The athletics department would like to acknowledge this year’s winners of the Difference Award. Each year, student-athletes nominate professors on campus who made a difference in their life. The definition is left intentionally vague, allowing students to reflect on the many ways a Professor may have made a difference to them. This year’s professors are:
- Todd Easton, economics
- Shannon Mayer, physics
- Jeffrey White, international languages & cultures
This year’s winners will be honored at the men’s basketball game versus ____ on Thursday, February 7, at 8 p.m., at the Chiles Center. Please come out and enjoy the game and congratulate our winners for their support of all of our students on campus, including our student-athletes.
For more information contact Matt Welch, athletics, at x4836 or welchm@up.edu.
Join Garaventa Center co-directors Karen Eifler and Fr. Charlie Gordon, C.S.C., as they team up with Shannon Mayer, physics, and Jim Baillie, philosophy, to unpack surprising themes of grace and transcendence in the movie “Arrival.” The screening is on Wednesday, February 21, at 7:15 p.m., in Shiley Hall room 319. Free and open to all; thematic movie snacks will be served.
Shannon Mayer, physics, and Jacqueline Van Hoomissen, biology, are pleased to announce the publication of Awaken the Stars, their co-edited volume of essays on what faculty really teach in their classrooms, beyond the standard course content. The collection is comprised of reflective writings from 25 faculty from a broad range of disciplines at the University of Portland and is dedicated to Brian Doyle, the creative, inquisitive, and joyous colleague who, with a single request for an essay for Portland Magazine, inspired Mayer and Van Hoomissen to curate their current collection.