Spring Book Orders Due October 31

October 13, 2017

Please submit your spring book orders to the bookstore by October 31. Orders can be submitted via email at sm796@bncollege.com or cave@up.edu. They can also be submitted via the web at https://www.facultyenlight.com/.

Please remember that even “No Text Required” orders must be submitted. Even if you haven’t previously ordered your books through the bookstore, please keep in mind that athletes and students using financial aid will source their books through the campus bookstore.

Questions? Please contact Erin Cave at x7125.

Martin Cenek, Shiley School of Engineering, presented “Machine Learning and Data Science ABMs: How to build cognitive, spatially aware, adaptive agents from limited data” (with Maxwell Franklin and student co-presenters Cory Shaeffer and Henri Thomas-Morgan) at the International Society for Ecological Modeling Global Conference 2019 (ISEM2019), October 1, 2019, in Saltzburg Austria. He also presented “The data-science driven model construction of coupled socio-ecological system dynamics: development of the decision support tools to study the salmon and caribou subsistence harvest in Alaska” (with Maxwell Franklin and student co-presenters Cory Sheaffer and Henri Thomas) at the 10th Annual Northwest Climate Conference, October 8-10, 2019, Portland, OR.

Sarina Saturn, psychological sciences, and her research team, co-led by Deirdre Katz, education, presented their findings as oral presentations at the Society for the Study of Human Development conference, “Stress, Resilience and Character Development Across the Life-Span,” October 11-13 in Portland, OR Her talk was entitled, “Transgenerational Prosociality: The Relationship between Facets of Resilience and Vagal Regulation during Moral Elevation” and psychology students Sabrina Legaspi and Rachel Mehlman will discuss their research on UP students with a presentation entitled, “How Diverse Identities and Values of College Students Relate to Resilience and Mental-Illness Stigma.”

Randy Hetherington, education, published “Partnering with school leaders: Principal assessments of completers” in the Journal of Education & Social Policy 6 (3), 1-7, October 2019. Coauthors are James Carroll, Jacqueline Waggoner, Hillary Gaudio, and Bruce Weitzel.

Jacqueline D. Van Hoomissen, biology, attended the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society’s mid-year Board of Directors meeting in Atlanta, GA, October 11-12, 2019. She is the secretary of the board of directors and past chair of the 2019 Annual Conference Planning Committee.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, presented “Christian Forgiveness As Incarnational: Turning To The Black Existential Experience In An Era of Hate,” a keynote address given at the 30th Annual meeting of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, October 10, 2019.

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