UPbeat

News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.

Update

update

Eli Goldwyn, mathematics, recently received a “Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM) Minigrant” to fund a student research group for next academic year. The UP group will be paired with a group led by a PCC instructor. CURM is funded by a National Science Foundation grant. See more here.

Ted Eckmann, environmental science, wrote “Combining Ordinary Kriging with Wind Directions to Identify Sources of Industrial Odors in Portland, Oregon” (coauthored with Steve Kolmes, Jim Houck, and student coauthors  Sandra Velasquez, Logan Simpson, Joe Walker, and Samantha Wright) in PLoS ONE 13(1): e0189175, January 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189175). He also wrote “Measuring and Modeling Microclimate Impacts of Sequoiadendron giganteum” (with student coauthors Logan Simpson, Joe Walker, Summer Grandy, Sasha Lower, Annemarie Morach, Audra McNamee, Anjali Haripriyan, Dani Castillo, Abigail Kessi, and Maranda Hamilton) in Sustainable Cities and Society (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2017.12.028), February 2018.

Hannah Highlander, mathematics, wrote “Vaccination Strategies for Small Worlds” (with Winfried Just) in Wootton, A, Peterson, V, and Lee, C., editors. A Primer for Undergraduate Research: From Groups and Tiles to Frames and Vaccines. New York, NY: Springer, 223-264, Feb. 2018.

Jeff Meiser, political science, was awarded a Faculty Development Grant award of $10,000 by the Israel Institute.

 

update

Ami Ahern-Rindell attended the WORLD Symposium on Lysosomal Storage Disorders in San Diego February 5th to the 9th. This international conference brings together researchers, clinicians, and patient advocacy groups to promote translational outcomes. Dr. Ahern-Rindell presented “A Variant of GM1 Gangliosidosis in a Sheep Model” based on her collaborative research with UP students.

Rich Gritta, business, was quoted in a story, “Police plane, jet reportedly flashed by laser beams near PDX,” on KPTV Channel 12 on February 12, 2018. See the story here.

Kevin Jones, social work, co-authored an article, “Defining and achieving permanency among older youth in foster care,” published in Children and Youth Services Review, Vol. 87, (April 2018). Available online here.

Larry Larsen, performing and fine arts, designed the scenery for Portland Actors Conservatory’s production of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.” The production opens February 16 and plays through March 4 at the Shoebox Theater at 2110 SE 10th Ave.

Kimberly Ilosvay, education, (with Anita Bright and Bernd Ferner) presented “Positionality and Identity in Language Education” at the Language, Identity and Education in Multilingual Contexts conference, Dublin, Ireland, February 2018.

Lauren Alfrey, sociology, published “Book Review: Ready Player Two: Women Gamers and Designed Identity by Shira Chess” in Gender & Society, February 7, 2018.

 

 

 

 

update

Andrew Eshleman, philosophy, delivered a colloquium lecture on “Agency at its Best: Some Religious Models” and led two philosophy faculty workshops on teaching Chinese philosophy at Western Washington University, Feb. 1-2, 2018.

Eduardo Contreras, studies abroad, coauthored a chapter called, “Underrepresentation in Education Abroad” in a book that was just published by Stylus Publishing and NAFSA called, Promoting Inclusion in Education Abroad.  As the website says, “The book offers a combination of research-based chapters and case studies from leading experts on the barriers that disproportionately impact specific groups of students, including: students with disabilities; first-generation college students; undocumented students; racial and ethnic minorities; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors; and males.”

Kevin Jones, social work, presented “Get Involved, Make a Difference: Stop Elder Abuse and Neglect,” a training sponsored by Elders in Action, Portland, OR, December 2017.

 

update

Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, presented “Moral resilience – a strategy to attenuate moral distress among student nurses,” (with Laura Mood and student co-presenters Taylor Mossman and Marie Wagner) at the International Conference and Exhibition on Nursing, LasVegas, NV, January 29, 2018.

Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, presented “I was Following the Yellow Brick Road and it Took a Hard Left” at the 2018 Women in Science Student Summit, Reed College, Portland OR , January 2018.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, coauthored “The Internal and External Focus of the Liturgy” for Wakeup Lazarus Blog, October 8, 2017;  “Liturgy, Preaching, and the Social Teaching of the Church: Going Back to Our Roots” for Pray Tell Blog, September 4, 2017; “Discerning the Content of Obedience” for Wakeup Lazarus Blog. August 10, 2017;  “A Second Look at Prosperity Gospel” for Wakeup Lazarus Blog  July 25, 2017;  “Liturgy: In Nigeria and Portland, Church Attendance and Spiritual Development: Testimonies” for Wakeup Lazarus Blog, July 9, 2017; “A Journey of Unity and Restoration in God” for Wakeup Lazarus Blog, April 9, 2017; presented “Pre-Colonial, Colonial, and Post-Colonial Identities of Africa: A Response to Globalization,” a lecture given to students registered for the course PHL 491: Race, Gender, and Colonialism, on Tuesday, November 14, 2017, University of Portland; and wrote “Grounded in Mercy: Embracing a Practical Theological Response to the Reality of HIV/AIDS Sero-Discordancy” for Journal of Black Catholic Theological Symposium, Volume X (2017): 11 – 27.

 

 

update

Michael Cameron, theology, wrote “Augustine and John’s Gospel from Conversion to Confessiones,” published in Augustinian Studies 48:1-2 (2017), 263-78, November 2017. He also wrote “Kerygma Petrou” and “Law: Early Latin Christianity” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, eds. Christine Helmer, et al. (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter), vol. 15: 139-40, October 2017, and presented “Augustine’s Early Readings of Genesis,” for an International Conference on Augustine’s Literal Commentary on Genesis,” hosted by Tübinger Augustinus Zentrum, Evangelisches Stift, Universität Tübingen, October 2017.

September Nelson, nursing, completed her Ph.D. in nursing at the University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus in December. The title of her dissertation is “Relationships among workload, teamwork, and missed nursing care in the nursing home environment.”

Ali Na, communication studies, published “Gangnam Eth(n)ic: The Transnational Politics of YouTube Reperformance” in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 13(3) in December 2017. In January, she also published a public intellectual piece with a response from cultural theorist Sara Ahmed, entitled “Living (Out of Joint) a Feminist Life” for Syndicate (A Living Network of Scholarship in the Humanities).

Tisha Morrell, education, presented a paper co-authored by Sally Hood and Erik Mellgren ’15 entitled “A first-year middle school science teacher’s experiences navigating science content in a dual language immersion program” at the  2018 Association for Science Teacher Education Conference in Baltimore, Maryland.  Tisha also was installed as president of the association at the January conference.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, published “An African Ethic of Hospitality for The Global Church: A Response to The Culture of Exploitation and Violence in Africa” in Filosofia Theoretica: African Journal of Philosophy, Culture, and Religions Vol. 6 no. 2, (2017): 20 – 41. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ft/article/view/164695. He presented “Embracing the Radical Power of Love: Seeking a Way Forward in the Era of Hate” as a reflection paper at “Beloved Community – Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Our Way Forward” on Monday, January 15, 2018, the Chapel of Christ the Teacher.

Hannah Highlander, mathematics, presented “Open Problems for Undergraduates: Vaccination Strategies for the Control of Infectious Disease,” (with Winfried Just) at the Special Session on Open and Accessible Problems for Undergraduate Research, Joint American Mathematical Society (AMS)/Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Meetings, San Diego, California, January 2018. She also presented “‘Rule-of-Five’ Framework for Models and Modeling to Unify Mathematicians and Biologists and Improve Student Learning” (with Carrie Eaton) at the Special Session on Trends in Undergraduate Mathematical Biology Education for the same conference.

Aziz Inan, engineering, had his article, “A dozen mathematical oddities to celebrate Benjamin Franklin’s 312th birthday,” linked on the website of the Friends of Franklin organization. See the article here.

 

 

 

update

Bryan Rookey, sociology & social work, wrote “Drugged Driving in the Opioid Era: Spatial Patterns of Oxycodone Use in Fatal Traffic Crashes, 2001–2016” in Substance Use & Misuse, DOI: 10.1080/10826084.2017.1407342, January 2018.

Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, served as a respondent on a panel addressing medieval, early modern, and modern history at the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) 49th annual conference held in Washington, DC, December 17-19, 2017. A review of his book The Perils of Living the Good and True Law: Iberian Crypto-Jews in the Shadow of the Inquisition of Colonial Hispanic America appeared in AJS Review 41.2 (2017). The reviewer was Ana E. Schaposchnik of DePaul University.

Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, was invited to provide a retreat for the faculty and staff of Blanchet Catholic School in Salem, Oregon on January 2, on the theme “Setting the World on Fire: Stirring the Embers.”

 

update

Jeff Kerssen-Griep, communication studies, recently published “Navigating instructional dialectics: Empirical exploration of paradox in teaching” with co-authors Blair Thompson (Western Kentucky U) and C. Kyle Rudick and Kathryn Golsan (U of Northern Iowa) in Communication Education, the discipline’s instructional communication flagship journal.

Bob Butler, physics, works with IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology) Education and Public Outreach to develop educational resources about earthquake science and hazards. They recently published online a new animation titled “What Are the Forces that Drive Plate Tectonics?”  The animation can be found at this link.

Janet Banks, nursing, presented (with Nicole Auxier and Casey Shillam) “Curriculum revision: Blowing up a perfectly good program” at the 44th Annual National Conference of the Professional Nurse Educators Group (PNEG). Pittsburgh, PA, November 2017.

Janet Banks, nursing, presented (with Nicole Auxier and Casey Shillam) “Team Teaching in a Concept Based Curriculum” at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Faculty Development Conference. Atlanta, GA, November 2017.

 

update

Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, Jeff Kerssen-Griep, communication studies, and Larizza Limjuco, nursing, received grant funding from Sigma Theta Tau, Omicron Upsilon Chapter  for the education project titled “Transdisciplinary communication education for clinical instructors: Promoting moral agency and effective advocacy among clinical role models.”

Barbara Braband, nursing, Rebecca Gaudino, theology, and Anissa Rogers, social work, were the recipients of the national Innovative Teaching in Social Work Education Award given by the Council on Social Work Education and SAGE Publishers for their work on an interview and PhotoVoice project designed to help students develop empathy, self-reflection, and other skills when working with grief, loss, and suffering. They also presented a workshop on this project at CSWE’s Annual Program Meeting in October. See a press release on the award here.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, wrote “Advent is our Spring Season” for University of Portland Theology Newsletter, December 1, 2017. He wrote “Advent: A Prefiguration of the Parousia” in Wakeup Lazarus Blog, December 3, 2017.

Sharon A. Jones, engineering, was invited as part of an 18-person diverse group of community leaders hosted by Kay Toran and Mark Rosenbaum, “Dialogue that leads to a stronger, more cohesive and caring Portland community,” from November 2017 to present.

Alexa Dare, communication studies, wrote “Passive aggression: Visualizing the affect of child migration” in M. G. Antony and R. J. Thomas (Eds.), Interdisciplinary perspectives on child migrants: Seen but not heard (pp. 3-22). Lanham, MD: Lexington, December 2017.

Aziz Inan, engineering, was featured in KITV Island News for his Pearl Harbor brain teaser, an in article titled “Engineering professor finds 2017 Pearl Harbor anniversary day ‘Mathematically Special,'” at this link.

Larry Larsen, performing and fine arts, designed the scenery for the Portland Revel’s production of “Nordic Lights,” which opens on December 15 and runs through December 23 at the Saint Mary’s Academy Auditorium in downtown Portland.

update

David De Lyser, music, who serves as artistic director and conductor of the Choral Arts Ensemble of Portland, placed third nationally for the 2016-2017 American Prize Competition for Choral Performance, Community Division.

Larry Larsen, performing and fine arts, designed the scenery for Portland Actors Conservatory’s production of Jose Rivera’s “Marisol,” which is playing at the Shoebox Theater through December 17.

Nicole Ralston, education, had her article, “Differentiating internalizing and externalizing behavior: Different measures, different results?” (with Zeng, S., Benner, G.J., & Pierce, C.) published in WERA Educational Journal, 10 (1), 32-37 (November 2017).

Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing, presented “Transdisciplinary communication education for clinical instructors: Promoting moral agency and effective advocacy among clinical role models,” Sigma Theta Tau International, with Jeff Kerssen-Griep and Larizza Limjuco Woodruff, November 2017.

Sophia Tzeng, business, was notified that Portland based nonprofit Innovation Law Lab has been recognized by The Financial Times, which has shortlisted the organization for its Innovative Lawyers Awards North America 2017. Tzeng serves as interim executive director for Innovation Law Lab, which was founded in 2014 in response to the mass detention and deportation of immigrants and asylum seekers. The Innovation Law Lab has successfully scaled effective legal representation for immigrants and refugees and has collaborated with several immigrant and refugee pro bono projects nationally, including the Dilley Pro Bono Project, the Karnes Pro Bono Project, the Fearless Lawyering Immigrant Justice Campaign, and others.

 

update

Five faculty members participated in the 115th annual Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association Conference, held November 10-12 at Chaminade University of Honolulu. From English, Genevieve Brassard presented “‘Amazingly Interesting’: Students Seeing Contemporary Women Writers through the Lens of Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own;” and Molly Hiro presented “Touching Slavery.” From international languages and cultures, Maria Echenique presented “Translation and the Assessment of Intercultural Competence in Higher Education;” Giannina Reyes-Giardiello presented “Mexican Lucha Libre’s Masks: Transnational Symbols of Identity;” and Matthew Warshawsky presented “Retribution and Redemption in Lamentaciones del profeta Jeremías, a New Jewish Poem of the New Christian João Pinto Delgado (1627).”

Barbara Braband, nursing, presented “An Interdisciplinary Interview and Photovoice Project: Enhancing Students’ Skills in Grief and Loss Interventions” (with Anissa Rogers, social work, and Rebecca Gaudino, theology) at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Baccalaureate Education Conference, Nov. 16-18, 2017, in Atlanta, Georgia.