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02-10-2014

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, April 4

orange red red rothko.jpgThe 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 announcement.

Readings are on electronic reserve in the library under Eifler, Karen or Martin, Norah, Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact Martin at martinn@up.edu or Eifler at eifler@up.edu.

Nursing Doctoral Presentations

nursing seal150Vanessa 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 Children with Diabetes in Primary Care.” All interested parties are invited to attend her presentation. RSVPs are not necessary.

Jennifer Barr, a 2014 doctor of nursing practice/ family nurse practitioner doctoral candidate, will present her Practice Improvement Project (PIP), a scholarly project designed to improve practice or patient outcomes, on Thursday, February 20, at 10 a.m., in Franz Hall room 030. The title of her presentation is “Overcoming Barriers to Advance Directive Completion through Provider Education.” All interested parties are invited to attend her presentation; RSVPs are not necessary.

For more information contact Sally Peters, nursing, at 7423 or peterss@up.edu.

UP Orchestra Concert, Feb. 22

orchestraThe 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 story of the sea and Sinbad’s ship, the Kalendar Prince, and the Festival of Baghdad, among others. For more information contat performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.

MAT Informational Meeting, Feb. 18

MATFebFaculty, 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 and are eligible for Oregon initial licensure at two contiguous levels of authorization: early childhood, elementary, middle and/or high school. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to the School of Education at 7135.

Open Forum on Benefits Billing Questions, Feb. 19 & 20

bizguyquestionThe 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, co-pays, or out-of-pocket maximums work should consider attending. Snacks will be provided. For more information contact Andy Sherwood, human resources, at 8981 or sherwood@up.edu.

TIAA-CREF Representative Visits, Feb. 18-20, March 4-6

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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 today. Call TIAA-CREF at (877) 842-2028 or Andy Sherwood at 8981 for more information.

 

2014 Honorary Doctorates, Christus Magister

The University of Portland will honor the following individuals at Commencement on Sunday, May 4:

woo150Carolyn 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 development work. Before joining CRS in 2012, Woo was dean and professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza School of Business (recognized as the best in America for undergraduate and ethics education during her tenure) and a vice president and professor at Purdue University, where she earned all three of her degrees.

John Beckman, of the University of Portland’s Class of 1942, will receive an honorary doctorate. He was instrumental in the invention of the photo-finish camera; is a superb photographer; is a serious amateur cosmologist, pianist, and theoretical mathematician; is a licensed pilot; for many years ran a ranch in California; and, with his wife Patricia, is a noted philanthropist to musical, historical, communal, and educational causes in Oregon. He and Patricia are the founders of the University’s Humor Project, a multi-disciplinary effort to study and foment humor as a “spiritual and revolutionary energy in every field of endeavor, from business to politics to the arts and beyond.”

James Popham, of the University of Portland’s Class of 1953, will receive an honorary doctorate. Popham is a professor of education emeritus at UCLA, an internationally renowned scholar on testing methods and efficacy, and the author of many books. UCLA has honored him as one of its best 20 professors of the 20th century. Jim has been president of the American Educational Research Association, is the founding editor of the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and is a wonderfully wry and witty speaker, as much in demand for his humor as for his expertise in educational evaluation and measurement.

Ed Ray, president of Oregon State University since 2003, will receive an honorary doctorate. Ray has directed a remarkable era at one of the state’s largest public universities; during his tenure the school has raised more than $900 million for students and faculty, developed a national reputation for research in science, opened and expanded the Oregon State U/Cascades campus in Bend, and successfully grappled with declining public funding.

Most Reverend Alexander Sample, the eleventh Archbishop of Portland in Oregon (the fourth, Alexander Christie, was the founder of the University of Portland in 1901), will receive an honorary doctorate. Sample was twice appointed a bishop by Pope Benedict XVI – first to the Diocese of Marquette, Michigan, in 2005, and then to Portland in 2013, succeeding Most Reverend John Vlazny. A Montana native, Archbishop Sample earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in metallurgical engineering at Michigan Tech, before being ordained a priest in 1990, and serving widely as a parish priest before his elevation.

Anne Thompson, NBC News’ Chief Environmental Affairs correspondent since 2007, will receive an honorary doctorate. She has traveled the world reporting on pollution, alternative fuels, global warming, land usage, and new technologies, among many other topics. She has also been the network’s chief financial correspondent and national news reporter, and was an award-winning reporter for WDIV-TV in Detroit and KSDK-TV in Saint Louis. She began her broadcasting career at WNDU-TV in Indiana, after her graduation from the University of Notre Dame. At the invitation of University president Father Bill Beauchamp, C.S.C., Thompson will deliver the University’s 2014 Commencement Address.

For more information contact the president’s office at 7101 or simek@up.edu.

University Club Social, Feb. 11

University of Portland, upThe 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, please attend. Regular faculty and staff, please bring members of your adjunct faculty to the event. For more information contact the provost’s office at 7105 or staten@up.edu.

UP, Portland Join Worldwide Sustainable Education Network

kolmes copyGreater 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 of Portland has been one of the institutions cooperating to propose this RCE, as have Portland State, Portland Community College, Lewis and Clark College, Marylhurst, the University of Oregon Portland campus, Washington State University-Vancouver, Pacific University, and many other educational, government institutions, businesses, and non-governmental organizations. The RCE is intended to increase collaborations in the greater Portland area to promote the understanding of sustainability. To see a complete list of RCE members see http://tinyurl.com/k7cxao3 and for more information contact Steve Kolmes, environmental studies, at kolmes@up.edu.

Reading by Former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück, Feb. 13

Louise Gluck copyThe 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 collection spanning her entire career. The collection was awarded the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The author of more than 10 books of poetry, Glück explores, as Donna Seaman noted, “the turmoil of family life; the fever, bliss, and misery of lust and love; the circular battle with the self; age and death.”

The Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series was founded in 1988 by Rev. Arthur Schoenfeldt, C.S.C., of the University’s Holy Cross community, and his sister, University regent Suzanne Schoen­feldt Fields, in honor of their late parents. The series is designed to honor and celebrate the art of writing by bringing some of the finest writers in the United States to the UP campus. For more information contact John Orr at 7857 or orr@up.edu.