Each month, the marketing and communications office schedules a photographer to take a small number of head shots for our online directory. The January session is Tuesday, March 27, from 11 a.m. to noon. To set up an appointment, please contact Suzanne Frey at freys@up.edu or x8676 no later than 3 p.m. on Monday, March 26. Photos will be taken […]
03-26-2018
Pilots Give: Help Support Ignite Grants
The deadline for Faculty Ignite Grants is the end of March, but that doesn’t mean the Office of Development will quit raising money for this great cause. For Pilots Give, UP regent and 1993 alumnus Rich Baek has stepped up with a $25,000 matching gift to encourage participation in UP’s first Day of Giving on April […]
2018 Holy Week, Good Friday Observance
University offices will be closed and no classes will be held on Friday, March 30, in observance of Good Friday, according to Tom Greene, provost. The closing actually begins at 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 29; no classes should continue beyond that time, and other events, apart from those connected with the religious observance of […]
Summer and Fall Book Orders Due March 29
Summer and fall book orders are due by Thursday, March 29, according to Erin Cave, bookstore. Orders can be placed via the web at www.uportland.bncollege.com and select “Faculty Resources.” They can also be emailed to cave@up.edu. To make the process even easier, just say “Same as Last Year!” Orders can also be phoned in at x7125. Questions? Please contact […]
Music at Midweek: Student Performers, March 28
The next Music at Midweek performance will feature music students on Wednesday, March 28, 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. It is free and open to all. Student performers will be Kay Smith, clarinet; Luke McCartney, guitar; and Natalie Werner, mezzo-soprano. For more information contact performing and fine arts at x7228 or pfa@up.edu. […]
New STEM Innovation Fellows Announced
The following science, technology, engineering, and mathematics faculty members have been selected as STEM Innovation Fellows and will participate in the first REFLECT institute in May, funded by a National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) grant, according to Stephanie Salomone, mathematics. The REFLECT project stands for “Redesigning Education for Learning through Evidence and […]
Museum & Archives Blog: UP’s Brushes With Fame
Jay Leno, we know that name, but did you know he did an ASUP show in the Chiles Center on December 8, 1988? And remember how more recently, the Grimm television show filmed on campus, bringing Hollywood to UP with trailers, electrical cables, and disguised buildings and signs? Or when Will Geer, who play Grandpa on […]
New TLC Blog Post: Did “Make It Stick” Stick for You?
This year’s pedagogy book title for the College of Arts and Sciences annual reading was Make it Stick: the Science of Successful Learning (Brown/Roediger/McDaniel, 2014). Lars Larson, English, would like to know: If you were among the participants, did the book’s methods “to learn better and remember longer” actually stick? Whether you are new to the book or […]
TLC From The TLC: How Do We Stack Up?
When dealing with stressed out students at challenging points in the semester, have you ever wondered if UP students are any different in their psychological concerns than students at other universities? This week’s mental health blog post on the Teaching and Learning Community Blog has some data to address that question. How do our students compare to […]
Dundon-Berchtold Hall Construction Cameras
Board of regents member Amy Dundon-Berchtold and Jim Berchtold ’63 have donated $15 million to fund the Dundon-Berchtold Institute for Moral Formation and Applied Ethics and serve as a lead gift towards the construction of a new academic center, Dundon-Berchtold Hall. The new building will house classrooms, faculty offices, selected key programs, gathering spaces, and […]