Reunion

Faculty/Staff Discount for Reunion 2023 (Jun. 22–25)

April 28, 2023

It’s time to register for UP’s 2023 Alumni Reunion! Join us for boatloads of fun with events like the BBQ (where we’ll celebrate Wally’s 75th birthday!), golf tournament, PilotTalks, and pickleball clinics. Look for a recent email from Alumni & Parent Relations with your personalized discount link. Read more about Reunion.

The Best Years of Our Lives – Revisited

June 27, 2022

Reunions diffuse a nostalgia glow about college and the best years of our lives. There is an element of homecoming in every class reunion. There are also the people who keep the home-fires burning (for example, Bill Reed ’72, who enters the Fifty-Year Club this June after a professional career including 30+ years of service at […]

Don’t Miss the Boat! Free Faculty/Staff Event Passes to Reunion 2022, June 24–26

June 13, 2022

After a three-year hiatus, Alumni Reunion is back! We encourage faculty and staff to join hundreds of alumni who will return to campus this summer. Celebrating groups include the resilient classes of 2020 and 2021, 50-Year Club inductees from the classes of 1970–1972, and Villa Alumni. The weekend kicks off on Friday with a 2020 […]

Complimentary Faculty/Staff Event Passes to Reunion 2022 (Jun. 24–26)

May 2, 2022

After a three-year hiatus, Alumni Reunion is back! We encourage faculty and staff to join hundreds of alumni who will return to campus this summer. Celebrating groups include the resilient Classes of 2020 and 2021, 50-Year Club inductees from the Classes of 1970–1972, and Villa Alumni. The weekend kicks off on Friday with a 2020 […]

Online Registration for Reunion Closes Sunday, June 18

June 9, 2017

A reminder to faculty and staff members to register for the 2017 Alumni Reunion Weekend by Sunday, June 18. All events are free for faculty and staff and their families. The faculty/staff registration form is available here (link will pre-fill the discount code). This year, Reunion will celebrate Shipstad Hall’s 50th birthday, the Hawai’i Club, the […]

Natalie Nelson-Marsh presented “From fieldnotes to futures: Organizational communication in the age of AI”. National Communication Association Pre-Conference, Elevating Organizational Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. November, 2025.

Ian Parkman, Business, published “Lead Value Design Insight: Leveraging the Van Westendorp PSM for Design for Meaningfulness Pricing Strategies.” Co-author: Arto Ruokonen. Design Management Review (Vol. 36, No.4)

Three faculty members from International Languages and Cultures participated in the 122nd annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), November 20-23 in San Francisco. Verena Hutter presented “Embodied Memory: Holocaust Tattoos and Postmemory,” served as presiding officer of all three sessions of Austrian Studies, and chaired one of them. María Echenique presented “A Precursor of ‘Feminism from the Zulos’ by Dahlia de la Cerda” and served as presiding officer and chair of the session Spain, Portugal, and Latin America: Jewish Culture and Literature in Trans-Iberia. Matthew Warshawsky presented “A ‘Tenth Muse’ in 1600s Sephardic Amsterdam: Isabel Rebeca Correa, Translator, Poet, and Feminist” and served as presiding officer and chair of the Jewish Literature and Culture session.

Andra Davis, Nursing & Health Innovations, published “Nursing faculty perceptions and Integration of primary palliative care content in undergraduate education: National and local institution assessments.” Co-authors: Lippe, M., Wolf, A., Cormack, C. L., Ehrlich, O., Glover, T. L., and Kirkpatrick, A. J. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 27(6), 280-289.

Don Norton, Performing and Fine Arts, performed a Tour of Louisiana with jazz quartet Facing West, with performances at Nicholls State University (Thibodaux), University of Louisiana at Monroe, and Louisiana Tech University (Ruston). November 5-7, 2025.

Kristin Sweeney, Environmental Science, published “Topographic, climatic, and age controls on the reworking of volcanic debris avalanche deposits.” Co-author: Major, J.J. Bull Volcanol 87, 115 (2025).

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “Rethinking Advent Hope as Covenantal Bond. Reflections on the Readings for First Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. November 30, 2025. Aihiokhai also published “A Disruptive Content of Hope: Awakening the Human Imagination to New Possibilities. Reflections on the Readings of the Second Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 7, 2025.

Rachel Wheeler, Theology, presented “Traces in the Sand: Wisdom from the Christian Desert Tradition for a Time of Collapse.” Aldo & Estella Leopold Writing Residency lecture presented at the Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM, November 18, 2025.

Daniel Bulek, Nursing & Health Innovations, presented “Difficult-To-Treat Depression: Bottlenecks, Evolving Biology, and Where Ketamine-Class Treatments Fit.” An invited presentation for the Behavioral Health Integration ECHO, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ (virtual). December, 2025.