Update

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, was featured in a number of publications and news outlets for his expertise in palindrome dates thanks to the recent date of February 2, 2020 (02/02/2020): NPR, USAToday, Salem Register-Guard, NBC Dallas-Ft. Worth, Daily Sitka Sentinel, and many more. Geneviève Brassard, English, has published a review of Threshold Modernism: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]