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2023-03-06

Spring Break Bookstore Hours

March 3, 2023

The bookstore will be open Monday–Friday from 11 a.m.–3:30 p.m. and closed during both weekends of Spring Break. Also available by appointment by calling 503.943.7125. And always available at uportland.bncollege.com.

Filed Under: 2023-03-06 Tagged With: Bookstore

UP Nursing Student Jasmine Yee Selected as a Truman Scholar Finalist

March 3, 2023

COVID-19 health precautions kept Jasmine Yee and her Class of 2024 from getting the full, in-person experience when they joined the University of Portland community in the fall of 2020. But after navigating that first year of online learning, Yee has been virtually unstoppable ever since—an inspiring force of caring and creativity on The Bluff. […]

Filed Under: 2023-03-06 Tagged With: Truman Scholar Finalist

Free COVID-19 Testing Kits

February 17, 2023

The Office of Human Resources would like to share the ways in which you can obtain FREE COVID-19 testing kits. As the University will no longer be providing free kits once the remaining supply has been distributed, the following are resources available to you:  Kaiser members can go here to order tests from Kaiser Permanente.  […]

Filed Under: 2023-02-20, 2023-03-06 Tagged With: Human Resources

Summer and Fall Software Requests (Due Mar. 17)

February 17, 2023

As we approach the midpoint of the Spring term, it is time to think about your Summer and Fall term software needs so that they can be included in our new classroom builds. Items included on the 2022–2023 school year builds will NOT be automatically included—with the exception of internet browsers, Microsoft Office, Kaltura, Teams, […]

Filed Under: 2023-02-20, 2023-03-06 Tagged With: Software Requests

Seeking Nominations for the Oddo Scholarship (Due Mar. 27)

February 17, 2023

Faculty and staff are encouraged to nominate students for the Oddo Scholarship. This significant scholarship is awarded each year to one or two students who demonstrate a commitment to learning with and from others through service and community engagement grounded in their faith. This endowed scholarship was established to honor the memory of former University […]

Filed Under: 2023-02-20, 2023-03-06, 2023-03-20 Tagged With: Fr. Thomas C. Oddo C.S.C. Scholarship

Faculty & Staff Lenten Retreat (Mar. 31)

February 17, 2023

The Committee on Mission, Campus Ministry, the Office of the Provost, and Human Resources invite you to attend a day-long spiritual retreat for faculty and staff on Friday, March 31. The retreat will be held on campus from 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. The goal of the retreat is to provide a time for individual and communal […]

Filed Under: 2023-02-20, 2023-03-06 Tagged With: Lenten Retreat

New Faculty and Staff Photos (Mar. 28)

February 17, 2023

Are you a new faculty or staff member who has not yet had their professional photo taken for the UP directory? The Office of Marketing and Communications has scheduled a professional photographer for photos on Tuesday, March 28, in the afternoon. Please email Suzanne Frey at freys@up.edu to schedule a five-minute headshot session. 

Filed Under: 2023-02-20, 2023-03-06, 2023-03-20 Tagged With: Directory Photo Sessions, Marketing and Communications, Suzanne Frey

Founders’ Day: A Celebration of Student Scholarship (Apr. 4)

February 3, 2023

The University’s annual Founders’ Day celebration will take place on Tuesday, April 4, and all UP community members are invited to take part. The University pauses on Founders’ Day to celebrate its rich past and its promising future: the past as we honor the bold leaders who dared to dream of a Catholic university overlooking […]

Filed Under: 2023-02-06, 2023-02-20, 2023-03-06, 2023-03-20, 2023-04-03 Tagged With: Founders Day

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Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

Jessica Murphy Moo, editor of Portland Magazine and director of storytelling, wrote the lyrics to two songs in “We Go On, Oswego,” a song cycle honoring female refugees who lived at Camp Ontario in upstate New York. From 1944-1946, Camp Ontario provided emergency shelter to refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. “We Go On, Oswego” was performed at Nazareth College, in collaboration with Finger Lakes Opera, on December 4, 2025. It was commissioned by Katie Hannigan, PhD. The song “There Is No Underground,” was written in collaboration with composer Maria Thompson Corley, and the song “My Table,” was written in collaboration with composer Kurt Erickson.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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