Please mark your calendars for our annual Staff Christmas Gathering, which will be held on Tuesday, December 14, 2021, from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., in a heated tent on the Academic Quad. This year’s gathering will offer us the chance to connect with old friends and new, enjoy light appetizers and beverages, win raffle […]
11-08-2021
STEM Education and Outreach Center Mailing List
Interested in providing engaging opportunities for local K-12 students and educators, or for UP students and other community members? Please consider adding your name to the STEM Education and Outreach Center Mailing List. Please share what kinds of opportunities are of interest to you as we transition back to on-campus programming. Faculty and staff are […]
Classroom Software Requests by Nov. 30
Please place your classroom software requests for Spring 2022 by November 30, 2021. Note: if the software you need was available during Fall 2021, it will remain available for Spring, so only new items need to be submitted at this time. To make your request, please complete our survey. If you would like to request […]
Catholic Women Professionals Virtual Social, Nov. 15
Join the newly launched group, Catholic Women Professionals (CWP) for a virtual social! At 6:00 p.m. on November 15, we’ll chat about creating a “Business Directory,” challenges in the workplace and most of all, how to connect with other professionals. Register here: https://bit.ly/3jqbHzq
Nike Company Store Staff Benefit
All staff are invited to come and shop at the Nike company store Friday, October 29, through Sunday, November 28! Address:3485 SW Knowlton RdBeaverton, OR 97005CONTACT503.671.1601VALID DATES10.29.21-11.28.21 Important store & Invite Updates: please read!• We ask that consumers wear face coverings while in-store, regardless of vaccination status, tocomply with local and state mandates.• There is […]
UP Joins the Lilly Network
The University of Portland is set to become the newest member of the Lilly Network of Church-Related Colleges and Universities. Established in 1991, the Lilly Network addresses issues of common interest to institutions in church-related higher education. The Network’s members (including the University of Notre Dame, Boston College, and many other Catholic and Christian institutions) […]
Anders Carlson-Wee Poetry Reading, Nov. 9
Minnesota poet Anders Carlson-Wee joins us for a reading at the UP Bookstore at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 9. Sporting a vagabond soul (having train-hopped and bicycled across the length of America multiple times), he was taught by the likes of poets Dorianne Laux, B.H. Fairchild, and Mark Jarman. His work probes the subjects […]
This Week in the Core Anchor Seminar
All first-year students and their faculty guides will be spending time this week considering the Core Habit of Historical and Global Consciousness. Several readings and videos contribute to this conversation: Peter Stearn’s Why Study History?, Marlene Daut’s Inside the Kingdom of Hayti, “the Wakanda of the Western Hemisphere,’” its associated brief video The First King […]
Enjoy Watching Garaventa Center Recorded Fall Events
If you missed these Fall Garaventa Center events—cozy up and enjoy watching the event recordings here: up.edu/garaventa/archives/lectures-and-readings/2021-2022-lectures-and-readings/index.html. The following events are included in the link: Annual Zahm Lecture with artist Makoto Fujimura Depictions of the Last Supper: From Duccio to Leonardo with William Cook La Linea/The Line: The US/Mexico Border in History and Image with […]
College after COVID: Archiving the Present to Envision UP’s Futures
The Public Research Fellows program is excited to announce the launch of an oral history/archive project, “College after COVID: Archiving the Present to Envision UP’s Futures.” Our interdisciplinary working group aims to collect and archive stories and experiences of UP community members at a singular moment in the University’s history. As we return to something […]