Dundon Berchtold Institute for Moral Formation and Applied Ethics

New Initiative: Ethics Week, Feb. 19-24

February 17, 2017

The Dundon-Berchtold Institute is facilitating and hosting Ethics Week from Sunday, February 19, through Friday, February 24. Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to participate in discussions of ethics as they relate to the curriculum, course content, history, and day-to-day life. The following two opportunities to engage with powerful stories are free and open to the public:

Ethics Week Keynote Address: Martin Daum, President and CEO of Daimler Trucks North America, Monday, February 20, 7:15 p.m., Buckley Center Auditorium. Daum will share insights into the ethical principles and challenges that guide his work with emerging technologies, making decisions with multiple stakeholders in mind, and the importance of ethics in framing his journey as a husband, father, and businessman.
Ethics Week Talk: Linda Biehl on Reconciliation and Restorative Justice, Tuesday, February 21, 7:15 p.m., Bauccio Commons. In August of 1993, Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was stabbed and stoned to death by an angry mob in the township of Gugulethu, South Africa. Two men who were convicted of Amy’s murder and served time in prison now work for the foundation established in her name. Linda Biehl, Amy’s mother, will share this remarkable story.

For more information contact Dan McGinty at x7596 or mcgintyd@up.edu.

David Brooks Tickets On Sale Monday, Nov. 2

October 30, 2015

New York Times columnist David Brooks will speak on Wednesday, March 16, 2016, at 7 p.m., in the Chiles Center. Tickets go on sale Monday, November 2 and can be purchased by calling the Chiles Center box office at x7525 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Faculty and staff will be limited to two tickets each and the cost per ticket is $10. A total of 650 free tickets are available for UP students with a limit of one ticket per person. When those tickets are gone, UP students may purchase a ticket for $10. General admission tickets are $20, and preferred seating is $25, with a limited number available.

Brooks is also an analyst on PBS Newshour and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, a frequent contributor on Meet the Press, and author of The Road to Character. His previous books include The Social Animal, On Paradise Drive, and Bobos in Paradise.

Brooks’ lecture is sponsored in part by UP’s Dundon-Berchtold Institute for Moral Formation and Applied Ethics and by Nossa Familia Coffee and AAA Oregon/Idaho.

For more information on Brooks and The Road to Character go to: http://theroadtocharacter.com/.

Jeffrey White, international languages & cultures, attended “Engaging College Students Using Active Learning Techniques,” .Magna Online Seminar, October 2020; and Southeast Supplemental Instruction Conference (SESI), University of North Georgia (online), September 2020.

Fr. Jim King, C.S.C., conducted the first session in a six-part workshop on the Catholic Church’s social justice teaching and Christian education from a Holy Cross perspective to the faculty and staff of Holy Redeemer Parish in North Portland on November 4, 2020.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, presented “Alterity and Violence in Nigeria: Rethinking Interfaith Encounters” at the 63^rd annual meeting of African Studies Association (Virtually). November 20, 2020. He also presented “Rethinking One’s Gifts as a Leader in a World of Radical Diversity,” a virtual lecture on transformative leadership given to FGEN sophomores at the University of Portland Shepard Academic Resource Center, November 20, 2020; as well as “Reading Things Fall Apart through a Decolonial Lens of Inquiry: Retelling Africa’s Stories,” a virtual lecture given to students registered in PHL 410: Education and Politics. University of Portland, October 22, 2020.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, presented and published the paper titled, “Conducted Emissions Feedback from VSD operated products” with Pete Perkins (Principal Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs Consultant), Henry Benitez (Electromagnetic Investigations), Christian Miles (Mentor Graphics), and Joshua Thompson (Intel Corporation), in the IEEE Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering (SPCE) 2020 Virtual Conference, November 16-20, 2020. Note that except Inan, all of the other authors are UP alumni.

Alice Gates, social work, received national recognition from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) as the 2020 recipient of the Early Career Faculty Award for Service and Leadership in Social Work Education. Gates was recognized during the virtual Annual Program Meeting of CSWE on November 20, 2020. The award presentation highlighted the contributions Gates has made at the university, local, state, and national level to address injustice and amplify the reach and impact of social work.

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