2018 Holy Week Observance

Holy Week, Easter Triduum

March 23, 2018

Campus Ministry will offer a number of services in celebration and observance of Holy Week, known as the Easter Triduum, all in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher:

Triduum morning prayers: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, March 29, 30, 31, at 9 a.m.
Holy Thursday, Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 4:30 p.m., March 29
Good Friday Liturgy: 3 p.m., March 30
Easter Vigil Mass: 8:30 p.m., March 31
Easter Sunday Mass: 10:30 a.m., April 1.
No 4:30p.m. Mass will be offered on Easter Sunday.

For more information contact Campus Ministry at 7131 or ministry@up.edu.

2018 Holy Week, Good Friday Observance

March 23, 2018

University offices will be closed and no classes will be held on Friday, March 30, in observance of Good Friday, according to Tom Greene, provost. The closing actually begins at 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 29; no classes should continue beyond that time, and other events, apart from those connected with the religious observance of Holy Week, should not be scheduled from that time through Monday, April 2.

Even though classes are not scheduled for Easter Monday, University offices will be open as usual.

The early closing on Holy Thursday is intended to allow students, faculty, and staff to attend the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, which will be celebrated in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher at 4:30 p.m.

The University’s custom of closing on Good Friday is in acknowledgment of the special religious character of the day. In Catholic tradition, Good Friday has always been recognized as one of three important days (the Sacred Triduum) of religious observance: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday.

For more information contact the provost’s office at 7105 or staten@up.edu.

Dann Pierce, communication studies, conducted a lecture/workshop on “Metaphors, Meaning, and Culture” with graduate students from Doshisha University and the Kyoto University Graduate School of Management in Kyoto on February 12, 2019.

Laura Dyer, biology, and her research student Allegra VanderWilde (junior biology major), received an Education Grant from the Society for Developmental Biology. This grant will provide approximately $1,500 for dissecting microscopes and lab supplies in support of a developmental biology-related project for the fourth graders of Astor K-8 School. The project will allow students to use brine shrimp to study their developmental life cycle and design experiments to test environmental factors that help these organisms survive, and is slate to begin in April 2019.

Ami Ahern-Rindell and Dave Wynne, biology, co-authored an abstract submission titled “Design and Analysis of a CRISPR Gene Editing Strategy in a Sheep Model Variant of GM1 Gangliosidosis” that was peer-reviewed and accepted as an oral, platform presentation at the WORLD Symposium 2019 on Lysosomal Storage Disorders in Orlando, Florida, February 5-8. The abstract was also published in Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 126(2):S12, February 2019 (doi:10.1016/j.ymgme.2018.12.028).

Lauren Alfrey, sociology & social work, wrote “Becoming a Geek Girl: Race, Inequality, and the Social Geography of Childhood” (with France Winddance Twine), edited by David M. Newman, Jodi O’Brien, and Michelle L. Robertson. Pp. 240-254 in Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, 11th edition, Sage Publications, February 2019.

Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, presented “Integrated STEM Task: The Flint Water Crisis,” Western Regional Noyce Alliance Conference, Tucson AZ , February 2019.

Joey Houck, information services, was quoted in an article, “Solid-State Storage Boosts Speed and Cuts Downtime for Campus IT,” in EdTech Magazine. See the article here.

Heather Dillon, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote “Laminar Natural Convection of an Isothermal Vertical Plate Using Schlieren Photography and Numerical Methods” (with student coauthors Hollis Crowder and Christopher Hampel) in Heat Transfer Research, vol 50, no 6, Pages 565-580, Feb. 21019. doi:10.1615/HeatTransRes.2018025783.

Eduardo Contreras, Jr., assistant provost for international education, diversity, and inclusion, was interviewed by Diverse Issues in Higher Education for an article titled “Diversity Abroad Conference to Focus on Inclusive Excellence in Global Education.” Contreras serves as committee chair for the conference, which will take place in Boston, Mass., March 2-5.

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