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Brian Doyle, marketing and communications, has won the 2016 Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature for his novel, Martin Marten, as part of this year’s Oregon Book Awards. The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts, Inc. for “the finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, literary […]

The Moreau Center’s Civil Rights Immersion group is hosting a fundraiser in the form of spring cleaning during the month of April. Students and staff are willing to work hard and get grubby; jobs that have been completed in the past include washing/cleaning cars, scrubbing windows, gardening, pulling weeds, spreading bark, mowing lawns, and painting. […]

The University of Portland has announced the honorees to be recognized during the 2016 Commencement ceremonies, which will be held on campus in the Chiles Center on Sunday, May 1. To accommodate the increasing number of graduates and family members, there will be two ceremonies this year: Commencement I, which begins at 10 a.m., is […]

Author, commentator, and New York Times columnist David Brooks will speak on Wednesday, March 16, at 7 p.m., in the Chiles Center. Tickets are $25 for reserved floor and theater seats and $20 for reserved bleacher seats. Faculty and staff are able to purchase two tickets at a reduced price of $10 through the Chiles Center Box […]

Nursing professor Amber Vermeesch has been selected as one of eight participants from around the nation for the 2016 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Faculty Policy Intensive program, to be held March 21-24, in Washington, D.C. She will also be recognized as an AACN Faculty Policy Fellow. The FPI program is designed for […]

All faculty and staff members are invited to show their UP pride and help support Doernbecher Children’s Hospital by joining the University’s Shamrock Run team. The race is on Sunday, March 13, 2016, at Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. Last year the UP race team was the 14th largest in the event, with 108 runners […]

Please join the University events office in extending best wishes to Carol Welch, who is retiring on January 15, 2016. Carol has been an esteemed member of the University Staff for 25 years, with 13 years in payroll, 8 years in HR, and 4 years in University events. Carol has been an integral member of […]

A team of University of Portland students finished second in the 2015 AICPA Accounting Competition, held recently in Durham, North Carolina. The UP students’ finish earned a $3,000 award for the University, and the team received a $10,000 award to be split among team members. The team consisted of students Isaac Mansuetti, Lance Chee, and […]

Employee awards for 2015 were presented at the annual employees’ holiday banquet on Monday, December 21. The winners: Teri Landtiser, who won the Margaret W. Henzi Award for outstanding office/clerical employees, and was cited as “Terri Landtiser, who was praised as “trusted and loyal, diligent and dedicated, selfless and serene, utterly unflappable, and entirely devoted […]

The University of recently joined a newly formed cohort in the Energy Trust of Oregon’s Strategic Energy Management (SEM) program, according to physical plant director André Hutchinson. One of the initial steps in the SEM program is the Energy Management Assessment (EMA); the EMA session is not a technical audit, but rather takes a business […]