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The English Department’s Reading and Lecture series notes a few changes to our spring lineup: Cooper Lee Bombardier’s February 24 appearance has been postponed to Fall 2022. And Karen Eifler’s March 22 reading from her latest collection of essays Near Occasions of Hope: Glimpses of a Church That Can Be has been postponed to Wednesday, April 6 (7:30 p.m., Bookstore) to ensure the arrival of her just-out book. Also, for your literary calendar, during ReadUP/Distinguished Schoenfeldt Speaker Yaa Gyasi’s visit to campus Wenesday, March 9, she will be holding an informal Q&A for UP students, staff, and faculty in Franz 214 from 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Bring questions about Transcendent Kingdom, her other works, and her life as a writer. Details can be found at this link. For questions email larson@up.edu.
Each year an individual faculty member is recognized for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. Recipients of the awards are honored in May at the Faculty Gala.
The service award seeks to identify and recognize faculty members that enhance the UP community, professional communities, and/or the world community through their service and leadership work with students, colleagues, and community members. Examples of excellence in service include:
Eligibility and selection criteria for the Excellence in Service award are established by the Academic Senate and can be found on the Senate’s website (see “Resources” and “C on C Faculty Awards Criteria and Submission Information”). The selection process includes a formal nomination, the submission of supporting materials by the nominees, final selection by the Committee on Committees, and announcement and presentation at the Faculty Gala.
The deadline for nominations is February 25.
The deadline for supporting materials by nominees is March 31.
Please submit a nomination letter at the Service Award Moodle page.
The Why: The students are in their second clinical year and currently taking a Gender Health course. We want to prepare the students prior to going to their clinical sites.
The What: We would like to demonstrate how to measure the abdomen and check for fetal heart tones and then allow students to do this as well. Students will also take a history and provide the appropriate education per trimester. You would be the patient in this simulation. You are free to be yourself and give as much as you want of your own history, or you may choose to be someone else (your chance to act!). The students will interview you, measure your abdomen, listen for fetal heart tones, and ask questions. There are 11 students in this class, and the students will work in groups of 2-3, so you will have only one group of students working with you at a time. There are other women volunteering so you will not be alone in the simulation classroom. You may bring a support person, partner, or friend.
The When: Saturday, March 19, 3:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., Third Floor, School of Nursing, Buckley Center, University of Portland. You will not need to stay for the full amount of time.
The School of Nursing will compensate you $50 for your assistance with this class. You will need to complete a W-2 or W-9 form, invoice, and informed consent which I will provide for you and then collect once completed for the business office to send you a check.
Please let me know if you have any questions. My email is: scanlon@up.edu
Running with scissors… while laughing all the way to Bansky is a series of kinetic sculptures created by Mark Pitzer, psychological sciences. He was inspired by the questions and ideas that trickle down from life with kids, death of parents, struggles with work, preposterous news, and adapting to life with COVID-19. They will be on display from January through March in the Covert Gallery on the main floor of the Clark Library.
The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) welcomes creative and transformational proposals to lead Faculty Development Day on May 3 around a particular theme. Similar to other Spring 2022 campus events, the plan is for Faculty Development Day to be an in-person event.
Faculty should submit a 1–2-page proposal identifying the central theme, keynote speaker, and breakout panels for session one of Faculty Development Day. Sessions later in the day may remain open as opportunities for various and distinct panels proposed by faculty across campus. If you are interested in putting forward a central theme for the keynote and session one, please upload your proposal to the FDD Moodle site by Monday, February 14.
Contact TAS chair Jennette Lovejoy at tas@up.edu for more information.
Enjoy 2 ½ minutes of UP’s Chamber Orchestra playing the music behind this illumination of the Job Frontispiece from UP’s Heritage edition of The Saint John’s Bible. These glimpses into one of UP’s great treasures—and the art of our student performers—are produced by the Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life & American Culture.
As crucial as community-building is, your hosts in the Garaventa Center never want you to get sick of, or sick at Thirst Fridays. To get us past the omicron surge, Thirst Friday on February 11 is cancelled, but we hope to be back and as vibrant as ever for a final Thirst Friday of the year on April 22!
The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) is enthusiastically accepting nominations for the 2022 Teaching Award and Scholarship Award. Self-nominate or nominate someone by sending a simple “I nominate X person” to tas@up.edu by January 24. Nominees will be contacted, and their supporting materials will be due March 11. Visit the Teaching and Scholarship Awards site for more info regarding the nomination process, award criteria, and supporting materials required for nomination.
Please contact TAS chair Jennette Lovejoy at tas@up.edu with questions.
In this ongoing series, Marketing & Communications will introduce design and brand assets to help you with your marketing needs.
This week: Downloading and Using Fonts
Ever wondered which font to use for print and which font to use online?
TheSans is the University’s primary print font, because of its clean, easy-to-read, and modern design. TheSans should be used for print and digital documents (such as a pdf or a jpeg).
For live text on a website, Open Sans is the way to go. It’s a free alternative to TheSans.
To download TheSans:
Open Sans can be downloaded from Google Fonts.
In general, we recommend TheSans and Open Sans plain for body copy and bold for sub-heads and headlines.
To learn more about brand-approved fonts, please visit our Identity Guidelines webpage.
Reach out to Chris Long (longc@up.edu) with any questions.