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.

Sister Angela Hoffman, chemistry, and four of her students presented their research at the spring 2019 National American Chemical Society meeting in Orlando Florida March 31-April 4:

Antimicrobial natural products from ancient actinomycete bacteria (S. Angela Hoffman)
Antibiotic and anticancer activity from bacteria collected at a Roman archeological site (Astrid Schick)
Isolation of Natural Insecticides from Yew Trees (Connell Morantte)
Purification and isolation of natural compounds found in ancient soil (Casey Raul)
Purification and isolation of antibiotic compounds from archeological site soil (Anthony Gutierrez)

The ACS student club also won a third place award and plaque for their activities from the past year.

Anissa Rogers, sociology and social work, published the 5th edition of her textbook, Human Behavior in the Social Environment, with Routledge Publishers.

On Tuesday, 16 April, Bohn Lattin, communication department, conducted two public speaking workshops for “Young Leaders from Africa with World Oregon.” Each year, World Oregon, in conjunction with the United States Department of State, hosts several youth leadership exchange programs which brings young leaders from around the world to the U.S. for a three-week leadership development course. The public speaking workshops were a part of the “Young Leaders from Africa” leadership development courses. Students from The Gambia, Mozambique, Sudan, and Kenya attended.

Lora Looney, Spanish, presented “Uncovering Spain’s Genocidal Puericulture State through Allegories of Disobedience in Ana Maria Matute’s 1956 ‘Los niños tontos’ (‘The Foolish Children’)” at the conference on Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide at the Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Nicole Ralston, education, presented “A program evaluation of an innovative alternative school: Preventing dropout and promoting post-secondary success” (with James Carroll, Jacqueline Waggoner, Rebecca Smith, and student co-presenters Zuly Naegele and Cara Wright) at a roundtable session at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 2019. Ralston also presented “Longitudinal impacts of a pre-kindergarten summer transition program on attendance and early literacy skills” (with Jacqueline Waggoner, Beth Tarasawa, and student co-presenters Matthew Thul, Danielle Trollinger, Karen Apgar) at a paper session at the same conference.

Rachel Wheeler, theology, was invited to attend the Madeleva Lecture and New Voices Seminar at St. Mary’s College, IN, Center for Spirituality, St. Mary’s College, April 2019.

September Nelson, nursing, presented “Relationships among workload, teamwork, and missed nursing care in nursing homes” at the Western Institute of Nursing Research Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2019.

Matthew Kuhn, Shiley School of Engineering, served as moderator and discussant for the workshop “Granular Matter Across Scales,” Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, March 18-22, 2019.