All faculty members who wrote a letter of recommendation for a student to pursue off-campus research this past summer are asked to please send the student’s name to John Orr (orr@up.edu). The provost’s office is preparing a document, similar to A Community of Scholars, about students; documenting the on-campus experiences is fairly easy, but they […]
College of Arts & Sciences
Prayers For Kate
The University of Portland community was shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden death of Spanish professor Kate Regan in the early morning of Wednesday, July 23. Kate joined the UP faculty in 1995 and wasted no time in becoming one of the most popular and respected professors on campus. She served as program […]
Farewell Party For Jane Woodcock, July 24
It is with a mixture of joy and sadness that the College of Arts and Sciences asks faculty and staff to join them in congratulating Jane Woodcock on her new position as faculty grants manager at Reed College. Jane has been an invaluable team member in the CAS dean’s office, where she serves as a […]
UP Sponsors Third Annual New Columbia Health Fair
The University of Portland co-sponsored the third annual New Columbia Health Fair, “Love Your Body, Everybody,” at the Charles Jordan Community Center on Saturday, April 5, according to faculty sponsor Barbara Braband, nursing. Approximately ten UP nursing students participated in planning, implementing, and evaluation of the event, and worked with 13 community vendors including New […]
McNerney-Hanson Ethics Bowl Showcase at UP
The second annual McNerney-Hanson Ethics Bowl Showcase was held on Saturday, April 5, according to College of Arts and Sciences dean Michael F. Andrews (pictured). The event was sponsored by Andrews, who also serves as the McNerney-Hanson University Endowed Chair in Ethics. This year’s McNerney-Hanson Ethics Bowl highlighted the nationally acclaimed UP Speech and Debate […]
Sr. Angela Hoffman, O.S.B., Outstanding Higher Education Teacher in Science and Mathematics
Sr. Angela Hoffman, O.S.B., chemistry, has been named the Oregon Academy of Science 2014 Outstanding Higher Education Teacher in Science and Mathematics. Hoffman has helped undergraduate students with more than 150 projects involving the ingredient Paclitaxel and the anti-cancer drug Taxol (marketed by Bristol-Myers Squibb). University of Portland environmental science professor Bob Butler was the […]
Graves Award in the Humanities for Alexandra Hill
Alexandra Hill, international languages and cultures, has been awarded an Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves Award in the Humanities. This competitive award, offered biennially, is “intended to encourage and to reward outstanding accomplishment in actual teaching in the humanities by younger faculty members.” The Graves Awards are administered by Pomona College under the auspices […]
UP, Portland Join Worldwide Sustainable Education Network
Greater Portland has been recognized as a formal Regional Center of Expertise (RCE) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) by the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Studies of Sustainability. Our region joins 127 RCEs around the world (now numbering three in the U.S.: Grand Rapids, Mich., Shenandoah Valley, Va., and Portland). The University […]
Top Ten Ethics Bowl Finish for UP
The University of Portland recently competed in the Northwest Region’s Ethics Bowl at Seattle Pacific University. Despite facing two teams which were eventually regional semi-finalists, the UP team finished in the Top Ten for the region—an impressive achievement in the University’s first year of competition at that level. Congratulations are in order to this year’s […]
Paul E. Wack, 1919-2013
Physics professor emeritus Paul E. Wack passed away in the morning on Tuesday, November 19, at the age of 94. He came to The Bluff in fall of 1949 and was one of the first faculty to move into the newly-completed Engineering building (now Donald E. Shiley Hall). His contemporaries included legendary campus physics teachers […]