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News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.

2024-09-02

Call for Butine Faculty Development Proposals (Due Oct. 11)

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) invites all full-time faculty, instructors, lecturers, and librarians to submit proposals for the Fall 2024 Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund.

Butine Proposals are due Friday, October 11, 2024. Please submit your completed Butine applications to the Teaching and Scholarship Moodle page and to your department chair (CAS) or dean no later than October 11. See the Moodle page for application instructions, review criteria, and an application timeline. Applicants should discuss their Butine proposals with their respective deans (and chairs for CAS applicants) before applying.

Butine Informational Sessions

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship will host two workshops to provide information on the application process and answer questions. First-time applicants are particularly encouraged to attend. A recording will be posted on the Moodle page.

Thursday, September 19, 4:15 – 5:00 p.m. via Zoom

Friday, September 20, 3:45 – 4:30 p.m. via Zoom

Butine Workshops Zoom

*Please note that both workshops will be hosted at the above link.

Post-Butine Reports due October 1, 2024. All interim or completed Butine reports for previously funded proposals are due to the Teaching and Scholarship Moodle page no later than October 1.

Please direct any questions to Buck Taylor, TAS Chair (TAS@up.edu)

Undergraduate Research & Internship Symposium Sign-Ups Open! (Oct. 21)

The Undergraduate Research & Internship Symposium (previously the Fall Poster Session) presentation signup portlet is now open!

We are excited to announce a new and improved UGR Research & Internship Symposium. This year’s event will celebrate the amazing work of our summer student researchers and interns on November 1 in the Bauccio Commons with refreshments as well as monetary awards for posters and presentations. All student posters and presentations must be registered to be included in the symposium, so please visit the link below to reserve a spot in the signup portlet.

Please enter your student(s) poster information here to reserve your spot by Monday, October 21 at 5 p.m. 

Please note that all internship submissions need to be processed by our internship coordinator. If your student would like to present their internship work, please direct them to A.J. Van Valkenburg (vanvalka@up.edu) for more information.

The Symposium will be held on Friday, November 1, in the Bauccio Commons from 3:30 p.m.– 5 p.m. 

Please join us and encourage your classes to attend—in addition to celebrating our students’ past work, this is a great way to spread the word about future UGR and internship opportunities.

Prepare for Election Season!

VoteUP and DB Faculty Fellow for Constructive Dialogue Anne Santiago invite you to a series of events to prepare you for the election season.

  • Sept 11, 2024 @ 7 p.m. – Pilot House: Harris v. Trump Debate Watch Party​
  • Sept 24, 2024 @ 6:30 p.m. – DB Aud Film & Discussion: Century of the Self, Part 1 Happiness Machines​
  • Lunchtime Insights in DB Lounge
    • Wednesdays @12:30 p.m. and Thursdays @11:30 a.m.
    • Bring a lunch and your thoughts, concerns, and questions to digest what’s happening with guidance by UP faculty and staff

We hope you join us for one or all events and encourage you to become actively involved in supporting democratic engagement!

Questions? Contact Anne Santiago (santiago@up.edu) and Elizabeth Parkman (parkmane@up.edu).

Pilots: Express Yourself

The academic year begins by adding new to familiar faces, all of us coming together as Pilots on the Bluff to make a unique, whole community.  This month, the University Archives and Museum offers a collage of Pilot signs from around The Bluff. 

Visit our post to view the collage.

Pilots: Express Yourself

For more information, contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, at museum@up.edu

Ride the UP Bike Bus—Every Monday and Tuesday

Join the UP Bike Bus! We arrive at Pilot House 8:52 on Mondays and 8:22 on Tuesdays, rain or shine.

Experience safety in numbers, meet other people who bike, and have fun! Open to riders of all experience and comfort levels.

You can join us anywhere along the route – check it out on the map!

UP Bike Bus Route Map

Contact Kristin Sweeney (sweeneyk@up.edu) with any questions and hope to see you on a bike bus soon!

New Faculty/Staff Directory Photos (Sep. 10)

Are you a new or current faculty or staff member who has not yet had their professional headshot taken for the UP Directory?

The Department of Marketing and Communications has scheduled a professional photographer on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.

These headshots will also be available to you for personal and professional use.

Please email Dhara Brown (brownd@up.edu) to schedule a five-minute headshot session.

*** If you know of any new staff or faculty members that will be arriving on campus, we encourage you to reach out and proactively schedule a time for them to take their Directory photo. ***

Vandana Shiva in Person at UP for the 2024 Zahm Lecture! (Sept. 10)

Pope Francis’ call for environmental justice and care for the earth in his encyclical Laudato Si makes the connection between our environmental collapse and its impact on the poor and vulnerable: “We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental.” (LS, 139) The 2024 Zahm lecture brings Vandana Shiva, PhD, one of the foremost voices in environmental activism, to our campus to expand on that insight and advocate for “Earth Democracy.”

Shiva has been identified by Time Magazine as an environmental “hero” and one of the “seven most powerful women on the globe” by Forbes. An author of over 20 books, Shiva is also a scholar, environmental activist, ecofeminist, and a food sovereignty and anti-globalization advocate based in Delhi. 

September 10, Buckley Center Auditorium, 7:00 p.m. 

More Info at Zahm 2024

This not to miss talk is free, open to all, and ADA compliant. Sponsored by the Garaventa Center.

World Premiere Film Screening of SCARS (Sept. 11)

Join us for the world premiere viewing of SCARS, a movie about a combat medic veteran with PTSD who, upon his return from Afghanistan, fights to save himself and his family’s vineyard. The film is based on the book Scars: The Effects of Post Traumatic Stress on Family, Relationships, and Work, by Fr. Richard Berg, CSC. Fr. Berg and Benn Cobb, LPC, who worked with veterans at Cedar Hills Hospital, will introduce the genesis of the film, The SCARS Project, and The Returning Veterans Project.  

September 11, at 7 p.m., in the Brian Doyle Auditorium, Dundon-Berchtold Hall (DB004).

Reception to follow. Free and open to all. 

Co-sponsored by: The SCARS Project, The Returning Veterans Project, Portland Magazine, and the Garaventa Center

For more information: 503-943-7702

ADA compliant event

BEECN Training (Sep. 17)

Did you know University of Portland is a City of Portland BEECN site?

A BEECN is a temporary radio communications site staffed by at least two volunteers after a major earthquake that takes down phone lines. Faculty, Staff, and Students are invited to join the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management’s training so that they could volunteer in the event of an emergency on campus.

Free online training sessions are currently scheduled for August 20 and September 17 from 6-7:30 p.m.

To register for the trainings please contact visit this link.

Limited spots are available, please email ehs@up.edu if you are interested in participating.