News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
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One of the world’s top Catholic thinkers on migration will speak in Portland in June. Holy Cross Fr. Daniel Groody’s latest book, A Theology of Migration: The Bodies of Refugees and the Body of Christ, includes a foreword from Pope Francis. In a talk organized by Catholic Charities of Oregon, Rev. Groody will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 12, in Brian Doyle Auditorium at the University of Portland.
A professor and administrator at the University of Notre Dame, Rev. Groody has for decades traveled worldwide, met with migrants and deeply plumbed what migration means for life, society and faith. The priest not only examines the many instances of displacement and migration in Scripture — including the holy family — but reminds readers that Jesus made a migration from divinity to humanity. Also, Jesus came to reconcile humanity, Rev. Groody says, positing that the Christian life overall is a migration from brokenness to oneness.
Rev. Groody has served on the U.S. Catholic bishops’ committee on migration. He advocates seeing the humanity of migrants. That differs from a rising narrative in the United States, which frames migrants in general as threats.
“We don’t just need more statistics about migration,” says Father Groody. “We need a new imagination.”
Tickets are $10, advance registration suggested.
Are you a new or current faculty or staff member who has not yet had their professional headshot taken for the UP directory? The Division of Marketing and Communications has extended the scheduled session with our professional photographer on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, from 1:00 PM until 1:30 p.m. In addition to your professional headshot appearing in the UP directory, it is available to you for additional personal and professional use.
If you would like to sign up to have your headshot taken during these extended hours, please email Dhara Brown (brownd@up.edu) to schedule a five-minute headshot session.
Faculty members are reminded to load their scholarly activity on the portal in PilotsUP by May 31 each year. Faculty members use their school’s report on the home tab of the Scholarly Activity Portal to send the data to their respective deans as a part of annual self-evaluation.
Also, please remember if you have any in-press/accepted publications for the current year, please update details in the Portal if the publication information has been received.
You can find the link to the Scholarly Activity Portal in the Academic menu of PilotsUP or you can go directly to this link.
For any questions about loading your scholarly activity in PilotsUP, please contact the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement at scholars@up.edu
The summer term is off and running! You can now also review our monthly Zoom post for the most recent updates and features in our Techtalk blog, as we as a number of other recent posts from the Spring term on a variety of topics. We hope you enjoy it along with the gorgeous weather we have been having!
Building on several successful College of Arts and Sciences initiatives that bring together Ethics and Artificial Intelligence in conversation, CAS is now planning an application for a National Endowment for the Humanities funding opportunity, which would fund the creation of a Humanities Research Center on Artificial Intelligence.
We are currently recruiting all interested faculty (Humanities, Social Sciences and beyond) to join a planning committee that will develop this grant. We would like to convene a group of interested faculty as soon as possible to begin discussions.
If you are interested in joining this grant development committee, please email Christi Hancock at hancock@up.edu
As we head into summer, the Student Health Center will be open on a limited schedule. Information about appointment availability can be found on the SHC Website. Most appointments will be in person over the summer although telehealth is still available when appropriate.
The Counseling center is closed over the summer. Students can access free counseling services through BetterMynd or the Pilot Help Line. Visit the Counseling Center website for details. If you have any questions about this schedule or availability of services, please reach out! Thanks for your collaboration in supporting student health and wellness.