01-24-2022

UPBeat will continue on an “every-other-week” schedule during Spring 2022. Please remember to send any submissions the Thursday prior to publication.  

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]