A Dean’s Forum has been scheduled with Sharon Jones on Tuesday, February 12 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Shiley Hall room 319. All are welcome to bring questions, comments, concerns and an appetite to this open forum. Pizza and beverages will be provided and there will be a drawing for five Shiley School of Engineering t-shirts. For more information contact Kim Spir, engineering, at 7314 or spir@up.edu.
Academics
Freedom Fighters Exhibit
A group of freshman students from Roosevelt High School have created a museum-quality traveling exhibit and publication featuring the stories of sixteen local individuals who have taken part in historic social justice movements. The Freedom Fighters Exhibit will be on display on Tuesday, February 19 and Wednesday, February 20, in the Franz Hall foyer, and is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public.
Fourteen University of Portland students in Rich Christen’s social studies methods course assisted ninety Roosevelt students in a freshman humanities course as they interviewed local community leaders who have taken a stand for social justice, working to advance the civil rights of various races, cultures, and religions. The resulting exhibit has been traveling alongside a national Frederick Douglass exhibit throughout Portland and Multnomah County during the month of February 2013.
For more information contact Kathleen Staten, education, at 7135 or staten@up.edu.
John Martin Fischer Lecture
John Martin Fischer, distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California at Riverside, will present a lecture, “Would You Choose to Live Forever?,” on Thursday, February 28, at 4 p.m., in Buckley Center room 163. His talk is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public.
Fischer serves as president of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, and is also project leader for The Immortality Project, an interdisciplinary research effort on various aspects of belief in immortality, backed by a $5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
For more information contact Andrew Eshleman, philosophy, at 7317 or eshleman@up.edu.
Greene Named UP Provost
University president Rev. E. William Beauchamp, C.S.C. has announced the appointment of Thomas Greene as provost, effective immediately. Greene has served as interim provost since August 2012. Greene’s administrative duties on The Bluff include oversight of all faculty and academic personnel and programs, as well as the Clark Family Library, the Garaventa Center, the Franz Center for Entrepreneurship, the registrar’s office, institutional research, and the studies abroad and honors programs. Greene is also a professor in the School of Education.
He assumes the position last held by Br. Donald Stabrowski, C.S.C., who left the University last September to serve as assistant provincial for the Congregation of Holy Cross, U.S. Province of Priests and Brothers.
Greene has served the University in a variety of leadership positions, including dean of the Graduate School, interim dean and associate dean of the School of Education, and director of teacher education. In 2010 he won the Culligan Award, the University’s highest faculty honor. For more information contact the president’s office at 7101 or simek@up.edu.