University employees will have the opportunity to shop in the Nike Company Store in Beaverton during one visit between November 18–December 15. You must be signed up by 4 p.m. on Friday, November 15 in order to access the store during this period. Register here for your pass and more information. Brought to you by the alumni and parent relations office and Pilot athletics.NIKE Employee Store Access: Sign Up By Nov. 15
University employees will have the opportunity to shop in the Nike Company Store in Beaverton during one visit between November 18–December 15. You must be signed up by 4 p.m. on Friday, November 15 in order to access the store during this period. Register here for your pass and more information. Brought to you by the alumni and parent relations office and Pilot athletics.
The University of Portland will host its annual Veterans Day commemoration ceremony on Saturday, November 11, at 11 a.m., at the Praying Hands/Broken Wall Memorial. The ceremony will commence at the close of a 24-hour vigil at the Praying Hands, and is sponsored by the University’s Air Force and Army ROTC programs. It will recognize campus members who have served during times of war, including World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and Gulf War veterans. The ceremony will include a guest speaker, National Anthem, and a 21-gun salute. Cadets stand vigil with one Army and one Air Force cadet standing attention at the Praying Hands, and the cadets switch off every half hour. All faculty, staff, students, and members of the public are welcome to attend. A reception will follow.
The Public Research Fellows Program, sponsored by CAS and the Humanities Collaborative, has lots of news to share on what we’ve been up to so far this inaugural year, as we engage with the Centennial of U.S. Women’s Suffrage. 
Faculty members are invited to serve as Honors Program mentors. Faculty mentors assist with selecting the incoming honors class, are assigned two incoming honors student mentees, and are encouraged to meet with them on a regular basis during the students’ first two years at the University.
Join the STEM Education and Outreach Center and the Garaventa Center for their Joy of Teaching brown bag lunch on Thursday, November 14, noon to 1 p.m., in Franz Hall 120. The theme of this lunch is “Hope.” Time to gather with like-minded joyful teachers for sharing of information, impressions, and the ends and pieces of leftover Halloween candy.
All ticket holders for the Saturday, November 16 performance of The Penelopiad are invited to enjoy wine, cheese, and desserts as campus experts highlight what to look and listen for in this play based on a novella by Margaret Atwood. Sponsored by the Garaventa Center and the Rumpakis Chair for Hellenic Studies. For ADA accommodations or more information contact the Garaventa Center at 
UP’s Theater Program offers every staff and faculty member two complimentary tickets for each mainstage show they produce in Mago Hunt Center. When tickets go on sale, just call the box office at x7287, tell them you are an employee, and let them know which performance you’d like to see. Tickets will be held for you in the box office; just show your UP ID to claim them. Use this benefit to see Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, playing on campus November 14-17.
Clinical professor Jann Murray-García of the UC-Davis Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing will present “How Are You Teaching, Researching, and Learning About Race?” on Tuesday, November 12, at 3 p.m., in the Brian Doyle Auditorium. Murray-García will visit as part of the School of Nursing’s 85th Anniversary Speaker Series.
In celebration of the School of Nursing’s 85th anniversary, our first guest speaker, Jann Murray-Garcia, will be visiting campus on Monday, November 11, 2019, to discuss “Cultural Humility and Interrupting Scripts of Inequality.” Murray-García is a pediatrician and a founding faculty member and associate health sciences clinical professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis.