News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
Fr. H. Richard Rutherford, C.S.C., theology, wrote “Baptisteries in Ancient Sites and Rites,” published in Pettegrew David K., William R. Caraher, and Thomas W. Davis, The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, 167-187, January 2019.
Christine Harrington, nursing, was recently accepted as an inaugural scholar in the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Leadership Development Program.
Kevin Jones, social work, presented “Mental Health First Aid: 8-Hour Certification Training” at United Way of the Columbia-Willamette in Portland on November 14 and 28, 2018.
Jon Stanfill, theology, presented “A Deafening Silence: The Challenges of Writing an Environmental History of the Goths,” at Climate Science and Ancient History: Decoding ‘Human’ and ‘Natural’ Archives, University of Basel, Switzerland, 27 November 2018.
Kimberly Ilosvay, education, had her article, “Understanding comlpexities: Teacher voices on differentiating literacy practices” (with student Elise Pepe) published in Northwest journal of Teacher Education, 13 (2), December 2018.
Jeffrey Gauthier, philosophy, wrote “Gender, Social Construction, and The Second Sex,” a review of Bonnie Mann and Martina Ferrari, eds., “On ne naît pas femme: on le devient”: The Life of a Sentence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), Radical Philosophy Review 21 (2018): 355–359, September 2018.
Simon Aikiokhai, theology, presented “Encountering Other Cultures in a Time of Cultural Pluralism,” a talk given to participants at the Moreau Center Immersion Seminar (with co-presenter Lara Trout) on November 30, 2018. He reviewed Born from Lament. The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa by Emmanuel Katongole in the journal Horizons, volume 45, issue 2, pp. 471 – 472, December 2018.
Larry Larsen, performing and fine arts, designed the scenery for the Portland Revel’s production of “Highland Voyage,” which is performing in the Newmark Theater at the Portland Performing Arts Center from December 14 through December 22.
Several faculty members from international languages and cultures participated in the Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference, November 9-11, at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash. María Echenique presented “El pacto con el lector en los cuentos de Magela Baudoin”; Giannina Reyes-Giardiello presented “Beyond the Long Shadow of Magic Realism: Mexican Gothic Fiction” and also chaired a panel entitled “Spain, Portugal, and Latin America: Jewish Culture and Literature in Trans-Iberia”; and Matthew Warshawsky presented “The Excellencies of the Hebrews of Isaac Cardoso: Shades of Spain in an Iberian Diasporic Denial of Anti-Jewish Calumnies.”
Stephanie Meyer and Michelle Collazo, nursing, successfully passed the Certified Healthcare Simulation Educators exam and are the first CHSE’s in the School of Nursing. This certification is integral to growing a program aligned with best practice simulation healthcare education standards.
Rebecca Smith, education, wrote “Supporting the social emotional health of teachers: Building resilience when teaching students with trauma” in WERA Educational Journal (WEJ), November 2018. She presented “Critical professional development: Meeting the needs of teachers and students” at the annual meeting of National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), Memphis, TN, November 2018, and “Let’s get appy: Technology-based formative assessment” at the annual Washington Educational Research Association (WERA) conference, Seattle, WA, December 2018.
Andrew Guest, psychological sciences, wrote the chapter “SDP [Sport for Development and Peace] and Sport Psychology” in the Routledge Handbook of Sport for Development and Peace edited by Holly Collison, Simon C. Darnell, Richard Giulianotti and P. David Howe.
Andrew Guest, psychological sciences, gave a presentation entitled “World Cup Teaching: Making Mega-Events Sociological Learning Opportunities” at the annual meetings of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport on Thursday, November 1, in Vancouver BC.
Amber Vermeesch, nursing, had “Students Unable to Identify Ethical Dilemmas” (with Patricia Cox) published in Medical Ethics Advisor, 34 (12), 141-141, December 2018.
Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, presented “Office hours on the road: Improving access for student nurse athletes” (with Benjamin Kahn, Samuel Williams) at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Baccalaureate Conference. New Orleans, LA, November 2018.
Rachel Wheeler, theology, serves as co-facilitator, Emerging Scholars Group, Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, November 2018 to present. She was co-chair of Exploratory Session, Critical Studies in Asceticism, American Academy of Religion, November 2018, and presented “Ecospiritual Practices: Asceticism in Response to Social and Ecological Injustice,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 19, 2018.
Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his brain teaser, “My View: Thanksgiving has a number of curiosities,” published in the Portland Tribune on November 21, 2018. See the article here.
Simon Aihiokhai, theology, had his article, “Locating the Place of Interreligious Friendship in Comparative Theology,” published in Journal of Buddhist-Christian Studies vol. 38 (Nov. 2018): 149 – 152.
Jim Baillie, philosophy, authored “Hume’s Moral Sentimentalism” in The Humean Mind (eds. A. Coventry & A. Sager), published by Routledge.
Anissa Rogers, social work, along with two colleagues from West Virginia and Radford Universities, gave a workshop entitled “Smile and say ‘social work:’ Photographic methods in practice, teaching, and research” at the Annual Program Meeting for the Council on Social Work Education in Orlando, Florida, November 10, 2018.
Aziz Inan, engineering, had his article, “My View: This adds up: Halloween is really scary!,” published in the Portland Tribune on October 31, 2018. See the article here. Inan also had his brain teaser, “My View: Numbers tell story of Marvel’s Stan Lee,” published in the November 14 edition of the Portland Tribune. See the article here.
Irene Routté, Moreau Center, facilitated a retreat, “Justice Starts at Home; Racial Identity, Community and Justice Work,” for Jesuit Volunteers of Color, a group which is engaged in a year of post-graduate service with Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest, on November 5-6, 2018, in Seattle, Wash.
John Orr, English, was a panel discussion participant for “Getting Past the Artificial Divisions Between Honors and National Scholarship Advising” at the National Colleagiate Honors Council Conference, November 9, 2018, Boston, Massachusetts.
Samuel Holloway, business, presented “Management Teaching: Idea Sharing and Q&A” (withy R. Evan Davis) at the Teaching & Pedagogy Workshop at the 2018 Southern Management Association Annual Conference. Lexington, Kentucky, November 2018.
Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, along with Tom Landy, of College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., gave an invited presentation on “Promoting Human Dignity and Civic Responsibility” to the Chicago Region consortium of Lilly Fellows on November 9 at Lewis University in Romeoville, Ill.
Dann Pierce, communication studies, and communication studies alumna Rebekah Markillie presented a competitively selected research paper: “’no step on snek:’ Net Memes as Visual Deixis” at the annual meeting of the Visual Communication division of the National Communication Association in Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 2018.
Several chemistry faculty sponsored research presentations took place at the annual “College Science Research” sponsored by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust on November 9 and 10, 2018, in Vancouver WA. “Isolation of antibiotic materials from ancient soil bacteria” by Anthony Gutierrez, Casey Raul, and Sr. Angela Hoffman; “Analysis of Pigments in Three 15th-Century Christian Paintings in Alcudia, Spain ” by Justin Olson, Anthony Nguyen,David Ile, and Valerie Walters, Kara Breuer, Julio de Paula, and Ronda Bard; “Elemental Analysis of Coins and Other Metal Artifacts Excavated from the Ancient Roman City of Pollentia” by John Pelleisier, Ryan Helbling, and Riley McCammon, with Ronda Bard, Kara Breuer, and Valerie Walters; “Effect of nanoparticles on the redox properties of electron transfer mediators” by Amanda Restani, Brandon Tran, and Paige Hall; “Expansion of secondary spheres around 2,5-dihydroxy-1,4-quinone core via phosphonate groups” by Claire Kearney, Ed Valente, and Eugene Urnezius; “Ruthenium-Catalyzed Ring-opening/ Ring-closing Metathesis Polymerization” by Christopher Elkhal and Buck Taylor; “Mechanism of Ruthenium Ethenolysis Catalyst Deactivation” by Sarah Zalucha and Buck Taylor; and “Investigation of an Uncharacterized Radical S-adenosyl-L-methionine Enzyme from Thermatoga neopolitana” by Lilly Landers, Kay Smith, and Rachel Hutcheson.
Eric Anctil, education, presented “The Future of Higher Education: International Opportunities and Challenges” in late October 2018 at the New Trends of Ethnic Minority Education in the Globalized World Conference, Yunnan University, Kunming, China. Anctil’s participation in the International Academic Cooperation Initiative with Yunnan University represents a new research collaborative partnership between the UP Higher Education and Student Affairs graduate program and Yunnan University’s Research Institute of Higher Education. For additional information, contact Anctil at anctil@up.edu.
Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, presented “The REFLECT Project: Spreading Evidence-based Teaching in STEM,” a 60-minute Workshop (with Tara Prestholdt, Valerie Peterson, Eric Anctil, Heather Dillon, and Carolyn James) at AAC&U National Meeting: Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education: Confirming the Authority of Evidence, Atlanta, GA, November 2018.
Heather Dillon, engineering, wrote “Design and Testing of a Micro-Bubble Separation System” (with student coauthors Phillip Tran and Christopher Manderson), presented to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Pittsburgh, PA, by coauthor Jordan Farina in November 2018.
Tammy VanDeGrift, engineering, presented a paper entitled, “Compare and Contrast in Data Structures” at the Northwest Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges in Bothell, Washington on October 12 – 13, 2018. She served on the conference organizing committee as the Speakers Chair and Partners Chair.
Naveen Gudigantala, business, presented “Gray Market Pricing for Chemotherapy Drugs: Issues and Implications”, at the Oregon Society for Medical Oncologists’ fall conference, November 3, 2018, Portland, OR.
Alice Gates, social work, presented a research colloquium, “Advancing equitable and culturally responsive paid leave policies,” at the University of Hawaii Myron S. Thompson School of Social Work, October 29, 2018. Gates was granted a visiting scholar appointment at UH to conduct work with faculty and the Hawaii Children’s Action Network, a statewide policy advocacy organization.
Andrew Eshleman, philosophy, presented a colloquium lecture, “Agency at its Best: The Virtue of Some Religious Models,” for the department of philosophy at the University of Hawaii on November 2.
Natalie Nelson-Marsh, communication studies, presented her National Science Foundation grant funded research at The National Communication Association pre-conference. The manuscript was entitled: “The $64,000 Question: Communicatively Constituting Adaptive-Transformative Resilience Capacities of Interorganizational Collaboration after Triggering Events.”
Simon Aihiokhai, theology, presented “Social Justice Understood as Life Flourishing: Perspectives from African Indigenous Religions and Christianity” at the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on November 6, 2018.
Dave Houglum, Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, presented “Developing Authentic Leaders Through Leadership Coaching and Deliberate Practice” at the 20th Annual Global Leadership Conference of the International Leadership Association, October 26, 2018, in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Lars Erik Larson, English, presented a paper at the Western Literature Association Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 26, 2018 titled “Regarding the Rage of Others: Three Billboards toward Ebbing Misery.” The paper explores a film by Martin Donagh in light of recent critical calls promoting a culture of public anger.
John Orr, English, published “Memory, Memorials and Poetry of the Great War” in Proceedings of The International Symposium on Interaction and Development of Languages and Cultures. September 11, 2015. Changchun, China: Jilin University Press. 29-43 (October 2017). He presented “Emily Dickinson and the Poetics of Indirection” and “Walt Whitman and the Poetics of the Body and Embodiment” at Jilin University and Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, October 2018.
Simon Aihiokhai, theology, wrote “Women as Ritualistic Agents in the Roman Catholic Church: A Comparative Theological Dialogue” (with Bede Benjamin Bidlack and Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier) in the Journal of Black Catholic Theological Symposium, Vol. XI (2018): 42 – 60, October 2018. He also presented “Persistency: The Face of Faith that is Relevant for our Times,” a reflection given to the Catholic community of Saint Andrew, Portland, Oregon, on October 30.
Eli Goldwyn, mathematics, presented “Modeling Influenza Outbreaks on a College Campus” at the International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research, Tempe, Arizona, October 2018.
Simon Aihiokhai, theology, presented “Insights from the Crossroads of African Histories: Colonialism, Identities, Languages, and Religions” to students registered in PHL 410-A: Education and Politics, on October 25, 2018. He wrote “Reading the Signs of the Times – A Response to Cultural Populism” on Wakeup Lazarus Blog for October 23, 2018. He presented “The Role of Ancestors in Yoruba Religious and Cosmological Worldview,” a lecture given to students registered in RELG 130: Living Religions of the World at Roanoke College, September 28, 2018.
Natalie Nelson-Marsh, communication studies, was competitively selected to present “The $64,000 Question: Communicatively Constituting Adaptive-Transformative Resilience Capacities of Interorganizational Collaboration after Triggering Events” to the 2018 National Communication Association Pre-Conference on Resilience and Communication (with Stephanie Lenhart and Jared Kopcznski).
Rebecca Smith, education, presented “Developing critical literacy through book club and digital storytelling” (with Sophia Aguirre, Theresa Foley, Zachary Carroll, Kristine Foo, Christopher Lee, Mayetta Martel, Hannah Osborn, Corri Seideman) at the Oregon Council of Teachers of English (OCTE) annual conference, Portland, OR, October 2018.
Kevin Jones, social work, presented, “Are youth with foster care experience succeeding in undergraduate social work education? Results from a U.S. survey” at XV Conference EUSARF (European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents) in Porto, Portugal, on October 4, 2018.
The third edition of Trudie Booth’s book, French Verb Tenses, has been published by McGraw-Hill (October 2018).
Bob Butler, environmental studies emeritus, and Susan Graves, Lincoln County School District safety officer, presented “Teaching Resources on Cascadia Earthquake and Tsunami Science, Hazards, and Emergency Preparedness” at the Oregon Science Teachers Association conference in Newport on October 12.
Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, had his review of the book Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic: Blood and Faith, by Ronnie Perelis (Indiana UP, 20016), published in HaLapid: Journal of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, autumn/winter 2018 issue.
Hannah Highlander, mathematics, presented “Vaccination Strategies and Herd Immunity Thresholds in Small World Models” (with student co-presenters Emily McClung, Sam Rivas, Caelan Thomas, Emma Soriano) and “Biomathematics and Social Justice: Reinventing Models of Disease Spread to Study Efficacy of Bystander Violence Prevention” (with student co-presenters Parkes Kendrick, Tsikata Apenyo) at the International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research, Tempe, Arizona, October 2018. She also served as panelist and organizer for “Improving Collaboration in Mathematical Biology,” panel session on Community Building in Biomathematics at the same conference.
Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, presented “Untethered Lecture Capture: Creating Collaborative Learning Environments” (with co-presenters Benjamin Kahn, Samuel Williams, student co-presenter Katie Adams) at the MAGNA Teaching with Technology Conference 2018, St. Louis, MO, October 7, 2018.
Steve Kolmes, environmental science, wrote “Ethical Analysis of Stakeholder Values in Revealing Complexity” in Will Focht, Michael A. Reiter, Paul A. Barresi, and Richard C. Smardon (Editors) Education for Sustainable Human and Environmental Systems: From Theory to Practice. Routledge Press, with student ccoauthors Michael Humphreys and Sara Kolmes, October 2018.
Simon Aihiokhai, theology, presented “Sarajevo: Memories of Bridge-Building for Our Times” at the College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Collaborative held on Thursday, October 4, 2018, at the Bauccio Commons. He also presented “Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Nigeria: Paradoxes and Successes. Seeking a Third Voice” to students in CST 491: Intercultural Engagement and Leadership, on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. He posted “Same-Sex Marriages: Reading the Signs of the Times” on Wakeup Lazarus Blog, September 26, 2018.
Andrew Downs, psychological sciences, co-authored an article written by psychological sciences students Kimberly Hubbard, Paige Reohr, and Lauren Tolcher titled “Stress, mental health symptoms, and help-seeking in college students” that was recently published in the Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research.