The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be on Friday, April 4, from 3:30 to 5 p.m., in Franz Hall Murphy conference room. The group will be discussing Antonio Spadaro’s “Interview with Pope Frances: A Big Heart Open to God” and the Rothko paining “Orange Red Orange,” which accompanies this […]
02-10-2014
Nursing Doctoral Presentations
Vanessa Bourland, a 2014 doctor of nursing practice/family nurse practitioner doctoral candidate, will present on her Practice Improvement Project (PIP), a scholarly project designed to improve practice or patient outcomes, on Monday, February 17, at 8 a.m., in Buckley Center room 209. The title of Barr’s presentation is “Designing an Optimal Care Coordination Model for […]
UP Orchestra Concert, Feb. 22
The University of Portland Orchestra will present Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” on Saturday, February 22, at 7:30 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. The concert is free and open to all. “Scheherazade,” Rimsky-Korsakov’s epic musical tale based on the story of The Arabian Knights, is one of the most popular works ever composed for orchestra. It tells the […]
MAT Informational Meeting, Feb. 18
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Informational on Tuesday, February 18, at 6 p.m., in the Franz Hall Murphy conference room (room 426). The MAT is an intensive program designed to prepare individuals with baccalaureate degrees for teaching in K-12 schools. MAT graduates earn a masters degree […]
Open Forum on Benefits Billing Questions, Feb. 19 & 20
The University’s Kaiser Permanente account manager and billing experts will visit the campus to host an open forum on benefits billing questions on Wednesday, February 19, from 12-1 p.m. in Buckley Center Room 163 and on Thursday, February 20, from 12-1 p.m. in the Franz Hall Murphy Conference Room. Anyone with questions on how deductibles, […]
TIAA-CREF Representative Visits, Feb. 18-20, March 4-6
University employees’ TIAA-CREF investment counselors, Yasemin Under (pictured) and Braden Danielson, will be on campus a number of times this spring for individual financial counseling sessions. A TIAA CREF representative will be on campus for one-on-one counseling sessions on February 18, 19, and 20 as well as March 4, 5, and 6. Go to www.tiaa-cref.org/schedulenow to schedule an appointment […]
2014 Honorary Doctorates, Christus Magister
The University of Portland will honor the following individuals at Commencement on Sunday, May 4: Carolyn Woo (pictured) has been chosen to receive the Christus Magister Medal, the University’s highest honor. Woo is president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services, which reaches some 130 million people in nearly 100 countries annually with its relief and […]
University Club Social, Feb. 11
The next University Club event will take place on Tuesday, February 11, from 4-5:30 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons Board Room. All faculty and staff are are invited to meet and connect with colleagues from all over campus. At this event, we want to toast our adjunct faculty members. Adjunct professors, if you can come, […]
UP, Portland Join Worldwide Sustainable Education Network
Greater Portland has been recognized as a formal Regional Center of Expertise (RCE) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) by the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Studies of Sustainability. Our region joins 127 RCEs around the world (now numbering three in the U.S.: Grand Rapids, Mich., Shenandoah Valley, Va., and Portland). The University […]
Reading by Former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück, Feb. 13
The University of Portland’s Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series will welcome former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück to campus on Thursday, February 13, at 7 p.m., where she will read from her work in Buckley Center Auditorium. The event is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. Glück recently released Poems 1962-2012, a […]