The second annual Sam Jam will take place on Tuesday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m., in the Chiles Center. Members of the Pilot men’s and women’s basketball teams will compete in a wheelchair basketball game against the Portland Wheelblazers of Oregon Disability Sports to raise money for Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA). Sam Jam was […]
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Peter Ames Carlin Lecture
Portland author Peter Ames Carlin will present a lecture, “Revolving Sounds: How the Beatles and the Beach Boys Created Art-Rock in the 1960s,” on Tuesday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m., in Buckley Center room 163. His talk is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. Carlin has written critically acclaimed biographies of Paul […]
2013 Bauccio Lecture: Larry Baer
San Francisco Giants chief executive officer Larry Baer will deliver the annual Bauccio Lecture in Entrepreneurship on Thursday, April 11, at 4:15 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. Baer is known as a leading visionary in the world of professional sports. Under his […]
Founders Day, Tuesday April 9
The University’s annual Founders Day celebration will take place on Tuesday, April 9. Four sessions of student presentations will be held in place of regularly scheduled classes, and all students and faculty are encouraged take part in the day’s events, featuring senior presentations, panel discussions, recitals, and more. Classes scheduled to begin after 4 p.m. […]
Jim Murphy Lecture
Jim Murphy, a 1991 MBA graduate of the University and executive vice president/international at Costco Wholesale, will be a featured speaker for the Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. School of Business Administration’s 2013 Leadership Speakers Series on Tuesday, April 2, at 7:10 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons Board Room. His lecture is free and open […]
Margaret Hogan Lecture
University of Portland professor emerita Margaret Monahan Hogan will present a lecture, “Resistance: Its Costs and Its Limits,” on Wednesday, April 3, at 7 p.m., in Buckley Center room 163. Her talk is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. Hogan’s presentation will provide a framework to consider the costs and limits […]
$50,000 Campagna Gift To RISE
The University has announced a RISE Campaign donation of $50,000 from Dr. Mario Campagna ’49 and his late wife, Edith Campagna ’51. The donation will provide scholarships for nursing and pre-med students. Edith Campagna, a nursing graduate of the University, passed away in February 2013. The Campagnas have supported the University’s mission for many years, […]
Nominate For Oddo Scholarship
Shortly after his untimely death in 1989, University president Rev. Thomas Oddo, C.S.C., was memorialized by faculty, staff, students, and friends with the establishment of an endowed scholarship fund named after him. Every year the University awards scholarship funds in Fr. Oddo’s name to one or more students who meet a set of criteria which […]
Advisory Committee On Inclusion
The Ad Hoc President’s Advisory Committee on Inclusion is hosting community listening sessions at the following times and locations: Tuesday, April 2: Staff Listening Session with Stacey Watanabe and Br. Thomas Giumenta, C.S.C., noon to 1 p.m., Buckley 015 Wednesday, April 3: Faculty Listening Session with Gary Malecha and Elayne Shapiro, noon to 1 p.m., […]
Hard Hat Library Tours
The next building tours for the Clark Library are scheduled for Tuesday, March 26 and Wednesday, March 27. Reserve your spot by e-mailing Kathy O’Connell Riddell, library, at oconnell@up.edu. Tours meet at 3:45 p.m. in the Franz Hall lobby and last 45 minutes to an hour. Closed-toe shoes are required. See photos of the progress […]