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Fullbright Awards

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The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to share news that five CAS students (four graduating seniors and one alumnus) have received Fulbright Awards this academic year:

Caroline Harpster – History & German Studies double major, with minor in Education
Kristen Jakstis – dual CAS degrees: Environmental Science (BS) and German Studies (BA)
Jonathan Squires – Organizational Communication
Josefina Duran-Martinez –  Spanish 2nd major, Social Justice minor in CAS (primary school is Education)
Emily Dovel – History (double minor in Political Science and Gender & Women’s Studies)

Thank you for the mentoring and advising that helped inspire these students.  The liberal arts and sciences CAS graduates and alumni continue to engage the great issues of our age with tremendous grace and the greatest of gifts: a liberal arts education informed by the Holy Cross mission.  Thanks to all faculty and staff who helped in the preparation and application stages.

Please feel encouraged to drop these gifted CAS students a note of congratulations.  More information is included on the UP website.

SLAC Snacks Success

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SLAC students served 20 dozen cookies, and massive amounts of coffee and lemonade to students studying for finals on Sunday night, April 24th.  SLAC Snacks has become a greatly appreciated tradition each fall and spring semester the Sunday night before finals.  CAS would like to thank Dean Harrington for allowing the SLAC students space in the library for this event each semester.

Shepard’s Shepherds Award 2016

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The following CAS faculty have been nominated by first year students as “Shepard’s Shepherds” for AY2016:

Madonna Buenviaje, CHEM
Andrea Castanette, ILC
Marcela Cinta, ILC
Jeffrey Gauthier, PHI
Alexandra Hill, ILC
Molly Hiro, ENG
Steven Mayer, CHEM
David Turnbloom — (with three nominations), THE

Please join us in congratulating each of our fine colleagues for being named a Shepard’s Shepherd for the “positive impact each has had on a member of the University of Portland class of 2019.”  On behalf of the College of Arts and Sciences: thank you for your personal and professional presence in the lives of our students and the many ways you continue to enrich the liberal arts mission of this University.

First-Ever UP Bioethics Bowl Team

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In recent past years, UP held intramural ethics bowl events, but this year they engaged in intercollegiate competition. This year’s efforts and team travel were generously sponsored by the McNerney-Hanson Endowed Chair in Ethics, the Philosophy Department, and the School of Nursing.

The team competed in the National Bioethics Bowl, April 8-10, at Case Western Reserve University. In competition, UP was the only team to go undefeated in the preliminary rounds—defeating University of Maryland Baltimore County, Ripon College, and San Jose State University—securing an advancement to the quarterfinals, in which UP fell to Macalaster College. During the Bowl, students debated a wide array of bioethical issues, including the ethics of uterine morcellation, state-sponsored newborn bloodspot biobanks, medical deportation, neuroenhancement,  postmortem genetic testing, and voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) advance directives.

This year’s team members hail from a wide variety of disciplines:

Megan Berg, Biology major, Spanish minor
Madeleine Boyle, Philosophy/ Math
Emma Brooks, Nursing
Savannah Collas, Biology
Lucas Gushikuma, Nursing
Elisa Reverman (team captain), Biology major, Chemistry and Philosophy minors

During competition, and throughout the conference more generally, the team did an excellent job of representing UP; they were models of collegiality, intellectual rigor, and moral sensitivity.

In the fall, UP will begin building a new Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl team (which will compete on a wider array of ethical issues).

In Memory of Dr. Manuel Macias, 1929-2016

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The University Museum has created two displays to honor the memory of Emeritus Professor of Spanish, Dr. Manuel Macias, who passed away on March 19, 2016.  Please visit and remember him by viewing items in the Buckley Center first floor display case (across from the Studies Abroad office). See photos and memorabilia donated to the University Museum, including the extremely memorable blue “lampshade” academic cap and regalia.

Nihat Cem Inan Will Perform His Valedictorian Speech

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Nihat Cem Inan, raised in a UP supporting family, is a double major in Electrical Engineering and Music and has also been selected as the Valedictorian for Commencement Ceremony II. Instead of giving a full speech as Valedictorians typically do, he will be playing the piano. His piece of choice will be Étude Op. 10, No. 12 in C minor, known as the “Revolutionary Étude,” by Frédéric Chopin. Nihat will be performing for the second commencement ceremony on May 1st, in the Chiles Center.

Bioethics Bowl Team Compete in 2016 Bioethics Debate Bowl

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Bioethics Bowl Team: Dr. Patricia McShane (Philosophy) will lead a team of six students to compete in this year’s Bioethics Debate Bowl, part of the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference at Case Western University, 4/8-10.

Good luck to the following students!

Megan Berg, Biology major, Spanish minor
Madeleine Boyle, Philosophy/Math
Emma Brooks, Nursing
Savannah Collas, Biology
Lucas Gushikuma, Nursing
Elisa Reverman (team captain), Biology major, Chemistry and Philosophy minors

 

Madeleine Boyle Papers Accepted for Conferences

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Madeleine Boyle (philosophy/math) has had papers accepted for presentation at four conferences this spring: “A Catholic Philosophical Response to Pro-Natalism and Adoption,” accepted for the Society of Christian Philosophers Mountain-Pacific Regional Conference, the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, and the DePauw Prindle Undergraduate Ethics Symposium.  Also, “The Truest Truth: Analytic Statements in Mathematics,”  was accepted for the Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference.

Everett McLean Law School Acceptances

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Everett McLean (philosophy) has so far been accepted into the following law schools: University of San Francisco School of Law, Santa Clara Law, Lewis and Clark Law School, McGeorge School of Law, Washington University School of Law. Congratulations Everett!

CAS Senior Toast

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                                                                     The Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences

and the Student Leadership Advisory Council (SLAC)Senior Toast

invite all CAS Graduating Seniors and Faculty to the Third Annual

CAS Senior Toast

Founders Day, April 12, 4:30-5:00pm in St. Mary’s Student Center Lounge

All CAS Professors and Graduating Seniors are welcome!

                                                            Please come and enjoy refreshments, a short formal program

                                                               and a faculty appreciation slideshow