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Lenten Visio Divina (Apr. 16)

March 31, 2025

Join us for a contemplative prayer practice using a sacred image from The Saint John’s Bible directly following the noon Mass. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-31, 2025-04-14, Events, Issues Tagged With: Campus Ministry, Garaventa Center, Visio Divina

Thirst Friday (Apr. 25)

March 31, 2025

All faculty and staff are invited to come celebrate as we near the finish line of the spring semester. Enjoy laughter, libations, small bites and great conversations at this Garaventa Center casual, no agenda social favorite! Bring someone who’s never been for extra credit! (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-31, 2025-04-14, Events, Issues Tagged With: Garaventa Center, Thirst Fridays

Use Your Voice! (Mar. 17)

March 16, 2025

Join VoteUP and Constructive Dialogues in the Pilot House to write your elected officials—local, state, national—about your concerns. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-03-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Constructive Dialogue, VoteUP

“Cultivate Your Closet” Spring Clothing Drive (Mar. 18-26)

March 16, 2025

All faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to donate any CLEAN clothing in preparation for a clothing giveaway sponsored by the Center for Gender and Sexuality. Students will have access to free clothing at the giveaway on March 26, where stylists from the UP WEWORETHAT Club will be helping to coordinate fits. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Center for Gender and Sexuality

Informational Panel on Immigration Policies and the Trump Administration (Mar. 24)

March 16, 2025

Join us for a Q&A panel to learn more about current immigration policies, what campus leaders are doing to support students, and what Catholic Social Teaching tells us are our obligations to immigrants and refugees. A reception will follow. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: ASUP, Constructive Dialogue, Diversity & Inclusion Program, Garaventa Center

Film Screening: “No Place to Grow Old” (Apr. 3)

March 16, 2025

No Place To Grow Old is an intimate portrait of the rising crisis of senior homelessness in Portland and explores the systemic challenges and deeply personal stories of a generation aging into homelessness. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the founder of Humans for Housing, Michael Larson, and film director Davey Schaupp. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-17, 2025-03-31, Events, Issues Tagged With: Garaventa Center

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group (Apr. 4)

March 16, 2025

At the next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group we will be discussing the article “The Antisocial Century” by Derek Thompson. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-17, 2025-03-31, Events, Issues Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Garaventa Center

2025 Mazzocco Lecture on Feminist Activism in a Challenging World (Apr. 14)

March 16, 2025

The Political Science and Global Affairs Department invites you to a timely discussion on transnational solidarity and cross-movement building for gender equality and women’s rights with Yasmina Benslimane. Benslimane is a young feminist champion who has been recognized as one of the BBC’s 100 Most Influential and Inspiring Women as well as Forbes 30 under 30. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-17, 2025-03-31, Events, Issues Tagged With: Political Science Department

Ash Wednesday (Mar. 5)

March 3, 2025

Christians begin the observation of the holy season of Lent, the 40 days of preparation for the great celebration of Easter, on Ash Wednesday. This year Ash Wednesday falls on March 5, and Campus Ministry will celebrate two Masses that day to mark the occasion. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-03, Events, Issues Tagged With: Campus Ministry

A Serendipitous Symmetry: Cuban and Vietnamese Poster Art and the Improvisation of Historical Research (Mar. 12)

March 3, 2025

Join Blair Woodard, PhD and the History Department in an exploration of the ephemeral dialogues in Cuban and Vietnamese poster art. These posters praised each other’s revolutions, leadership, and victories against the United States. In his talk, Woodard will discuss how his research has often led him down unplanned pathways of both academic and personal discovery. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-03, Events, Issues Tagged With: Garaventa Center

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Jeff Kerssen-Griep, Communication and Media, presented “Teaching with Transformative International Conflict Partners” on the panel, “Healing Divides and Elevating Connections within Conflict & Peacebuilding.” National Communication Association Convention. November, 2025.

Christi Richardson-Zboralski, Director of Marketing – Graduate Programs, published a short story under pen name, Christi R. Suzanne, entitled “Outlaw’s Dust.” In Lisa Diane Kastner (Ed.) 27 Stories: An LA Wildfire Anthology. Running Wild Press. January 7, 2026. All proceeds from this anthology go toward Habitat for Humanity LA. Find it on the Broadway Books website or on Bookshop.org.

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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