Champion of Sustainability Award

University of Portland Named Champion of Sustainability

November 6, 2015

The University of Portland will be honored as a Champion of Sustainability by McKinstry, a full-service, consulting, construction, energy, and facility services firm with offices around the country. The award will be announced during the November 15 Seahawks game at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, Wash.

In partnership with the Seattle Seahawks, the annual Champions of Sustainability program recognizes one organization during each regular-season home game that exhibits a forward-looking approach to innovative energy and waste reduction in the built environment.

Sustainability is a hallmark at UP. Shiley Hall is LEED Platinum certified; Fields and Schoenfeldt Halls are LEED Gold certified; and the Clark Library is LEED Silver certified. Bon Appétit partners with local farmers when possible, and the University’s biodiesel processor converts used vegetable oil into biodiesel fuel. The University was also the first college or university on the West Coast to eliminate disposable plastic water bottles in 2010.

For more information contact marketing and communications at 7202 or mktg@up.edu.

Kevin Jones, social work, had a poem titled “The Cold Road” published in Juniper, A Poetry Journal. Jones is currently working on a research project exploring the therapeutic effects of poetry writing for youth who have experienced trauma. You can read the poem using this link.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, published, “Birthday curiosities for Kamala Harris,” www.newsindiatimes.com, News India Times, Parikh Worldwide Media LLC, New York, Vol. LI, No. 43, p. 13, October 30, 2020. The same article was also published as “Birthday curiosities for Kamala Harris,” www.desitalk.com, Desi Talk, Parikh Worldwide Media LLC, New York, NY, Vol. XXIV, No. 44, p. 19, October 30, 2020.

September Nelson, nursing, contributed “Lateral integration of care services” in C. R. King, S. O’Toole-Girard, C. G. Rapp (Eds.), Clinical nurse leader: Certification review (pp. 55-64). Springer Publishing, October 2020.

Lars Larson, English, delivered a paper on cyclical displacement titled “West of India: Postwestern Patterns in the Rajneesh Oregon of Wild Wild Country” at the Western Literature Association Conference on Oct. 23 (held online of course, even as it was scheduled to take place in his hometown of San Diego).

Andra Davis, nursing, contributed “Nurse-led telephonic symptom support for patients receiving chemotherapy” (with Bell, J., Reed, S., Kim, K., Stacey, D., & Joseph, J.) in Oncology Nursing Forum 47(6), E199-E210, November 2020.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, wrote “Encounter: A New Icon of The Martyrs of Uganda” in Portland Magazine. Vol. 39. No. 1. (Fall 2020), 24 – 31.

Jacquie Van Hoomissen and Sarina Saturn co-led a collaborative of faculty who are participating in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Inclusive Excellence Grant Competition for $1,000,000 to support inclusive excellent in science higher education. They recently learned that the UP collaborative was selected as one of only 108 campuses to participate in the next phase of the competition. They will be participating in an HHMI supported learning community to further understand how to make our campus more inclusive.