Holy Cross Community

Holy Cross Wine and Cheese Social, March 15

March 8, 2019

Save the date! The Holy Cross Community is again delighted to invite all staff to a Wine and Cheese Social on Friday, March 15, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., at the Holy Cross Court Lounge, located at the lower level of 5410 N. Strong Street. Come be our guest, and join us for a relaxing and enjoyable afternoon filled with fine wine, fine cheese, and fine conversation. Please contact Amy Potthast at x8024 with any questions. We look forward to seeing you there!

Laurie Dizney, biology, co-authored “Sex Chromosomal Transformation and the Origins of a Male-specific X Chromosome in the Creeping Vole, Microtus oregoni,” which was published in Science.

Scott Leykam, athletics, was the recipient of the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association (DI-AAA ADA) Builders’ Award. The Builders’ Award is presented to an individual who, for a minimum of five years as an active I-AAA Director of Athletics, has contributed to the enhancement of the Association, their institution, and the profession as a whole.

V. Dakshina Murty, Shiley School of Engineering, was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Dayalbagh Educational Institute.

Christin Hancock, history, co-presented “Roundtable: Institutionalization, Patients’ Rights/Reproductive Rights, and Women’s/Patients Resistance and Agency.” Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) Annual Conference, April 24, 2021.

Gregory Pulver, performing and fine arts, is serving on the CAS Task Force on Equity-Minded Faculty Workload until December 2021.

Kevin Jones, social work, presented “A Therapeutic Poetry Writing Intervention for Youth who have Experienced Trauma” to the National Association for Poetry Therapy Conference (virtual) on April 8, 2021. He also presented “Using Poetry to Connect Native Youth to Identity, Place, and Culture” to the Indigenous Pedagogy Virtual Academy on April 12, 2021.

Maria Echenique, international languages & cultures, is serving as Coordinator of Emergency International Online Courses in Argentina and Ecuador, Spanish Program. Echenique is also serving on the Faculty Senate until May 31, 2021 and served as the panels organizer for Founder’s Day.

Christine Weilhoefer, biology and environmental studies, published “Seasonal relationships between diatom assemblages and environmental conditions vary between epipelic- and epipsammic- dominated tidal flat diatom communities in the Yaquina estuary, Oregon, USA” in the April issue of Estuaries and Coasts.

Claire McKinley-Yoder, nursing, served as COVID-19 Vaccination nurse/supervising students, Clackamas County in March 2021.

Amber Vermeesch, nursing, was awarded the Provost’s Initiative Undergraduate Research, UP Office of Provost. Vermeesch is also serving on the Nomination Council for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

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