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Brown Bag Lunch Series

Feeling The Winter Blues?

February 16, 2015

rain_cloud_BWThe human resources office is hosting a brown bag lunch session, “Conquering the Winter Blues,” presented by Cascade EAP. The presentation will provide useful tools to help brighten employees’ outlook during the long winter days. Bring your lunch and get some great tips on Tuesday, February 24, from noon to 1 p.m., in the Chiles Center Hall of Fame Room.

For more information visit the HR website or contact Andy Sherwood, human resources, at 8981 or sherwood@up.edu.

Filed Under: 02-16-2015, Campus Services, Human Resources Tagged With: Andy Sherwood, Brown Bag Lunch Series, Human Resources

Brown Bag Lunch Session: Exploring Your Relationship to Money, Dec. 10

December 8, 2014

money2The human resources office will host a brown bag lunch session, “Money Management,” presented by Cascade EAP, in the Chiles Center Hall of Fame room on Wednesday, December 10, from noon to 1 p.m. Walk away with some great money tips to help finish this year’s holiday shopping. Please join the HR team, and bring a fellow employee.

For more information contact Andy Sherwood, human resources, at 8981 or sherwood@up.edu.

Filed Under: 12-08-2014, Campus Services, Human Resources Tagged With: Andy Sherwood, Brown Bag Lunch Series, Human Resources

Brown Bag Lunch Session: Stress Management, Nov. 19

November 17, 2014

hThe human resource office will host a brown bag lunch session on “Stress Management,” presented by Cascade EAP, in the Chiles Center Hall of Fame room on Wednesday, November 19, from noon to 1 p.m. The presentation will be just in time for the busy and often stressful holiday season. Bring your lunch and join us! For more information contact Andy Sherwood, human resources, at 8981 or sherwood@up.edu.

Filed Under: 11-10-2014, 11-17-2014, Campus Services, Human Resources Tagged With: Andy Sherwood, Brown Bag Lunch Series, Human Resources, Stress Management

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Anita Gooding, social work, was selected as a 2020-2021 Field Research Scholar by the Transforming Field Education Landscape (TFEL) program at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Scholars attend regular seminars and present their own research related to strengthening field education in social work.

Ösel Plante, development, has a debut collection of poetry titled Waveland set for publication by Black Lawrence Press in April 2021. Please use this link to learn more.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering. recently shared some of his work on palindrome dates with the staff of Farmers’ Almanac which lead to an articled titled “2021: A Special Year For Palindrome Dates, Starting This Month!” See the article using this link.

Bob Butler, professor emeritus of environmental studies; Jenda Johnson, Earth Sciences Animated; and Nic Zentner, Central Washington University, published an animation titled “Ghost Forests: Evidence for a Giant Earthquake & Tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.” This animation explores how Native American oral history, geology of ghost forests in coastal Washington and Oregon, and written accounts of a tsunami that flooded Japanese Pacific Coast villages converge to document the most recent Cascadia subduction zone megathrust earthquake on January 26, 1700 at about 9 p.m. The Ghost Forest animation can be found on the IRIS website at: https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/animation/740 or on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPbt8iiDRo&feature=youtu.be.

Steven Kolmes, environmental studies, wrote an editorial on “Sustainability and the Role of Higher Education” in Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, Vol. 62, , pp. 2-3. See the article at this link. He also contributed “On a ‘Just’ Transition, Environment” in Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 63:1, 29-31, DOI: 10.1080/00139157.2021.1842715.. See the article using this link.

Amber Vermeesch, nursing, received an Opus Prize Foundation Grant Sabbatical Support, Opus Prize Foundation, $5,000, on November 12, 2020.

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