Rev. David Sherrer C.S.C.

In Memoriam: Rev. David Sherrer, C.S.C.

April 14, 2017

Rev. David Sherrer, C.S.C., who served for many years at the University of Portland in numerous roles — as a member of the English faculty, department chair, dean of the Graduate School, and academic vice president— passed away on Thursday, April 13, at Holy Cross House in Notre Dame, Indiana. Fr. Sherrer had been retired since 2005 and resided until recently in the UP Holy Cross Community.

A wake service will be held at Moreau Seminary on the campus of the University of Notre Dame on Tuesday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m., and a Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, April 19, at 3:30 p.m., in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Burial will be in the Holy Cross Cemetery at Notre Dame.

A Memorial Mass for Fr. Sherrer will be celebrated at the University of Portland on Monday, April 24, at 5 p.m., in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher, with a reception following.

For more information contact the president’s office at x7101.

Howard Vollum’s 100th Birthday Celebration

May 20, 2013

The Donald P. Shiley School of Engineering will celebrate the 100th birthday of Charles Howard Vollum, co-founder of Tektronix, on Friday, May 31, from 3 to 5 p.m., in Shiley Hall, according to Aziz Inan, engineering. The celebration will include an invocation by Rev. David Sherrer, C.S.C., welcoming remarks by engineering dean Sharon Jones, a biography by Aziz Inan, presentations by former Tektronix employees and Vollum’s sons, Don and James Vollum, and the unveiling of an extremely rare, vintage Tektronix 511 Oscilliscope found recently in storage in Shiley Hall. All faculty and staff are invited; please RSVP to Jamie Strohecker, engineering, at 7292 or stroheck@up.edu by Tuesday, May 28.

Petra Khan, marketing and communications, received the 2020 CASE VIII Rising Star Award in Marketing and Communications from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), District VIII, which includes Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, and Yukon.

Laura Dyer, biology, received a $502 grant for “Engaging Middle School Students in Developmental Biology through Tadpole Metamorphosis” (with Allegra VanderWilde) from the Society for Developmental Biology, January 2020.

Dawn Garzon Maaks, nursing, wrote “White Paper: Recognizing Child Trafficking as a Critical Emerging Health Threat” (with Jessica Peck, Mikki Meadows-Oliver, Hays Stacia) in Journal of Pediatric Healthcare, January 2020.

Claire McKinley Yoder, nursing, (2020). “An academic–fire department partnership to address social determinants of health” (with Pesch, M. S.) in Journal of Nursing Education, 59(1), 34-37 (2020).

Heather Dillon, Shiley School of Engineering, presented “Connecting with Expert Educators” (with Timothy Doughty, Nicole Ralston, and student co-presenters Rebecca Levison and Jeff Welch) at the 2020 Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network National Conference in Dallas, Texas, January 2020.

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