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2025-03-03

Hiring Hacks for Staff Employees (Mar. 19)

March 3, 2025

Human Resources is offering a one-hour workshop to help staff master techniques to identify, attract, and hire top talent, ensuring the right fit for your team. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-03, 2025-03-17, Human Resources, Issues Tagged With: Human Resources

“Psychedelic Moral Enhancement: A Virtues- Based Integrative Account” with Chris Letheby, PhD (Mar. 20)

March 3, 2025

Chris Letheby is the author of “Philosophy of Psychedelics,” which draws on both empirical evidence and philosophical considerations to argue that psychedelic states have epistemic benefits and that changes to the sense of self are the central mechanism of psychedelic therapy. In this talk, he’ll be exploring the question: Do psychedelic experiences have the capacity to catalyze the development of a range of virtues, and in particular, virtues relevant to environmental concerns? If so, how might it work? (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-03, 2025-03-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: ASUP, Environmental Studies, Neuroscience Studies, Philosophy Department

Stop by a Guided Meditation this Spring!

March 3, 2025

Join us at guided meditation at a new time in a new location this semester! Guided meditation is a great way to see if meditation could be right for you, and to build in a de-stress practice into your daily life. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-03, Events, Issues Tagged With: Health & Wellness Center

Lunchtime Insights: Digesting Current Affairs

March 3, 2025

Calling all students, faculty, and staff! Join Constructive Dialogues at a gathering with NO Agenda! We will meet in the Diversity Center on Tuesdays for a friendly, open, and inclusive discussion about what’s happening in our world. Anyone interested in local, national, and global affairs is welcome! (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-03-03, Issues

EMS (Event Management System) Drop-in Hours

March 3, 2025

University Events is pleased to offer regularly scheduled EMS drop-in training and support sessions one Wednesday per month in Shiley Hall. These sessions can also be a great opportunity for one-on-one EMS training for yourself or new teammates joining your department. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-03, Issues Tagged With: University events

2025 Pilot Games (Mar. 29)

March 3, 2025

The event of the semester is almost upon us! The Health Holistic and Fitness (UPH2F) club in partnership with Army ROTC is pleased to announce the 2025 Pilot Games! We will be hosting a fitness competition that will test your endurance, strength, and overall fitness through four different events. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-03, 2025-03-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Army ROTC, Pilot Games

Faculty Writing Retreat (Jun. 11-13)

February 17, 2025

To highlight our academic mission and to support faculty holistically as well as professionally, the Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture is offering a summer Faculty Writing Retreat at the Guest House at Mt. Angel Abbey, June 11 – 13. This retreat will be a time of reflection, study, and community building. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-17, 2025-03-03, Events, Issues Tagged With: Faculty Retreat, Garaventa Center

Lenten Staff/Faculty UP Retreat (Mar. 21)

February 3, 2025

A time for individual and communal spiritual reflection and renewal, this half-day contemplative retreat will explore the poetry of the Lenten Season as a source of spiritual reflection and renewal. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-03, 2025-03-03, 2025-03-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Human Resources, Mission Committee, Office of the Provost

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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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