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Sarina Saturn

Last Call For Friday’s QPR Suicide Prevention Training

September 25, 2020

On Friday, October 2, from 3:15-4:30 p.m., the Health and Counseling Center is offering a QPR suicide prevention workshop to navigate ways to help others in crisis during these challenging times of remote instruction and advising.  Whether you have already been a part of the Academic Mental Health Network (AMHN) or hope to become a new member, please click this hyperlink to fill out a very brief survey to indicate your interest in joining the AMHN this school year and/or to sign up for a QPR training.  If you have any questions, please email amhn@up.edu.

Filed Under: 09-21-2020, 09-28-2020, Academics, Campus Services Tagged With: Academic Mental Health Network, Sarina Saturn

2020 Faculty Service Award Winner: Sarina Saturn

June 5, 2020

Congratulations to Sarina Saturn for receiving the University of Portland’s 2019-2020 Service Award. The candidates for the 2020 Faculty Service Award were excellent this year, with three different candidates receiving a first-place vote. After rigorous analysis, discussion, and reflection, the Committee on Committees decided that Saturn’s contributions stood above the rest.

Saturn’s extensive volunteer work with UP faculty and staff, student groups, nonprofit organizations, and professional societies focuses on issues of diversity, nonviolence, training new scientists, and mental health. She is dedicated to helping communities foster social connection, empathy, compassion, resilience, and healing. She has been a key driver behind the implementation of University of Portland’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day. According to committee chair Mark Meckler, “Professor Saturn consistently serves causes of peace, respect, and care. She actively pushes back against violence, scorn and social ignorance. Her colleagues enthusiastically applaud and support her tireless service efforts. She has previously been honored with the athletic department’s “Difference” award and ASUP’s advisor of the year award.  Her service efforts and outcomes are an inspiration to her students and her colleagues.”

For more information contact Meckler at meckler@up.edu.

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: 06-08-2020, Academics, Campus Services Tagged With: Mark Meckler, Sarina Saturn, Service Award

Rank & Tenure Announcements, 2019

February 8, 2019

The provost’s office has announced the following promotions and grants of tenure, effective July 1, 2019:

  • Lindsey Benes, nursing; Tenure, Promotion
  • Madhuparna Kolay, business: Tenure, Promotion
  • Jeffrey Meiser, political science: Tenure, Promotion
  • Sarina Saturn, psychological sciences: Tenure, Promotion
  • Zachary L. Simmons, psychological sciences: Tenure, Promotion

For more information contact the provost’s office at x7105 or staten@up.edu.

Filed Under: 02-11-2019, Academics, Provost's Office Tagged With: Jeffrey Meiser, Lindsey Benes, Madhuparna Kolay, Office of the Provost, Rank and Tenure, Sarina Saturn, Zachary Simmons

Institutional Support Survey and Conversation, Sept. 26

September 21, 2018

A follow-up conversation, “Building Courage UP,” which will focus on generating proposals specific to UP in relation to Jennifer Freyd’s “Campus Sexual Violence: Moving from Institutional Betrayal to Institutional Courage” lecture  on September 25, will take place the following evening on Wednesday, September 26, at 7:15 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons. This event is open to all members of the University of Portland community and will be facilitated by psychological sciences faculty Louisa Egan Brad and  Sarina Saturn, with representatives from Title IX, Students Against Sexual Assault (SASA), Green Dot, Early Alert/Care, the Health and Counseling Center, social justice, and more.

For ADA accommodations or more information, please contact garaventa@up.edu or x7702. Brad and Saturn invite members of the community (administrators, staff, faculty, students, alumni, and parents of students and alumni) to take an anonymous survey concerning perceptions of institutional support at UP. The results will be shared at the follow-up conversation. To take the survey, please click this link.

Filed Under: 09-10-2018, 09-17-2018, 09-24-2018, Academics, Campus Services Tagged With: Louisa Egan Brad, Sarina Saturn

Follow-Up Brownbag Session on Promoting Student Mental Health: Thursday, Feb. 15

February 9, 2018

All faculty and staff who want to keep building their repertoire of skills for working with students who are undergoing mental health challenges are invited to participate in a brownbag lunch conversation this Thursday, February 15, from noon to 1 p.m., in Buckley Center room 215. Two student leaders from Active Minds and their advisor, Sarina Saturn, psychological sciences, will share the club’s mission and walk participants through several real-life open-ended vignettes of encounters between students and faculty/staff that did not go especially well, and generate insights on how all of us can take advantage of campus and external resources to best meet the diverse needs of students working through mental health challenges. While the conversation will draw upon wisdom gleaned at last semester’s offering on the topic, newcomers will also benefit tremendously from the interactive conversation.

Questions may be directed to Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu).

Filed Under: 02-12-2018, Academics, Campus Services, Garaventa Center Tagged With: Karen Eifler, Sarina Saturn, Student Mental Health

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Anita Gooding, social work, was selected as a 2020-2021 Field Research Scholar by the Transforming Field Education Landscape (TFEL) program at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Scholars attend regular seminars and present their own research related to strengthening field education in social work.

Ösel Plante, development, has a debut collection of poetry titled Waveland set for publication by Black Lawrence Press in April 2021. Please use this link to learn more.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering. recently shared some of his work on palindrome dates with the staff of Farmers’ Almanac which lead to an articled titled “2021: A Special Year For Palindrome Dates, Starting This Month!” See the article using this link.

Bob Butler, professor emeritus of environmental studies; Jenda Johnson, Earth Sciences Animated; and Nic Zentner, Central Washington University, published an animation titled “Ghost Forests: Evidence for a Giant Earthquake & Tsunami in the Pacific Northwest.” This animation explores how Native American oral history, geology of ghost forests in coastal Washington and Oregon, and written accounts of a tsunami that flooded Japanese Pacific Coast villages converge to document the most recent Cascadia subduction zone megathrust earthquake on January 26, 1700 at about 9 p.m. The Ghost Forest animation can be found on the IRIS website at: https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/animation/740 or on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPbt8iiDRo&feature=youtu.be.

Steven Kolmes, environmental studies, wrote an editorial on “Sustainability and the Role of Higher Education” in Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, Vol. 62, , pp. 2-3. See the article at this link. He also contributed “On a ‘Just’ Transition, Environment” in Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 63:1, 29-31, DOI: 10.1080/00139157.2021.1842715.. See the article using this link.

Amber Vermeesch, nursing, received an Opus Prize Foundation Grant Sabbatical Support, Opus Prize Foundation, $5,000, on November 12, 2020.

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