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Glimpses of 2020

February 3, 2021

The Dundon-Berchtold Institute has created a platform for sharing time capsules of personal moments and experiences that continue to linger from 2020. “These Glimpses of 2020 [including one shared by Bill Reed] are not intended to be grand arcs of storytelling from the whole year, nor framed as thorough reflections in which contributors now have […]

Filed Under: 02-08-2021, 02-15-2021, Dundon-Berchtold Institute Tagged With: BIll Reed, Dan McGinty

Bill Reed Mass, Reception, June 26: You’re Invited!

June 22, 2018

You are cordially invited to Mass and a reception honoring Bill Reed on the occasion of his retirement from University of Portland on Tuesday, June 26, at 3:30 p.m., in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher. University president Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C., will preside, and Rev. Edwin Obermiller, C.S.C., will serve as homilist. Mass […]

Filed Under: 06-11-2018, 06-18-2018, 06-25-2018, Campus Services, Events Tagged With: BIll Reed, University events

New University Events Director: Joe Kaleel

May 25, 2018

The University has hired Joe Kaleel as the new director of university events. With Bill Reed’s retirement at the end of June, Kaleel will start work on June 4 to allow for about a month of he and Bill working together. Kaleel spent 10 years at ETZEL Agency in various capacities, including chief experience officer, […]

Filed Under: 05-28-2018, Campus Services, Events Tagged With: BIll Reed, Joe Kaleel, University events

Thank You Bill Reed!!

May 18, 2018

We are proud of our graduates and enriched as a family with every commencement weekend, and would like to remind everyone that the bows and ribbons, programs and schedules,  the details both large and small for the big show, are expertly managed by the UP events staff, who work behind the scenes to insure a successful and […]

Filed Under: 05-07-2018, 05-14-2018, 05-21-2018, Campus Services, University Archives, University Museum Tagged With: BIll Reed, Carolyn Connolly, University Archives and Museum

A FIRST For Engineering

January 10, 2014

On Saturday, January 4, the Shiley School of Engineering hosted the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Kickoff regional event in the Chiles Center. More than 800 high school students and teachers from Oregon and Southern Washington came to UP for the nationwide NASA telecast of the kickoff for this year’s […]

Filed Under: Academics, Events, Shiley School of Engineering Tagged With: BIll Reed, Dan Sandaal, Debbie Munro, Kim Spir, Scott Leykam, Sharon Jones, Shiley School of Engineering

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Jeff Kerssen-Griep, Communication and Media, presented “Teaching with Transformative International Conflict Partners” on the panel, “Healing Divides and Elevating Connections within Conflict & Peacebuilding.” National Communication Association Convention. November, 2025.

Christi Richardson-Zboralski, Director of Marketing – Graduate Programs, published a short story under pen name, Christi R. Suzanne, entitled “Outlaw’s Dust.” In Lisa Diane Kastner (Ed.) 27 Stories: An LA Wildfire Anthology. Running Wild Press. January 7, 2026. All proceeds from this anthology go toward Habitat for Humanity LA. Find it on the Broadway Books website or on Bookshop.org.

Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

Jessica Murphy Moo, editor of Portland Magazine and director of storytelling, wrote the lyrics to two songs in “We Go On, Oswego,” a song cycle honoring female refugees who lived at Camp Ontario in upstate New York. From 1944-1946, Camp Ontario provided emergency shelter to refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. “We Go On, Oswego” was performed at Nazareth College, in collaboration with Finger Lakes Opera, on December 4, 2025. It was commissioned by Katie Hannigan, PhD. The song “There Is No Underground,” was written in collaboration with composer Maria Thompson Corley, and the song “My Table,” was written in collaboration with composer Kurt Erickson.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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