Fr. Richard Rutherford

News From Pollentia

August 1, 2014

An updated, final edition of the UP Pollentia Expedition blog, including a new About section, is available at https://wordpress.up.edu/pollentia. This project involves UP faculty Ray and Ronda Bard as well as Fr. Ron Wasowski, C.S.C., and Fr. Richard Rutherford, C.S.C. In addition, six volunteers, including alumni Rev. Larry Hansen, Alan Helyer, Rachael Thurston, family members Mary Hansen and Jacob Bard, and UP friend/benefactor Howard Rumjahn contributed expertise on the dig site in Mallorca as well as donations to support the project.

This year’s Pollentia Expedition is projected as Phase I of future expeditions to involve multidisciplinary student/faculty research projects in both CAS and professional schools. The expeditions current success has established a beachhead from which to expand to significant new, never-before-uncovered evidence of early Christianity in Roman Spain. “There is every reason to believe that UP can continue to head up this new Spanish endeavor,” says Fr. Rutherford, “surely a tribute to our beloved Kate Regan, who blessed the project with her endorsement and a CISGO seed grant.”

UP Team On Expedition To Ancient Roman City

July 21, 2014

Fr. Richard Rutherford, C.S.C., emeritus theology, is leading a team of UP faculty, alumni, and supporters on an expedition to the old Roman city of Pollèntia near Alcúdia in Mallorca, Spain, this month. The UP team is working by invitation from the Consortium of the Roman City of Polléntia and in collaboration with Miguel Cao from the University of Barcelona. The team’s work includes mapping the farm site Ca’n Fanals, partially excavated in the 1920s and known to contain a necropolis dating to the Roman Republic and Christian antiquity; aerial photography of the Polléntia excavations and the buried necropolis; and confirmation of earlier excavations in Ca’n Fanals. A test excavation trench predicted to intersect previously mapped features shows great promise, as a known wall has already been uncovered. As the UP team heads home, Fr. Rutherford and colleagues are already planning to raise funds to take a team of students back to Pollèntia in Summer 2015. Find more information, including photos and day-to-day stories, at http://wordpress.up.edu/pollentia/.

SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai, theology, reviewed and endorsed book manuscript: Mother Earth, Mother Africa & African Indigenous Religions. Edited by Nobuntu Penxa Matholemi, Georgina Kwanima Boateng, and Molly Manyonganise. African Sun Media, 2020. ISBN: 9781928480730. He also served as reviewer and endorser of manuscript: “Women and the Shame and Pain of Infertility” by Damasus C. Okoro, Wipf and Stock Publishers, July 2020.

Corey Pressman, nursing, had his poem, Quarantine Circuit, published in September 13th “Introspection” issue of the Lucky Jefferson Literary Journal. You can listen to a reading of the poem here.

Dawn Garzon Maaks, nursing, wrote “A cost-effective solution to video debriefing and livestreaming in simulation” (with Douglas Hughley) in Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 48 (November 2020), 15-19.

Kevin Jones, social work, had a poem, “A Painting of a Painting on Fire,” published in The Ekphrastic Review, an online literary journal dedicated to poetry inspired by visual art. Jones is currently working on a research project exploring the therapeutic effects of poetry writing for youth who have experienced trauma.

Jakob Kotas, mathematics, contributed “Specifications-based grading reduces anxiety for students of ordinary differential equations” (with Mel Henriksen, Mami Wentworth) to CODEE Journal: Vol. 13, Article 1, September 2020. Available at this link.

Buck Taylor, chemistry, contributed “Metal/Organosilicon Complexes: Structure, Reactivity, and Considerations for Catalysis” (with Matthew Whited) to Comments on Inorganic Chemistry, August 2020, 40, 217–276.

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