Diamond Dinner

16th Annual Diamond Dinner, With Alan Embree

February 12, 2016

The University of Portland baseball program is proud to present its 16th annual Diamond Dinner, the official kick-off and premier fundraising event for Pilots baseball. It will be hosted in the Beauchamp Recreation and Wellness Center on Saturday, February 27. The social and silent auction open at 6 p.m., and the dinner and program begin […]

Diamond Dinner Rescheduled For March 1

February 24, 2014

The Pilot baseball team’s annual fund raiser, the Diamond Dinner, has been rescheduled for Saturday, March 1 due to inclement weather conditions over the weekend of February 8. The rescheduled event will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Bauccio Commons, and will feature Major League Baseball manager Dusty Baker as guest speaker. Additional details will […]

13th Annual Diamond Dinner, Feb. 8

January 3, 2014

The athletics department is excited to announce that Major League Baseball manager Dusty Baker will be speaking at the 13th annual Diamond Dinner, sponsored by Red Lion Hotel on the River. The Diamond Dinner has become Pilot baseball’s primary fundraiser and is scheduled for Saturday, February 8, in the Bauccio Commons. Tickets are $55 each […]

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Ashley Hass, Business, published “Behind the Screens: An Exploration of Social Media Marketer Burnout.” Co-author: Kelley Cours Anderson. Student Co-author: Kiley Pettit. Journal of Marketing Theory & Practice, 1-23. October, 2025. Hass also attended the 2025 Conference of the Society for Marketing Advances (SMA) in Las Vegas, NV, where she sat on the discussion panels for the following sessions: “Digital Parenting Roundtable: Untangling the Marketplace of Children’s Digital Consumption”; “Sustainable Me: The Mental Health Journey of Marketing Graduate Students and Academics: A Discussion”; “Exploring Student’s Creativity with Artificial Intelligence in Marketing Higher Education”; and “Navigating Mental Health in Early Academic Careers.” Hass also presented “Empathy Without Eyes: Perceived Non-Judgment and Empathy from GenAI and Its Elects on Consumer Self-Esteem.” Student Co-presenters: Alex Tran, Danielle Hass. November, 2025.

Andra Davis, Nursing & Health Innovations, published “Chemo chair conversations: A qualitative study of how life and death influence oncology nurses’ well-being and professional care.” Seminars in Oncology. Available at SSRN 5277000. October, 2025. Davis also published “Towards equity in evaluation: Rethinking grading for nursing students.” Journal of Nursing Education. August, 2025.

Ian Parkman, Business, was named to the editorial board of the Journal of Design, Business & Society.

Matthew Warshawsky, International Languages and Cultures, presented an invited lecture via Zoom about his book From New Christians to New Jews: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Texts in Defense of Judaism for the Kanter Lecture Series of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies. November 9, 2025.

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