All faculty are asked to encourage their students who had on- or off-campus research experiences this past summer to apply to participate the third annual Summer Research Poster Session by Tuesday, October 4. The application is available at this link.
The Summer Research Poster Session will occur on Wednesday, November 2, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the Franz Hall lobby and Shiley 3rd Floor Atrium. All are welcome to come see the amazing research opportunities many of our students had this past summer, both at UP and all across the nation and world. Students will be presenting posters of their work and will be available to answer questions about their research.
For more information contact Michele Leasor at ur@up.edu or x7857. The Summer Research Poster Session is sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement.
The 2016 Zahm Lecture in American Catholic Education will take place on Thursday, September 22, at 7:15 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF, a Franciscan sister and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, will present “Cosmology, Catholicity and Consciousness: Why Wholeness Matters.” The Zahm Lecture is free and open to all.
The next Third Friday Supervisor Training is scheduled for Friday, September 23, (which happens to be the fourth Friday in September) from 10 to 11 a.m., in the second floor conference room in the Clark Library. The topic of the training is “Recruitment Best Practices” and will focus on providing managers and supervisors with useful information for assessing candidate pools, fostering diversity and inclusion in the recruitment process, and other recruitment related best practices.
Thursday, September 15 is the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, the patronal feast of the Congregation of Holy Cross. Mass will be celebrated in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher at 5 p.m., and all are welcome to attend.
The first meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group for the 2016-17 academic year will be on Friday, September 16, 3:30-5 p.m., in the Murphy Room on the 4th floor of Franz Hall. The group will discuss Johns Hopkins political science professor Jane Bennett’s “The Wonder of Minor Experiences” from her book The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings and Ethics. The reading can be downloaded from the Garaventa Center website at 
Now that fall semester is underway, it is a great time to schedule library instruction. Although the first several weeks of the term are filling up quickly, opportunities abound later in the semester. Librarians will work with faculty to tailor sessions to the students’ research needs. Classes typically meet in the Clark Library’s classroom on the upper floor. We have laptops for students to use, or they can use their own wireless enabled devices.
On Tuesday, September 13, the Department of Political Science will conduct a presentation in honor of Constitution Day, titled “Is the System Fair? Perspectives on the American Electoral System,” in St. Mary’s Lounge at 7 p.m. This presentation will discuss the constitutional foundation of the electoral system in the United States and then consider the implications of that system in today’s world.
NursingSchoolsAlmanac.com, a web-based resource providing rankings of nursing schools in the U.S., recently selected University of Portland as one of the top 50 nursing schools in the Western United States. The nursing program at UP is ranked at no. 4 in Nursing School Almanac’s inaugural national rankings. The University was also ranked at no. 46 in the almanac’s top 100 nationally ranked nursing schools.
A memorial Mass for the late Robert W. Franz will take place on Tuesday, September 6, at 1:30 p.m., in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher. Franz, a member of the Board of Regents and a generous supporter of the University, died on August 9, 2016. He will be forever remembered as an astute and successful businessman who generously gave his time and talents to the community he loved. Born in Portland in 1924, Bob was a long-time resident of Vancouver, Washington. He is survived by his sister, Elsie Franz Finley, and preceded in death by his parents Joseph Franz and Elizabeth Streib Franz.