Lilia Grundy

Women In Business Showcase, March 11

March 1, 2019

The Pamplin School of Business Education Series is pleased to announce the kick-off of Women in Business Showcase, hosted at the Portland Art Museum on Monday, March 11, 4-7 p.m.

The showcase shares the stories of C-level female professionals and how they rose to the top, featuring Shannon Riggs of Finn Partners as emcee, and moderator Julia Meskel of the Portland Art Museum.

The C-Executive Panel will include:

Nikki Kobliha, CFO, PacifiCorp
Paula Hayes, CEO, Hue Noir Cosmetics
Katherine Phillips Durham, Principal KMD Consulting, former CMO/VP, The Standard and HP
Carey Wendle, Managing OMP, KPMG Portland

The event includes a networking reception, executive panel, Q&A, and digital badges for attendees. Please register here.

For questions, contact Lilia Grundy, Pamplin School of Business, at grundy@up.edu.

Third Annual Operations & Technology Symposium – Big Data

October 5, 2018

The Pamplin School of Business is pleased to present its third annual Operations & Technology Symposium as part of the Pamplin Education Series on Thursday, October 24, 4-7 p.m., in Bauccio Commons. This year’s theme is “The Importance of Big Data in Today’s Business World.” The symposium will feature Abhijit Pandit, chief technology officer for OHSU, and various breakout sessions to choose from. Students attend for free, but registration is required. To register please use this link.

For more information contact Lilia Grundy, business, at grundy@up.edu or x8724.

Martin Cenek, Shiley School of Engineering, presented “Machine Learning and Data Science ABMs: How to build cognitive, spatially aware, adaptive agents from limited data” (with Maxwell Franklin and student co-presenters Cory Shaeffer and Henri Thomas-Morgan) at the International Society for Ecological Modeling Global Conference 2019 (ISEM2019), October 1, 2019, in Salzburg Austria. He also presented “The data-science driven model construction of coupled socio-ecological system dynamics: development of the decision support tools to study the salmon and caribou subsistence harvest in Alaska” (with Maxwell Franklin and student co-presenters Cory Sheaffer and Henri Thomas) at the 10th Annual Northwest Climate Conference, October 8-10, 2019, Portland, OR.

Sarina Saturn, psychological sciences, and her research team, co-led by Deirdre Katz, education, presented their findings as oral presentations at the Society for the Study of Human Development conference, “Stress, Resilience and Character Development Across the Life-Span,” October 11-13 in Portland, OR Her talk was entitled, “Transgenerational Prosociality: The Relationship between Facets of Resilience and Vagal Regulation during Moral Elevation” and psychology students Sabrina Legaspi and Rachel Mehlman will discuss their research on UP students with a presentation entitled, “How Diverse Identities and Values of College Students Relate to Resilience and Mental-Illness Stigma.”

Randy Hetherington, education, published “Partnering with school leaders: Principal assessments of completers” in the Journal of Education & Social Policy 6 (3), 1-7, October 2019. Coauthors are James Carroll, Jacqueline Waggoner, Hillary Gaudio, and Bruce Weitzel.

Jacqueline D. Van Hoomissen, biology, attended the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society’s mid-year Board of Directors meeting in Atlanta, GA, October 11-12, 2019. She is the secretary of the board of directors and past chair of the 2019 Annual Conference Planning Committee.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, presented “Christian Forgiveness As Incarnational: Turning To The Black Existential Experience In An Era of Hate,” a keynote address given at the 30th Annual meeting of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, October 10, 2019.

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