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News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.

09-07-2015

Meg Jay To Present “The Defining Decade,” Sept. 27

Jay-CustomerPhoto_300ppi.jpgAuthor, TEDxTalk speaker, and professor Meg Jay will speak about the “twentysomething” years on Sunday, September 27, at 7 p.m., in the Chiles Center. Jay will explain why the twenties are such a rich and important time when the things people do—and don’t do—have an enormous effect across years and opportunities to come. Her talk is sponsored by UP and the Dundon-Berchtold Institute. Tickets are free and can be picked up in advance at the Chiles Center box office during normal business hours.

Please direct questions to Dan McGinty, Dundon-Berchtold Institute, at mcgintyd@up.edu.

New Parking Permits Required Starting Sept. 21

New employee and staff portraits
New employee and staff portraits

In an effort to provide a more flexible parking option for students, faculty, and staff who must negotiate the potential for bringing different cars to campus from day to day, the public safety department will now be issuing hang-tag permits to all students and any staff or faculty who do not qualify for an “A” Permit or Waldschmidt parking.

Each UP office or department has been instructed to provide faculty and staff with this form. All faculty and staff who do not have the new hang-tag permit must fill out the form (and include a mail stop code) and then send it to public safety through campus mail. The new permit will be sent through campus mail or held for pick-up, if requested. Public safety hopes to complete issuing new permits by Saturday, September 19, and will issue warnings to staff and faculty who have not completed the process starting Monday, September 21. Older sticker permits will expire after the transition period and may result in a citation.

For more information contact Michael McNerney, public safety, at 7161 or renn@up.edu.

2015 Zahm Lecture Features Author Tim Egan, Sept. 17

eganThe 2015 Zahm Lecture in American Catholic Education will take place on Thursday, September 17, at 7:15 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. Best-selling author Tim Egan, winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, will present “Francis and Francis: How a Pope and Saint Changed the World, One Heart at a Time.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

Egan, a resident of Seattle, is the Northwest correspondent for The New York Times and columnist for the NYT’s weekly “Opinionator.” In 2006, Egan won the National Book Award, considered the nation’s highest literary honor, for The Worst Hard Time, a history of people who lived through the Dust Bowl. In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters who wrote the series “How Race Is Lived in America.”

The Zahm Lecture in American Catholic Education was established in 1999 to honor Fr. John Zahm, C.S.C., an eminent Holy Cross priest/scientist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Zahm, superior of the Holy Cross in America when the University was founded in 1901, contributed counsel, money, and Holy Cross men to the nascent University. The Zahm lecture honors both his memory and the legacy of Holy Cross priests and brothers on The Bluff by addressing important issues surrounding American Catholic education.

For more information, contact Sarah Nuxoll, Garaventa Center, at 7702 or garaventa@up.edu.

Celebrate Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, Sept. 15

icon copyTuesday, 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.

For more information contact Theresa McCreary, campus ministry, at 7131 or mccreary@up.edu.

HR Lunch & Learn Session: “Diversity,” Sept. 17

diversity copyThe next human resources Lunch & Learn session topic will be “Diversity” and will take place at noon on Thursday, September 17, in the Clark Library conference room no. 222. All are invited to join friends and coworkers to learn about diversity issues and enjoy free snacks and giveaways.

For more information contact Chrys Lebs, human resources, at 8973 or lebs@up.edu.

Constitution Day Lecture With Jeffrey Meiser, Sept. 17

New employee and staff portraits
New employee and staff portraits

The political science department and provost’s office will present “Constitutional Foundation of American Foreign Policy” by Jeffrey Meiser on Thursday, September 17, from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. His lecture will celebrate Constitution Day, which honors the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787, and is free and open to all.

Meiser is an assistant professor in the political science department. He was previously on the faculty of the College of International Security Affairs and director of the South and Central Asia Program. He also taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara, The Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Mannheim. His book, Power and Restraint: The Rise of the United States, 1898-1941, was published this year by Georgetown University Press.

For ADA accommodations or event information contact Gary Malecha, political science, at malecha@up.edu.

New Health Center Director: Margaret Trout ’97

trout.jpgThe University has announced the appointment of 1997 alumna Margaret Trout as director of the Health Center, according to Rev. Gerard Olinger, C.S.C., vice president for student affairs.

Trout comes to The Bluff from Willamette University, where she served as director of the Bishop Wellness Center for the past 10 years. She was peer-nominated and awarded Willamette University’s Administrator of the Year in 2013.

Prior to her time at Willamette, Trout worked as a nurse manager and assistant director at the Center for Student Health and Counseling at Portland State University for five years. Trout graduated from the University of Portland with a nursing degree and holds an MBA from Willamette University. She has been active with Oregon College Health Association for the last 15 years and is a past co-chair of the Oregon Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force, Campus Committee. An avid cyclist, Trout is a member of Women on Wheels, a local group that seeks to empower women to travel by bicycle and other alternative modes of transportation.

For more information, contact Fr. Olinger’s office at 8532 or nielsenk@up.edu.

Memorial Mass For Reid deLaubenfels, Sept. 9

deLaubenfels_Reid-web copyA memorial Mass for University of Portland student Reid deLaubenfels will be offered on Wednesday, September 9, at 4 p.m., in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher. Reid, a rising fifth year senior and member of the UP tennis team, passed away on Friday, August 14.

For more information contact Campus Ministry at 7131 or ministry@up.edu.

Announcing The Return Of Thirst Fridays, Sept. 11

beer-monks.jpgAll faculty and staff are invited to the first Thirst Friday of the year on September 11, according to Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center. Drop by the center in 330 Franz Hall any time between 4 and 6 p.m. to enjoy convivial conversations, assorted nibbles, and libations of all sorts. Come for 10 minutes or two hours, but do come…and extra points for bringing along someone who is new to the University community. Future Thirst Fridays are planned for December 4, February 12, and April 15.

For more information, contact Eifler at eifler@up.edu.

Visiting Fulbright Scholar Lectures By Lyubov Mincheva

Mincheva_Lyubov.jpgThe Department of Political Science invites all faculty, staff, and students to join to two lectures by Fulbright visiting scholar Lyubov Mincheva, professor of political science at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria.

On Monday, September 14, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., in the Terrace Room, Mincheva will share her experiences on political transitions in the Balkans since the end of the Cold War in Anne Santiago’s Democratization and Its Challenges course.

On Tuesday, September 15, she will lecture on “Factors Shaping the Scope and Dynamics of Illicit Regional Markets” at 7 p.m. in Shiley Hall room 101. Refreshments will be provided.

Mincheva earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 2000, and has served as principal-, and/or co-investigator on a number of conflict and security related projects. She has published extensively, including three books on ethnopolitics, spillover crisis, peacekeeping, crime, and terrorism. She is also a member of the governing board of the European International Studies Association.

For more information contact Santiago at 8889 or santiago@up.edu.