Herman Asarnow

Retiring Faculty Ceremony & Reception, April 25

April 21, 2014

The following faculty members have announced their retirement at the conclusion of the spring 2014 semester, according to Kathleen Staten, provost’s office:

Kathy Crabtree, Nursing
Chris Kodadek, Biology
Herman Asarnow, English
Thompson Faller, Philosophy
Susan Baillet, Psychology
Robert Duff, Sociology
Rev. Claude Pomerleau, C.S.C., Political Science
Caroline Mann, Library

A ceremony for all 2014 faculty retirees will take place on Friday, April 25, at 3:30 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium, followed by a reception in the Bauccio Commons board room. All are welcome to wish our retirees good luck and thank them for their decades of service and dedication. For more information contact Staten at 7105 or staten@up.edu.

Special Theater Deal For “Ithaka”

June 17, 2013

Faculty and staff members are invited to take advantage of a special 20 percent off deal on tickets to Ithaka, a new play by Oregon Book Award winner Andrea Stolowitz, performing and fine arts. The play runs through June 30 at Artists Repertory Theater in downtown Portland (1515 SW Morrison St., Portland. OR 97205). Use the special group code “stolowitz” to get the discount at tickets.artistsrep.org. For more information contact Herman Asarnow at 7244 or asarnow@up.edu, or see www.artistsrep.org.

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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