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Joe Kuffner

Going For The Gold

December 18, 2015

The marketing and communications team has won a Gold Medal in the Multimedia for Special Events category in the 2015 Communication Awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), District VIII. The winning entry was a video for the President’s Welcome event during Orientation, produced by Amy Shelly, Adam Guggenheim, Joe Kuffner, […]

Filed Under: 12-21-2015, Campus Services, Marketing & Communications Tagged With: Adam Guggenheim, Amy Shelly, Anna Lageson-Kerns, CASE Gold Medal, Joe Kuffner, Marketing & Communications, Rachel Barry-Arquit

Oh No, Joe, Say It’s Not So!

September 21, 2015

All are invited to join the marketing and communications office us in sending Joe Kuffner off to his next adventure as a graduate student at the University of Oregon, where he will be pursing a degree in digital communications. His farewell party will take place on Friday, September 25, from 3:30 to 5 p.m., at the […]

Filed Under: 09-21-2015, Events, Marketing & Communications, University Relations Tagged With: Joe Kuffner, Marketing & Communications

Anchors Away: Thursday, April 30

April 27, 2015

All faculty and staff invited to attend the second annual Anchors Away on Thursday, April 30 on the bluff behind Bauccio Commons from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Please join the entire UP family in gathering together to celebrate the conclusion of the 2014-15 academic year with a barbecue, beer garden, live music from The Junebugs, and lots […]

Filed Under: 04-20-2015, 04-27-2015, Events Tagged With: Anchors Away, Craig Swinyard, Joe Kuffner

Save The Date for Anchors Away, April 30

March 30, 2015

All faculty, staff, and students are invited to gather together on the bluff behind Bauccio Commons for Anchors Away, featuring a barbecue, live music, a beer garden, and lots of fun, to celebrate the conclusion of the academic year. Tickets for faculty and staff are free and will be delivered to campus mailboxes soon. Additional […]

Filed Under: 03-30-2015, Campus Services, Events Tagged With: Anchors Away, Craig Swinyard, Joe Kuffner

Employee Kickball On The Quad, March 12

March 9, 2015

The sun is out, the cherry trees are blooming, and students are gone on spring break. It is time once again for employee kickball on the Shipstad Quad. Mary Beebe and Joe Kuffner, marketing and communications, have set the date of Thursday, March 12, at 4 p.m., for some spirited interoffice kickball. They will provide […]

Filed Under: 03-09-2015, Events, Marketing & Communications Tagged With: Employee kickball, Joe Kuffner, Mary Beebe

Employee Kickball Extravaganza!

October 14, 2013

All UP employees, both faculty and staff, are welcome to take part in the second Employee Kickball Extravaganza on Thursday, October 17, at 4:30 p.m., on the Shipstad Quad, according to Mary Beebe and Joe Kuffner, marketing and communications. What better way to celebrate the fall break but with some muddy kickball? Come rain or […]

Filed Under: Campus Services, Marketing & Communications Tagged With: Joe Kuffner, Kickball, Mary Beebe

Employee Kickball Extravaganza

August 2, 2013

All UP employees, both faculty and staff, are welcome to take part in the first annual Employee Kickball Extravaganza on Wednesday, August 14, at 4 p.m., on the Shipstad Quad, according to organizers Mary Beebe and Joe Kuffner, marketing and communications. Kick off the new school year by playing everyone’s favorite schoolyard game (no, not […]

Filed Under: Campus Services, Events, Marketing & Communications Tagged With: Joe Kuffner, Kickball, Mary Beebe

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Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

Jessica Murphy Moo, editor of Portland Magazine and director of storytelling, wrote the lyrics to two songs in “We Go On, Oswego,” a song cycle honoring female refugees who lived at Camp Ontario in upstate New York. From 1944-1946, Camp Ontario provided emergency shelter to refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. “We Go On, Oswego” was performed at Nazareth College, in collaboration with Finger Lakes Opera, on December 4, 2025. It was commissioned by Katie Hannigan, PhD. The song “There Is No Underground,” was written in collaboration with composer Maria Thompson Corley, and the song “My Table,” was written in collaboration with composer Kurt Erickson.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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