Louisa Egan Brad

Compassionate Listening Basics Intensive Workshop, May 17-19

May 10, 2019

The theme of Faculty Development Day this year was “Compassionate Listening.” As speakers Joanie Levine and Yehuda Winter mentioned, they will be holding a Compassionate Listening Basics Intensive Workshop on Friday, May 17 to Sunday, May 19 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Portland. This three-day workshop in Compassionate Listening will help attendees learn a powerful set of skills that enable them to help begin to heal the world from the inside out.

Any member of the University community—faculty, administrators, staff, students—is welcome to participate. Simply get a taste of the Art of Compassionate Listening on Friday, May 17, or to sign up for the complete three-day Basics Intensive. Fees are $175-275 (sliding scale; $75 deposit due at registration) or $10 for Friday only. You may register at this link.

For more information, please contact Matthew Lawrence at matthew@trinity-episcopal.org or Louisa Egan-Brad, psychological sciences, at brad@up.edu.

Dr. Louisa C. Egan Brad

University of Portland

Institutional Support Survey and Conversation, Sept. 26

September 21, 2018

A follow-up conversation, “Building Courage UP,” which will focus on generating proposals specific to UP in relation to Jennifer Freyd’s “Campus Sexual Violence: Moving from Institutional Betrayal to Institutional Courage” lecture on September 25, will take place the following evening on Wednesday, September 26, at 7:15 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons. This event is open to all members of the University of Portland community and will be facilitated by psychological sciences faculty Louisa Egan Brad and Sarina Saturn, with representatives from Title IX, Students Against Sexual Assault (SASA), Green Dot, Early Alert/Care, the Health and Counseling Center, social justice, and more.

For ADA accommodations or more information, please contact garaventa@up.edu or x7702. Brad and Saturn invite members of the community (administrators, staff, faculty, students, alumni, and parents of students and alumni) to take an anonymous survey concerning perceptions of institutional support at UP. The results will be shared at the follow-up conversation. To take the survey, please click this link.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his brain teaser, “A Number of Reasons to Celebrate Gert Boyle,” published in the Portland Tribune on December 4, 2019.

Barb Braband, Rebecca Gaudino, and Anissa Rogers received a Teaching Poster Award for the presentation of “Innovations in Interdisciplinary Education on Grief: An Interview Project” at the 2019 National Symposium for Academic Palliative Care Education and Research in San Diego, CA, on Oct. 12, 2019. The 2019 National Symposium was sponsored by the Shiley Institute for Palliative Care.

Jane Scott, Clark Library, presented a poster, “Empowering ethical practices: Activities for access services” (with Heidi Senior) at the Access Services Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2019.

Christina Ivler, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote “Frequency-Response and Frequency-Domain Models” and “Classical Frequency-Domain Design Methods” (with J. David Powell) and “Control System Optimization Methods in the Frequency Domain” in Baillieul J., Samad T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London, 2019.

Buck Taylor, chemistry, wrote “Cooperative CO2 Scission by Anomalous Insertion into a Rh–Si Bond” (with Matthew Whited, Daron Janzen, and student coauthors Michael Trenerry, Jia Zhang, Theodore Donnell, Paul Peterson, Vanessa Eng) in Organometallics , November 2019 , 38 , 4420–4432.

Ami Ahern-Rindell, biology, was invited to be a member of a 3-person review panel to participate in onsite campus visits during October 29 – November 1 to review several PUIs (Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions) in Oklahoma who are recipients of an NIH-INBRE Consortium Award. This multi-million dollar grant provides funding for 5 years to improve biomedical research across the state of Oklahoma collaboratively between research intensive universities, PUIs, and Community Colleges.

Lora Looney, international languages and cultures, gave a faculty workshop on “Unpacking the Project First to Identify a Course’s Driving Question(s) Towards Teaching for Understanding” at the 39^thOriginal Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Oxford, OH, on November 22.

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