Nightmarish Summer Commute Times Approaching

June 29, 2018

According to media reports and the Oregon Department of Transportation, a number of bridge and freeway closures are likely to impact commuting times for those traveling to and from campus this summer. Public safety director Gerald Gregg recommends that employees and students who drive to campus check the ODOT link here and plan accordingly to avoid significant delays in traffic.

For example:

From July 8 to 23, the southbound ramp from I-5 to I-84 eastbound will be closed entirely at all times.
From July 25 to August 6, the ramp from I-84 westbound to I-5 northbound will be closed entirely at all times. During one of those weekends, ODOT will also close I-5 north between the Marquam and Fremont Bridges for paving.
From July 27 to August 27, I-84 westbound from Lloyd Center to I-5 south will be reduced to one lane of traffic.
Estimated I-84 commute from I-205 to I-5 between the hours of 5 a.m. and 11 p.m. is three hours. Congestion could start as far east as Troutdale, north as far as Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge, and south as far as Sunnyside on I-205.

Kevin Jones, social work, had a poem titled “The Cold Road” published in Juniper, A Poetry Journal. Jones is currently working on a research project exploring the therapeutic effects of poetry writing for youth who have experienced trauma. You can read the poem using this link.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, published, “Birthday curiosities for Kamala Harris,” www.newsindiatimes.com, News India Times, Parikh Worldwide Media LLC, New York, Vol. LI, No. 43, p. 13, October 30, 2020. The same article was also published as “Birthday curiosities for Kamala Harris,” www.desitalk.com, Desi Talk, Parikh Worldwide Media LLC, New York, NY, Vol. XXIV, No. 44, p. 19, October 30, 2020.

September Nelson, nursing, contributed “Lateral integration of care services” in C. R. King, S. O’Toole-Girard, C. G. Rapp (Eds.), Clinical nurse leader: Certification review (pp. 55-64). Springer Publishing, October 2020.

Lars Larson, English, delivered a paper on cyclical displacement titled “West of India: Postwestern Patterns in the Rajneesh Oregon of Wild Wild Country” at the Western Literature Association Conference on Oct. 23 (held online of course, even as it was scheduled to take place in his hometown of San Diego).

Andra Davis, nursing, contributed “Nurse-led telephonic symptom support for patients receiving chemotherapy” (with Bell, J., Reed, S., Kim, K., Stacey, D., & Joseph, J.) in Oncology Nursing Forum 47(6), E199-E210, November 2020.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, wrote “Encounter: A New Icon of The Martyrs of Uganda” in Portland Magazine. Vol. 39. No. 1. (Fall 2020), 24 – 31.

Jacquie Van Hoomissen and Sarina Saturn co-led a collaborative of faculty who are participating in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Inclusive Excellence Grant Competition for $1,000,000 to support inclusive excellent in science higher education. They recently learned that the UP collaborative was selected as one of only 108 campuses to participate in the next phase of the competition. They will be participating in an HHMI supported learning community to further understand how to make our campus more inclusive.