Carol Dell’Oliver

Grief Support for UP Faculty & Staff

October 25, 2019

All faculty and staff are invited to join in a conversation on how to cope with the recent loss of UP student Owen Klinger on Monday, October 28, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., in the Brian Doyle Auditorium. Co-facilitators will be Jennifer Crow, a grief and trauma specialist, and Carol Dell’Oliver, Health and Counseling Center.

Facilitators will provide a safe place to discuss personal reactions and ways to cope with grief and loss in the workplace, information and resources for getting support and caring for yourself and others, and strategies for effectively responding to grieving students.

For more information contact human resources at hr@up.edu.

New Health and Counseling Center Director

July 14, 2017

Carol Dell’Oliver has accepted the University’s offer to be the new director of the Health and Counseling Center. Her first day on campus will be Wednesday, August 2.

Dell’Oliver is a licensed clinical psychologist and is currently director of the Caldwell Counseling Center at Warner Pacific University. She has extensive background in college counseling, supervision, and clinical leadership as well as she has experience providing outpatient mental health services to children, adolescents, and adults in her private practice.

Susan Chisum, assistant director for primary care, has served as interim director since May. For more information contact Fr. John Donato, C.S.C., vice president for student affairs, at x8532 or donato@up.edu.

SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai, theology, reviewed and endorsed book manuscript: Mother Earth, Mother Africa & African Indigenous Religions. Edited by Nobuntu Penxa Matholemi, Georgina Kwanima Boateng, and Molly Manyonganise. African Sun Media, 2020. ISBN: 9781928480730. He also served as reviewer and endorser of manuscript: “Women and the Shame and Pain of Infertility” by Damasus C. Okoro, Wipf and Stock Publishers, July 2020.

Corey Pressman, nursing, had his poem, Quarantine Circuit, published in September 13th “Introspection” issue of the Lucky Jefferson Literary Journal. You can listen to a reading of the poem here.

Dawn Garzon Maaks, nursing, wrote “A cost-effective solution to video debriefing and livestreaming in simulation” (with Douglas Hughley) in Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 48 (November 2020), 15-19.

Kevin Jones, social work, had a poem, “A Painting of a Painting on Fire,” published in The Ekphrastic Review, an online literary journal dedicated to poetry inspired by visual art. Jones is currently working on a research project exploring the therapeutic effects of poetry writing for youth who have experienced trauma.

Jakob Kotas, mathematics, contributed “Specifications-based grading reduces anxiety for students of ordinary differential equations” (with Mel Henriksen, Mami Wentworth) to CODEE Journal: Vol. 13, Article 1, September 2020. Available at this link.

Buck Taylor, chemistry, contributed “Metal/Organosilicon Complexes: Structure, Reactivity, and Considerations for Catalysis” (with Matthew Whited) to Comments on Inorganic Chemistry, August 2020, 40, 217–276.

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