A Big Week for Pilot Tennis, Basketball

February 22, 2019

The Pilot tennis and basketball teams are heading into a big week, as women’s basketball kicks off the busy weekend with a game versus LMU on Thursday, February 28, at 7 p.m. Tennis continues with a doubleheader on Friday, with the women taking on Santa Clara at 10 a.m., and the men battling Pacific Northwest rival Eastern Washington at 2 p.m.

Saturday wraps up the schedule with men’s tennis playing Montana at 2 p.m. This will be the last basketball doubleheader of the season and we want to thank you for your support this season! Use promo code: THANKS to get 50 percent off all ticket purchases, or simply click the link here for tickets.

One ticket gets you into both games, first the women take on Pepperdine at 4:30, then the men battle Santa Clara at 7. Halftime of the men’s game will be the fan-favorite Paper Airplane Toss, with the winner receiving a $500 travel card.

For more information contact athletics at x7117 or go to portlandpilots.com.

Ami Ahern-Rindell, Biology, participated in onsite campus visits during October 29 – November 1 to review several PUIs (Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions) in Oklahoma who together are recipients of an NIH-INBRE Consortium Award. This multi-million dollar grant provides funding for 5 years to improve biomedical research across the state of Oklahoma collaboratively between research intensive universities, PUIs, and Community Colleges.

Rachel Wheeler, theology, served as facilitator for Day of Reflection, Ascension Catholic Church, Portland, OR, National Pastoral Musicians Portland Chapter, November 2019.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, serves as a reviewer for Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, November2019-Present.

Nicole Ralston, education, had her piece, titled “Investigating the impacts of a collaborative language teacher professional development”(with Jacqueline Waggoner, Rebecca Smith) published in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (TESL-EJ), 24 (2), 1-14, August 2019.

Hannah Highlander, mathematics, presented “My career in biomathematics and mathematical modeling, driven and sustained by my undergraduate research collaborators,” at a special session on Research and Successful Collaborations of Mothers in Mathematical Biology, Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in the Sciences (SACNAS) , Honolulu, Hawaii.

Kevin Jones, social work, had five poems published in the Autumn 2019 issue of The Bamboo Hut, an online and print journal of English language tanshi (short poems). Jones is currently working on a research project exploring the therapeutic effects of poetry writing for youth who have experienced trauma.

Laura Dyer, biology, and her research students Pia Fornell and Cole Malibiran, attended the Murdock College Science Research Conference (November 8-9) where Malibiran gave an oral presentation titled “Coronary artery maturation in response to shear stress.” Fornell received the best poster award for developmental biology/physiology for her poster, “Identifying how sonic hedgehog signaling affects cardiac neural crest migration following fetal alcohol exposure.”

Patricia McDonald and Frances Pimentel, marketing and communications, received awards at the annual UCDA (University and College Designers Association) Design Awards for “Excellence in the Integrated Campaign” category: University of Portland Wonder Admissions Campaign, and honorable mention in the “Campaign Strategy” category for University of Portland Pilots Give Campaign.

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