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News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.

06-20-2016

Fall Course Packs Due July 11

course packsAll faculty and instructors must turn in their course pack materials for fall semester to the printing services office by Monday, July 11, according to Mary Scroggins, printing services. The lead time is needed so printing services staff can obtain copyright permissions and organize the packs for production before the start of the fall 2016 semester. Some copyright requests take up to six weeks to obtain—please keep this in mind so staff are better able to serve everyone’s needs prior to the start of school.

For more information contact Kassie Hansen at x8101 or hansenk@up.edu.

Pilots Track & Field Athletes Recieve All-American Honors

track2Three Portland Pilots earned All-American honors and one received Honorable Mention for their performances during the 2016 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field season as announced by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

Woody Kincaid set a program record for the Pilots in the 5,000m at the NCAA Track and Field National Championships in Eugene. Kincaid just missed posting Portland’s third straight podium finish at the championships, coming up just one second shy of eighth place.

Lauren LaRocco came away with with two poduim appearances. LaRocco finished 4th in the 10,000m, and 48 hours later was able to finish 6th in the 5,000m.

Kaylie Van Loo topped off her junior season by taking 18th place in the javelin. Van Loo was the program’s first thrower to ever qualify for nationals.

Senior Reid Buchanan took 5th place in the 10,000m at Hayward Field. The 5th place finish ties a men’s program best finish at Nationals that has only been accomplished by two other Pilots in program history.

For more information contact the athletics office at 7117 or go to www.portlandpilots.com.

UP Alumnus Mike Merzenich ’64 Honored By Norwegian Academy of Science

Merzenich_1University of Portland alumnus Mike Merzenich ’64 has been awarded the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience by the Norwegian Academy of Science for his work in documenting the fundamental plasticity of the human brain. Merzenich shares the prize with fellow neuroscientists Eve Marder of Brandeis University and Carla Schatz of Stanford University.

A native of Lebanon, Ore., Merzenich attended the University on a merit scholarship and was inspired to pursue neuroscience by biology professor Blondel Carleton. After finishing as his class’s valedictorian at UP, Merzenich attended Johns Hopkins University, earned his Ph.D. in neurophysiology in 1968, and completed a fellowship in sensory physiology from the University of Wisconsin in 1971. He joined the faculty of at the University of California San Francisco in 1971 and retired in 2007 as Francis A. Sooy Professor and co-director of the Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience.

Among many academic honors and appointments, Merzenich was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 and the Institute of Medicine in 2008. Merzenich was on the team that invented the cochlear implant, which gained FDA approval in 1984 and is now used by over 200,000 people worldwide to restore their sense of hearing. He is also the founding CEO of Scientific Learning Corporation, which markets and distributes software that applies principles of brain plasticity to assist children with language learning and reading problems. He was awarded the 2015 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize, the bioengineering profession’s highest honor, thanks to his work with cochlear implants.

The Kavli Prizes are presented every two years in the fields of neuroscience, astrophysics, and nanoscience, and recognize scientists for pioneering advances in the understanding of existence at its biggest, smallest, and most complex scales. Laureates are chosen by committees whose members are recommended by six of the world’s most renowned science societies and academies. The prizes are named after Fred Kavli, a Norwegian-born U.S. philanthropist and founder of the Kavli Foundation.

For more information contact Beth Sorenson, marketing and communications, at sorensee@up.edu.

NASA Fellowship For Education Doctorate Recipient

planet earthJennifer Snow Mayo, a recent doctoral graduate of the School of Education, has been selected to serve a full-year internship with NASA as a 2016-2017 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow. She joins twelve other outstanding science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) educators selected to serve their fellowships in Washington, DC, within the offices of three sponsoring agencies and four congressional offices. The 2016‐17 Einstein Fellows were selected from a nationwide pool of applicants through a rigorous application and interview process, and will begin their appointments September 1, 2016. For more information go to this link.

Orientation Mass Regalia: Please Order By July 18

tam copy2Faculty and staff who need to rent regalia for the Orientation Opening Mass on Saturday, August 27 are asked to please place your order online by Monday, July 18. Please visit UP’s Jostens page to place your order, click on Graduation Caps and Gowns, then select Faculty and Staff. You can place your order at this link.

Rented regalia will be available for pickup in the Chiles Center on Saturday, August 27, from 3 to 4:45 p.m.

For any questions contact the events office at x7523 or events@up.edu.

Crane Operating Near Buckley Center, Monday June 20

please_noteA crane will be set up in the driveway and loading dock area behind Buckley Center on Monday, June 20, for a contractor to perform maintenance on the roof of Buckley Center, according the university operations office. The crane should arrive, set up, break down, and leave campus on the same day, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information contact university operations at landtise@up.edu.

Need An Exercise Bike? Rowing Machine? Cardio Machine?

bikeRecreational services is selling Schwinn indoor cycling bikes and Concept 2 rowers from Howard Hall. The items will cost $100-150 each depending on the model and age, are in working order, and will be sold “as-is.” Also available are select cardio machines that are on the first floor in Howard Hall; they will be priced separately. To view the items, visit the Howard Hall gym between 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Wednesday, June 29. If you cannot attend at that time, please contact Brian Dezzani at dezzani@up.edu, x7177 to set up an appointment to be held after that date.