News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
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 39th National Conference on the First-Year Experience in Washington, D.C. on February 23, 2020.
Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, was quoted in an article titled 8-Year-Old Boy Ready for Second Birthday in the February 28, 2020 edition of the Sitka Sentinel.
Cara Poor, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote “Design of a small scale hydrology experiment” (with Heather Dillon and student coauthors Alexander Chabert and Jose Bastida De Jesus) in ASCE Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 146: 04020002, February 2020.
Samuel Holloway, business, presented “A trinity of time, community, and industry: Achieving optimal distinctiveness in craft brewing” (with co-presenters Milo Wang, Richard Haans), an invited presentation at University of Melbourne Faculty of Business & Economics, Melbourne, Australia, February 2020. He also presented “Entrepreneurship, innovation and internationalization in craft beer” (with co-presenters Andre Sammartino, Pavlina Jasovska), a panel presentation at the 2020 Australia/New Zealand International Business Academy (ANZIBA) meeting. Sydney, Australia, February 2020.
Simon Aihiokhai, theology, gave the 20th annual Augustus Tolton Lecture at the Catholic Theological Union, titled “Rethinking Eschatology in An Era of Systemic Evil – Towards A Theology of Human Wholeness: Reflections on The Life of Rev. Augustus Tolton,” in Chicago, IL, on March 4, 2020.
Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, organized and hosted the Western Regional Noyce Alliance Annual Conference, Feb. 21-23, 2020, in Portland, OR. The conference was funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the WRNA grant, and Salomone is the principal investigator on the UP subaward. A mix of 240 pre-service and in-service K-12 STEM teachers and higher education faculty working on teacher preparation from 10 Western states participated in the conference, which focused on networking, professional development of STEM teachers, and retention of teachers of STEM in high-needs schools and school districts. The Portland conference is the second in a series of 3 annual meetings and is part of a larger comprehensive school-year and summer professional development program for STEM teachers working with our most vulnerable youth.
Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his article, “Opinion: Number extravaganza for Bob Moore’s 91st birthday (02/15/2020),),” published in the Clackamas Review, p. A7, Pamplin Media Group, Clackamas, Oregon, February 26, 2020.
Kevin Jones, social work, published an article, “The Role of Mentors in a Therapeutic Poetry Writing Intervention for Youth,” in Connect: The Magazine of the International Mentoring Association Vol. 2 (1), February 2020.
Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote a brain teaser in honor of the late Jim Lehrer for the Columbian on February 18, 2020. See the article using this link.
Anne Santiago, political science, presented “Teaching Research by Critical Analysis Using ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Research” at the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, Teaching Research, Writing, and Literacy Track, Albuquerque, NM, 6-9 February 2020.
Sally Hood, education, wrote “Student language use in a one-way Mandarin immersion classroom” (with J. Bucknam) in RELC Journal, 1-15, February 2020.
Andrew Guest, psychological sciences, in collaboration with Fr. Peter Siamoo, presented a paper on February 13 in Moshi Tanzania titled “Using Extracurricular Activities to Enhance Education Quality: Applying Positive Youth Development Theory in Kilimanjaro Region Secondary Schools” at the seventh annual Educational Research and Evaluation International Conference co-organized by the Society of Educational Research and Evaluation in Kenya and Mwenge Catholic University.
Bohn Lattin, communication studies, helped to adjudicate the Final Lincoln Douglas debate round for the National Christian Forensics & Communication Association Regional Qualifier on Saturday, February 15, 2020.
Sam Holloway, business, was interviewed by Brews News for a feature, “Beer Is A Conversation: Sam Holloway,” which can be found at this link.
The University of Portland was featured in “32 Reasons to Love Portland Right Now,” an article in Willamette Week for the week of February 10-16. UP was named the no. 7 reason for “The University of Portland Continues to Turn out Some of the Best Women’s Soccer Players in the World,” as if we didn’t know that already here on The Bluff. See the article using this link.
Brian Adams, business, was interviewed for a segment of Marketplace, titled “The State of the Two-Week Notice Rule,” which aired on February 11, 2020, on WNYC FM radio. He was also quoted in an article, “Fed Chair Flags Corporate Bond Risk,” in Advisor News on February 11, 2020.
Bryan Rookey, sociology & social work, presented his paper, “Drugged Driving and the Opioid Crisis: Status Differences in Opioid Misuse” at the Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Criminology, Phoenix, AZ, February 2020.
John Orr, English, wrote a book review of Teaching Representations of the First World War, ed. Cohen and Higbe, in The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 vol. 15, November 2019.
Patrick Murphy, performing and fine arts, recently conducted two honor bands: the Lower Columbia Community College Honor Band (January 11 in Longview) and the North County Honor Band (February 1 in Hockinson). In total, over 150 students from 18 different high schools participated. He was also the guest clinician for the Oregon Music Educators Association District 2 conducting workshop on February 6, where he mentored middle and high school band directors. In addition, the UP Wind Symphony performed to a capacity crowd at the Soreng Theater in the Hult Center in Eugene, as featured performers at the 2020 Oregon Music Education Association Conference on January 17.
Simon Aihiokhai, theology, had his article, “Making A Case for An Economic Alternative for Our Globalized World: Insights from the Margins,” published in Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, vol. 8. no. 3 (September/December 2019), 77 – 88.
Fr. Dan Parrish, C.S.C., business, had his article, “Sensegiving for moral authenticity at New Clairvaux Vineyard” (with Downing, J. A.), published in Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management doi: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2020.01.017, February 2020.
Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, is featured in an article titled “Palindromes, Groundhogs and Super Bowl: What you need to know about Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020” in the January 29 edition of the Calgary Herald. See the article at this link. You can also see an article in the Washington Post here and an Oregonian article, “Super Bowl Sunday is a big day for a Portland professor because he’s a palindrome expert” by using this link.
Simon Aihiokhai, theology, contributed “Contemporary Sexual Crises in the Church and the Challenge for Priestly Formation” in Formation, The Catholic Priesthood, and The Modern Age: Festschrift in Honour of Rev. Fr. Anselm Jimoh, 134 – 153. Edited by Francis Ikhianosime and Gregory Ogbenika. Benin City, Nigeria: Mindex, January 2020.
Michael Prendergast adjunct in theology and music, offered two workshops at the Southwest Liturgical Conference in Tucson Arizona, January 16-18, 2020. His presentations were “A Place Called Home: Liturgy, Hospitality and the Communion of Saints” and “The Baptismal liturgy of the Great Easter Vigil.”
Petra Khan, marketing and communications, received the 2020 CASE VIII Rising Star Award in Marketing and Communications from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), District VIII, which includes Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, and Yukon.
Laura Dyer, biology, received a $502 grant for “Engaging Middle School Students in Developmental Biology through Tadpole Metamorphosis” (with Allegra VanderWilde) from the Society for Developmental Biology, January 2020.
Dawn Garzon Maaks, nursing, wrote “White Paper: Recognizing Child Trafficking as a Critical Emerging Health Threat” (with Jessica Peck, Mikki Meadows-Oliver, Hays Stacia) in Journal of Pediatric Healthcare, January 2020.
Claire McKinley Yoder, nursing, (2020). “An academic–fire department partnership to address social determinants of health” (with Pesch, M. S.) in Journal of Nursing Education, 59(1), 34-37 (2020).
Heather Dillon, Shiley School of Engineering, presented “Connecting with Expert Educators” (with Timothy Doughty, Nicole Ralston, and student co-presenters Rebecca Levison and Jeff Welch) at the 2020 Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network National Conference in Dallas, Texas, January 2020.