News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
Laura Mood, nursing, presented at the Western Institute of Nursing conference on April 8 in Anaheim, Calif., a podium presentation entitled “Experiences of Students and New Nurses with Learning Disabilities in Transition-to-Practice.” Ted Eckmann, environmental studies, was quoted in an article, “Oregon House Speaker Criticizes DEQ Investigation Of Swan Island Odors,” published on April 11 […]
Barbara Braband, nursing, presented “An Evaluation of the Impact of a Community-Academic Partnership Project” (with Mayer, K., Killen, T.) at the Western Institute of Nursing Research Conference in Anaheim, Calif. Sarah Weiger, English, presented “Cruelties Great and Small: Coleridge’s Albatross in the 21st Century” at the annual American Comparative Literature conference, held March 17-20, at […]
Casey Shillam, nursing, and Ellyn Arwood, education, wrote “Controlled postpartum-newborn simulation with objective evaluation exchanged for clinical learning. Clinical Simulation” (with Veltri, L., Rowe, J., & Bell, K.) in Nursing, 12(5), 177-186. doi: 10.1016/j.ecns.2016.01.005 (2016). Aziz Inan and Peter Osterberg, engineering, along with recent graduates Baris Inan (engineering) and Nihat Inan (engineering and music), published […]
Sr. Angela Hoffman, chemistry, attended the 251st National American Chemical Society meeting in San Diego March 13-17. She took part in several committee and council meetings and presented a symposium paper entitled “Getting people excited about the science of climate change” for the Division of Environmental Chemistry. She also co-organized and presided at a symposium […]
Sally Hood, education, presented a session at the Confederation of Oregon School Administrator’s (COSA) English Learners Alliance Conference, held in Eugene, Ore., on Friday, March 11. Title of the presentation: “Using Information Gap Activities to Improve English Learners Oral Language Proficiency.” Aziz Inan, engineering, published his article titled “3-14-16: Happy ’rounded off’ Pi Day!” in […]
Ted Eckmann, environmental science, presented “New Vegetation Indices for Assessing the Health of Sedum spp. on Green Roofs” (with Brooke A. Holmes) and published in Proceedings of the Oregon Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Volume LXXV: February 27, 2016, Forest Grove, Ore. This past fall, the MJ Murdock Charitable Trust did some filming on campus […]
Bob Butler, environmental studies, was an organizer and lead instructor of a teacher workshop on Cascadia Earthquake Hazards, Engineering, and Preparedness on Saturday February 27 at Highline College in Des Moines, Wash. The workshop was offered by the Cascadia EarthScope Earthquake and Tsunami Education Program (CEETEP) and was funded by a grant from the Puget […]
College of Arts and Sciences dean Michael Andrews serves as vice president of the international board, International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES), effective January 2016. Sally Rothacker-Peyton, nursing, had her peer-reviewed article, “Breaking Free,” published in Management Strategies for Youth with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, October 2015. Mead Hunter, performing […]
Alice Gates, social work, testified in the Oregon House Business and Labor Committee at the State Capitol on February 15, 2016 regarding SB 1532, a bill to raise Oregon’s minimum wage. Anne Santiago and Gary Malecha, political science, presented “Integrating Technology to Teach Research Methods” at the Annual American Political Science Association’s Teaching and Learning […]
Mark Meckler and Sam Holloway, business, were featured in a front-page story, “Brewing a new model for sharing the wealth,” in the February 9 edition of the Portland Tribune. See the article at http://tinyurl.com/hnamvdy. Casey Shillam, nursing, serves as a consultant and reviewer for “Competencies and Curricular Guidelines for Undergraduate Nursing Programs: Preparing Nurses to […]