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Covert Gallery Reception: Photographs by Father Nicholas Guiney, C.S.C. (February 11)

January 16, 2026

The Clark Library invites you to a reception with UP’s own Father Nicholas Guiney, C.S.C. celebrating his exhibit “Más Allá”.

Filed Under: 2026-01-19, 2026-02-02, Issues, Library, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Clark Library, Photography Exhibit

Covert Gallery Reception: Paintings by Amanda Cardwell-Aiken (Oct. 23)

October 13, 2025

The Clark Library invites you to a reception with UP Theatre Costume Shop Manager, Amanda Cardwell-Aiken celebrating their exhibit “The Exploration of Mt. Hood”.

Filed Under: 2025-10-13, Events, Issues Tagged With: Clark Library, Dr. James T. Covert Gallery

Flu Vaccination Clinic (Sep. 30)

September 29, 2025

The Health & Counseling Center, in partnership with Safeway, is pleased to offer an on-campus Flu and COVID Vaccination Clinic for all students, faculty, and staff!

Filed Under: 2025-09-29, Health Center, Issues Tagged With: Clark Library, Health & Counseling Center, Vaccination

Streamline Your Fall Semester Prep with Library Course Reserves

August 4, 2025

Library staff are ready to assist you in preparing course reserves for your Fall classes. Course reserves are a convenient way to ensure students have timely access to essential materials. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-08-04, 2025-08-18, Issues Tagged With: Clark Library

Clark Library: Summer Course Reserves

April 14, 2025

Planning to teach this summer? Get some of your course prep out of the way! Library staff are ready to set up course reserves for Summer classes! Course reserves can be online or print items and films you wish to make available to your students. We also help you with copyright screening and scan materials to meet accessibility standards. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-04-14, Academics, Issues Tagged With: Clark Library

Library Survey: The Results Are In!

April 14, 2025

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Library Survey in November! Your feedback is invaluable, and we’re excited to share the results with our community. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-04-14, Issues Tagged With: Clark Library

The Clark Library Covert Gallery: Call for Proposals

March 31, 2025

The Clark Library seeks exhibit proposals from University of Portland students, faculty, and staff to be displayed in the Library’s main-level Covert Gallery during the 2025–26 academic year. Gallery exhibits feature the diversity of scholarship and culture on campus, as well as UP’s history. Submissions are due June 30. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-31, Issues Tagged With: Clark Library, Dr. James T. Covert Gallery

Clark Library Survey (Nov. 27)

November 23, 2024

The Clark Library values your feedback! We survey the University community every three years to better understand everyone’s needs, and satisfaction with our current services and resources. We invite staff and faculty to take the survey, which will be open through November 27. Responses are anonymous, but you can provide an email to be included in drawings for $25 gift cards. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-11-25, Issues Tagged With: Clark Library

Health & Counseling Center Vaccine Clinic (Oct. 28)

October 11, 2024

The Health & Counseling Center is partnering with Safeway to bring flu and COVID vaccines to campus. This vaccination clinic will be held in Clark Library and is open to students and employees.  Safeway will bill your insurance for the vaccines and most major insurance plans are accepted.  Kaiser is accepted for the flu vaccine only. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2024-10-14, Events, Issues Tagged With: Clark Library, Health & Counseling Center

Digital Lab: Fall Workshops (Sept. 23–26)

September 13, 2024

Want to develop your multimedia skills? Start with one of the Digital Lab’s introductory workshops on Canva, Graphic Design, Podcasting, or iMovie. Workshops will be offered during the week of September 23 and are free and open to current students, faculty, and staff. It’s also a chance to experience the new and improved Lab facility in the Shiley-Marcos Center for Design & Innovation! (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-09-16, Events, Issues Tagged With: Clark Library, Digital Lab Workshop

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Nick McRee, Sociology and Social Work, published “Academic debate and civic engagement in adolescence and young adulthood: evidence from a national longitudinal study.” Argumentation and Advocacy, 61(3–4), 323–338. He also published “When Chairs Shield Faculty from Service Opportunities: Protecting Colleagues or Hindering Community?” The Department Chair, 36(3), 11-13.

Katie Danielson, Education, was awarded a grant from The Spencer Foundation in the amount of $374,940.00 for the “Collaborating Towards Transformational Visions for Digital School Systems” project. Danielson also published “Learning to let go: Transformations in teachers’ pedagogical reasoning about classroom discussion.” Co-authors: Gotwalt, E., Kavanagh, S. Teaching and Teacher Education. January 2026

Daniel Bulek, Nursing & Health Innovations, published “From monoamine deficits to multiscale plasticity: Twenty-five years of ketamine and the neurophysiology of depression.” Journal of Neurophysiology, jn.00516.2025.

Dave Houglum, Director of Leadership Studies and Leadership Professor of Practice in the Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, facilitated a multi-day series of invited leadership development workshops for the staff team at Lutherhaven Ministries in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Houglum led six interactive sessions focused on DiSC-informed leadership, coaching-centered leadership, servant leadership and accompaniment, powerful feedback, and the co-creation of team commitments to support healthy culture and sustainable impact. In addition, Houglum provided multiple individual leadership coaching sessions for staff members throughout the engagement. January 2026.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published the following articles in VoiceAfrique.org: “The Saturated Wisdom of Saint Joseph: Relevant Virtues for Our Times.” (Reflections on the Readings of the Fourth Sunday of Advent, 2025). December 19, 2025. “The Gift of the Nativity is Grounded in an Ethics of Neighborliness.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Mass on Christmas Day, December 25, 2025). December 24, 2025. “The Spirituality of Ambition and the Grace of the Incarnation.” Reflections on the Readings for the Vigil Mass of Christmas, 2025. December 24, 2025. “The Theotokos: A Mirror in Which We Discover Ourselves as Bearers of God’s Life to Each Other.” (Reflection on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God.) December 31, 2025. “Jesus Christ: The Revealer of the Grace of Encounters and an Embrace of Difference.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord. January 4, 2026.) January 3, 2026. “Christian Baptism as a Summon for Global Justice: What We Must Embrace for Our Times.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Sunday of the Baptism of the Lord. January 11, 2026.) January 10, 2026. Aihiokhai also published a review of The Cross and the Olive Tree: Cultivating Palestinian Theology Amid Gaza. Edited by John S. Munayer and Samuel S. Munayer. Orbis Books, 2025. Catholicbooksreview.org

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.

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