook being co-authored by Professor Jim Van Leuven, and conducted photo research for three books just published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers in New York City.

Jane Marcellus presented her paper "Painter-ettes, Preserved Cogs and Boilermaker Beauties: How Rosie the Riveter Was Portrayed in the Workplace" at the American Journalism Historians' Association conference in San Diego in October. Her article "Peer Revision Groups in Journalism Classes" appears in the November issue of Feminist Media Studies.

Michele Rutheiser was selected for the McNair Scholar's program. The abstract for her summer research project for the program appears in the "Second Annual McNair Scholars Symposium" brochure, produced in conjunction with the organization's August conference.

David Weiss, a master's student in the literary nonfiction program, co-authored a book Streetwise Sales Letters: 2500 Professionally Written Sales and Marketing Letters, published by Adams Media Corporation (Boston). Weiss' essay "Homo on the Range" appeared in the July 17 issue of The Advocate.