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10-12-2020

Mother Teresa & Christian Mental Health Stigma: This Tuesday Oct. 20

The Garaventa Center welcomes everyone to a free online lecture on Tuesday, October 20 at 5 p.m: “Mother Teresa: A Case Study in Christian Mental Health Stigma.” Here’s the Zoom Webinar link to join the live event, which is open to all.

Mother Teresa’s diaries made public the saint’s struggle with intense sadness and sparked debates about her mental health. Jessica Coblentz, assistant professor of religious studies & theology at Saint Mary’s College, will explore the assumptions about depression and Christian holiness that emerged in these debates. Coblentz will also invite participants to reflect on Christianity’s contributions to mental health stigma, as well as possibilities for counteracting it in church and society. For more information or questions: up.edu/garaventa or garaventa@up.edu.

Summer Research Poster Session – Please share details with students

The Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement will host the University’s annual Summer Research Poster Session virtually on Wednesday, November 18 from 9:15am-3:35pm. The goals of the Summer Research Poster Session are twofold: to celebrate undergraduate research conducted by UP students during the summer, and to create awareness of research experiences that other students might be interested to explore.

All current students who participated in a research experience on or off campus Summer 2020 are invited to apply to participate. Participants must be able to produce a poster that is of the quality and style of those seen at professional conferences in their discipline. The poster session will use VirtualPosterSession.org software.

Participant will be required to:

  • Submit a high-quality PDF of your poster to scholars@up.edu by Monday, November 9 at 10:00am.
  • Be available to speak with session attendees for at least one time block; see the application for time blocks.
    People who desire to participate but who are unavailable during the identified time blocks should contact Michele Leasor (leasor@up.edu).
  • Provide a Zoom meeting link where event attendees can live video conference you during the Poster Session. This link must be sent by Monday, November 9, at 10:00 a.m.

Click here for the application or visit pilots.up.edu/group/academic/undergraduate-research. The deadline to apply is Friday, October 23.

 

Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Oct. 23: All Welcome!

The Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will have its only meeting of the fall semester on Friday, October 23, 3:30 to 5 p.m., on Zoom, according to Norah Martin, philosophy. We will be discussing “Sacrifice, Race, and Indifference” from Send Lazarus: Catholicism and the Crisis of Neoliberalism by Matthew Eggemeier and Peter Fritz (Fordham University Press, 2020). The reading and the Zoom link can be found on the Garaventa Center website using this link. All faculty and staff are welcome to attend.

Fifth Annual Operations & Technology Management Symposium: Oct. 20-22

Join the Pamplin School of Business for the 5th Annual OTM (Operations and Technology Management) Symposium, “Risk Management as Exposed by COVID-19,” on October 20 through October 22. This virtual symposium will offer sessions on Risk Management (101) for Everyone, Risk Management in Cyber, and Risk Management in the Physical Site. Questions? Contact Lilia Grundy, business, at grundy@up.edu.

UP Internship & Job Expo, Oct. 26

The Career Center invites all business, humanities, and social sciences students to the UP Internship & Job Expo on Monday, October 26 from noon to 3 p.m. This event will take place virtually within the Handshake platform.

Faculty who work with students in the Pamplin School of Business, or humanities and social sciences within the College of Arts & Sciences, are asked to share this virtual recruiting event, created exclusively for University of Portland students and recent graduates. They will have the opportunity to engage with employers hiring for internships and/or full time jobs in group sessions and/or one-on-one video meetings, all within the Handshake platform. To ensure a positive experience, advanced registration within Handshake is required for this event. View the event preview link here.

The UP Internship & Job Expo is open to all students, though employers are specifically interested in connecting with the following majors: accounting, communication, economics, English, environmental ethics & policy, finance, French studies, German studies, history, marketing, music, operations & technology management, organizational communication, philosophy, political science, psychology, social work, sociology, Spanish, theater, and theology.

For questions or ADA accommodations, contact career@up.edu or x7201.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Monday Oct. 12

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a holiday that celebrates and honors the history, cultures, and contributions of indigenous peoples. We acknowledge the land on which we sit and which we occupy at the University of Portland. The Portland Metro area rests on traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia River creating communities and summer encampments to harvest and use the plentiful natural resources of the area. We take this opportunity to thank the original caretakers of this land.

Follow Sr. Angela’s Example: Keep on Connecting!

The latest UP community member to win the weekly raffle in the Person to Person connections endeavor is Sr. Angela Hoffman, chemistry. She receives a Starbucks gift card, courtesy of a Garaventa Center donor who wants to support all of us in maintaining the personal relationships that make life at UP so special.

All staff and faculty are invited to participate in Person to Person: just email Karen Eifler (eifler@up.edu) and mention a number of human interactions you’ve had—no other names or details needed—with UP colleagues. Your name will go on as many tickets as the number of connections you report, and a name is drawn each week for a modest gift card.

Reminder: Oct. 16 Deadline for Butine Proposals

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) is accepting proposals for funding from the Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund. The deadline is Friday, October 16. Late applications are not accepted. Information about the fund, instructions, and application materials are available on the Butine Moodle site.
Faculty are encouraged to submit applications, while understanding that the pandemic adds a layer of uncertainty for what will be possible. There may still be cancellations, delays, or travel restrictions as happened in Spring. If the current University travel policy is in effect when the time comes for a funded Butine activity, then a travel exemption would be required. Let’s hope for a better environment in 2021 and keep making plans even though they may be disrupted. Questions can be directed to the TAS Chair, Diane Sotak, at tas@up.edu.

Invitation To Join Work Of The Title IX Team

As you may have seen recently in The Beacon, all members of the UP community are invited to attend Title IX Advisory Committee meetings. The work of preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based harassment, misconduct, and violence and the barriers to education they create, requires our entire community and cannot be the lone work of a committee or office.

There will be one more Title IX Advisory Committee meeting (via Zoom) in October; we hope you can join us.

On October 22, 9 to 10 a.m., we will have a remote meeting on Zoom. At this meeting we will be discussing the relevance of “The Bystander Moment” in our UP community and other agenda items relevant to the work of the Title IX Office and our community.

Remote meetings can be accessed by using this link.

Please communicate your interest in attending meetings and topics you’d like the committee to address at future meetings at this link. Knowing ahead of time who is planning to attend meetings allows for efficient sharing of information in our remote format.

We look forward to hearing from you and discussing these important topics with our community.

If you have any questions or need any accommodations to fully participate, please contact Sarah Meiser, deputy Title IX coordinator for compliance, at meisers@up.edu.