Update

Alice Gates, sociology & social work, is the 2019-2020 recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Praxis Award given by the Pacific Sociological Association. This award honors sociological work in the Pacific region that has made a positive impact on social institutions, improved organizational performance, contributed to community betterment, and/or eased human suffering. Gates was recognized in particular for her applied scholarship and student engagement efforts focused on advocacy for mothers and caregivers and in support of Latinx communities in Oregon.

Kathleen Bieryla, Shiley School of Engineering, presented “Play-Doh and pendulums: making mass moment of inertia fun” (with Heather Dillon, Niki Schultz, and student Rebecca Levison) at 2020 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2020.

In recognition of her excellence in teaching business law, the quality and the quantity of her mentoring of students over many years, and leadership in developing a quality Law and Ethics curriculum, Pamplin School of Business associate dean Lisa Reed has been appointed Distinguished Professor in Business Law.

Jordyn Wolfand, Shiley School of Engineering, contributed “SWMM Sensitivity to LID Siting and Routing Parameters: Implications for Stormwater Regulatory Compliance” (with Chelsea L. Panos, Terri S. Hogue) to Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 1-20. Link here.

Jordyn Wolfand, Shiley School of Engineering, contributed “SWMM Sensitivity to LID Siting and Routing Parameters: Implications for Stormwater Regulatory Compliance” (with Chelsea L. Panos, Terri S. Hogue) in Journal of the American Water Resources Association 1-20 at https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12867, June 2020.

Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, presented a poster, “Formative Peer Observation for Instructional Change” (with Tara Prestholdt, Valerie Peterson, Eric Anctil, Heather Dillon) at the Network of STEM Education Centers 2020 National Conference, virtual conference, June 2020.

Jeffrey White, international languages & cultures, served as moderator and host: Integrations with MS Teams: Lessons from Madisonville Community College National online meeting of the LRNASST Teams User Group (with Brandi Stout, Emily Janssen), May 2020. He also served as moderator and co-host for “Reaching students and training peer educators” at Northwest College Reading and Learning Association Tides of Change Lunch Series (with Adrienne Beebe, Liz Coleman), June 2020.

Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, was an invited panelist for the webinar “Disruption as Gift: Re-Calibrating Our Loves,” convened by Trinity Academy for a national audience on May 18. Eifler and other panelists responded to the keynote by Dr. James K. A. Smith of Calvin College.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, contributed an article, “A tribute to St. John Paul II on his centennial birthday,” to Polish News, a bilingual portal promoting Polish American culture as way of life.

Dawn Lee Garcon Maaks, nursing, was interviewed by the Pharmacy Times about her research on caring for children with ADHD who also have other comorbidities.

Maureen Briare, nursing, and UP alumna and performing artist Julianne Johnson were interviewed on KOIN  regarding a song Briare composed for UP’s RISE Campaign, titled “We Will Rise,” and how it might be finding a new purpose as a song of hope and an anthem for peace and justice. The interview can be found using this link, and the song is available for free download using this link. Please consider making a donation to local organizations like Urban League of Portland, NAACP, Black Lives Matter, and others.

Benjamin Gallegos, education, contributed “Coaching as a means to enhance performance and persistence in undergraduate STEM majors with executive function deficits” (with Manju Banerjee, Christine Parsons, Aaron Koch, Matthew Marino, Eleazar Vasquez, Yvette Saliba) in Higher Education Theory and Practice, May 2020. He also serves as a committee member of the CEC’s Division of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners, Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), January 2020-present.

Amber Vermeesch, nursing, presented a poster, “Investigation Of Physical Activity Instruction In United States Nurse Practitioner Curricula” (with Ashley Falcon, Emma Sampson, Mark Stoutenberg, Willow Webb, Yerin Woo, and student copresenter Meg Bender-Stephanski) at the 2020 Annual Meeting, World Congress on Exercise is Medicine, and World Congress on the Basic Science of Exercise in Regenerative Medicine of the American College of Sports Medicine, San Francisco, CA, May 26-30, 2020 (in-person Conference cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic).

Deana Julka, psychological sciences, was interviewed on OPB’s Think Out Loud about the psychological effects of quarantine, and how risk assessment will influence people’s actions and reactions to coronavirus re-openings.

Michael Lewellen, vice president for marketing and communications, was interviewed by KXL on the strategies University of Portland would be taking over the summer to prepare for in-person instruction beginning in August.

Several news outlets including KGW and U.S. News and World Report reported on Fr. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C.‘s announcement that University of Portland will reopen on August 17 for the fall term, and will eliminate the fall break in order to end in-person classes by Thanksgiving.

Jeffrey White, international languages & cultures, served as moderator and host for “With a pandemic comes the opportunity for bold visions in redesign,” Northwest College Reading and Learning Association Tides of Change Video Conference Lunch Series, with Adrienne Beebe and Liz Coleman, May 2020.

Bradley Franco, history, published a book (with coauthor Mario Ascheri) titled The History of Siena: From Its Origins to the Present Day. New York and London: Routledge, Sept. 2019.

UP theology professor Nina Henrichs-Tarasenkova and her family were featured in a KGW story on how two teachers are juggling their own classes while managing distance learning for their four sons.

Kallan Picha, studies abroad, was interviewed by International Educator about strategies for communicating with parents of study abroad students during times of crisis.

Jordyn Wolfand, Shiley School of Engineering, published “The Urban Water Revolution: Sustainable Water Futures for California Cities” (with Richard Luthy and Jonathan Bradshaw) in Journal of Environmental Engineering 146(7): 04020065. 2020. DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001715.

Aaron Wootton, mathematics, contributed “A project-based guide to undergraduate research in mathematics starting and sustaining accessible undergraduate research” (with Pamela Harris, Erik Insko) in Foundations for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics. Basel: Birkhäuser (ISBN 978-3-030-37852-3/hbk; 978-3-030-37853-0/ebook). xi, 324 p. (April 2020).

Matt Daily, Shepard Academic Resource Center, had his article, “Coffee With a Professor,” published by the National Center for First Generation Students. The article details the unique “Coffee with a professor” initiative created two years ago to connect  UP faculty/staff and current FGEN students. See the article here.

Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, contributed “Visio Divina : The Crucifixion” (with Maureen Briare, nursing) in The Scribe, a publication of The Saint John’s Bible Heritage Edition, in April 2020.

Kyle Flann, biology, has served as advisor to the UP Tennis Club from August 2019-present.

Ami Ahern-Rindell, biology, was invited to contribute a case study titled “An International and Multidisciplinary Research Collaboration in the Ancient City of Pollentia in Mallorca Spain” to a chapter pertaining to international undergraduate research in The Cambridge Handbook of Undergraduate Research to be published later this year by Cambridge University Press. The case study highlights ancient DNA analysis that Ahern-Rindell and her students are conducting on human remains as part of the University of Portland’s Pollentia Undergraduate Research Expedition (PURE) Program, a collaboration between UP faculty-student teams and a group of Spanish archeologists/anthropologists and their students to help excavate the Roman city of Pollentia dating from 123 BCE, located on the Island of Mallorca.

School of Nursing dean Casey Shillam was featured in Portland Business Journal where she discussed health care education now and post-pandemic.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, delivered “We Are Children of Grace,” reflections on the first reading of Easter Vigil liturgy at Saint Andrew Catholic Church, April 11, 2020.

Laura Dyer, biology, received a $76,950 M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust grant for “Probing the effects of shear stress on coronary artery development to determine how developmental defects arise,” March 2020.

Carol J. Dempsey, OP, theology, wrote a scripture reflection for the fifth Sunday of Lent for National Catholic Reporter.

Sally Hood, education, contributed “Two-way immersion teacher preparation” in Foreign Language Annals, 53 (1), 128-148, April 2020.

Jacquie Van Hoomissen has been selected by the steering committee of the NSF ADVANCE Partnership project (Advancing STEM Careers by Empowering Network Development) to join the inter-institutional peer mentoring network of Administrators in the Northwest region. As a member of an Administrator Alliance, she will work with teams to evaluate how campus policies and practices impact  professional advancement and leadership development of a diverse faculty in STEM fields. The goal of the program is to reduce institutional obstacles to advancement for women in STEM fields, create more equitable communities, and foster the retention and advancement of a diverse STEM faculty population.

Hannah Highlander, mathematics, edited An Introduction to Undergraduate Research in Computational and Mathematical Biology: From Disease Dynamics to Big Data (with Carrie Diaz Eaton, Alex Capaldi),  New York, NY: Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-33645-5, February 2020.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, was cited in The Tablet, December 9, 2019: “Africans Warn Numerical Growth Has To Be Matched By ‘Tools of Liberation.'” See the article here. He was also elected as a member of the Board of Directors for a three years term at the College Theology Society in March 2020.

Elizabeth Lee, institutional research, has been elected to the Association for Institutional Research’s Board of Directors as a member-at-large. AIR is an organization that seeks to empower higher education professionals to utilize data, analytics, and evidence to make decisions and take actions that benefit students. Elizabeth has cycled off as treasurer for the Pacific Northwest regional organization for institutional researchers in time to serve at the national level. Full election results are available at this link.

Cara Poor, Shiley School of Engineering, contributed “Evaluation of agricultural byproducts as amendments in bioretention systems for metal and nutrient removal” (with Ben Guidice, Jacob Bib, and student coauthor Camille Morgan) to Journal of Environmental Engineering, 146: 04020029, March 2020.

Hillary Merk, Jacqueline Waggoner, James Carroll, Heidi Parrett, and Claire Tooley, education, presented one paper at the annual conference of the Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) in Atlanta, GA, February 28-29, 2020. The paper was titled “From High School to Teaching: Developing a ‘Grow Your Own’: Pathway for A More Diverse Teaching Profession.”

Jacqueline Waggoner, Hillary Merk, Randy Hetherington, James Carroll, and Bruce Weitzel, education, presented at the annual conference of the Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) in Atlanta, GA, February 28-29, 2020. The paper was titled “Trauma Informed Practices and Teacher Preparation.”

Bob Butler, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies, co-authored a publication in Science Advances titled: “Co-occurrence of Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts with Homo erectus cranial fossils from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia” Citation: S. Semaw, M. J. Rogers, S. W. Simpson, N. E. Levin, J. Quade, N. Dunbar, W. C. McIntosh, I. Cáceres, G. E. Stinchcomb, R. L. Holloway, F. H. Brown, R. F. Butler, D. Stout, M. Everett, Co-occurrence of Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts with Homo erectus cranial fossils from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. Sci. Adv. 6, eaaw4694 (2020).

Maureen Briare, Campus Ministry, had her compositions, ‘The Road of Mercy’ (dedicated to the amazing Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center), and “Jubilate Deo Canon” published through Oregon Catholic Press, and forthcoming will be a set of Easter Season Entrance Antiphons. A composition that will be sung as the closing song to this year’s Baccalaureate Mass, “To the Ends of the Earth” (dedicated to Kathleen and the late Allen Lund) will be published later this year by GIA Publications.

Brian Adams, business, was interviewed by WalletHub for a piece titled “Ask The Experts: Safely Navigating the Application Process” published on March 11, 2020. See the article at this link.

Katie Danielson, education, had her paper, “Practicing Justice, Justifying Practice: Toward Critical Practice Teacher Education” (with Sarah Kavanaugh) in American Educational Research Journal, 57 (1), Feb. 2020, 69–105. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831219848691

Randy Hetherington, Hillary Merk, Jacqueline Waggoner, James Carroll, and Bruce Weitzel, in the School of Education, presented two papers at the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education (AILACTE) in Atlanta, GA, February 27-28, 2020. The first paper was “Teacher Candidate Clinical Evaluations: Making the Case for Teacher Education Program Improvement.” The second paper was titled “Implementing Trauma Informed Practices at a Liberal Arts Institution.”

Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, was an organizer and speaker at the Trinity Academy Faculty Seminar on Active Learning, March 2020. She serves as an NSF ASCEND Faculty Fellow, NSF ADVANCE Partnership ASCEND Program (Advancing STEM Careers by Empowering Network Development, NS, as of February 2020.

Courtney Campbell, Shepard Academic Resource Center, presented a facilitated discussion “Stop Breaking Ice and Start Building Community” with students Sawyer Kemmerly (Physics ’20) and Georgia Paulk (Biology ’21) at the 39^th National Conference on the First-Year Experience in Washington, D.C. on February 23, 2020.