Fixit UP, Thursday, March 21

March 15, 2019

Next Thursday, March 21, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. (please note: this is a new time from previous upbeat notices), the College Ecology Club is hosting Fixit UP in the Pilot Space (Shiley 110). All are welcome to stop by and bring in broken clothes, jewelry, small appliances, bikes, and electronics to have them fixed for free by skilled volunteers.

The Ecology Club invites all to participate and sign up to volunteer at the event. As a participant, you can help reduce waste in our community by bringing in broken items and having them repaired instead of throwing them away. As a volunteer, you can help sign in and direct participants, repair jewelry, sharpen knives, and fix clothing, electronics, bikes or small appliances. If you’d like to volunteer, please sign up! Volunteer Form HERE.

Please forward this information to others who might like to know about the event. The College Ecology Club humbly asks that you mention the event in class, send an email to students, announce the event on Moodle class discussion boards, etc.

For more information contact Ruby Beauchamp, CEC president, at beauchar20@up.edu.

Sister Angela Hoffman, chemistry, and four of her students presented their research at the spring 2019 National American Chemical Society meeting in Orlando Florida March 31-April 4:

Antimicrobial natural products from ancient actinomycete bacteria (S. Angela Hoffman)
Antibiotic and anticancer activity from bacteria collected at a Roman archeological site (Astrid Schick)
Isolation of Natural Insecticides from Yew Trees (Connell Morantte)
Purification and isolation of natural compounds found in ancient soil (Casey Raul)
Purification and isolation of antibiotic compounds from archeological site soil (Anthony Gutierrez)

The ACS student club also won a third place award and plaque for their activities from the past year.

Anissa Rogers, sociology and social work, published the 5th edition of her textbook, Human Behavior in the Social Environment, with Routledge Publishers.

On Tuesday, 16 April, Bohn Lattin, communication department, conducted two public speaking workshops for “Young Leaders from Africa with World Oregon.” Each year, World Oregon, in conjunction with the United States Department of State, hosts several youth leadership exchange programs which brings young leaders from around the world to the U.S. for a three-week leadership development course. The public speaking workshops were a part of the “Young Leaders from Africa” leadership development courses. Students from The Gambia, Mozambique, Sudan, and Kenya attended.

Lora Looney, Spanish, presented “Uncovering Spain’s Genocidal Puericulture State through Allegories of Disobedience in Ana Maria Matute’s 1956 ‘Los niños tontos’ (‘The Foolish Children’)” at the conference on Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide at the Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Nicole Ralston, education, presented “A program evaluation of an innovative alternative school: Preventing dropout and promoting post-secondary success” (with James Carroll, Jacqueline Waggoner, Rebecca Smith, and student co-presenters Zuly Naegele and Cara Wright) at a roundtable session at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 2019. Ralston also presented “Longitudinal impacts of a pre-kindergarten summer transition program on attendance and early literacy skills” (with Jacqueline Waggoner, Beth Tarasawa, and student co-presenters Matthew Thul, Danielle Trollinger, Karen Apgar) at a paper session at the same conference.

Rachel Wheeler, theology, was invited to attend the Madeleva Lecture and New Voices Seminar at St. Mary’s College, IN, Center for Spirituality, St. Mary’s College, April 2019.

September Nelson, nursing, presented “Relationships among workload, teamwork, and missed nursing care in nursing homes” at the Western Institute of Nursing Research Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2019.

Matthew Kuhn, Shiley School of Engineering, served as moderator and discussant for the workshop “Granular Matter Across Scales,” Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, March 18-22, 2019.