Category: Students

20 Quotes for the Lovers and Haters of Valentine’s Day

compliled by contributing editor Kate Stringer Whether your heart becomes two sizes too big or too small on February 14, authors of the world have thoughts on love that will resonate with you. Here are 20 quotes about love for both the believers and detractors of Valentine’s Day. Love quotes for the believers “Whatever our…

“Watching Consciousness”: Poet Louise Glück on campus this week

by contributing editor Ana Fonseca This week, UP students and others in the community have an exciting opportunity to hear a former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer-Prize winner read and speak.  Poet Louise Glück will read this Thursday, February 13 at 7:00 PM in BC Auditorium, as part of the Schoenfeldt Writers series.  Glück will…

Legacy Health Summer Internships

Legacy Health is the largest nonprofit, locally owned health system in the Portland-Vancouver area. This summer, they are offering ten paid, full-time summer internships that are mostly administrative in nature. They last 10 weeks beginning between mid-May and mid-June. Throughout the program, interns work directly with managers on a variety of operational projects. Interns are expected to be available approximately…

“Life after the English Major” Alumni Panel: a Preview

What are you doing next Monday at 4pm?  We hope you’ve got our yearly alumni panel on your schedule.  The event features four English major alumni (with experience in law, education, finance, non-profit, writing, the arts) who will tell their stories of post-graduate life.  Students will be able to hear these UP grads talk about…

The Nature of Words’ Rising Star Creative Writing Competition

The Nature of Words issued a call for submissions for its 2014 Rising Star Creative Writing Competition to writers in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The deadline is June 1, 2014. The competition is open to commercially unpublished writers in three genres, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction and Poetry, and three age categories, 15-18, 19-25 and 25+.  Winners receive…

STD: Swarming the Bluff

         While adults typically tell you to watch out for STDs when you go to college, you may actually want to catch this one. We’re the Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society chapter at UP, and we’re a group of hard-working English majors whose love of literature inspires our social life. Although…

Commonweal Editorial Internships Available for Summer 2014

Each summer, Commonweal offers internships to one or two promising young Catholic writers, journalists, theologians, and critics. The application for summer 2014 interns in now open. Interns participate in the day-to-day work of the magazine and assist editors with proofreading, manuscript review, editorial administration, and other projects; they may also have the opportunity to contribute writing to the Commonweal website.The…

Focus on Internships: Spring Events

This semester, Career Services will be holding weekly events focusing on building career skills such as writing resumes, networking, and using LinkedIn on Thursdays at 4:15 in Orrico Hall. There are several opportunities for you to display your new professional skills gained at these events: the UP Internship Fair is taking place on Wednesday, January 29th…

Interested in Teaching This Summer?

The Institute of Reading Development is seeking recently graduated undergraduate students or current graduate students interested in teaching summer 2014. Teachers will be provided with a paid training program and comprehensive on-going support. They will also earn more than $6,000 during the summer and gain over 500 hours of teacher training and experience. Requirements to…

2014-15 Junior Fellowship

First Things is a conservative Christian magazine based in New York who is offering a fellowship for recently graduated students interested in writing and editing content centered about religion, spirituality, and politics. First Things is looking for graduating seniors with some sense of calling to writing, editing, or public intellectualizing, even if they plan to go…