Seniors Gisela Gonzalez-Montiel and Ryan Bergio won second prize in the Analytical Chemistry Division for their poster presentation, “XRF and Raman Analysis of a 15th-Century Painting in Mallorca, Spain,” at the Second Annual Undergraduate Poster Symposium, sponsored by the Portland section of the American Chemical Society, held at Portland State University on Sunday, October 25. Faculty sponsors and co-authors were UP chemists Valerie Walters, Ray Bard, and Ronda Bard. Preliminary spectroscopic analysis of the triptych was accomplished in July, 2015, as part of the University’s Pollentia 2015 expedition, directed by Fr. Richard Rutherford, C.S.C., emeritus theology. Analysis of this and other artwork at the Sant Jaume Church Museum in Alcúdia, Spain, will continues in Summer 2016; see the poster and other informative posts at the Pollentia WordPress site at https://sites.up.edu/pollentia/.

Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, presented “Helping Nurses Heal, Lead and Learn” at Seattle Pacific University, Sigma Theta Tau Psi-at-large Chapter Meeting on November 7, 2015. She also presented “Moral distress and associated factors among baccalaureate nursing students” at the Undergraduate Research Celebration, University of Portland, with student co-presenters Conor Livingston and Austin Smith in November 2015.

Aziz Inan, engineering, recently published the article titled, “11-13-15 last consecutive odd number date of 21st century,” with two electrical engineering senior students, Baris Inan and Cem Inan, at kval.com, KVAL News, Eugene, Oregon, November 13, 2015. See that article at this link.