News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
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 […]
Members of the University Singers, directed by Michael Connolly, performed at the opening session of the 2016 Oregon Legislature on February 1. House speaker Tina Kotek lives near the University and made a special invitation to her neighbors. Steve Kolmes, environmental studies, hosted Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon’s Seventh Annual Earth Care Summit, “Renewing Creation From […]
Ami Ahern-Rindell, biology, attended the January 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in Washington, DC. She presented with colleagues from the Council on Undergrad-uate Research (CUR) on “Achieving an Institution-Wide Culture and Practice in Undergraduate Research.” Rich Gritta, business, had his article, “The History of Air Carrier Bankruptcy Forecasting and […]
Carol Dempsey, OP, theology, wrote “Harrowing Woes and Comforting Promisers in the Book of the Twelve” in The Book of the Twelve and the New Form Criticism, eds. Mark J. Boda, Michael Floyd, and Colin M. Toffelmite, in the Ancient Near Eastern Monographs series. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015, pp. 97-117. She also wrote “Poems, Prayers, […]
Sam Holloway, business, was quoted in a Portland Tribune article on the retirement of Portland microbrewing pioneer Kurt Widmer at the following link: http://tinyurl.com/zzz5d5o. Hannah Callender, mathematics, presented her paper, “Biocalculus: Changing Minds One Derivative at a Time,” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle, Wash. Two of her research students, math major Parkes Kendrick […]
Pamela Potter, nursing, was recently awarded a continuing education certificate of completion in Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) from Portland State University. This course of study was partially funded by a Butine grant. Aziz Inan, engineering, had his article, “Happy 75th Birthday, Joan Baez,” published by The Beacon on January 7, 2016. See the article at http://tinyurl.com/znfktm6.
Peter Pappas, education, and his students have released a new iBook, Exploring History: Vol III, available free at iTunes in 51 countries (also as a static pdf). It joins volumes I and II, which have more than 13,000 downloads from around the world. Aziz Inan, engineering, and Trudie Booth, international languages and cultures, wrote an […]