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.

Anissa Rogers, social work, along with two colleagues from West Virginia and Radford Universities, gave a workshop entitled “Smile and say ‘social work:’ Photographic methods in practice, teaching, and research” at the Annual Program Meeting for the Council on Social Work Education in Orlando, Florida, November 10, 2018.

Aziz Inan, engineering, had his article, “My View: This adds up: Halloween is really scary!,” published in the Portland Tribune on October 31, 2018. See the article here. Inan also had his brain teaser, “My View: Numbers tell story of Marvel’s Stan Lee,” published in the November 14 edition of the Portland Tribune. See the article here.

Irene Routté, Moreau Center, facilitated a retreat, “Justice Starts at Home; Racial Identity, Community and Justice Work,” for Jesuit Volunteers of Color, a group which is engaged in a year of post-graduate service with Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest, on November 5-6, 2018, in Seattle, Wash.

John Orr, English, was a panel discussion participant for “Getting Past the Artificial Divisions Between Honors and National Scholarship Advising” at the National Colleagiate Honors Council Conference, November 9, 2018, Boston, Massachusetts.

Samuel Holloway, business, presented “Management Teaching: Idea Sharing and Q&A” (withy R. Evan Davis) at the Teaching & Pedagogy Workshop at the 2018 Southern Management Association Annual Conference. Lexington, Kentucky, November 2018.

Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, along with Tom Landy, of College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., gave an invited presentation on “Promoting Human Dignity and Civic Responsibility” to the Chicago Region consortium of Lilly Fellows on November 9 at Lewis University in Romeoville, Ill.

Dann Pierce, communication studies, and communication studies alumna Rebekah Markillie presented a competitively selected research paper: “’no step on snek:’ Net Memes as Visual Deixis” at the annual meeting of the Visual Communication division of the National Communication Association in Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 2018.

Several chemistry faculty sponsored research presentations took place at the annual “College Science Research” sponsored by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust on November 9 and 10, 2018, in Vancouver WA. “Isolation of antibiotic materials from ancient soil bacteria” by Anthony Gutierrez, Casey Raul, and Sr. Angela Hoffman; “Analysis of Pigments in Three 15th-Century Christian Paintings in Alcudia, Spain ” by Justin Olson, Anthony Nguyen,David Ile, and Valerie Walters, Kara Breuer, Julio de Paula, and Ronda Bard; “Elemental Analysis of Coins and Other Metal Artifacts Excavated from the Ancient Roman City of Pollentia” by John Pelleisier, Ryan Helbling, and Riley McCammon, with Ronda Bard, Kara Breuer, and Valerie Walters; “Effect of nanoparticles on the redox properties of electron transfer mediators” by Amanda Restani, Brandon Tran, and Paige Hall; “Expansion of secondary spheres around 2,5-dihydroxy-1,4-quinone core via phosphonate groups” by Claire Kearney, Ed Valente, and Eugene Urnezius; “Ruthenium-Catalyzed Ring-opening/ Ring-closing Metathesis Polymerization” by Christopher Elkhal and Buck Taylor; “Mechanism of Ruthenium Ethenolysis Catalyst Deactivation” by Sarah Zalucha and Buck Taylor; and “Investigation of an Uncharacterized Radical S-adenosyl-L-methionine Enzyme from Thermatoga neopolitana” by Lilly Landers, Kay Smith, and Rachel Hutcheson.

Eric Anctil, education, presented “The Future of Higher Education: International Opportunities and Challenges” in late October 2018 at the New Trends of Ethnic Minority Education in the Globalized World Conference, Yunnan University, Kunming, China. Anctil’s participation in the International Academic Cooperation Initiative with Yunnan University represents a new research collaborative partnership between the UP Higher Education and Student Affairs graduate program and Yunnan University’s Research Institute of Higher Education. For additional information, contact Anctil at anctil@up.edu.

Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, presented “The REFLECT Project: Spreading Evidence-based Teaching in STEM,” a 60-minute Workshop (with Tara Prestholdt, Valerie Peterson, Eric Anctil, Heather Dillon, and Carolyn James) at AAC&U National Meeting: Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education: Confirming the Authority of Evidence, Atlanta, GA, November 2018.

Heather Dillon, engineering, wrote “Design and Testing of a Micro-Bubble Separation System” (with student coauthors Phillip Tran and Christopher Manderson), presented to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Pittsburgh, PA, by coauthor Jordan Farina in November 2018.

Tammy VanDeGrift, engineering, presented a paper entitled, “Compare and Contrast in Data Structures” at the Northwest Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges in Bothell, Washington on October 12 – 13, 2018. She served on the conference organizing committee as the Speakers Chair and Partners Chair.

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