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2025-01-20

New Program! Colleague Campus Connections

January 18, 2025

Want to peek into a colleague’s classroom and discover new teaching ideas? Want someone to visit yours and provide helpful feedback? Join Colleague Campus Connections, a new and informal program that pairs faculty members to learn from and inspire each other through casual classroom visits and conversations. (Read More).

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

Call For Butine Faculty Development Proposals: Due Feb. 14

January 18, 2025

The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship (TAS) invites all full-time faculty, instructors, lecturers, and librarians to submit proposals for the Spring 2025 Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, 2025-02-03, Academics, Issues Tagged With: Butine Faculty Development Fund, Committee on Teaching and Scholarship

New to The Bluff—Lane Brown: Custodian, Facilities – Campus Wide

January 18, 2025

Lane worked at P.P.S. as part of the public school system staff prior to joining us at UP.

Welcome, Lane!

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, Issues Tagged With: New to The Bluff

New to The Bluff—Shirley Tayun: Custodial Supervisor, Facilities Services

January 18, 2025

Shirley owned a private cleaning company prior to UP and is the loving mother of four beautiful boys.

Welcome, Shirley!

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, Issues Tagged With: New to The Bluff

Get Involved!

January 18, 2025

Have you been wondering how you can get involved to make our world a better place for future generations? Or maybe you just want to make UP a safer place for students, faculty, and staff to live, learn and work? UP Wellness has options for you! (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-20, Issues Tagged With: Wellness Education & Prevention Training

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Jan. 31)

January 6, 2025

At the next FILDG meeting we will be discussing the introduction and conclusion from Marcia Bjornerud’s book “Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World.” Refreshments will be served and all faculty and staff are welcome. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-06, 2025-01-20, Issues Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group

Family Weekend 2025!

January 6, 2025

We’ll be welcoming parents and families to campus for Family Weekend on February 14-16, 2025. This year we will be combining all class years into one exciting weekend. Visit the Family Weekend page for a list of events.

Filed Under: 2025-01-06, 2025-01-20, 2025-02-03, Issues Tagged With: Family Weekend

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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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