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Pilots with Paychecks

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Pilots with Paychecks Flyer

Career Services continues to present “Pilots with Paychecks,” a panel discussion series dedicated to help students learn about how UP graduates are putting their degree to work. All sessions are held from 6-7:30pm in BC 163 on their respective dates. Watch the Career Services Facebook and Pilot Portal for updated info.

Upcoming discussions:

  • Social Media Professions: Monday, January 27, 2014
  • Careers in Bio-Technology: February 11, 2014
  • What Employers What: How to Stand Out as an Applicant: Wednesday 26, 2014
  • Careers in Sports: Tuesday, April 15, 2014

For more information contact Career Services.

University of Portland graduate joins JVC Northwest

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Hannah Hoffarth of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Hannah Hoffarth – Hannah graduated from University of Portland with degrees in psychology and sociology and is serving at Family Support Network in Billings, Mont. this year. Hannah shares that she serves as a case manager for a local non-profit and engaged in home visits and parenting classes. She is excited to form new relationships with her clients.

Jesuit Volunteer Corps. Press Release:

Portland, Ore. — University of Portland alumna has recently embarked on a year of full-time service with Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) Northwest:
 
·          Hannah Hoffarth, Family Support Network, Billings, Mont.
 
A total of 148 Jesuit Volunteer (JV) /AmeriCorps members* – 24 returning for a second year, and two returning for a third year – have joined JVC Northwest this year. They are serving in 21 locales throughout the five states of the Northwest, living in 24 JV communities. JVC Northwest is excited to announce that its AmeriCorps funding through the Corporation for National and Community Service has been renewed for an additional three years, allowing 135 of our current Jesuit Volunteers to also be AmeriCorps members, serving in communities with the greatest need.
 
“JV/AmeriCorps members come to the year with the hope of making a difference in the lives of those they serve, and in the ecosystems in which they live. They will offer over 280,000 hours of service this year and touch the lives of thousands. JVs often don’t realize how significantly they themselves will be transformed throughout the process,” says Jeanne Haster, Executive Director for JVC Northwest.
 
This year, JV/AmeriCorps members will serve in 107 partner agencies across the region in many areas, involved in critical social services advocating for domestic violence survivors, nursing in community clinics, teaching and tutoring in schools with Native American children, assisting in shelters, working for food justice issues, and many more important works.  Throughout their year of service, JV/AmeriCorps members focus on four core values–social and ecological justice, simple living, spirituality, and community.
 
There are two Jesuit Volunteer organizations in the United States, JVC Northwest and JVC.  JV/AmeriCorps members serve in a variety of urban and rural locations and are challenged to live simply and work for social and ecological justice in a spiritually supportive environment.
Established in 1956, JVC Northwest is an independent, non-profit organization that recruits, places, and supports volunteers living in communities across the Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
 
For more information, visit www.jvcnorthwest.org.
 
* “JV/AmeriCorps members” is a general term referring to all Jesuit Volunteers, both our JV AmeriCorps members and our JV non-AmeriCorps members who are providing advocacy and ministry services.

Academic Year 2013 Concludes

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The College of Arts and Sciences celebrated the conclusion of the 2012-13 academic year with graduation ceremonies on Sunday, May 5 in the Chiles Center.  We wish a hearty congratulations to the Class of 2013!

CAS NEWS encourages you to browse through the news of the past year by examining the stories listed above under Highlights.  You may also wish to check out any of the other categories, as your interests may lead you.  You can search based on Department, Category, or time of the year.

CAS NEWS will be on hiatus for the summer, and will return in September!

Intel hires UP Alumna for Regional Communications Manager

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Intel Corporation recently hired Chelsea Hossaini as the northwest region communications manager in Hillsboro.

“Intel’s largest and most comprehensive site in the world is in Hillsboro, and local media representatives are important partners as we provide up-to-date information on the construction of Intel’s new development fabrication facility called D1X,” said Jill Eiland, Intel northwest region corporate affairs manager.  “We are pleased to add a young professional to our seasoned team who brings relevant experience and new energy to the work we do as the largest private employer in Oregon.”

Hossaini’s background combines public relations, marketing, community relations and event management. She graduated maxima cum laude from the University of Portland with a bachelor of arts in communication studies with an emphasis on media studies.

As Communications Manager, Hossaini serves as the primary point of contact for site media relations, external communications, and the promotion of national programs and events.

History Alumni prominently featured

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Anna Sokolov with photo of her parents.

History Alumni Anna Sokolov has been featured in two stories in the Albany Democrat-Herald.

Anna is currently working on her MAT with social studies and language arts licensure at Western Oregon University, and is in her third year of working in an alternative high school, and really enjoying it. “Who knew I would get along with delinquents so well?!” she said.  “I am working as the Business to School Liaison, which means my main responsibility is coordinating the Service Learning projects for the school, which is a lot of fun!”

Anna coordinated a school-wide Service Learning project involving Amnesty International’s Global Write-a-Thon event and the newspaper picked it up and ran an article about it.

Read the story here.

Anna wrote her senior history thesis on her father, Victor Sokolov, a prominent Russian dissident. The newspaper also spoke with her about her father.

Read the story here.

Women admitted to UP!

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In 1951, the University of Portland began admitting women as students to the College of Arts and Sciences.  Though women had been admitted to nursing and music before the 1950s, since these were considered the proper sphere for women’s activities, the opening of CAS prompted the opening of the entire campus to women who wanted to study in any field.

The display featuring this milestone in the University’s history was created by the University Museum using photographs from the University Archives for the display case on the first floor of Buckley Center. Visit the display the next time you are in BC!

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American women in the 1950s:

In her best-selling 1963 publication, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan painted a picture of a 1950s world in which a life of domesticity proved the only option available for American women, noting that college admission rates for women had actually declined from the 1920s to the 1950s.  Although Friedan’s claim accurately reflected some aspects of 1950s America- including the shifting gender ideologies brought about by the post-World War II era- it didn’t capture or define all of American women’s experiences in the 1950s.

In reality during the 1950s American women continued to attend college; they continued to work outside of the home (in fact married women’s labor force participation, increasing since the 1920s, continued to climb upward throughout the 1950s); women continued to be involved in political activities, spearheading some of the first anti-nuclear and peace organizations of the McCarthy era; and, though often over-looked, women such as Ella Baker, Pauli Murray, Rosa Parks, and Jo Ann Robinson played critical roles in laying the groundwork for and organizing the Civil Rights Movement.

If you’d like to learn more, consider taking one of the following courses in the Fall, 2013:

HST 316: History of Modern American Women

SW/PSY 356 Perspectives on Human Sexuality

For further reading:

Joanne Meyerowitz, editor, Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Post-War America, 1945-1960, (Philadelphia: Temple University, 1994.)

Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era, (New York: Basic Books, 1999.)

Physics Alumni Success

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Abraham Olson, physics major (class of 2007) had the opportunity this summer to participate in the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in physics in Germany.  He was one of 592 young scientists selected from around the world to spend a week in Lindau, Germany to meet with 27 physics Nobel Laureates.

Abe is currently a Ph.D. student  in the physics department at Purdue University.  He is also the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2009) and a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (2007).

 

Beacon Receives National Recognition

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By: Nancy Copic, Assistant Director of Student Media & Adviser to The Beacon

From THE BEACON BLOG

When I saw the email subject line “Gold Circle Winners Announced,” my reflex was to steel myself for disappointment. My expectations could not have been lower.

Gold Circle Awards are national awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association based at the graduated school of the Columbia School of Journalism in N.Y. There are so many better-funded, impressively-staffed college journalism programs and student media programs out there, I believed The Beacon could maybe score an honorable mention. At best.

Not that I don’t swell with pride over the work of the students journalists at The Beacon. I obviously had enough faith to enter The Beacon’s work. It’s just that, well, our little Beacon, we’re not really in the major leagues. Are we? The email revealed the surprising (to me, at least) answer: Yes, at least in 6  awards categories. Six awards and three certificates of merit (honorable mention). Did I mention these are national awards?

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Tops in Fulbrights Again!

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From UPBEAT

University of Portland has been named the top producer of Fulbright scholars in the nation among “master’s universities” for the third consecutive year, according to a study released today by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The University had six alumni win the prestigious grants to work and study abroad for 2012-13.

Three of the Fulbrights won by UP alumni for 2012-13 are for English teaching positions in Germany, while the others are for graduate studies in the United Kingdom, research in India, and English teaching in Spain.

The University has been a leader among its peer institutions in producing Fulbright scholars for several years, also ranking first nationally in 2011-12, 2010-11 and 2007-08 and second nationally in 2006-07, 2008-09 and 2009-10. Since 2001, students from University of Portland have earned 40 Fulbright grants.

Molly’s Legacy

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The first recipient of the Molly Hightower Memorial Scholarship joins the UP community

By Kate Stringer ,  Staff Writer stringer14@up.edu

From The BEACON

Two and a half years ago, 3,000 miles away from Portland, an earthquake struck Haiti and buried two UP alumnae under a fallen building.

While 2009 graduate Rachel Prusynski escaped, her friend and fellow ’09 graduate Molly Hightower did not.

Not too far away from Hightower and Prusynski, current UP freshman Jean-Francois Seide felt the room shaking while watching TV in his apartment with three friends.

“We ran out and the house collapsed and I lost everything,” Seide said. “I was sleeping in the street for three days, three nights.”
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