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Classroom Computers Now Running Windows 11

August 18, 2025

We’re excited to announce that all classroom computers have been upgraded to Windows 11 in preparation for the upcoming semester. This transition brings a refreshed interface and new features designed to enhance performance and usability. However, you may notice that the look and feel differ significantly from Windows 10. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-08-18, 2025-09-01, Issues, Uncategorized Tagged With: Information Services

UP Theater Presents: “Pride & Prejudice, An Original Devised Production” (Apr. 9-13)

March 31, 2025

UP Theater’s final mainstage show, “Pride & Prejudice, An Original Devised Production,” explores charged scenes as moments of queer potentiality, claiming the novel as ours to read, love, and embody! (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-31, Events, Issues, Uncategorized Tagged With: Performing and Fine Arts

New to The Bluff: Austyn Smith, AVP Marketing and External Web Services

March 16, 2025

Austyn Smith is a global digital marketing strategist with experience at Fortune 100 companies all the way to start ups. She joins us from Launch Education Advisors, a higher education consultancy based in Amsterdam, NL, where she led marketing strategy end to end. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-17, Issues, Uncategorized Tagged With: New to The Bluff

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

UPdate – Simon Aihiokhai, 2023-24

July 22, 2024

“‘And you, Africans, who do you say that Jesus is?’: The Legacy of Laurenti Magesa for the Future of African Theology.” Journal of Moral Theology. Volume 13. No. 1 (2024): 15 – 36; “God Never Encounters Us Outside of Our Historicities: In Conversation with SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai.” Co-author: Chibueze Darlington Anuonye. Hekima Review. Journal of Theology, Governance […]

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Let’s Get Together! Latinx Employees Group Event (Jun. 16)

June 2, 2023

The Latinx Employees Group and its new co-chairs, Marija Hobbs (hobbsm@up.edu) and José Velazco (velazco@up.edu), invite those who identify as Latinx (Latino/Latina/Chicano/a/Hispanic, etc.) and work for the University in any capacity (adjunct, faculty, staff, administration, etc.) to join us for our first event of the summer, Churros & Café, Friday, June 16, at 10 a.m. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Diversity Center, Latinx Employees Group

UPdate

April 30, 2023

Andra Davis, school of nursing and health innovations, published “Transforming Nurse Self-Care Through Integration of Spirituality: Lessons from an International Collaboration in Palliative Care” in The Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 34(1), 91-99.  Simon Aihiokhai, theology, published “Honoring Teresia Mbari Hinga, A Theologian Who Dared to Think” in the National Catholic Reporter. April 19, 2023. Aihiokhai also published “A […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized, Update

Best of Luck

March 20, 2023

With gratitude for her leadership and excitement for her future, please join the Office of International Education, Diversity, and Inclusion (OIEDI) in wishing Maraina Montgomery a fond farewell as she departs for Atlanta on Friday, March 24. Maraina has accepted the position of Director of International Education at Morehouse College, one of the premier, all-male, […]

Filed Under: 2023-03-20, Uncategorized

New to The Bluff: Jorge Salazar, Assistant Hall Director

September 19, 2022

Jorge Salazar recently joined UP as Assistant Hall Director in Schoenfeldt Hall. Before this he worked at College Possible as a College Success Coach.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: New to The Bluff

Book Launch with Rachel Wheeler (Mar. 29)

March 20, 2022

Join Rachel Wheeler, UP Theology, for her two-book launch of Desert Daughters, Desert Sons: Rethinking the Christian Desert Tradition and Ecospirituality: An Introduction. March 29, 4:30 p.m. at the UP Bookstore. Free and open to all. Masks required. Info: up.edu/garaventa or 503.943.7702. Sponsored by the Garaventa Center. 

Filed Under: 03-21-2022, Uncategorized

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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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