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05-29-2017

Faculty, Staff Invited to Reunion, June 22-25

June 16, 2017

Faculty and staff members are encouraged to join the hundreds of alumni who return to campus to participate in the annual Alumni Reunion Weekend, June 22-25.

This year, attendees will celebrate Shipstad Hall’s 50th birthday, the Hawai’i Club, the milestone class of 1967, and all classes ending in 2 and 7.

This year also marks the inclusion of a brand new weekend highlight: the President’s Welcome Reception and Alumni Awards on Friday, June 23. Other can’t-miss events include the GOLD Backyard Bash for young alumni on Thursday, June 22; the Welcome Home BBQ on Saturday, June 24; and the All Alumni Mass & Brunch on Sunday, June 25.

For more information, contact the alumni office at x7328 or alumni@up.edu.

Filed Under: 05-22-2017, 05-29-2017, 06-05-2017, 06-19-2017, Alumni, Events Tagged With: 2017 Reunion, Alumni

Career Center Launches Handshake Platform

June 2, 2017

The Career Center has launched Handshake, an online tool which enables UP students and alumni to connect with employers, learn about career programs and events, and develop customized career plans. This dynamic platform provides an opportunity for students and alumni to find internships, part-time and full-time opportunities, and receive customized recommendations based on their interests. There are over 120,000 unique employers from every industry and region in which students can discover relevant opportunities. Handshake is available via the single sign-on. From a browser or mobile device, students can click the yellow handshake icon or log in with their up.edu email address at this link to get started.

For more information contact Amy Cavanaugh, Career Center, at x7749 or cavanaug@up.edu.

Filed Under: 05-22-2017, 05-29-2017, 06-05-2017, Campus Services, Career Services Tagged With: Amy Cavanaugh, Career Center, Handshake

Are You First to Go to College in Your Family?

June 2, 2017

A first-generation (or FGEN) college student is defined as an individual who attends college when neither that person’s mother or father attended college on their own. The Shepard Academic Resource Center is developing programming specifically for the University’s FGEN students, and is seeking faculty and staff who were FGEN students students themselves. If you were an FGEN student, please take a moment to contact Matt Daily, program manager for special populations in the Shepard Center, at daily@up.edu. There will be opportunities to help current UP FGEN students.

 

Filed Under: 05-29-2017, 06-05-2017, Academics Tagged With: FGEN students, Matthew Daily

Brian Doyle, 1956-2017: Chuid Eile i Síochain

May 26, 2017

The University of Portland lost a beloved member of our community when Brian Doyle, award-winning author and editor of Portland magazine for 25 years, passed away at his home, early in the morning of May 27, 2017, from complications related to a brain tumor. Brian, 60, is survived by his wife, Mary, their daughter, Lily, and twin sons, Liam and Joseph.

All who knew, loved, and admired Brian are invited to attend his Funeral Mass, which will be held on Friday, June 2, at 11:30 a.m., at St. Mary’s Cathedral in downtown Portland. A luncheon with his family and friends will immediately follow at University of Portland’s Bauccio Commons.

Born in New York City in 1956 to James A. Doyle, a journalist, and Ethel Clancey Doyle, a teacher, Brian grew up in a large Irish Catholic family in a home peppered with Irish Gaelic. Brian always knew he would be a writer and credits his start to his parents, whom he described as gifted raconteurs and storytellers. Jim Doyle was head of the Catholic Press Association for thirty years, and Brian’s writings, like his father’s, reflect his deep Catholic faith.

After earning a degree in English from the University of Notre Dame in 1978, he went on to become the assistant editor at U.S. Catholic magazine and, later, a senior writer for Boston College magazine, before he was hired as editor of the University’s quarterly Portland magazine in 1991. Called “the best spiritual magazine in the country” by author Annie Dillard, Portland magazine, under Brian as editor, has consistently been ranked among the best university magazines in the country and, in 2005, won Newsweek’s Sibley Award as the top university magazine in America.

Brian has also authored many books of fiction, essays, and poems, including his novels “Mink River,” “The Plover,” “Chicago,” and “Martin Marten,” for which he won a 2016 Oregon Book Award for Young Adult Literature. His most recent novel, “The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World: A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson,” was published in March 2017. His essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Orion, The American Scholar, The Sun Magazine, and The New York Times, and have been reprinted in the annual anthologies from Best American Essays, Best American Science & Nature Writing, and Best American Spiritual Writing.

Other honors include the Catholic Book Award, three Pushcart Prizes, the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (previous recipients include Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, and Flannery O’Connor), the John Burroughs Award for Nature Essays, and, most recently, the 2017 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing for his novel Martin Marten, only the second work of fiction to be awarded the Medal in its 90-year history.

Filed Under: 05-29-2017, Campus Services Tagged With: Brian Doyle

Mallie Kozy Selected For 2017 Faculty Policy Intensive Program

May 26, 2017

Nursing professor Mallie Kozy has been selected as one of four participants from around the nation for the 2017 American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Faculty Policy Intensive program. The 2017 cohort consists of nursing faculty members selected from a national pool of applicants, to participate in a three day intensive experience to enhance knowledge of policy and advocacy. Kozy and her colleagues were chosen by AACN’s Health Policy Advisory Council from a highly competitive pool of applicants based on their past achievements and future interests in alignment with AACN’s 2017-2018 Federal Policy Agenda priority areas— workforce, research, higher education, and models of care. The end goal is for participants to strengthen relationships necessary to advance policy within federal departments and agencies.

Now in its fifth year, the FPI is a three-day immersion program designed for faculty at AACN member schools who are interested in elevating their role in shaping health policy. The FPI will be held this fall and will coincide with the AACN fall semi-annual meeting. These faculty members will have the unique opportunity to enhance their existing knowledge of policy and advocacy through sessions, panel discussions, and workshops that will strengthen their ability to engage in the dynamic relationships necessary to advance policy within federal departments and agencies, Congress, national organizations, and as individual advocates. 

Kozy joined the UP nursing faculty in 2016. She earned her Ph.D. in nursing from Duquesne University in Pittsburg in 2007, and earned an M.S.N. at Medical Collee of Ohio (now University of Toledo) in 1994. She served as professor and dean of Linfield-Good Samaritan School of Nursing from 2013 to 2016, and was as associate professor and chair of undergraduate nursing studies at Lourdes College, Sylvania, Ohio from 2007-2013. She is a registered nurse through the Oregon State Board of Nursing and the State of Ohio Board of Nursing.

For more information contact the School of Nursing at 7211 or nursing@up.edu.

Filed Under: 05-22-2017, 05-29-2017, Academics, School of Nursing Tagged With: (AACN) Faculty Policy Intensive, Mally Kozy, School of Nursing

Bon Voyage to Bethany Sills, June 1

May 26, 2017

After 12 years of service to student activities, Bethany Sills will be leaving The Bluff to start a new chapter in her career as a professional development manager with Audigy Group. Her last day will be June 2, according to Jeromy Koffler, student activities.

Bethany was hired as a program assistant in June 2005 and was promoted to assistant director and multicultural programs coordinator in 2007.  In her time at UP, Bethany has collaborated with students, faculty, and staff to develop countless events that educate about identity and celebrate cultural, racial, and religious heritage. She was also invited to serve on the Presidential Advisory Committee for Inclusion and to assist the Division of Student Affairs in the development of a diversity and inclusion website and strategic plan.

There will be a celebration on Thursday, June 1, in the Bauccio Commons Terrace Room, at 3 p.m., to appreciate and thank Bethany for her service to the students and the University community. For more information contact Koffler at koffler@up.edu.

Filed Under: 05-29-2017, Campus Services, Student Activities, Student Affairs Tagged With: Bethany Sills, Jeromy Koffler, Student Activities

Banner Drive Moving on May 30

May 26, 2017

Information services is moving the Banner (W:) drive on the morning of Tuesday, May 30. The new location is: \\shared\Banner . Once the files are moved to the new location, you will need to log off your computer and back on if you are on Windows, or you will need to re-map to the new location if you are on a Mac. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact the Technology Help Desk at x700 or help@up.edu.

 

Filed Under: 05-29-2017, Academics, Information Services Tagged With: Information Services

Farewell Party for Colin McGinty, May 31

May 26, 2017

Please plan to join the development office in a farewell gathering for Colin McGinty, who will leave the University to take on the position of president of Central Catholic High School. The gathering will take place on Wednesday, May 31, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., in the Pilot House. We offer our thanks and appreciation to Colin for his fifteen years of service at UP, and wish him well with his new endeavor.

Colin received his bachelor’s degree in sociology from UP in 1999, and completed his MBA in 2007. He met his wife Robbie here on the Bluff as an undergraduate, and they now have two children, Liam, 9, and Rory, 2.

While Colin has held many roles during his UP career, it has been centered on fundraising and external relations. He started out in the Office of Development with annual giving, then worked in the Pamplin School of Business. More recently, Colin has served as the associate athletic director for development. His last day will be June 2.

Filed Under: 05-29-2017, Development Tagged With: Colin McGinty, Development Office

Liz Winters Farewell Celebration, May 30

May 26, 2017

Come celebrate with recreational services as they thank Liz Winters for her work and dedication since July 2015.  She will start a new job coaching at Intrepid Athletics and as a nutritionist in her private practice, Sprout Wellness, after her last day on May 31.  Liz also worked with University Events from 2011-2015 and graduated from UP in 2010.

Her going away event will be on Tuesday, May 30, 3:30-5:30 p.m., in the Pilot House. There will be healthy snacks and no-host beverages. Please come and wish Liz all the best!

Filed Under: 05-29-2017, Campus Services, Recreational Services Tagged With: Liz Winters, Recreational Services

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Anita Gooding, social work, was selected as a 2020-2021 Field Research Scholar by the Transforming Field Education Landscape (TFEL) program at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Scholars attend regular seminars and present their own research related to strengthening field education in social work.

Ösel Plante, development, has a debut collection of poetry titled Waveland set for publication by Black Lawrence Press in April 2021. Please use this link to learn more.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering. recently shared some of his work on palindrome dates with the staff of Farmers’ Almanac which lead to an articled titled “2021: A Special Year For Palindrome Dates, Starting This Month!” See the article using this link.

Bob Butler, professor emeritus of environmental studies; Jenda Johnson, Earth Sciences Animated; and Nic Zentner, Central Washington University, published an animation titled “Ghost Forests: Evidence for a Giant Earthquake & Tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.” This animation explores how Native American oral history, geology of ghost forests in coastal Washington and Oregon, and written accounts of a tsunami that flooded Japanese Pacific Coast villages converge to document the most recent Cascadia subduction zone megathrust earthquake on January 26, 1700 at about 9 p.m. The Ghost Forest animation can be found on the IRIS website at: https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/animation/740 or on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPbt8iiDRo&feature=youtu.be.

Steven Kolmes, environmental studies, wrote an editorial on “Sustainability and the Role of Higher Education” in Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, Vol. 62, , pp. 2-3. See the article at this link. He also contributed “On a ‘Just’ Transition, Environment” in Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 63:1, 29-31, DOI: 10.1080/00139157.2021.1842715.. See the article using this link.

Amber Vermeesch, nursing, received an Opus Prize Foundation Grant Sabbatical Support, Opus Prize Foundation, $5,000, on November 12, 2020.

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