Update

Kate Hughes, Engineering, published “Transitional circulation patterns from full ice cover to ice-off in a seasonally ice-covered lake.” Aquat Sci 86, 40 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-024-01044-3

Ashley Hass, Business Administration, presented “Unplugged & Empowered: Cultivating Digital & Social Media Wellness” at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX. March 2024.

Rebekah Hanson, Performing and Fine Arts, published “Underrepresented Contemporary Classical Composers: Interviews and Insights into Their Works.” American String Teacher Journal. 74 (1), 35-48, February, 2024.

Alice Gates, Social Work, was an invited speaker at the annual International Women’s Day roundtable sponsored by the Institute for Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science, and International Relations (IFISP) on March 8, 2024, at Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL) in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Gates is a short-term Fulbright Scholar at UFPEL where she is working with the graduate program in public administration/social and organizational sciences and the graduate program in law and social policy.

Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, published “Resilience and Redemption: A Transatlantic Perspective on Psalms in Espejo fiel de vidas (Faithful Mirror of Lives)” in a double issue of American Jewish History focused on Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in the Americas. Vol. 107, no. 2, 2023, pp. 553-573, https://doi.org/10.1353/ajh.2023.a920589.

Eric Anctil, Education, presented “Authenticity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” at St. Edward’s University, Convocation 2024 in Austin, Texas, as a Plenary Speaker. The talk explored the concept of authenticity as it relates to the human experience of existing alongside the seamless integration of intelligent systems, which are fundamentally changing how humans work, communicate, and engage with the world around them. It was pretty awesome.

Azeb Madebo, Department of Communication and Media, published “Digital Diaspora and Nationhood: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Practices of Nationhood” in the International Journal of Communication. The paper was part of a MASTS (Media As SocioTechnical Systems) special issue on “Sociotechnical Change”. Vol. 18 (2024).

Ian Parkman, Business, was quoted in The Oregonian in an article entitled, “Oregon Supreme Court weighs appeal in ‘greenwashing’ claim case against Tillamook.” (3/7/24)

Ian Parkman and Samuel Holloway, Business, and David Turnbloom, Theology, published, “Co-Designing Strategic Rituals in Craft Beer: Churches, Denominations, Sects, and Mystics.” Design Management Review (2024), 35:1, 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/drev.12378.

Stephanie Salomone, Mathematics and Engineering, served as lead organizer and host of the Western Regional Noyce Network 2024 Conference in Portland OR. The conference brought together 340 K-12 pre-service and in-service STEM teachers from high-needs districts in 10 Western states, along with the higher education faculty and staff who run NSF Noyce programs from over 50 institutions. This project was funded by the National Science Foundation WRNN grant. Salomone also published “President’s Message: A New Year, a New Strategic Plan.” Coauthors: Russell Goodman, Kristin Morris, Michael Pearson, Hortensia Soto. MAA Focus, Vol. 44 (No. 1), pages 40-41. February 2024. https://bit.ly/49w0Rjr

Nicole Ralston, Education, presented “EM Assessment Across the Network.” Co-presenters: Ben Tribelhorn, Timothy Doughty. Invited workshop presented twice at the KEEN National Conference, Austin, TX. February 2024.

Alexa Dare, Communication Studies, published “My tombstone is a QR code: How online obituaries published by human composting organizations persuade through digital memorialization.” Paper presented at the Western States Communication Association Conference in Reno, NV, February 24, 2024.  **Selected as a Top Paper in Environmental Communication**

Dann L. Pierce, Communication, published: Metaphors and Beyond: The Guide. River Kishon Publishers, 2023. Pierce also published a related student workbook: Metaphors and Beyond: Student Exercises. River Kishon Publishers, 2024. The e-book is supported by the blog: www.metaphorsandbeyond.com and on Instagram and Facebook: @metaphorsandbeyond

Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center and School of Education, and Andrew Guest, University Core and Psychological Sciences, presented: “The Liberal Arts as an infusion of Hope: Reflections on Introducing a Revitalized University Core Curriculum.” Lighting the Way Forward: The Purpose of Catholic Higher Education in a Changing World. University of San Diego, California. January, 2024.

Erica Bailey, School of Nursing and Health Innovations, was featured on OPB’s Think Out Loud, along with several of her colleagues from the Alliance of Black Nurses Association of Oregon (ABNAO). ABNAO has recently launched a podcast project, Black Care Matters, that centers the voice of Black nurses working in the state of Oregon. The project, funded by an Oregon Center for Nursing Well Being grant in 2023, highlights that racism in the workplace is eroding Black nurses’ well-being and seeks to transform that reality. The show is a safe space for BIPOC nurses to speak their truth, tell their stories, increase their joy, and problem-solve new interventions to eliminate white supremacy in healthcare.

Mohammadhadi Hajilou, Engineering, published: “Smoldering of Wood: Effects of Wind and Fuel Geometry.” Fire Technology (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-024-01542-8

Genevieve Brassard, English, published a review-essay of three titles reprinted by the UK publisher Handheld Press: Latchkey Ladies by Marjorie Grant, Business as Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford, and Where Stands a Winged Sentry by Margaret Kennedy. The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945. Vol. 19 (2023).

Lara Looney, International Languages and Cultures, published the “Prólogo” for the re-issued book publication of playwright Antonio Zancada’s comedy Cuentos surrealistas para mujeres reales. Madrid: Ediciones Ambular, 2024 (commissioned prologue).

Barbara Bloom-Groshong and Montana Hisel-Cochran, Business Administration, co-hosted “A Core Emphasis on Ethics.” Podcast episode. Portland Business Journal Thought Leadership Podcast. February 2024.

Stephanie Salomone, Mathematics, delivered the keynote address “On Turtles and Cholera and Becoming a Scientist,” at Discovering the Scientist Within. Tarleton State University, Stephenville TX

Samuel Holloway, Business Administration, published “Co-designing strategic ritual in craft beer: Churches, Denominations, Sects, and Mystics.” Proceedings of the 2023 IASDR Congress. International Association of Societies of Design Research International Congress. October 2023. Milan, Italy.

Marjorie Attis-Josias, SONHI, published “BIPOC Nursing Students’ Perceived Barriers to Help-Seeking When under Stress.” Nursing Forum, vol. 2023, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/5977511. Attis-Josias will also present “Advancing Diversity Equity and Inclusion within a Regional Nursing Organization,” at the American Association of the Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Diversity Symposium Program in New Orleans, Lousiana on February 5, 2024 and “Creating a Culture of Safety in Nursing Academia,” at Oregon Health & Science University’s Virtual Open Forum Series Trauma Informed Healthcare Education Practices on February 14, 2024.

Jordy Wolfand, Engineering, published “Evaluation of Biochar on Metals, Nutrient, and Microplastics Removal in Bioretention Systems.” Coauthor: Cara (CJ) Poor. Student Coauthors: Maya Struzak, Abby Radke. Journal of Environmental Engineering. 150(4): 04024007. DOI: 10.1061/JOEEDU.EEENG-7487. January 2024. Wolfland also published “Impact of wastewater reuse on contaminants of emerging concern in an effluent-dominated river.” Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1091229.

Jacquie Van Hoomissen, Biology, has been selected as a national fellow by the Fellows Council for PULSE, the Partnership for Life Sciences Education. The mission of the organization is to “provide academic departments with resources and skills that promote alignment of undergraduate life sciences programs with best educational practices. PULSE promotes the removal of barriers to access, equity, and inclusion, and the adoption of evidence-based teaching and learning practices.  Such practices promote the development of scientists who reflect the diversity of our society and non-scientists who understand science as a way of knowing about the natural world.”

Fr. Jeff Schneibel, CSC, Archives & Artifacts, has been tapped to consult and assist the General Administration of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Rome), and has been appointed to serve in the role of General Archivist. In Rome, the General Archivist works with the several Holy Cross jurisdictions around the world—in Ghana, South India, Bangladesh, Haiti—coordinating their local archives, to preserve a narrative of their activities and to build better communications and bridges to share those stories globally. The concurrent appointment to this limited office is effective January 1, 2024, and permits him to continue his principal work and residence here at UP where Fr. Schneibel has held the position of University Archivist since 2012.

Claire McKinley Yoder, Nursing, was awarded a grant of $17,710.00 from the American Nurses Association’s Commission to Address Racism in Nursing. Collaborators: Kala Mayer, Cheryl Pollard, Gordon Williamson.

Matthew Warshawsky, International Languages and Cultures, completed a three-year term serving on the Fulbright U.S. Student Program National Screening Committee for English Teaching Assistantships in Spain.

Aziz Inan, Engineering, authored “123 Angel Number Meaning,” which was subsequently published by Farmers’ Almanac. Lewiston, ME. December 22, 2023. https://www.farmersalmanac.com/123-angel-number-meaning Interestingly, the US calendar system this year ends with double 123 on its last day, December 31, 2023, expressed as 12/31/23.

Student members of the History department’s Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society (Rho Phi chapter), received 1st prize in the “Undergraduate Print Journal” category for their publication Northwest Passages in the Gerald Nash Journal Prize, which honors the nation’s best undergraduate history journal. Advised by Brad Franco, PhD, all of the editing work was done by the students as part of HST 471 last spring.

Ian Parkman, Business, gave Invited Research Talks at the Glasgow School of Art, International Management & Design Innovation program and Northumbria University, Multidisciplinary Design Innovation program. November 29-December 1, 2023.

Larry Larsen, Fine Arts, designed the scenery for the Portland Revel’s production of “Emerald Odyssey,” this year’s solstice show performed at the Alberta Abbey. December 15-23, 2023.

Mohammadhadi Hajilou, Engineering, was awarded a grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for $139,499.00. The grant was awarded for Hajilou’s work: “Coupled Assessment of Energy and Ignition Potential from Vegetation and Structurally-Generated Firebrands.”

Cara (CJ) Poor, Engineering, published “Permeable Pavement in the Northwest: Pollution Source or Treatment Option?” Student Co-author Jackson Kaye. Sustainability, 15: 12926. August 2023. Poor also published “Microplastics: The Occurrence in Stormwater Runoff and the Effectiveness of Bioretention Systems for Removal.” Co-authors: Jordy Wolfand, Buck Taylor. Student Co-authors: Emma Morrow, Abby Radke, Elizabeth Diaz-Gunning. Journal of Environmental Engineering, 149: 04023078. September 2023.

Corey S. Pressman, Integrated Health and Wellness, will be showing works at Blackfish Galley in Portland and Riversea Gallery in Astoria through December.

Cara Hersh, English, published “No Curtains: Generic Divides and Ethical Connections in Ian McEwan’s Atonement,” in The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction edited by Graham Wolfe (Routledge, 2023), pp. 171-184.

Stephanie Salomone, Mathematics, attended West Coast Conference Executive Council meeting, Burlingame CA. October 2023. Salomone also presented “Active Engagement in Asking Questions and The REFLECT Protocols for Classroom Observation, an institute in two parts.” Co-presenters: Eric Anctil, Heather Dillon, Carolyn James, Valerie Peterson, and Tara Prestholdt. Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. October 2023.

Geneviève Brassard, English, attended the annual Modernist Studies Association (MSA) conference, where she contributed to two events. She co-organized a roundtable on the challenges of combining scholarship and teaching and presented remarks titled “Making Modernism Accessible: Teaching Mrs. Dalloway and its Afterlives,” and she shared a paper titled “’She Must Assemble’: Natasha Brown’s Assembly as Intersectional Revision of Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway” in the seminar “Receptions of Modernism in Contemporary Women’s Writing.” Brooklyn, NY. October 2023.

Tamara (Tammy) Herdener, Associate Vice President of Student Development and Dean of Students, presented “Assessing Sense of Belonging in the LGBTQIA+ Community” and facilitated a roundtable discussion for Small Colleges and Universities members at the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) Western Regional Conference in Las Vegas, NV on November 6-7, 2023. Tammy serves as the Small Colleges and Universities Liaison to the NASPA Regional Advisory Board.

Ashley Hass, Business Administration, published “Are Your Students Aware of Social Media Wellness? A Necessary Macromarketing Curriculum Extension.” Co-authors: Kelley Cours Anderson, Breanne Mertz, and Louis Zmich. Journal of Macromarketing, 1-15. November 2023.

John Orr, English, professor emeritus, presented “The Transpacific Imagination of Henry Adams” at the Integration and Development of Language and Cultural Studies Conference. Jilin University, Changchun, China. November 2023.

Andrew Eshleman, Philosophy, presented “Religious Realism and Useful Fictions” at the Northwest Philosophy Conference. Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR. November 5, 2023.

The Beacon and staff writers were recognized with several distinctions at the College Media Association’s annual Pinnacle Awards. The Beacon received a 1^st place honor for “Best Organizational Diversity Initiative of the Year,” supported by the work and initiatives of Chiara Profenna, Kimberly Cortez, and Brie Haro. Kate Cuadrado received 1^st place in the “Best General News Story” category for the feature “‘It’s not just UP:’ How the healthcare crisis is affecting UP’s nursing school.” Janea Melido received 3^rd place in the “Best Profile” category. Noah Carandanis and Ryan Reynolds received 3^rd place in the “Best Multimedia Feature Story” category. Kimberly Cortez received an Honorable Mention for “Best General Newsletter”.

Corey Pressman, Nursing and Health Innovations, published The double-edged sword: An evidence-informed workbook for the well-being of nurses and the places they work. Co-author: Chole Littzen. Student Co-author: Brylee Kiminski. American Nurses Association (2023).

Four faculty members participated in the 120^th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), held in Portland October 26-29. Lars Larson, English, presented “Velo-Chromo-Urbanism: Maximizing the 15-Minute City’s Range with the Problem-Solving Bicycle”; Joshua Swidzinski, English, presented “Lives under Glass: Botanical Perspectives in Abraham Cowley’s Late Poetry”; Maria Echenique, International Languages and Cultures, presented “El legado del documentalista Jorge Ruiz en El regalo de la Pachamama, del director japonés Toshifumi Matsushita (2008)”; and Matthew Warshawsky, International Languages and Cultures, presented “‘Moved by Brotherly Love’: The Relación of M. Pereyra de Paiva Describing a Visit to the Jewish Community of Cochin, India.”

Jeff Gauthier, Philosophy, was elected Vice President and President-elect of the North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP). NASSP supports work in mainstream philosophical analysis and the history of philosophy, along with a wide range of alternative perspectives including feminism, critical race theory, Marxism, post-colonial theory, and gender studies.

Matthew Barner, Engineering, published “Concepts in Context.” Coauthors: Shane Brown, Floraliza Bornasal, David Linton. Prism, 33​​​​​​​(1), 22 (2023 Fall).

Tammy Herdener, Student Affairs, and Jeromy Koffler, Student Activities, co-presented “Assessing Sense of Belonging in University of Portland’s LGBTQIA+ Community” at the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) 2023 Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington.  November 9, 2023.