Nathan Hingley

Faculty, Staff Family Climbing Session: April 21

April 13, 2018

The Outdoor Pursuits program is offering faculty and staff family climbing sessions in the Beauchamp Center on Saturday, April 21, from 3 to 5 p.m., according to Nathan Hingley, recreational services. The sessions are open to all UP staff and faculty who would like to spend time climbing with their families. All necessary age-appropriate equipment will be provided. Children may be belayed by staff or family members if they have completed the climbing wall orientation and belay check off. Staff and faculty may climb if they have completed the outdoor pursuits climbing wall orientation.

If you have any questions please contact Hingley at hingley@up.edu.

New Family Climbing Wall Sessions Offered

January 19, 2018

The Outdoor Pursuits Program is pleased to be launching family climbing sessions at the Beauchamp Center climbing wall, according to Nathan Hingley, recreational services. The new sessions are open to all UP staff and faculty who would like to spend an hour climbing with family members.

The sessions will take place on Saturday afternoons from 3 to 4 p.m. on January 27, February 10 and February 24. More will be scheduled following spring break.

Outdoor pursuits will provide all necessary equipment appropriate to the ages required. Children may be belayed by staff or family members if they have completed the climbing wall orientation and belay check-off. Staff and faculty may climb if they have completed climbing wall orientation.

For more information contact Hingley at hingley@up.edu.

Martin Cenek, Shiley School of Engineering, presented “Machine Learning and Data Science ABMs: How to build cognitive, spatially aware, adaptive agents from limited data” (with Maxwell Franklin and student co-presenters Cory Shaeffer and Henri Thomas-Morgan) at the International Society for Ecological Modeling Global Conference 2019 (ISEM2019), October 1, 2019, in Saltzburg Austria. He also presented “The data-science driven model construction of coupled socio-ecological system dynamics: development of the decision support tools to study the salmon and caribou subsistence harvest in Alaska” (with Maxwell Franklin and student co-presenters Cory Sheaffer and Henri Thomas) at the 10th Annual Northwest Climate Conference, October 8-10, 2019, Portland, OR.

Sarina Saturn, psychological sciences, and her research team, co-led by Deirdre Katz, education, presented their findings as oral presentations at the Society for the Study of Human Development conference, “Stress, Resilience and Character Development Across the Life-Span,” October 11-13 in Portland, OR Her talk was entitled, “Transgenerational Prosociality: The Relationship between Facets of Resilience and Vagal Regulation during Moral Elevation” and psychology students Sabrina Legaspi and Rachel Mehlman will discuss their research on UP students with a presentation entitled, “How Diverse Identities and Values of College Students Relate to Resilience and Mental-Illness Stigma.”

Randy Hetherington, education, published “Partnering with school leaders: Principal assessments of completers” in the Journal of Education & Social Policy 6 (3), 1-7, October 2019. Coauthors are James Carroll, Jacqueline Waggoner, Hillary Gaudio, and Bruce Weitzel.

Jacqueline D. Van Hoomissen, biology, attended the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society’s mid-year Board of Directors meeting in Atlanta, GA, October 11-12, 2019. She is the secretary of the board of directors and past chair of the 2019 Annual Conference Planning Committee.

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