The Oregon legislature funded the Regional Accelerator and Innovation Network for the South Willamette Valley in the amount of $3.75 million

What happens when a country with deep cultural roots becomes part of the global world? How do the citizens adjust to new influences, while maintaining ways of living that seem natural to them? Wendy Larson, vice provost for Portland Programs and a professor of East Asian Languages, is back in Portland after a sabbatical year to conduct research for her fourth book, “Zhang Yimou: Globalization and Subject of Culture.”  The research focuses on Zhang Yimou, one of China’s most famous and controversial film directors.

For as long as people have believed in heaven and hell, a debate has simmered.Religion makes people act better, supporters have long maintained. Religion poisons everything, an increasingly vocal—and youthful—minority responds.Long missing from the discord has been empirical evidence. Until now.

At first glance, the thousands upon thousands of leaf-cutter ants in Robert Schofield’s laboratory suggest nothing so much as chaos.

Kristin Yarris was interviewed regarding a study of rural women in Nicaragua and how they describe physical distress and symptoms of illness.