Aziz Inan, Engineering, published, “Portland engineering professor: Happy Perfect Square Year!” Portland Tribune, December 31, 2024. Inan also published a different version of the article titled, “2025—A One-Of-Of-A-Kind Year!” IndiaWest Journal, December 31, 2024. Amanda Cardwell-Aiken, Performing Fine Arts, was the Costume Designer last November for the Northwest Premiere of Dorothy’s Dictionary by EM Lewis at 21TEN […]
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An American Dream—an opera by librettist/Portland Magazine editor, Jessica Murphy Moo, and composer Jack Perla—was produced by OperaLab Japan in Tokyo (November 2024) and Manhattan School of Music (December 2024). Larry Larsen, Performing and Fine Arts, designed the scenery for this year’s production of Nordic Fire for the Portland Revels that is playing at the Alberta […]
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Three faculty members from International Languages and Cultures participated in the 121st annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), November 7-10 in Palm Springs, CA. Verena Hutter served as presiding officer and chair of both sessions on Austrian Studies. Maria Echenique presented “La Bolivia de Giorgina Levi.” Matthew Warshawsky presented “Una […]
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Sarah Maines, Performing and Fine Arts, is pleased to announce that two of her students won awards in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Cascade Chapter Musical Theater Auditions, held on the UP campus on Saturday, October 26. Joe Koppy ’24 took first in the Lower College Tenor/Baritone/Bass division, and Zoe Diao ’27 took […]
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Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, presented “Rethinking the Human Person Beyond the Limits of Imago Dei: Insights from the Peripheral World.” A virtual lecture given to students at The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. Tuesday, October 28, 2024. Aihiokhai also presented: “The Theologian as a Voice of Sacramental Disruption: Embracing a Curious Imagination”; “Theology as […]
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Tammy VanDeGrift, Engineering, presented: “Resume Revisions to Document Learning Outcomes in a Computational Biology Course.” VanDeGrift also co-facilitated a workshop with Dr. Shereen Khoja, Pacific University, entitled: “Computer Science Assignments and Activities that Support Academic Belonging”. Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northwestern Conference. October 11-12, 2024 Matthew Warshawsky, International Languages and Cultures, published: “Mis […]
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Aziz Inan, Engineering, published: “Happy 100th Birthday, President Jimmy Carter!” IndiaWest Journal. October 2, 2024. Eugene Urnezius, Chemistry, published: “Structural, spectroscopic and electrochemical characterizations of new 2,5-bis(phosphoranyl)-3,6-diaminoquinones.” Coauthor: Edward Valente. Student Coauthors: Madison Lear, Connor McLoughlin, Alea Ha, Joshua Paul, Amanda Graveson, Nathan Phan, Timothy Dobson, Natalie Cawker. Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements, 1-12. […]
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Esther Gravis, Nursing & Health Innovations, published “Active learning strategies to increase student engagement in an undergraduate nursing pediatric course.” Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 19(4), 360. September, 2024. Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, presented “Towards a Fellowship of Life: Bridging the Memory Gap between African and African American Pastoral Workers in the United States.” Virtual lecture at a […]
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Andra Davis, Nursing & Health Innovations, published “Instruments for Evaluating Student Learning Outcomes in Palliative Care: A Literature Review.” Co-authors: Lippe, M., Wingett, G., Jizba, T., Ehrlich, O., Fasolino, T., Meskis, S., LeBlanc, R., Weiss, D., and Kirkpatrick, A. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 10-1097. July 2024. Marjorie Attis-Josias, Nursing & Health Innovations, was accepted into the American […]
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David Wynne, Laura Dyer, and Molly Matty, Biology, have been awarded a $466,187 grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the acquisition of a Spinning-Disk Confocal Microscope, an instrument capable of taking very fast high-resolution images. This microscope will enhance the level of research and training the PIs are able to provide at UP to expose the […]