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Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, wrote “Moral Distress and Associated Factors Among Baccalaureate Nursing Students: A Multisite Descriptive Study” (with Valorie Orton and student coauthors Conor Livingston and Austin Smith) in Nursing Education Perspectives, DOI: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000214, September 2017.

Susan Stillwell, nursing, presented “A caring tone: Providing audio feedback to online learners” at the National League for Nursing Summit, September 17, 2017, San Diego CA .

Carol J. Dempsey, OP, theology, has edited and had published Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah , a new commentary by Wilda C. Gafney, as part of the 58 volume international series entitled The Wisdom Commentary Series (Liturgical Press). Dempsey serves on the series’ editorial board and has edited and had published  5 volumes on the Prophets to date.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, presented “Negotiating Identity and Hermeneutics – Existential Realities of Migrants in Today’s World,” a lecture given to students registered for the course CST 491: Intercultural Engagement and Leadership, on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 on the UP campus.

Cara Poor, engineering, presented “Evaluation of Water Treatment Residuals in Bioretention Systems to Reduce Phosphorus Levels in Stormwater” (with co-presenters Anne MacDonald, Kari Duncan, and student co-presenter Katie Conkle) at the September 2017 ASCE-EWRI Stormwater Symposium.

Bonnie Parks, Clark Library, presented “Migrating from multiple standalone ILSs to a shared Alma system: practical tips” (with Kyle Banerjee) at the International Group of Ex Libris Users Annual Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 2017.

 

 

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Hannah Highlander, mathematics, published a paper with UP alumni Hannah Biegel ’15 and Alex Quackenbush ’15 titled “Sensitivity Analysis for Stochastic and Deterministic Models of Nascent Focal Adhesion Dynamics,” Int. J. Biomath.

Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, presented “ARBS and Steroids and Phosphate Binders – Oh MY! Pharmacologic management of chronic kidney disease,” a workshop presentation, at Northwest Kidney Kids, Turner, Oregon, August 2017.

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Sharon Hogan, development, has been chosen as the 2017 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, to be presented at the Northwest Planned Giving Roundtable Conference on September 28.

Rev. Thomas E. Hosinski, C.S.C., professor emeritus of theology, recently had his book, The Image of the Unseen God: Catholicity, Science, and Our Evolving Understanding of God, published by Orbis Books. It is a volume in a series entitled “Catholicity in an Evolving Universe” under the general editorship of Ilia Delio. The book is available in the University Barnes & Noble Bookstore.

Jon Stanfill, theology, was a fellow at the NEH Summer Institute, “Migration and Empire: The Roman Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Muhammad,” held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. At the institute, he presented a paper, “Precipitating Collapse: Climatic Change and the Migration of the Goths.” He also presented a paper, “John Chrysostom’s Processions and the Performative Assembly of Nicene Christianity” at the North American Patristics Society in Chicago (May 2017).

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Blair Woodard, history, presented his paper “The Mission of Protest: Visual Diplomacy and the U.S. Embassy in Havana, 1953-2015” at the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association in Northridge, CA in August 2017.

Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, was invited to provide full-day retreats on the topics “Truth(iness), Technology and Totalitarianism,” “Greening With Hildegard of Bingen,” and “Our Faith Will Move Mountains” to the faculties of Central Catholic High School as well as All Saints and St. Luke grade schools in their lead up to the school year.

Lindsay Lancaster Benes, was accepted into the Training Institute in Dissemination Research in Health (TIDIRH), a competitive program run by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Veterans Administration (VA). The program aims to provide researchers with a thorough grounding in dissemination and implementation research in an effort to reduce the gap between what we know can optimize health and health care and what actually gets implemented in everyday practice.

Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, was featured in a story, “‘Redesigning How We Learn’: University Of Portland Receives $300,000 Grant To Educate Its Educators,” on Patch, a community-specific news, information and engagement network, on August 29, 2017. See the article here.

Nick McRee, sociology, held an appointment as visiting scholar at Hitotsubashi University in Japan during summer 2017. He presented “The Curious Case of Shifting Crime Patterns in Japan: Implications for Criminological Theory” at the 12th International Conference for Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in Hiroshima, Japan.

Kim Spir, engineering, was credentialed by the IAAF and USATF federations as an international photographer to chronicle the 10 days of the IAAF World Track and Field Championships in London August 5-13, 2017.  She was on the finish line to record Usain Bolt’s last track races in the 100 metres and 4×1 relay and has been asked to serve as a media consultant for the 2021 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

Naveen Gudigantala, business, presented his paper, “Exploring E-Commerce Social Media, Digital Marketing, and Value: A Cluster Analysis of U.S. E-Commerce Retailers,” at the Indian Institute of Management Indore’s NASMEI summer marketing conference, July 28, 2017, India.

 

 

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Laura McLary, international languages & cultures, published “Nora Boeckl, Wirklichkeit als Versuchsanordnung: Postavantgardistisches Schreiben in der österreichischen Gegenwartsliteratur des Postmillenniums am Beispiel von Thomas Glavinic.” in the Journal of Austrian Studies 49:3-4. Fall-Winter 2016. 184-86.

Laura McLary, international languages & cultures, published “Bild und Text im Ersten Weltkrieg: A Genre-Based Approach to the First World War for Intermediate-Advanced Students of German.” in Teaching Representations of the First World War – Modern Language Association of America, 2017. 308-15.

Heather Dillon, engineering, and students Justin Roberts and Patrick Doherty, co-authored “Experimental Validation of Chaotic Natural Convection in a Rectangle Using Schlieren Imaging” in Frontiers in Heat Transfer Vol 9, Issue 1. Read it here.

Min Yu, business, coauthored “Supply chain network capacity competition with outsourcing: A variational equilibrium framework” in the Journal of Global Optimization 69(1), 231-254.

Min Yu, business, coauthored “Mergers and acquisitions in blood banking systems: A supply chain network approach” in the International Journal of Production Economics 193, 406-421.

Bahram Adrangi, business, was quoted in a Portland Tribune article about NAFTA renegotiations. Read it here.

Montana Hisel-Cochran, business, was a featured writer for Oregon Women in Higher Education, with the article “Learning in Oregon; More than just Lewis and Clark.” Read the article here.

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Sarina Saturn, psychology, presented her workshop “Influences of Nature and Nurture on the Brain, Body, and Behavior” as part of the Cedar Hills Continuing Education Series.

Susan Stillwell, nursing, Amber Vermeesch, nursing, and Jane Scott, library, co-authored “Interventions to Reduce Perceived Stress Among Graduate Students: A Systematic Review.”

Aziz Inan, engineering, published his article “Tektronix founder’s centennial prompts ode to STEM education,” in Oregon Business. See the article here.

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Ami Ahern-Rindell, biology, and research students Raluca Gosman and Kai Seeley, co-authored an abstract and oral presentation that was accepted at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific Meetings held in Hawaii in mid June. Raluca attended the conference and gave the presentation entitled “Y-STR Analysis of Modern DNA in Preparation for Evaluation of Ancient Human  Remains from Mallorca, Spain.”

Will Deming, theology, was quoted in an article titled “How a Singer-Songwriter from Portland Became a Mary Magdalene Scholar” in the August 6, 2017 edition of The Oregonian. See the article here.

Casey Shillam, nursing, presented “Innovations in palliative care competency in nursing practice: ELNEC, AACN, & community partnerships” (with Mazanec, P.) at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics World Congress, San Francisco, CA, 2017. She also presented “Implementation of online education to advance competencies in palliative and end-of-life care” (with Mallie Kozy, nursing, Davis, A., & Lippe, M.) and “Innovative community collaborations to advance culturally-sensitive palliative and end-of-life care” (with Mazanec, P., Dahlstrom, M., & Sam Williams, information services) at the same conference.

Heather Dillon, engineering, and student Jack Padon, co-authored “Assessment of End-of-Life Design in Solid-State Lighting” in Environmental Review Letters Vol 12, Issue 8.

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Holy Cross College in Notre Dame has appointed former UP president Rev. David Tyson, C.S.C., as its president for a five-year term. Fr. Tyson has served as interim president at Holy Cross since April 2017. Prior to taking the helm at Holy Cross, Tyson was director of nonprofit professional development at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. A Notre Dame graduate, Fr. Tyson also previously served as executive assistant to former ND president Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., and later served as vice president for student affairs. He was president of the University of Portland from 1990-2003 before becoming provincial superior of the Indiana Province of Holy Cross.

The Oregon Sports Hall of Fame & Museum has announced its 2017 class of inductees, which includes the 2002 University of Portland NCAA champion women’s soccer team. The Oregon Sports Hall of Fame recognizes and honors Oregon’s athletic history with a museum and annual induction and awards ceremony. The Hall of Fame’s goal is to inspire participation in sport and foster awareness of the values and life-long rewards gained from this participation.

Laura Mood, nursing, worked for two weeks (May/June 2017) in Myanmar/Burma as a volunteer nursing education consultant for OHSU Casey Eye Institute’s SE Asia Collaboration initiative. Her work involved assessing the current educational program used for Eye Nurse Aid training, as well as the patient care practices delivered by Eye Nurse Aids at Tipitaka Eye Hospital in rural Myanmar. While there she presented an educational seminar titled “Patient education & medication safety” to 66 eye nurse aides and 100 eye nurse aide trainees. She formally presented to OHSU-CEI staff and leadership on her experiences and the work she did to improve the quality of patient care delivered by eye nurse aides. Mood is working on a research proposal and specific quality improvement projects related to this initiative and intends (with appropriate approvals) to involve baccalaureate nursing students in her efforts. Also in June 2017, Mood shared two papers via podium presentation at the Association for Medical Humanities (AMH) conference held at Keele University in England. The papers were titled “Narrative life history: An arts-informed method for understanding disability experience” and “Poetry as a means of exploring empathy in nursing education.”

Aziz Inan, engineering, published his article titled, “A numerical tribute to George Michael,” in The Archer, No. 281, p. 8, East Finchley, London, UK, August 2017. See the article here. Inan also wrote an article about palindrome dates expressed with two-digit year numbers and shared his article with the editor and owner of Fast Copy News Service, located in Atlanta, Ga., and as a result, portions of Inan’s article got published in the “Q&A on the News” column in the Metro section of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper in response to a reader’s question, “I noticed that 7/1/17 reads the same backwards and forward. After 8/18/18 and 9/19/19 when will this happen again?”, p. B3, July 16, 2017.

Alexandra M. Hill, international languages & cultures (German), has been chosen to be the next co-editor of the Women in German Yearbook, the premiere peer-reviewed academic journal for feminist German Studies.

 

 

 

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Lauren Alfrey, sociology, had her research on women in the technology industry featured in the “Discoveries” section of The Society Pages, the academic blog of record for sociologists, headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. A summary of her findings, “Who’s ‘One of the Guys?’ Navigating Gender in the Tech Industry,” can be read here.
Simon Aihiokhai, theology, presented “New Perspectives on the Role of Women as Ritualistic Agents int he Roman Catholic Church: A Comparative Theological Dialogue,” with Bede Benjamin Bidlack and Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier, at the Catholic Theological Society of America, held in Albuquergue, New Mexico, June 2017.
Sharon Jones, engineering, attended the 2017 Global Grand Challenges Summit in Washington, D.C., July 18 – 20, 2017. She attended with Maggie Ryan ’19, computer science; Sofia Martinez ’19, civil engineering, and Graham Foster ’20, mechanical engineering. The 2017 summit is the third in a collaborative series sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. It was held in conjunction with the inaugural K–12 FIRST Global Challenge. It focused on the four themes of the NAE Grand Challenges: Engineering: Sustainability, Health, Security, and Joy of Living, as well as education and public engagement.
Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, was cited in an article, “First Day of Class Activities that Create a Climate for Learning,” by Maryellen Weimer, in Faculty Focus: Higher Ed Teaching & Learning Strategies, on July 19, 2017.
Bonnie Parks, Clark Library, co-edited Migrating Library Data: A Practical Manual. ALA Neal-Schuman, ISBN 9780838915035. See the press release at this link.
The Board of Directors of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association has selected 30 undergraduate/pre-licensure and graduate students to receive the APNA Board of Directors Student Scholarship. University of Portland nursing student Kyle Doty ’19 is among the recipients selected from hundreds of applicants based on academic merit and dedication to psychiatric-mental health nursing.
Aziz Inan, engineering, wrote an article recently about palindrome dates expressed with two-digit year numbers and shared his article with the editor and owner of Fast Copy News Service, located in Atlanta, Georgia, and as a result, portions of Inan’s article were published in the Q&A on the News column in the Metro section of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper in response to a reader’s question, “I noticed that 7/1/17 reads the same backwards and forward. After 8/18/18 and 9/19/19 when will this happen again?”, p. B3, July 16, 2017. See the article here.
 Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, has been awarded a $300,000, 3-year NSF grant to improve STEM teaching on the Bluff. She will be joined in the project by Valerie Peterson (math), Carolyn James (math), Eric Anctil (education), Tara Prestholdt (biology), and Heather Dillon (engineering).
Jeffrey Gauthier, philosophy, presented “Alternative Approaches to Prostitution In the Law” at the 33rd Annual International Social Philosophy Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, July 14, 2017.
Barbara Braband, Rebecca Gaudino, and Anissa Rogers recently learned that they are the recipients of the 2017 Innovative Teaching in Social Work Education Award, a national teaching award given jointly by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and SAGE Publishers. The three of them have been collaborating the last several years on pedagogical methods and research, and submitted that work for the award. It will be presented at the Annual Program Meeting for CSWE in October, where they will give a workshop on their project.

Tammy VanDeGrift, engineering, presented a paper “Helping First-Year Engineering Students Select a Major” (with co-author Sherry Liao) at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference in Columbus, Ohio, June 2017. VanDeGrift and Caitlin Cairncross, engineering, presented a poster “Using Assessment to Continuously Improve the Retention & Persistence of At-Risk Engineering Students” (with co-author Sharon A. Jones) at the NSF grantees poster session at the same conference.

Sr. Angela Hoffman. O.S.B., chemistry, attended the Northwest Regional American Chemical Society meeting in Corvallis at OSU on July 25-28. She organized the student poster session, served as organizer and presider at the “Breakthroughs in analytical chemistry & natural products” symposium, and presented “Antibiotics by soil actinomycetes from an ancient Roman archeological site,” coauthored with Ed Valente.

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Hannah Highlander, mathematics, presented “Inviting Students to Engage in the Modeling Process Through a New Framework for Models and Modeling, Professional Development for Undergraduate Educators: Scientific Thinking with Models and Data Workshop” (with copresenters Melissa Aikens, Kam Dahlquist, Joe Dauer, Sam Donovan, Carrie Eaton, Greg Goins, Kristin Jenkins, John Jungck, Glenn Ledder, Robert Mayes, Joe Redish, Richard Schugart) at Evolution Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, June 2017.

Sharon A. Jones, engineering, was an invited participant at the First Global Engineering Deans Industry Forum in Fontainebleu, France, June 28 -30, 2017.

Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, presented “Growing By Attraction: Beauty As a Path in Catholic Higher Education” at Collegium: A Colloquy on Faith and Intellectual Pause at 25 Conference at St. Catherine University in Minneapolis, MN, on June 23.

Heather Dillon, engineering, presented “Design and Implementation of an Aspirational Ethics Laboratory Course” (with Doughty TA, Lulay KE, Eifler KE, and Hensler ZY) and “Increasing Engagement in Materials Laboratory with Backward Design and Quadcopters” (with Lulay KE, Eifler KE, Doughty TA, Anderson D, and Bastida JI)  at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 2017.