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2025-01-20

Lunchtime Learning: Mission in Motion (Jan. 21)

January 16, 2026

Explore how UP’s mission and values show up in your daily work, and discover practical ways to create meaning, connection, and purpose in your role.

Filed Under: 2025-01-06, 2025-01-20, Issues

Fire Drill Notice (Jan. 21)

January 18, 2025

Fire drills will occur in all campus buildings at the beginning of the spring 2025 semester. Academic Building fire drills will be held the second week of school (Tuesday). Faculty and staff should be aware of the evacuation routes for the buildings in which they work. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, Issues Tagged With: EHS

Faculty Book Launch: “Unmentionable Madness”(Jan. 23)

January 18, 2025

The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to share a launch event for Unmentionable Madness: Gender, Disability, and Shame in the Malaria Treatment of Neurosyphilis. Christin L. Hancock, PhD, employs feminist disability history to uncover the history of a radical and experimental medical treatment and its impact on the women and men who received it in the 1920s and 1930s. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, Events, Issues Tagged With: College of Arts and Sciences

AI and The Future of Work (Jan. 29)

January 18, 2025

Join the Center for Teaching and Learning and Natalie Nelson-Marsh from the Communication Studies program for a discussion about AI and the Workplace. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, Events, Issues, Uncategorized Tagged With: Center for Teaching and Learning

Outdoor Pursuits: Wilderness Emergency Training Courses (Feb. 1-2; Mar. 1-5)

January 18, 2025

The Outdoor Pursuits Program is hosting Wilderness First Aid (February 1-2) and a Wilderness First Responder Courses (March 1-5). These courses are designed to give you the medical skills, technical skills, and decision-making skills to respond to an incident in the backcountry. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, Events, Issues Tagged With: Outdoor Pursuits

A Beckman Humor Project Event: “Learning History from Monty Python” (Feb. 11)

January 18, 2025

What do coconuts and your favorite colo(u)r have to do with the Middle Ages? Funny you should ask! UP Provost, David Mengel, PhD, will lead a lighthearted exploration of the Middle Ages in film—in which the 1975 film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail will rightly occupy center stage. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, 2025-02-03, Events, Issues Tagged With: Beckman Humor Project

New Faculty/Staff Directory Photos (Feb. 12)

January 18, 2025

The Department of Marketing and External Web Services will be taking complimentary professional headshots for Faculty and Staff on Wednesday, February 12, 2025. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, Issues Tagged With: Faculty and Staff Photos

Don’t Miss February’s Core Samples Lunch! (Feb. 25)

January 18, 2025

All staff and faculty are invited to attend one (or both) of this spring’s Core Samples Lunches, as guests of the Garaventa Center and Core Program. These have proven a terrific way for all of us to build our knowledge of what happens in UP’s Core Curriculum. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, 2025-02-03, 2025-02-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Core Curriculum, Core Sample Lunch, Garaventa Center

PortLog: The Fair Rose Campaign

January 18, 2025

In the latest PortLog post, we highlight the Fair Rose Campaign, a city-wide collegiate anti-discrimination project led by ASUP in 1951. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, Issues Tagged With: Archives and Artifacts, PortLog

Teaching Award; Scholarship Award—Nominations due Jan. 31

January 18, 2025

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) invites nominations for two 2025 Faculty Awards: the Faculty Teaching Award and Faculty Scholarship Award. Nominations are facilitated via e-mail. (Read More). 

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, Academics, Issues Tagged With: Committee on Teaching and Scholarship

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Nick McRee, Sociology and Social Work, published “Academic debate and civic engagement in adolescence and young adulthood: evidence from a national longitudinal study.” Argumentation and Advocacy, 61(3–4), 323–338. He also published “When Chairs Shield Faculty from Service Opportunities: Protecting Colleagues or Hindering Community?” The Department Chair, 36(3), 11-13.

Katie Danielson, Education, was awarded a grant from The Spencer Foundation in the amount of $374,940.00 for the “Collaborating Towards Transformational Visions for Digital School Systems” project. Danielson also published “Learning to let go: Transformations in teachers’ pedagogical reasoning about classroom discussion.” Co-authors: Gotwalt, E., Kavanagh, S. Teaching and Teacher Education. January 2026

Daniel Bulek, Nursing & Health Innovations, published “From monoamine deficits to multiscale plasticity: Twenty-five years of ketamine and the neurophysiology of depression.” Journal of Neurophysiology, jn.00516.2025.

Dave Houglum, Director of Leadership Studies and Leadership Professor of Practice in the Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, facilitated a multi-day series of invited leadership development workshops for the staff team at Lutherhaven Ministries in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Houglum led six interactive sessions focused on DiSC-informed leadership, coaching-centered leadership, servant leadership and accompaniment, powerful feedback, and the co-creation of team commitments to support healthy culture and sustainable impact. In addition, Houglum provided multiple individual leadership coaching sessions for staff members throughout the engagement. January 2026.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published the following articles in VoiceAfrique.org: “The Saturated Wisdom of Saint Joseph: Relevant Virtues for Our Times.” (Reflections on the Readings of the Fourth Sunday of Advent, 2025). December 19, 2025. “The Gift of the Nativity is Grounded in an Ethics of Neighborliness.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Mass on Christmas Day, December 25, 2025). December 24, 2025. “The Spirituality of Ambition and the Grace of the Incarnation.” Reflections on the Readings for the Vigil Mass of Christmas, 2025. December 24, 2025. “The Theotokos: A Mirror in Which We Discover Ourselves as Bearers of God’s Life to Each Other.” (Reflection on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God.) December 31, 2025. “Jesus Christ: The Revealer of the Grace of Encounters and an Embrace of Difference.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord. January 4, 2026.) January 3, 2026. “Christian Baptism as a Summon for Global Justice: What We Must Embrace for Our Times.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Sunday of the Baptism of the Lord. January 11, 2026.) January 10, 2026. Aihiokhai also published a review of The Cross and the Olive Tree: Cultivating Palestinian Theology Amid Gaza. Edited by John S. Munayer and Samuel S. Munayer. Orbis Books, 2025. Catholicbooksreview.org

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.

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