Jessica Murphy Moo

Toast Portland Magazine at Thirst Friday, April 26

April 18, 2019

The Garaventa Center cordially invites all faculty and staff to a special edition of Thirst Friday on April 26, from 4-6 p.m., in Franz Hall room 330. With live jazz from 4-5, a 5 p.m. toast to Jessica Murphy Moo and the re-launch of Portland Magazine, and an “Only in Portland” tasting menu, this is a Thirst Friday not to be missed! It’s the last one for this academic year, so bring along a colleague or two and (weather permitting!) enjoy our beautiful patio along with tasty treats, assorted libations and great conversation. For more information contact Karen Eifler at eifler@up.edu.

New Portland Magazine Editor: Jessica Murphy Moo

April 20, 2018

Jessica Murphy Moo has been appointed editor of Portland magazine, the award-winning publication of the University of Portland. A writer, editor, and teacher, Murphy Moo comes to UP from Seattle, where she has been senior communications manager for the Seattle Opera, as well as an adjunct instructor teaching nonfiction writing for the University of Washington’s Professional and Continuing Education program. She was formerly a staff editor at The Atlantic and fiction editor at Memorious, an online literary magazine.

Murphy Moo, who will begin her role at the University in July, follows the late Brian Doyle as the editor of the magazine, a literary publication that reflects both Catholic tradition and a unique Pacific Northwest aesthetic. In addition to her fiction and nonfiction work in various literary journals and magazines, Murphy Moo also profiled a group of Benedictine nuns who live on Washington’s Shaw Island for Portland magazine in 2008.

Murphy Moo says her top priority when she arrives will be to get to know the people who comprise the UP community and their stories. “In my experience, most people don’t know that their life and their work tell a story. The value of writers resides in our ability to connect the dots between a person’s every day and a person’s heart. In that space, story and mystery abound.”

Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Image, and Memorious, and Signs of Life, an anthology for Seattle-based writers. Her nonfiction has appeared in Portland magazine, Poets & Writers Magazine, ParentMap, The Tablet, Boston College Magazine, and The Atlantic Online, among other publications. In 2006, she earned a nine-month postgraduate writing fellowship from Image magazine, an award given annually to a writer of Christian commitment who is working on a first book.

When she isn’t writing, she and her husband can be found chasing after their three children and finding the humor in things.

For more information contact marketing and communications at x7202 or mktg@up.edu.

Sam Holloway, business, was interviewed by Brews News for a feature, “Beer Is A Conversation: Sam Holloway,” which can be found at this link.

The University of Portland was featured in “32 Reasons to Love Portland Right Now,” an article in Willamette Week for the week of February 10-16. UP was named the no. 7 reason for “The University of Portland Continues to Turn out Some of the Best Women’s Soccer Players in the World,” as if we didn’t know that already here on The Bluff. See the article using this link.

Brian Adams, business, was interviewed for a segment of Marketplace, titled “The State of the Two-Week Notice Rule,” which aired on February 11, 2020, on WNYC FM radio. He was also quoted in an article, “Fed Chair Flags Corporate Bond Risk,” in Advisor News on February 11, 2020.

Bryan Rookey, sociology & social work, presented his paper, “Drugged Driving and the Opioid Crisis: Status Differences in Opioid Misuse” at the Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Criminology, Phoenix, AZ, February 2020.

John Orr, English, wrote a book review of Teaching Representations of the First World War, ed. Cohen and Higbe, in The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 vol. 15, November 2019.

Patrick Murphy, performing and fine arts, recently conducted two honor bands: the Lower Columbia Community College Honor Band (January 11 in Longview) and the North County Honor Band (February 1 in Hockinson). In total, over 150 students from 18 different high schools participated. He was also the guest clinician for the Oregon Music Educators Association District 2 conducting workshop on February 6, where he mentored middle and high school band directors. In addition, the UP Wind Symphony performed to a capacity crowd at the Soreng Theater in the Hult Center in Eugene, as featured performers at the 2020 Oregon Music Education Association Conference on January 17.

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