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News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.

05-16-2022

Calling All Babies!

The School of Nursing is looking for baby models to spend an hour with our Family Nurse Practitioner students who are learning about baby development and milestones. This will take place on Saturday, May 21, 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. We are especially interested in babies from newborn to 9 months of age who were born within approximately 3 weeks of their due date (not excessively premature). Parents will be asked questions about their infant’s development, and the babies will be examined and have some games played with them. The students will then have to guess the age of your baby. It’s always a fun hour! COVID precautions will be strictly enforced to ensure the safety of everyone—especially the infants. Please email Michaela Cribb at cribb@up.edu with any questions or to participate. Thank you!

Please Load Scholarly Activity on the Portal

Faculty members are reminded to load their scholarly activity on the portal in PilotsUP by May 31 each year. Data obtained through the portal will be used to populate A Community of Scholars, published by the Provost’s office. Faculty members use their school’s report on the home tab of the Scholarly Activity Portal to send the data to their respective deans as a part of annual self-evaluation.

You can find the link to the Scholarly Activity Portal in the Academic menu of PilotsUP or you can go directly to this link.

For any questions about uses of the portal, please contact John Orr (orr@up.edu); for questions about how to use the tool, please contact Michele Leasor (leasor@up.edu).

New to The Bluff: Amy Howlett, Office Manager, Office of Student Activities

Starting on May 18, Amy Howlett will join the Office of Student Activities as our new Office Manager. Amy is from San Jose, California and recently earned her degree in Sociology from UP. Amy has had an excellent experience working in our department as an Office Assistant over the past two years and serving as a Pilots After Dark Event Coordinator for the past year. During this time, she has taken a leadership role in developing and updating our social media and website. Please join us in welcoming Amy!