A professional photographer will be taking faculty and staff headshots for our online directory on January 11. To schedule a 5-minute session, please contact Suzanne Frey in Marketing and Communications at freys@up.edu.
08-16-2021
New to The Bluff: Introducing New 2021/22 Faculty Members
The Office of the Provost will be introducing this year’s new faculty members to the UP community, highlighting a few of our new colleagues each week. Visit the 2021 New Faculty Highlights page and get to know all our new faculty members.
Summer Zoom Update
The school year is just around the corner, which means it is time to update Zoom! For more information please see the August 12th TechTalk Blog article.
The Writing Center will be back in business this fall!
The UP Writing Center—an awesome peer-tutoring resource that can support student writers from any discipline—opens August 29 for the semester. After a successful year of online tutoring, we will now be moving to a hybrid model where students can choose to meet their Writing Assistant online (via Zoom) or in person in the Learning Commons […]
Physical Plant Fall Operations
Welcome back to the Bluff! Throughout the pandemic Physical Plant services have changed many times to keep up with best practices and campus activities. Please read our update below with information on our fall operations, as well as answers to frequently asked questions. Thank you in advance for your patience and partnership. During the month […]
New to The Bluff: Amy Ongiri, Professor, Ethnic Studies
Amy Abugo Ongiri joins the faculty at the University of Portland from Lawrence University where they were the Jill Beck Director of Film Studies. They received their B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Their work focuses on visual culture at the intersection of race, gender, and identity and their book, Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power […]
New to The Bluff: Toyin Olukotun, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Toyin Olukotun joined the University of Portland in October 2020. She received both her B.S. and Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Upon graduation from her doctoral program, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health disparities and health service research at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her program of research focuses on advancing health equity in African Americans […]
New to The Bluff: Becky Kunz, Visiting Instructor, School of Nursing
While earning her master’s degree in organizational leadership in 2014 from the University of Northwestern, Becky Kunz began researching generational workforce trends and a match was lit. Becky’s capstone research involved asking the question: what factors, characteristics, or biases hinder the flow of tacit knowledge between millennials, generation Xers, and baby boomers. Before coming to UP School of Nursing, Becky worked at the University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing as their population […]
New to The Bluff: Maj. Nicholas Cowan, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies, Air Force ROTC
In addition to teaching duties at the University of Portland, Major Nicholas Cowan serves as the recruiting officer for Air Force ROTC Detachment 695. He orchestrates officer candidate recruiting and outreach throughout the Portland metro area, encompassing nearly 7,000 square miles and three million people, including at all area high schools, local service organizations, and 15 universities and colleges. Maj. Cowan is a Portland native who joined the […]
New to The Bluff: Adeya Powell, Assistant Director, Office of Institutional Research
Adeya Powell, PhD, is a graduate of University of Georgia’s Research, Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics program within the department of educational psychology. Since graduating from University of Georgia, she has worked as a post-doctoral public health researcher and statistician with Yale University, as a statistical consultant, and most recently, as a statistics/mathematics instructor at Georgia […]