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News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.

11-23-2015

Shamrock Run Time: Support Doernbecher’s!

shamrock2 copyAll faculty and staff members are invited to show their UP pride and help support Doernbecher Children’s Hospital by joining the University’s Shamrock Run team. The race is on Sunday, March 13, 2016, at Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. Last year the UP race team was the 14th largest in the event, with 108 runners and walkers. The team also raised $540 for programs within the UP community.

This year’s goal is to make the UP Shamrock Run team 250 people strong. As an added bonus, if at least 75 people join the team, the Shamrock Run will donate $5 per person back to support UP programs. Students, employees, alumni, Holy Cross and friends of the UP community are all welcome to join. Sign up soon; registration closes Sunday, January 31.

To join the UP team, register online at this link (choose the “team” option; the UP code is 1070). Team members receive a $4 registration discount. Packet pick-up (race t-shirts, pins, and bibs) will be at the Beauchamp Recreation and Wellness Center the week before the race.

For more information, contact Liz Winters, recreational services, at evanse@up.edu.

Course Packs Due, Please

course packsAll faculty and instructors must turn in their course pack materials to the printing services office before leaving campus at the end of fall semester, according to Kassie Hansen, printing services. The lead time is needed so printing services staff can obtain copyright permissions and organize the packs for production before the start of the spring 2016 semester.

For more information contact printing services at x7200 or hansenk@up.edu.

Donate to the Clark Library Food Drive, Nov. 23 – Dec. 18

FDsquare for UpBeat.jpgThe Clark Library is collecting food for the Oregon Food Bank this holiday season, and all faculty and staff are invited to donate holiday extra or use spare meal points on goods at Mack’s Market. In the Portland metropolitan region, an average of 270,000 people per month get their meals from local pantries and emergency food boxes. Any food donation will help families in Oregon and Southwest Washington. The most needed foods include canned meat, canned and boxed meals, nut butters, canned or dried beans and lentils, pasta and rice, canned fruits and vegetables, juice, and cooking oil. A donation barrel is located in the library lobby, and each addition will help toward the library’s goal of collecting 300 pounds food.

For more information, contact the library at 7111 or library@up.edu.

UP Christmas Tree Lighting, Nov. 30

christmas ornament copyAll University community members, including alumni, families, and friends, are invited to gather in Bauccio Commons on Monday, November 30, at 6:30 p.m., for the 17th annual University of Portland Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. Refreshments will be provided by ASUP.

Contact student activities at 7470 or stuact@up.edu for more information.

Celebrate Thirst Friday, Dec 4

beer-monks.jpgAll faculty and staff are invited to the next installment of Thirst Friday on December 4. Drop by the Garaventa Center (330 Franz) anytime between 4-6 p.m. to enjoy convivial conversations, assorted nibbles and holiday libations of all sorts. Come for 10 minutes or two hours, but do come, and bring a friend or three! Extra credit if you bring along someone who has never been before. For more information, please contact Karen Eifler (eifler@up.edu).

Laura McLary Named Oregon Professor of the Year

mclary150Laura McLary, international languages and cultures, was named Oregon Professor of the Year by the national Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the international Council for the Advancement and Support of Education on Thursday, November 19.

The award committee cited McLary’s innovation and dedication to teaching international languages, highlighting her leadership in growth of the University’s German language program. Most of McLary’s students participate in the University’s study-abroad program in Salzburg, Austria, where she studied as an undergraduate student.

McLary has taught German at UP since 1999 and served as chair of the international languages and cultures department from 2004-07. Prior to coming to UP, she was a professor of German at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., for three years. She earned both a Ph.D. and master’s degree in German language and literature from University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned a bachelor’s degree in German and international studies from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Previous UP professors who have been recognized by the national organization include Kate Regan, who was named National Professor of the Year; Becky Houck, Terry Favero and Karen Eifler, who were all named Oregon Professor of the Year.

For more information contact marketing and communications at x7202 or mktg@up.edu.

Fall 2015 Butine Awards

wootton copyThe Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) has determined award recipients for the 2015-2016 Butine Faculty Development Fund fall cycle, according to committee chair Aaron Wootton, mathematics. This fall’s Butine award recipients are:

  • Bill Curtis, political science: Second European Pragmatism Conference, $500
  • Terry Favero, biology: Summer Grant for a Research Transition into Soccer Analytics, $3,000
  • Hannah Callender, mathematics: Annual Joint Math Meetings, $1,410
  • Patrick Murphy, performing and fine arts: Teaching and Archival Research in Moscow, $3,815
  • Nicole Hanig, performing and fine arts: Atelier Lyrique, Paris, $2,295
  • Katie O’Reilly, biology: Pacific Seabird Group 43rd Annual Meeting, $2,000
  • Chris Lee, mathematics: Summer Grant to Investigate Topological Invariants of Food Webs, $3,000
  • Brad Franco, history: Summer Grant to write the first two chapters of a new History of Siena, $3,000
  • Cara Hersh, English: New Chaucer Society 2016 Congress, $1,705
  • Ami Ahern-Rindell, biology: International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, $2,000
  • David Taylor, biology: The Reproductive Biology of Stigmaphyllon Subgenus Ryssopterys, $4,994
  • Nicole Auxier, nursing: Job Satisfaction and Retention Among DEU and Traditional Clinical Teachers, $2,250
  • Cara Poor, engineering: The Role of Mycelium in Bioretention Systems, $5,000 • Olivia Coiada, engineering: Virtual Instrument for Experimental Studies in Biosignals, $5,000.

For more information, contact Wootton at 7377 or tas@up.edu.

Thanksgiving Mail Service

_1aMailMailing services will be closed for the Thanks­giving holiday along with the rest of the campus on Thursday, November 26 and Friday, November 27, and will be open on Wednesday, November 25, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Metered mail needs to be at the mail center no later than 2 p.m. in order for it to be taken to the Post Office at 3 p.m. Please do not drop FedEx/UPS items in the mail box slots; be sure to hand them to a real live smiling mail center employee.

For more information contact Mary Scroggins, director, at scroggin@up.edu.

2015 Employee Holiday Party, Dec. 21: Save the Date!

StaffChristmasCard 150x150.jpgAll staff members are encouraged to save the date for the University’s 2015 staff holiday party, which will take place on Monday, December 21, in the Bauccio Commons. The social will begin at 11:30 a.m., with seating at 12:15 p.m., and the program begins at 12:45 p.m. Please keep in mind that the holiday party is for staff only; with continued growth of the University community, there is not room available for student workers or family members.

For more information contact human resources at hr@up.edu.