News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
The University and the performing and fine arts department will host the 42nd annual Best in the Northwest Choir Festival, Friday May 6, all day, in Buckley Center Auditorium. Choir members will also use first floor Buckley Center classrooms for robing and rehearsal. Top honors go to the finest middle and junior high school choirs from across the Northwest. Attendance is free but seating is limited at times.
For more information, contact performing and fine arts at x7228 or pfa@up.edu.
All University of Portland faculty and staff are invited to attend Anchors Away on Thursday, April 28, on the bluff behind Bauccio Commons. Please join us as the entire UP family gathers together to celebrate the conclusion of the 2015-16 academic year with a BBQ, beer garden, live music from the Junebugs, and lots of other fun activities. Please bring your family—there will be activities for kids including lawn games, spin art, and bubble artists. Tickets for faculty and staff are complimentary. Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 26 and a ticket will be delivered. RSVP at this link. Additional tickets for family and friends may be purchased; children 10 and under may attend for free. Drinks at the beer garden will be available for $2 and $3. For questions or ADA accommodation requests, contact Tyler Zimmerman at zimmerma@up.edu.
Anti-racism writer and educator Tim Wise will speak on the University campus on Thursday, April 21, at 4 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons (quiet side). Due to space limitations, this is a private event for UP students, faculty, and staff only; please bring University of Portland ID to enter the event.
Wise he has given speeches at over 1,000 college campuses and high schools across the U.S., and trains teachers, corporate employees, non-profit organizations and law enforcement officers in methods for addressing and dismantling racism in their institutions. His books include White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son (2004), Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White (2005), Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male (2008), and Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America (2015).
The lecture is sponsored by Diversity in the Office of Student Activities, the School of Nursing, Unversity relations, and the Moreau Center.
For more information contact Bethany Sills, student activities, at 7470 or sills@up.edu.
The University will host its annual Scholarship Luncheon as part of Founders’ Day on Tuesday, April 12, in the Chiles Center. The invite-only luncheon provides an opportunity for scholarship donors and supporters to connect with the students they help to support.
During the luncheon, the University will recognize the many alumni, parents, and friends whose charitable gifts have resulted in 402 endowed scholarships and 79 annual scholarships for the 2015-16 academic year. These donor scholarships currently provide more than $2.89 million in aid to about 709 University of Portland students.
The luncheon program will focus on the power of scholarship giving and will highlight the Ralph and Sandra Richardson Miller Endowed Scholarship and the Brian Doyle Annual Scholarships in Gentle & Sidelong Humor.
Ralph and Sandi Miller established their scholarship to assist U.S. naturalized citizens. Ralph Miller immigrated to the U.S. as a young child and was given a helping hand from his community. He received his MBA at the University in 1973 and joined the Board of Regents in 1993. The Millers’ generosity has directly impacted over 70 UP students since their scholarship’s inception in 2006.
The Brian Doyle Annual Scholarships in Gentle & Sidelong Humor was established by the late John and Patricia Beckman because they believed in the power of humor; when people laugh together, there is a gentle warmth in the room, when they laugh together, they can’t be arrogant or violent.
For more information contact the development office at hanna@up.edu.
The UP chapter of Colleges Against Cancer will hold its annual American Cancer Society Relay For Life on Saturday, April 16, from noon to 8 p.m., in the Academic Quad on campus. All UP community members are encouraged to join teams or form their own for this event.
The Relay For Life program will honor cancer survivors and caregivers and feature the society’s mission to save lives from cancer. The funds raised at Relay support patient services, lifesaving research, prevention education, and advocacy efforts. Relay For Life is a community event where teams and individuals gather at a school, park, or fairground and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Each team has at least one participant on the track at all times and participates in fundraising that supports the American Cancer Society’s mission.
Three million participants registered in more than four thousand events worldwide in 2015. Last year, 372 people participated in Relay For Life of University of Portland and raised $30,000. Visit http://tinyurl.com/o8h99yz to learn more about the program, or contact Christina Scalzo at scalzo@up.edu or Karen Taylor of the American Cancer Society at karen.taylor@cancer.org.
The University theater program will present its next main stage production, “Julia Caesar,” on April 8-10 and 13-15, at 7:30 p.m. (Sundays 2 p.m.), in Mago Hunt Center Theater. Tickets are available through the Mago Hunt Center box office at x7287.
For centuries the classic Shakespeare play “Julius Caesar” has asked: Who should hold power? Who should decide who holds power? This contemporary exploration also asks: What if Caesar were a woman? What if Brutus were? When gender comes into questions of authority, what happens?
The all-student cast includes Adele Kennedy (Brutia), Michael Wardrop (Cassius), Emma Pace (Julia Caesar), Thomas Curran (Mark Antony), Dylan Hartwig (Portia/Antony’s Servant/Octavia), Sophia Aguirre (Octavia’s Servant/Cinna the Poet), Joel Anderson (Casca/Titinius), Jen Bigoness (Lucia/Clitia), Michael Flickner (Calpurnius/Popilius/Plebeian/Cato), Theresa Foley (Cobbler/Lucilia), Emily Hogan (Ligura/Pindara), Patrick Holland (Flavius/Trebonius/Plebeian/Messenger), Ellen Micek (Carpenter), Shaleesa Moreno (Soothsayer/Lepida), Eilidh Mote (Marulla/Artemidora/Strata), Jahsimara Rodriguez Poma (Plebeian/Dardana), and Maddie Tran (Cinna/Messala).
The play will be directed by Andrew Golla, with set design by Bethany Foran, costume design by Gregory Pulver, and lighting design by Tanis Gonzaga-Guzman.
For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.
All University community members are invited to attend the Kate Regan Short Film Festival on Thursday, March 31, at 5 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons. True to the vision of its founder, the late Kate Regan, the annual festival celebrates the making of visual stories, featuring short digital films by UP faculty and students in categories of documentary, humor, animation, international, and narrative.
For more information contact the Garaventa Center at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.
The University of Portland will host poet, professor, and scholar Sr. Eva Hooker, C.S.C., as she reads from her new collection of poetry, Godwit (“at once pastoral, startling and luminous”) on Monday, April 4, at 7:15 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 120. Her talk is free and open to the public.
Hooker is professor of English and writer in residence at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Ind. Her Notes for Survival in the Wilderness, profoundly influenced by Lake Superior and Madeline Island, was published in 2011. Her earlier work, The Winter Keeper, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in poetry in 2001. Prior to her appointment at Saint Mary’s, she was regents’ professor of poetry at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minn.
This event is co-sponsored by the Garaventa Center and the English department. Sr. Hooker’s poetry will also be featured in the Women of the Bible concert on Saturday April 2, at 7 p.m., in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher.
For ADA accommodations or further information contact the Garaventa Center at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.
Kenna Hall and residence life are sponsoring the Kenna Zombie Run, a zombie-themed 5k run, on Saturday, April 2, at 10:30 a.m., to benefit Holy Cross Charities. All faculty, staff, and students are invited to take part in this fundraising effort. Participants can register either as a runner or a zombie; zombies will act as obstacles along the course and will chase after (but not touch or eat) racers. Both roles cost $15, which includes an event t-shirt. Register at tinyurl.com/kennazombierun.
Kenna Hall and the Bauccio Lecture Series are hosting the final Kenna Women’s Leadership Forum of the year on Wednesday, March 30, at 7 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 120. The speakers will be Sherri Bennett, executive director, and Stephanie Barr, director of programs, at YWCA of Clark County.
The Kenna Women’s Leadership Forum connects students with dynamic and successful women leaders from UP and the greater community. Group conversations follow speakers’ stories to allow students to develop their own identity as potential leaders.
For more information contact Molly Cullen, residence life, at 7569 or cullenm@up.edu.