Writer, photographer, and advanced practice nurse Hob Osterlund will present “Humor in Nursing: How to Find Time to Laugh When There’s Zero Time for Lunch” on Tuesday, February 7, at 7:15 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons. Osterlund’s talk is sponsored by the Garaventa Center, the School of Nursing, and the Beckman Humor Project and is free and open to all.
Osterlund founded Hawaii’s first inpatient pain and palliative care program at The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu. She also principal investigator for the Comedy in Chemotherapy (COMIC) Study, where she and her colleagues were the first to conduct a randomized controlled trial demonstrating the positive impact of comedy on the symptoms of cancer and chemotherapy. She will discuss the nursing profession as “one of the highest and hardest trapeze acts youʻll ever see,” where nurses face impossible situations on a daily basis: trying to balance on a high wire between cost-cutting and enormously expensive interventions, between doctorsʻ orders and the reality of patient care, between compassion for others and boundaries with them, between keeping people alive and allowing them to die, and many more.
For more information contact the Garaventa Center at x7702 or garaventa@up.edu.
For the seventh consecutive year, the University of Portland was the top Oregon school in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance annual ranking of best values in its private universities category for 2017. The University of Portland was ranked 58th nationwide among all private universities.
Make plans to join the Pilots for the annual Father-Daughter Basketball Clinic on Saturday, February 4
Mike Wode and Brendan Ryan, C.S.C., will present “Why Theology Needs the Simpsons” at 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday, February 1, in Franz Hall room 120. The event is free and open to all.
Stephen Shoemaker, professor of religious studies at the University of Oregon, presents “Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion” at 7:15pm on Tuesday, January 31 in Franz Hall room 120. The event is free and open to all.
The first community discussion of All the Light We Cannot See will happen on Tuesday, January 31, at noon in the Library Conference Room. Fr. Charlie Gordon, C.S.C., will facilitate the conversation which will focus on the first third of this great big book. Light refreshments will be served; participants are encouraged to bring their lunch if desired. Future discussions will be on February 15 and February 23, also at noon in the Library Conference Room, and open to all members of the campus community.
The Franz Center invites University community members to the Bauccio Lectures Series Keynote, “Beyond ‘Political Correctness’: Success and Everyday Leadership” by Neal Lester on Thursday, February 2, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons. Lester is currently a foundation professor of English with specializations in African American literature and cultural studies, and is also the founding director of 
The School of Education has announced the new director of the Pacific Alliance for Catholic Education (PACE). Steven Wojcikiewicz will begin his official duties on Wednesday, February 1, directing a number of strategic partnerships with Catholic P-12 schools and dioceses in the Pacific Northwest, Northern California, and Hawaii.
The next Music at Midweek performance will feature Rose City Trombones on Wednesday, January 25, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to all.
Pilots fans! The big game is tonight–Monday, January 23 at 5 p.m.–as the Pilots take on the no. 4 Gonzaga Bulldogs. If you had a ticket to the original date of this game (January 7), then you have a ticket for this game. Don’t have a ticket? No worries, you can catch the game on Root Sports or join other fellow Pilots in the Pilot House where the game will be shown on TV with a special food item of the day. For more information, please call the Pilots Box Office at x7525.