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Mikayla Posey

Holocaust Remembrance Week, April 12-17

April 6, 2015

white rose picture copyThe University will host a week of Holocaust Remembrance on campus from April 12-17. All events are free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public.

To begin the week, the White Rose Exhibition will be in the Clark Library from Sunday, April 12 to the following Sunday, April 19. The exhibit, consisting of 47 life-size posters documenting the White Rose group’s history, has traveled from Germany to the U.S. to inform viewers of the group’s non-violent resistance towards the Nazi regime. An opening reception will take place on Monday, April 13, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., in the Library Conference Room. Laura McLary, international languages and cultures, will present information and research on the White Rose exhibit.

On Thursday, April 16, there will be a screening of “Sophie Scholl: Die Letzten Tag,” at 7 p.m., in Buckley Center room 163. Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans, both members of White Rose, were convicted of high treason on February 22, 1942 and summarily executed. The film emphasizes the personal courage of the members in the organization, and symbolizes the resistance against National Socialism.

Holocaust survivor Miriam Greenstein was scheduled to speak on Friday but had to cancel her appearance. Greenstein’s immediate family members perished at the hands of the Nazis when she was nine years old. After her liberation in 1945 by British troops, Greenstein was able to communicate with her only known relatives, who lived in downtown Portland. She is a regular speaker for the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center, and the author of In the Shadow of Death; A Young Girl’s Survival in the Holocaust.

For more information about the week of Holocaust remembrance, please contact Mikayla Posey at posey15@up.edu.

Filed Under: 04-06-2015, 04-13-2015, Campus Services, Events Tagged With: Holocaust Remembrance Week, Laura McClary, Mikayla Posey, Miriam Greenstein

Six UP Students Awarded Fulbright Grants

April 6, 2015

Orr copySix University of Portland students have been awarded prestigious Fulbright grants to work and study abroad. Four of the Fulbrights are for English teaching positions in Germany, one is for an English teaching position in Turkey, and the other is for an English teaching position in Mexico.

Recipients of the German teaching grants are Megan Lester, an English and German studies double-major from Veradale, Wash.; Erin Petersen, an organizational communication and German studies double-major from Sioux Falls, S.D.; Mikayla Posey, a communication and German studies double-major from Kingman, Ariz.; and Michelle Wilcox, a history and German studies double-major from Folsom, Calif. The recipient of the Turkish teaching grant is Rebecca Parks, an English major from Pittsburgh, Pa., and the recipient of the Mexican teaching grant is Megan Fitzgerald, an elementary education major from Hillsboro, Ore.

The University was ranked first nationally among its peers for Fulbright recipients in 2012-13, 2011-12, 2010-11 and 2007-08, and second nationally in 2009-10, 2008-09 and 2006-07. Since 2001, 54 students from University of Portland have earned Fulbright grants.

The United States Fulbright program began in 1946 after World War II to “assist in the development of friendly, sympathetic and peaceful relations between the United States and other countries of the world” through the exchange of students, scholars and professionals. The program operates in more than 140 countries worldwide.

For more information contact John Orr, assistant to the provost, at 7286 or orr@up.edu.

Filed Under: 04-06-2015, Academics Tagged With: Erin Petersen, Fulbright Scholars, John Orr, Megan Fitzgerald, Megan Lester, Michelle Wilcox, Mikayla Posey, Rebecca Park

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