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Difference Award

RESCHEDULED: Difference Award Honorees 2025 (Feb. 20)

February 3, 2025

The Athletic department would like to acknowledge this year’s winners of the “Difference Award”! Each year, student-athletes nominate a Professor on campus who they feel has made a difference in their life. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-03, 2025-02-17, Issues Tagged With: Athletics, Difference Award

2024 Difference Award Winners (Ceremony Rescheduled to Jan. 23)

January 8, 2024

The Athletic department would like to acknowledge this year’s winners of the “Difference Award”! Each year, student-athletes nominate a professor on campus who they feel has made a difference in their life. The definition is left intentionally vague, allowing students to reflect on the many ways a professor may have made a difference to them. (Read More)

Filed Under: 01-08-2024, Issues Tagged With: Athletics, Difference Award

Difference Award Winners Announced 

February 3, 2023

The Athletic department would like to acknowledge this year’s winners of the “Difference Award”! Each year, student-athletes nominate a professor on campus who they felt has made a difference in their life. The definition is left intentionally vague, allowing students to reflect on the many ways a professor may have made a difference to them. […]

Filed Under: 2023-02-06 Tagged With: Athletics, Difference Award

2020 Difference Award Winners Announced

February 14, 2020

The athletic department would like to acknowledge this year’s winners of the Difference Award. Each year, student-athletes nominate a professor on campus who they felt made a difference in their University of Portland experience. The definition is left intentionally vague, allowing students to reflect on the many ways a professor may have made a difference […]

Filed Under: 02-17-2020, Academics, Athletics Tagged With: Athletics, Difference Award, Martin Monto, Montana Hisel-Cochran, Stephanie Salomone, Thomas Greene

2019 Difference Award Winners

February 1, 2019

The athletics department would like to acknowledge this year’s winners of the Difference Award. Each year, student-athletes nominate professors on campus who made a difference in their life. The definition is left intentionally vague, allowing students to reflect on the many ways a Professor may have made a difference to them. This year’s professors are: […]

Filed Under: 02-04-2019, Athletics Tagged With: Athletics, Difference Award, Jeffrey White, Matt Welch, Shannon Mayer, Todd Easton

Student-Athletes Choose 2018 Difference Award Faculty Winners

February 16, 2018

The athletics department would like to acknowledge this year’s winners of the Difference Award. Each year, student-athletes nominate professors who they feel have made a difference in their lives. The definition is left intentionally vague, allowing students to reflect on the many ways a professor may have made a difference to them. This year, four […]

Filed Under: 02-19-2018, Athletics Tagged With: Athletics, Beth Morton, Bill Barnes, Bonnie Robb, Difference Award, Sheri Rooks

2017 Difference Award Winners

February 3, 2017

The athletic department would like to acknowledge this year’s winners of the Difference Award. Each year, student-athletes nominate a UP professor who has made a difference in their lives. The definition is left intentionally vague, allowing students to reflect on the many ways a professor may have made a difference to them. This year, four […]

Filed Under: 02-06-2017, Athletics Tagged With: Athletics, Difference Award, Lydia Towell, Paddy McShane, Shazib Vijlee, Steven Cook

2016 Difference Award Winners

January 22, 2016

The athletics department would like to acknowledge this year’s winners of the “Difference Award.” Each year, student-athletes nominate a professor on campus who they felt has made a difference in their life. This year, three professors were selected as winners: David Turnbloom, theology Mark Pitzer, psychology Sarina Saturn, psychology The professors will be honored at […]

Filed Under: 01-25-2016, Athletics Tagged With: Athletics, Difference Award

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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.

Jessica Murphy Moo, editor of Portland Magazine and director of storytelling, wrote the lyrics to two songs in “We Go On, Oswego,” a song cycle honoring female refugees who lived at Camp Ontario in upstate New York. From 1944-1946, Camp Ontario provided emergency shelter to refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. “We Go On, Oswego” was performed at Nazareth College, in collaboration with Finger Lakes Opera, on December 4, 2025. It was commissioned by Katie Hannigan, PhD. The song “There Is No Underground,” was written in collaboration with composer Maria Thompson Corley, and the song “My Table,” was written in collaboration with composer Kurt Erickson.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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