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.

James Peña, residence life, was honored with the 2020 New Professional Award from the Northwest Association of College and University Housing Officers. The award celebrates James’ contributions to Residence Life, the campus community, and the student affairs/residence life profession outside of UP.

Jakob Kotas, mathematics, had his article, “Atmospheric CO2,” Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations” published by SIMIODE, an education community where modeling comes first in teaching differential equations, in January 2020.

Martin Cenek, Shiley School of Engineering, had his article, “‘One Size Does Not Fit All’: A Roadmap of Purpose-Driven Mixed-Method Pathways for Sensitivity Analysis of Agent-Based Models” (with coauthors Arika Ligmann-Zielinska, Peer-Olaf Siebers, Nick Maglioccia, Dawn Parker, Volker Grimm, Eric Jing Du, Nazia Arbab, Uta Berger, Rajiv Paudel, Derek Robinson, Piotr Jankowski, Li An, Xinyue Ye, and student coauthor  Viktoriia Radchuk) published in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 23 (1) 6. January 2020.

Bob Butler, environmental studies emeritus, Jenda Johnson, Earth Sciences Animated, and Wendy Bohon, IRIS education specialist, published “Haiti 2010 – 10 Years Later,” an animation feature which explores plate tectonics, earthquake damage, and rebuilding efforts after the devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010. Animation can be found on the IRIS website at this link or on YouTube at this link.

Christina Ivler, Shiley School of Engineering, had her presentation, “Development and Simulation of Damage Tolerant Control Laws for a Compound Helicopter,” (with Joe Horn, Eric Johnson) published in Proceedings of the AIAA SciTech Conference, Orlando, FL, January 2020. She presented “Development and Flight Validation of Unmanned Aerial System Handling Qualities Requirements for Multicopters” (with Declan Kerwin, Kevin Truong, Joel Otomize) at the same conference.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, presented “Solitude, Identity, and Vocation” at the University of Portland’s spring semester retreat for resident assistants on January 9, 2020. He presented “Christian Identity as an Invitation to Become the Medium of God’s Life in the World: In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” a reflection given at the 2020 MLK Celebration Mass at Saint Andrew Parish, Northeast Portland, OR, on January 12, 2020.

Matthew Kuhn, Shiley School of Engineering, had his article, “Linear-frictional contact model for 3D discrete element simulations of granular systems” (with coauthors Ali Daouadji, Kiichi Suzuki) published in  International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2020, volume 121, No. 3, pp. 560-569. DOI 10.1002/nme.6216 (February 2020).

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his piece, “My View: Franklin’s life a nice piece of Pi,” published in the January 17, 2020 edition of the Portland Tribune. See the article using this link.

Nicole Hanig, performing and fine arts, performed a recital (“Social Justice in Art Song”) with pianist Susan McDaniel as part of the Twilight Concerts at the Cathedral series in Limerick, Ireland on January 17, 2020. She also offered a Master Class in voice practice on January 18.

Jane Scott, library, and Susan Stillwell, nursing, had their article, “Sensitive Versus Specific Search Strategy to Answer Clinical Questions,” published in Journal of Nursing Education, 59(1), 22-25.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his numerical brain teaser, “Numerical Curiosities for an NBA Icon,” published in the January 6, 2020 edition of The Columbian. See the article at this link.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, presented “What Lessons Can African Churches Learn from the Role of Religious Conflicts in 20th Century Wars and Genocide?,” a plenary paper at the Pan-African Catholic Congress on Theology, Society and Pastoral Life. In Celebration of 50 Years of SECAM, 25 Years of Ecclesia in Africa and 10 Years of Africae Munus. Organized by the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology/DePaul University, Chicago, USA. Held at Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu, Nigeria, December 5 – 8, 2019. He also reviewed The Journey of Reconciliation. Groaning for A New Creation in Africa by Emmanuel Katongole, Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2017. (ISBN: 9781626982505) in Horizons Volume 46, Issue 2 (December 2019) 398 – 399. DOI: 10.1017/hor.2019.81 and Religion and Faith in Africa. Confessions of An Animist by Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2018 (ISBN 9781626982765) in Horizons, Volume 46, Issue 2 (December 2019) 417 – 418. DOI: 10.1017/hor.2019.92.

Jon Stanfill, theology, had his article, “John Chrysostom and the Rebirth of Antiochene Mission in Late Antiquity,” published in Church History 88.4, 899-924, December 2019.

Heidi Senior, Clark library, had her article, “A rapid review of the reporting and characteristics of instruments measuring satisfaction with reference service in academic libraries” (with Tori Ward) in Evidence Based Library & Information Practice, 14(4), 128-159, December 2019.

Lara Trout, philosophy, had her article, “Ethical Corporeality and Synechism: A dialogue between Enrique Dussel and C.S. Peirce,” published in Inter-American Journal of Philosophy volume 10(1), 23-43, June 2019.

Sruthi Rothenfluch, philosophy, had her article, “A Modified Self-Knowledge Model of Thought Insertion,” published in Review of Philosophy and Psychology, October 2019.

Fr. Dan Parrish, C.S.C., business, had his article, “What’s the story here? The effect of volatility on university leader sensemaking of undocumented student access,” published in European Journal of Management Studies, 24 , 53-78. doi: 10.5455/EJMS, December 2019.

Dawn Garzon Maaks, nursing, serves as immediate past president, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, July 2019-present.

Cara Poor, Shiley School of Engineering, had her paper, “Solar water disinfection with parabolic and flat reflectors” (with Heather Dillon, Ryan Kenton, and student coauthor Audrey Beattie) published in Journal of Water and Health, 17: 921-929, December 2019.

Janet Banks, nursing, presented “Making it our Own: Innovatiove Course Writing Stages and Structures in a Concept-Based Curriculum Revision” (with Nicole Auxier), a poster presented at American Academy of Colleges of Nursing Baccalaureate Education Conference, Orlando, FL, November 2019.

Salvador Orara, Shiley School of Engineering, in his role as acting president AIGA Portland the professional organization for design, collaborated with the vice president of brand innovation at Nike to introduce “Impressions of Sport: 20 Years of Nike Communication Design” to the Portland design community at Swanson Studios in NW Portland on November 21, 2019. The one-night exhibition and presentation was open to members of AIGA and the community at large. As an education initiative, Salvador and his team worked with key faculty across different schools in the area including Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, George Fox, and UP to provide students with private access tours to view the exhibit.

Martin Cenek, Shiley School of Engineering, had his paper, “Semantic Network Analysis Pipeline: Interactive Text Mining Framework for Exploration of Semantic Flows in Large Corpus of Text,” (with student coauthors Rowan Bulkow, Levi Oyster, Boyd Ching, and Ashika Mulagada) published in MDPI Applied Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/app9245302.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his brain teaser, “A Number of Reasons to Celebrate Gert Boyle,” published in the Portland Tribune on December 4, 2019.

Barb Braband, Rebecca Gaudino, and Anissa Rogers received a Teaching Poster Award for the presentation of “Innovations in Interdisciplinary Education on Grief: An Interview Project” at the 2019 National Symposium for Academic Palliative Care Education and Research in San Diego, CA, on Oct. 12, 2019.  The 2019 National Symposium was sponsored by the Shiley Institute for Palliative Care.

Jane Scott, Clark Library, presented a poster, “Empowering ethical practices: Activities for access services” (with Heidi Senior) at the Access Services Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2019.

Christina Ivler, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote “Frequency-Response and Frequency-Domain Models” and “Classical Frequency-Domain Design Methods” (with J. David Powell) and “Control System Optimization Methods in the Frequency Domain” in Baillieul J., Samad T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London, 2019.

Buck Taylor, chemistry, wrote “Cooperative CO2 Scission by Anomalous Insertion into a Rh–Si Bond” (with Matthew Whited, Daron Janzen, and student coauthors Michael Trenerry, Jia Zhang, Theodore Donnell, Paul Peterson, Vanessa Eng) in Organometallics , November 2019 , 38 , 4420–4432.

Ami Ahern-Rindell, biology, was invited to be a member of a 3-person review panel to participate in onsite campus visits during  October 29 – November 1 to review several PUIs (Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions) in Oklahoma who are recipients of an NIH-INBRE Consortium Award. This multi-million dollar grant provides funding for 5 years to improve biomedical research across the state of Oklahoma collaboratively between research intensive universities, PUIs, and Community Colleges.

Lora Looney,  international languages and cultures, gave a faculty workshop on “Unpacking the Project First to Identify a Course’s Driving Question(s) Towards Teaching for Understanding” at the 39^th Original Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Oxford, OH, on November 22.

Earth to Kenzie, a youth opera by librettist Jessica Murphy Moo, marketing & communications, and composer Frances Pollock, premiered in Chicago this fall, with public family performances in November. After Kenzie and her mom are displaced from their home, Kenzie relies on her imagination, the wild and funny antics of her video-game avatar, her mom, her teacher, and a new friend from the family shelter to get through a tough time. The show also involves Fortnite dance moves and space kitties. See these links for more.

Jessica Murphy Moo was also asked by Portland Monthly to write about her predecessor, the late Brian Doyle, on the occasion of a new collection of his essays (One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder) being released by Little, Brown on Tuesday, December 2. See the article at this link.

Philip Vue, Clark Library, received a $12,720 Oregon Heritage Commission Grant from Oregon Parks and Recreation Department in November 2019.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, presented “Achieving Success in College,” a talk given at the National FGEN Day at the University of Portland, organized by the Shepard Academic Resource Center, November 8, 2019.

Rachel Wheeler, theology, was elected as secretary/treasurer of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality in November 2019. She presented “The Revelatory Tide: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Water Crises” and “Reading Luce Irigaray for an Elaboration of the Shared as Ascetic Practice” at the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA, November 2019.