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Walking the Camino: Muscle Memory with Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC (Feb. 19)

February 3, 2025

Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, shares his experience from his recent pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. The Camino de Santiago, or Way of St. James, has been a meeting place for pilgrims for almost 1,100 years and leads to the shrine of the apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-03, 2025-02-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Campus Ministry, Garaventa Center

UP Theater Presents: “The Effect” by Lucy Prebble (Feb. 19-23)

February 3, 2025

Connie and Tristan are volunteers in a clinical trial—they’re falling in love, but is it just the side effect of the experimental antidepressant they’re taking? UP theater is proud to present this romantic dramedy that has taken the theater world by storm around the country and abroad. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-03, 2025-02-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Performing and Fine Arts, Theater Program

Spring 2025 Internship & Job Fair (Feb. 21)

February 3, 2025

The Career Education Center is hosting the Spring 2025 Internship & Job Fair on Friday, February 21, from 1–4 p.m. The fair brings together over 95 organizations offering summer jobs, internships and full-time positions across various industries. Faculty and staff play a critical role and serve as a critical influence in encouraging student participation. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-03, 2025-02-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Career Education Center

Join Outdoor Pursuits and Garaventa Center for a Walk In The Park: Hoyt Arboretum (Feb. 22)

February 3, 2025

UP staff, faculty, and students are invited to join the Garaventa Center and Outdoor Pursuits for a walk in Washington Park’s Hoyt Arboretum! This hike will explore themes in ReadUP’s visiting author, Cheryl Strayed’s book, Wild, as we hike around the arboretum and enjoy some of the wonderful nature that Portland has to offer. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-03, 2025-02-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Garaventa Center, Outdoor Pursuits, Read UP

Pre-Play Reception & Panel for “The Effect” (Feb. 22)

February 3, 2025

Ticket show holders for The Effect by Lucy Prebble are invited to enjoy a complimentary drinks and small bites reception and an expert pre-show panel discussion, courtesy of the Garaventa Center. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-03, 2025-02-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Garaventa Center, Mago Hunt Center, Performing and Fine Arts, Theater Program

Bridging the Divide: Perspectives on Current Times and Social Issues of Today—Black Catholics (Feb. 27)

February 3, 2025

Join us for a lecture event with Dr. Darren Davis, Snyder Family Mission Professor at the University of Notre Dame. Davis is the author of “Negative Liberty: Public Opinion and the Terrorist Attacks on America,” and his research interests include most areas in public opinion and political behavior. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-03, 2025-02-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Garaventa Center

Lenten Staff/Faculty UP Retreat (Mar. 21)

February 3, 2025

A time for individual and communal spiritual reflection and renewal, this half-day contemplative retreat will explore the poetry of the Lenten Season as a source of spiritual reflection and renewal. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-03, 2025-03-03, 2025-03-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Human Resources, Mission Committee, Office of the Provost

Center for Gender and Sexuality Spring Events

February 3, 2025

Check out the selection of Spring events hosted by the Center for Gender and Sexuality. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-03, 2025-02-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Center for Gender and Sexuality

Faculty Book Launch: “Unmentionable Madness”(Jan. 23)

January 18, 2025

The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to share a launch event for Unmentionable Madness: Gender, Disability, and Shame in the Malaria Treatment of Neurosyphilis. Christin L. Hancock, PhD, employs feminist disability history to uncover the history of a radical and experimental medical treatment and its impact on the women and men who received it in the 1920s and 1930s. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, Events, Issues Tagged With: College of Arts and Sciences

AI and The Future of Work (Jan. 29)

January 18, 2025

Join the Center for Teaching and Learning and Natalie Nelson-Marsh from the Communication Studies program for a discussion about AI and the Workplace. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, Events, Issues, Uncategorized Tagged With: Center for Teaching and Learning

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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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