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Rhodes & Marshall Scholarship Nominations Needed

April 9, 2021

Faculty members are encouraged to send the names of academically and experientially exceptional, ambitious rising seniors who would benefit from attending graduate school at Cambridge, Oxford, or one of the other premier UK institutions, to the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, according to John Orr, assistant to the provost.

Students applying for these awards must have a University endorsement and formally express their intent to apply by early April. Students will be contacted and given assistance in starting the application process, will participate in campus interviews in late April, and will continue to receive support over the summer so their files can be finalized at the start of the fall semester.

For more information or to pass along names, send an e-mail to scholars@up.edu or call x7857.

For more information use these links:

  • Marshall Scholarship: http://www.marshallscholarship.org/
  • Rhodes Scholarship: http://www.rhodesscholar.org/

Filed Under: 04-12-2021, Academics, Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement Tagged With: John Orr, Marshall Scholarship, Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, Rhodes Scholarship

Rhodes and Marshall Scholarship Candidates Wanted

March 17, 2014

bright studentsFaculty members are encouraged to send the names of academically and experientially exceptional, ambitious rising seniors who would benefit from attending graduate school at Cambridge, Oxford, or one of the other premier United Kingdom institutions to the fellowships and grants office, according to John Orr, assistant to the provost. Students applying for these awards must have a University endorsement and formally express their intent to apply by early April. Students will be contacted and given assistance in starting the application process, will participate in campus interviews in late April, and will continue to receive support over the summer so their files can be finalized at the start of the fall semester. For more information or to pass along names, send an e-mail to scholars@up.edu or call 7857.

For more information use these links:

  • Marshall Scholarship: http://www.marshallscholarship.org/
  • Rhodes Scholarship: http://www.rhodesscholar.org/

Filed Under: 03-17-2014, Academics, Fellowships & Grants Tagged With: Fellowships & Grants, John Orr, Marshall Scholarship, Rhodes Scholarship

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September Nelson, nursing, presented “Predictors of Intent to Leave Among Long-Term Care Nurses” at the 2021 Western Institute of Nursing Research Conference held virtually April 14-17. She was invited as winner of the WIN Gerontology Special Interest Group (WINGSIG) award for gerontological nursing abstracts accepted for presentation at the 2021 annual meeting. Awardees are selected through peer-review by the sub-committee of WINGSIG members.

Barbara Bloom-Groshong and Lisa J. Reed, Pamplin School of Business, presented “Balancing Fairness with Flexibility in the 21st Century’s “Gig Economy”: Worker Classification in the Aftermath of California’s Proposition 22 and COVID-19” to the Pacific Northwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business 2021 Annual (Virtual) Conference on April 16, 2021.

Students Catherine Wojda and Joshua Henderson and Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, published “‘Mi amparo y fortaleza’: Seeing Psalms through a Trans-Iberian Worldview in Espejo fiel de vidas (Life’s True Mirror)” in International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1-10. The article was researched and written as part of the 2020 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program (SURE) of the College of Arts & Sciences. https://ijurca-pub.org/articles/abstract/10.7710/2168-0620.0307/

Xan Arch, Library Operations, presented “One of Us: Social Performance in Academic Library Hiring” (with Gilman, I.) Program presented online at the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, April 2021.

Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, had her essay “Theology Can Learn A Lot From Schitt’s Creek” published in the April 10, 2021 issue of National Catholic Reporter. The complete piece is available at this link.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, was named a Fellow of the Westar Institute (2021 – present). “The Westar Fellows are a community of academics committed to engaging in collaborative, cumulative scholarship on questions about religion that matter in society. Westar Fellows are critical scholars. Critical scholars make empirical, factual evidence—evidence open to confirmation by independent, neutral observers—the controlling factor in historical judgments, rather than putting dogmatic considerations first and insisting that the factual evidence confirm theological premises.” He is currently holding two fellowships with this institute; the Christ Seminar Fellowship (tasked with a particular research collaborative to reimagine Christology that is relevant for our times) and the Westar Fellow (with a broader focus on one’s intellectual impact on society in general).

Jordy Wolfand, Shiley School of Engineering, contributed “Simulating the thermal impact of substrate temperature on ecological restoration in shallow urban rivers” (with Abdi, R., Rogers, J.B., Rust, A., Philippus, D., Taniguchi-Quan, K., Irving, K., Stein, E.D., Hogue, T.S.) to Journal of Environmental Management. 2021. 289. 112560. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1cug914Z6thNIK

Deirdre Katz, education, presented “The role of self-compassion in reducing stress and increasing resilience in late adolescence” (with Keil, A., Mehlman, R., Peckins, M., Lagaspi, S., Kawakami, B., & Saturn, S.) at the 2021 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA), Virtual conference due to Covid 19, April 2021. She also presented “Schoolwide Social and Emotional Learning in an Alternative High School” (with Mahfouz, J. & Romas, S.) at the same conference.

Kathleen Bieryla, Shiley School of Engineering, contributed “Biomechanics of Single Stair Climb with Implications for Inverted Pendulum Modeling” (withy Christine Buffinton and Roberta Blaho) in Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 2021 Mar 25.​​​​​​​ https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4050639

 

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