Save the Dates: Las Posadas, La Virgen de Guadalupe Midnight Mass

November 9, 2018

Please save the dates for upcoming presentations by the Diversity and Inclusion Program:

Las Posadas: Wednesday. December 5, 2018, 7 to 9 p.m., hosted in Mehling Ballroom. Come learn about the traditions of Las Posadas, a cultural and religious celebration. There will be an information session followed by a celebration with music and authentic treats like aroz con leche. Brought to you by DIP, Campus Ministry, Sigma Delta Pi, M.ECh.A, FASA sa UP, and Women of Color. For questions or ADA accommodations email Yuri at hernandy@up.edu. Free and open to the public.
La Virgen de Guadalupe Midnight Mass: morning of Wednesday, December 12, 2018, midnight. Learn about the celebration of La Virgen de Guadalupe in St. Mary’s Lounge, 12-12:25; Bilingual Mass in Chapel of Christ the Teacher, 12:30-1:30 with live mariachi; After Mass Social, St. Mary’s Lounge, 1:30-2 a.m., with pan dulce and champurrado. Please feel free to bring family, friends, loved ones! Brought to you by DIP, M.E.Ch.A, Campus Ministry, and the planning committee for Virgen de Guadalupe. For questions/ADA accommodations email Yuri at hernandy@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.