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12-18-2017

Shamrock Run On The Horizon: UP Team Wants You!

January 5, 2018

The Portland Shamrock Run is fast approaching, and the University of Portland team needs your help. Participants can sign up for any distance. To sign up, go to www.motivrunning.com/shamrock-run-portland/. Under the REGISTER tab, make sure to select TEAM EVENT (vs. individual). After filling in your information, go to the payment page to list your team name as: University of Portland. As a UP team […]

Filed Under: 01-02-2018, 01-08-2018, 12-18-2017, Athletics, Recreational Services Tagged With: Kaitlin Bourne, Recreational Services, Shamrock Run UP team

PACE Program Accepting Applications for 21st Cohort

January 5, 2018

The Pacific Alliance for Catholic Education (PACE), administered by the School of Education, is accepting applications for its 21st cohort. PACE is a post-graduate teacher education program where candidates earn tuition-free graduate degrees in education while they serve as teachers in Catholic schools. Over the course of three summers and two academic years, PACE teachers strengthen Catholic education while developing and […]

Filed Under: 01-02-2018, 01-08-2018, 12-11-2017, 12-18-2017, Academics, School of Education Tagged With: Mary Dolan, PACE, School of Education

Call for Spring 2018 Course Reserves

January 2, 2018

It’s time to get set up for spring semester! Clark Library staff processed over 2,500 print and online reserves for the recently completed fall semester. Now they are ready to tackle spring course reserves. Library staff handle copyright screening and scan materials to meet accessibility standards. If you plan to reuse items that were previously […]

Filed Under: 01-02-2018, 12-18-2017, Academics, Campus Services, Library Tagged With: Clark Library, Spring Course Reserves

Christmas Break Hours For The Beauchamp Center

January 2, 2018

The Beauchamp Center will operate on the following schedule for the University’s Christmas Break, according to Brian Dezzani, recreational services: Monday, Dec. 18 – Friday, Dec. 22, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 23, Closed Sunday, Dec. 24 – Monday, Jan. 1, Closed Tuesday, Jan. 2- Friday, Jan. 5, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m. […]

Filed Under: 01-02-2018, 12-18-2017, Athletics, Recreational Services Tagged With: Beauchamp Center, Brian Dezzani, Recreational Services

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Jeff Kerssen-Griep, Communication and Media, presented “Teaching with Transformative International Conflict Partners” on the panel, “Healing Divides and Elevating Connections within Conflict & Peacebuilding.” National Communication Association Convention. November, 2025.

Christi Richardson-Zboralski, Director of Marketing – Graduate Programs, published a short story under pen name, Christi R. Suzanne, entitled “Outlaw’s Dust.” In Lisa Diane Kastner (Ed.) 27 Stories: An LA Wildfire Anthology. Running Wild Press. January 7, 2026. All proceeds from this anthology go toward Habitat for Humanity LA. Find it on the Broadway Books website or on Bookshop.org.

Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

Jessica Murphy Moo, editor of Portland Magazine and director of storytelling, wrote the lyrics to two songs in “We Go On, Oswego,” a song cycle honoring female refugees who lived at Camp Ontario in upstate New York. From 1944-1946, Camp Ontario provided emergency shelter to refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. “We Go On, Oswego” was performed at Nazareth College, in collaboration with Finger Lakes Opera, on December 4, 2025. It was commissioned by Katie Hannigan, PhD. The song “There Is No Underground,” was written in collaboration with composer Maria Thompson Corley, and the song “My Table,” was written in collaboration with composer Kurt Erickson.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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