The UP Operations Management Association (UPOMA) held the annual “Helping Hands” event this past week on April 11 at University of Portland. Helping Hands is a program offered by corporate team building organization called Odyssey Teams, Inc. The goal is to build prosthetic hands for amputees in developing countries. UPOMA first began participating in this initiative in…Continue Reading Helping Hands Tradition at UP Continues
Category: Student Experiences
Internship Spotlight: Chandini Ashwath, PACCAR Parts
What are you responsible for in your current role (@PACCAR Parts)? My role at PACCAR Parts is Customer Experience Data Analyst Intern. I review and analyze business processes to identify opportunities for improvements by writing SQL queries on Snowflake and MS Access and create dashboards which are visually appealing and simple to navigate. This includes developing…Continue Reading Internship Spotlight: Chandini Ashwath, PACCAR Parts
Managing Innovation and Technology Across the Globe
Contributed by Juliette Moody, Communications Director at NAEGELI Deposition and Trial GoCirkular The goal of these projects is to apply various scholarly articles read through the semester to strategize with the entrepreneurs to ensure our recommendations are sound and scholarly based. The project my group and I are working on is called GoCirkular which is a…Continue Reading Managing Innovation and Technology Across the Globe
Rebuilding Together PDX – Improving Lives Across our Communities
Contributed by Dakota Hufford, Rebuilding Together Portland Executive Assistant The UP Community can support our mission by continuing our ongoing partnerships and coming to us with new project ideas! Rebuilding Together Portland is a Community Revitalization Partner: ensuring that homeowners can age in place. Our mission is to improve and enhance the quality of life…Continue Reading Rebuilding Together PDX – Improving Lives Across our Communities
Meet your ASUP Business School Senators
About Us Hello! We are very excited to introduce ourselves as the two ASUP Business School Senators. My name is Megan Meckey and I am a junior here at UP studying Marketing and Political Science. I am working this year alongside Nathan Glass who is a junior studying Accounting. We have teamed up this year…Continue Reading Meet your ASUP Business School Senators
From Nepal to Portland
Namaste. My name is Navaraj “Raj” Lamichhane, and I am a volunteer Program Assistant at Gratitude Alliance, USA. I graduated from Washington State University Vancouver (WSUV) with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and a Professional Sales Certificate. Currently, I am pursuing an Executive MBA in Non-Profit Management at the University of Portland. My…Continue Reading From Nepal to Portland