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.

Alice Gates, sociology & social work, is the 2019-2020 recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Praxis Award given by the Pacific Sociological Association. This award honors sociological work in the Pacific region that has made a positive impact on social institutions, improved organizational performance, contributed to community betterment, and/or eased human suffering. Gates was recognized in particular for her applied scholarship and student engagement efforts focused on advocacy for mothers and caregivers and in support of Latinx communities in Oregon.

Kathleen Bieryla, Shiley School of Engineering, presented “Play-Doh and pendulums: making mass moment of inertia fun” (with Heather Dillon, Niki Schultz, and student Rebecca Levison) at 2020 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2020.

In recognition of her excellence in teaching business law, the quality and the quantity of her mentoring of students over many years, and leadership in developing a quality Law and Ethics curriculum, Pamplin School of Business associate dean Lisa Reed has been appointed Distinguished Professor in Business Law.

Jordyn Wolfand, Shiley School of Engineering, contributed “SWMM Sensitivity to LID Siting and Routing Parameters: Implications for Stormwater Regulatory Compliance” (with Chelsea L. Panos, Terri S. Hogue) to Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 1-20. Link here.

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