Molly Cullen

Kenna Women’s Leadership Forum, Feb. 4

January 29, 2016

The Kenna Women’s Leadership Forum will present Elizabeth Pasztor, vice president of the Boeing 747 Program, on February 4, at 7 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 120. Her talk is free and open to the public, and is co-sponsored by the Bauccio Lecture Series.

Pasztor is one of two women vice presidents in engineering at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, and has worked in autoflight/flight control systems for many of her 30 years at Boeing.

For more information contact Molly Cullen, residence life, at cullen@up.edu.

Kenna Women’s Leadership Forum: Joane Moceri, Nov. 10

November 6, 2015

The second Kenna Women’s Leadership Forum of the year will be Tuesday, November 10, at 7 p.m., in Franz Hall Room 120. Nursing dean Joane Moceri will share the story of her path to leadership, the decisions and choices along the way, and the unique gifts and challenges to being a woman in her role.

The Kenna Women’s Leadership Forum connects students with dynamic and successful women leaders from UP and the greater community to highlight the idea that to “Lead Like A Woman” is to lead from women’s unique experiences and perspectives. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome.

For more information contact Molly Cullen, residence life, at 7569 or cullen@up.edu.

Kenna Women’s Leadership Forum: Lead Like A Woman

September 21, 2015

The Kenna Women’s Leadership Forum is in its second year and is now open to the greater campus community, according to Molly Cullen, residence life. Faculty and staff are invited to join with students to hear a talk by Jeanne Haster, executive director of Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest, on Thursday, September 24, at 7 p.m., in the Terrace Room in Bauccio Commons.

The Kenna Women’s Leadership Forum is an opportunity to hear the stories of women in leadership around the Portland community and engage in conversation around those stories and experiences of leadership.

For more information contact Cullen at 7569 or cullenm@up.edu.

Ami Ahern-Rindell, Biology, participated in onsite campus visits during October 29 – November 1 to review several PUIs (Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions) in Oklahoma who together 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.

Rachel Wheeler, theology, served as facilitator for Day of Reflection, Ascension Catholic Church, Portland, OR, National Pastoral Musicians Portland Chapter, November 2019.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, serves as a reviewer for Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, November2019-Present.

Nicole Ralston, education, had her piece, titled “Investigating the impacts of a collaborative language teacher professional development”(with Jacqueline Waggoner, Rebecca Smith) published in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (TESL-EJ), 24 (2), 1-14, August 2019.

Hannah Highlander, mathematics, presented “My career in biomathematics and mathematical modeling, driven and sustained by my undergraduate research collaborators,” at a special session on Research and Successful Collaborations of Mothers in Mathematical Biology, Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in the Sciences (SACNAS) , Honolulu, Hawaii.

Kevin Jones, social work, had five poems published in the Autumn 2019 issue of The Bamboo Hut, an online and print journal of English language tanshi (short poems). Jones is currently working on a research project exploring the therapeutic effects of poetry writing for youth who have experienced trauma.

Laura Dyer, biology, and her research students Pia Fornell and Cole Malibiran, attended the Murdock College Science Research Conference (November 8-9) where Malibiran gave an oral presentation titled “Coronary artery maturation in response to shear stress.” Fornell received the best poster award for developmental biology/physiology for her poster, “Identifying how sonic hedgehog signaling affects cardiac neural crest migration following fetal alcohol exposure.”

Patricia McDonald and Frances Pimentel, marketing and communications, received awards at the annual UCDA (University and College Designers Association) Design Awards for “Excellence in the Integrated Campaign” category: University of Portland Wonder Admissions Campaign, and honorable mention in the “Campaign Strategy” category for University of Portland Pilots Give Campaign.