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UP Financial Self-Care Week: All Welcome!

April 17, 2020

All faculty and staff are invited to take part in the UP Financial Self-Care Week, starting Saturday, April 18 and concluding on Friday, April 24, according to Chris Dunnaville, business. Please use this link to register. The link takes those interested to the UP Cash Flow Club website, where there is a complete schedule along with program/session and speaker information and a registration form. Upon registering, the club will screen all the forms received and then approve them and forward a Zoom URL and password for the desired sessions. The club is set up to include as many as 500 persons per session for the webinars and 300 for the Friday Job and Internship Meeting with breakout rooms.

All speakers are confirmed and the club is ready to provide the innovative online sessions to our community during National Financial Literacy month. The students that worked on this are amazing and look forward to putting on the series.

Most of the sessions will be recorded and placed on the Cash Flow Club’s website at the conclusion of the program. For more information contact Dunnaville at dunnavil@up.edu.

Get To Know New Faculty Members

November 30, 2018

This week, the Office of the Provost is pleased to introduce three more new faculty members:

Paige Hall, assistant professor of chemistry
Capt. Brian Scism, assistant professor of aerospace studies, Air Force ROTC
Gregg Meyer, instructor, Shiley School of Engineering.

Visit the 2018 New Faculty Profiles page and get to know all our new faculty members.

An American Dream—an opera by librettist/Portland Magazine editor, Jessica Murphy Moo, and composer Jack Perla—was produced by OperaLab Japan in Tokyo (November 2024) and Manhattan School of Music (December 2024).

Larry Larsen, Performing and Fine Arts, designed the scenery for this year’s production of Nordic Fire for the Portland Revels that is playing at the Alberta Abbey from December 13 through December 22. He also is designing the lighting for Lakewood Theatre Company’s production of The Maltese Falcon based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett, which plays at the Lakewood Center in Lake Oswego from January 3 through February 9.

Lizhong Hao, Business, presented “The Impact of Auditor and Client Bargaining Power on Audit Pricing: A Two-Tier Stochastic Frontier Approach.” The 2024 Corporate Behavior and New Development of Financial Markets International Conference. Chongqing, China. November, 2024.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, was a discussant and participant at the International Congress on the Future of Theology ‘Legacy and Envisioning.’ Organized by the Dicastery for Culture and Education. Vatican City. December 9–10, 2024. Aihiokhai was also a discussant and participant at the General Assembly of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology (INSeCT). Rome, Italy. December 8 – 13, 2024.

Dave Houglum, Director of Leadership Studies and Leadership Professor of Practice, Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, completed the training requirements to be certified in the DiSC assessment on December 19, 2024. The DiSC assessment is a powerful tool that helps individuals and teams improve communication, collaboration, and workplace dynamics by providing insights into behavioral and communication styles. If you’d like to explore using the DiSC assessment for your individual or team’s leadership development, please contact Dave Houglum.

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