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UP Shamrock Run Team 2023: Get Fit in the New Year and Run or Walk for a Cause!

January 11, 2023

The Portland Shamrock Run is one of the city’s largest events and the University of Portland team is back again this year for the event on Sunday, March 12. Participants can sign up for any distance (5k, 8k, 15k and Half-Marathon runs, as well as the 4k Stride and 1k Leprechaun Lap for kiddos). The […]

Filed Under: 2023-01-23, 2023-02-06 Tagged With: Hans Nordstrom, Shamrock Run

UP Shamrock Run Team 2020: Get Fit, Run or Walk For A Cause!

January 10, 2020

The Portland Shamrock Run is one of the city’s largest events and the University of Portland team is back. Participants can sign up for any distance (5k, 8k, 15k and half-marathon runs, as well as the 4k Stride and 1k Leprechaun Lap for kiddos). To sign up, go to this link.  The “Join a Team” […]

Filed Under: 01-13-2020, Campus Services, Recreational Services Tagged With: Hans Nordstrom, Kaitlin Bourne, Shamrock Run

Run, Have Fun for a Cause: 2017 Shamrock Run

November 23, 2016

All UP community members can show their UP pride and help support Doernbecher Children’s Hospital by joining the UP Shamrock Run team, according to Liz Winters, recreational services. The race is Sunday, March 19, 2017, at Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. Last year the University of Portland team was the fourth largest locally and had 147 runners and walkers. We […]

Filed Under: 11-28-2016, Athletics, Campus Services, Recreational Services Tagged With: Liz Winters, Recreational Service, Shamrock Run

Shamrock Run Recap

March 18, 2016

Organizers would like to thank all who participated in the University of Portland’s 2016 Shamrock Run team, supporting Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. More than 140 UP walkers and runners representing students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends braved the rain, wind, and cold to complete the race on Sunday, March 13. UP made super team status, raising […]

Filed Under: 03-21-2016, Athletics, Campus Services, Recreational Services Tagged With: Recreational Services, Shamrock Run

Join the UP Shamrock Run team

November 10, 2014

Show your UP pride and help out a great cause when you join UP’s Shamrock Run team – we’ll give you free UP gear to wear at the race, Sunday, March 15 at Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. To join the UP team, you must register online at http://www.shamrockrunportland.com/ (choose the “team” option; the UP code is […]

Filed Under: Marketing & Communications, University Relations Tagged With: Amy Shelly, Bridget Bimrose, Roya Ghorbani-Elizeh, Sean Ducey, Shamrock Run

Join the UP Shamrock Run Team

January 20, 2014

All faculty and staff are invited to show their UP pride and help out a great cause by joining the University’s Shamrock Run team. The run/walk takes place on Sunday, March 16, 2014, at Waterfront Park in downtown Portland. Those who join the team will get some great UP gear and will be able to […]

Filed Under: 12-02-2013, Marketing & Communications, University Relations Tagged With: Amy Shelly, Bill Reed Scholarship, Bridget Bimrose, Marketing & Communications, Roya Ghorbani-Elizeh, Shamrock Run

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Jeff Kerssen-Griep, Communication and Media, presented “Teaching with Transformative International Conflict Partners” on the panel, “Healing Divides and Elevating Connections within Conflict & Peacebuilding.” National Communication Association Convention. November, 2025.

Christi Richardson-Zboralski, Director of Marketing – Graduate Programs, published a short story under pen name, Christi R. Suzanne, entitled “Outlaw’s Dust.” In Lisa Diane Kastner (Ed.) 27 Stories: An LA Wildfire Anthology. Running Wild Press. January 7, 2026. All proceeds from this anthology go toward Habitat for Humanity LA. Find it on the Broadway Books website or on Bookshop.org.

Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

Jessica Murphy Moo, editor of Portland Magazine and director of storytelling, wrote the lyrics to two songs in “We Go On, Oswego,” a song cycle honoring female refugees who lived at Camp Ontario in upstate New York. From 1944-1946, Camp Ontario provided emergency shelter to refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. “We Go On, Oswego” was performed at Nazareth College, in collaboration with Finger Lakes Opera, on December 4, 2025. It was commissioned by Katie Hannigan, PhD. The song “There Is No Underground,” was written in collaboration with composer Maria Thompson Corley, and the song “My Table,” was written in collaboration with composer Kurt Erickson.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published “A Spirituality of Desert Discipleship for Our Times. Reflections on the Readings of the Third Sunday of Advent.” VoiceAfrique.org. December 13, 2025.

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