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Pre-Play Reception and Panel Discussion for New Works, New Voices (Oct. 4)

September 29, 2025

A reception and panel talk for theater show ticket holders sponsored by Garaventa Center.

Filed Under: 2025-09-29, Garaventa Center, Issues, Performing & Fine Arts Tagged With: Garaventa Center, Mago Hunt Center Theater, Performing and Fine Arts, Theater Program

UP Theater Season 2025-2026: Subscriptions on Sale Now! (through Sept. 08)

September 2, 2025

We’re so excited to share our 2025-2026 Season with you all! Four exciting and innovative shows are coming to the Mago Hunt stage this year. Season Subscriptions are on sale now through September 8. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-09-01, Issues Tagged With: Performing and Fine Arts, Theater Program

UP Theater Presents: “The Effect” by Lucy Prebble (Feb. 19-23)

February 3, 2025

Connie and Tristan are volunteers in a clinical trial—they’re falling in love, but is it just the side effect of the experimental antidepressant they’re taking? UP theater is proud to present this romantic dramedy that has taken the theater world by storm around the country and abroad. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-03, 2025-02-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Performing and Fine Arts, Theater Program

Pre-Play Reception & Panel for “The Effect” (Feb. 22)

February 3, 2025

Ticket show holders for The Effect by Lucy Prebble are invited to enjoy a complimentary drinks and small bites reception and an expert pre-show panel discussion, courtesy of the Garaventa Center. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-03, 2025-02-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Garaventa Center, Mago Hunt Center, Performing and Fine Arts, Theater Program

UP Theater Community Survey

November 23, 2024

UP Theater is beginning our 25-26 season selection process and requesting your feedback on our programming. Please help us by taking this two-minute survey to let us know what work you’ve found most meaningful and what you’d like to see on our stages next year. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-11-25, Issues Tagged With: Theater Program

UP Theater Presents: The Prom (Apr. 11-21)

April 1, 2024

Join your friends at UP Theater for the hit musical The Prom! This funny and heartwarming production follows Emma, an Indiana high schooler barred from bringing her girlfriend to the prom. Special bonus: patrons attending The Prom can wear their prom best and take their own prom pics at our selfie station and use the hashtag #UPTheaterProm to be included in the daily contest to be crowned Prom Royalty for that performance! (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-04-01, 2024-04-15, Issues Tagged With: Performing and Fine Arts, Theater Program

Pre-Play Reception and Panel for The Prom (Apr. 13 & 20)

April 1, 2024

All show ticket holders for The Prom are invited to enjoy a complimentary small bites and wine reception as campus experts highlight what to look and listen for, courtesy of the Garaventa Center. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-04-01, 2024-04-15, Issues Tagged With: Performing and Fine Arts, Theater Program

“Peter and the Starcatcher” (Nov. 10-19)

November 6, 2023

You are cordially invited to UP Theater’s second production of the 2023-24 school year. “Peter and the Starcatcher,” by Rick Elice, takes the audience on a fanciful adventure into the backstory of Peter Pan and is a delight for audiences of all ages. (Read More)

Filed Under: 11-06-2023, Issues Tagged With: Performing and Fine Arts, Theater Program

UP Theater Presents: A Workshop Reading of “TBA” by Carla Ching (Oct. 4–7)

September 25, 2023

UP Theater cordially invites you to their first production of the 2023-24 school year, a workshop reading of “TBA” by Carla Ching. “TBA” asks probing questions about self-fashioning and identity in our modern world. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2023-09-25, Issues Tagged With: Mago Hunt Center Theater, Performing and Fine Arts, Theater Program

Fall Production: Everybody (Nov. 17–20)

November 12, 2022

You are invited to UP Theater’s second production of the fall, Everybody. The play follows Everybody as they journey from life into death to confront life’s greatest mysteries: who are we? How do you create community? What makes a good life? Award-winning playwright Brandon Jacobs Jenkins brings us on the ride in this irreverent and […]

Filed Under: 11-14-2022 Tagged With: Mago Hunt Center Theater, Theater Program

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Nick McRee, Sociology and Social Work, published “Academic debate and civic engagement in adolescence and young adulthood: evidence from a national longitudinal study.” Argumentation and Advocacy, 61(3–4), 323–338. He also published “When Chairs Shield Faculty from Service Opportunities: Protecting Colleagues or Hindering Community?” The Department Chair, 36(3), 11-13.

Katie Danielson, Education, was awarded a grant from The Spencer Foundation in the amount of $374,940.00 for the “Collaborating Towards Transformational Visions for Digital School Systems” project. Danielson also published “Learning to let go: Transformations in teachers’ pedagogical reasoning about classroom discussion.” Co-authors: Gotwalt, E., Kavanagh, S. Teaching and Teacher Education. January 2026

Daniel Bulek, Nursing & Health Innovations, published “From monoamine deficits to multiscale plasticity: Twenty-five years of ketamine and the neurophysiology of depression.” Journal of Neurophysiology, jn.00516.2025.

Dave Houglum, Director of Leadership Studies and Leadership Professor of Practice in the Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, facilitated a multi-day series of invited leadership development workshops for the staff team at Lutherhaven Ministries in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Houglum led six interactive sessions focused on DiSC-informed leadership, coaching-centered leadership, servant leadership and accompaniment, powerful feedback, and the co-creation of team commitments to support healthy culture and sustainable impact. In addition, Houglum provided multiple individual leadership coaching sessions for staff members throughout the engagement. January 2026.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published the following articles in VoiceAfrique.org: “The Saturated Wisdom of Saint Joseph: Relevant Virtues for Our Times.” (Reflections on the Readings of the Fourth Sunday of Advent, 2025). December 19, 2025. “The Gift of the Nativity is Grounded in an Ethics of Neighborliness.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Mass on Christmas Day, December 25, 2025). December 24, 2025. “The Spirituality of Ambition and the Grace of the Incarnation.” Reflections on the Readings for the Vigil Mass of Christmas, 2025. December 24, 2025. “The Theotokos: A Mirror in Which We Discover Ourselves as Bearers of God’s Life to Each Other.” (Reflection on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God.) December 31, 2025. “Jesus Christ: The Revealer of the Grace of Encounters and an Embrace of Difference.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord. January 4, 2026.) January 3, 2026. “Christian Baptism as a Summon for Global Justice: What We Must Embrace for Our Times.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Sunday of the Baptism of the Lord. January 11, 2026.) January 10, 2026. Aihiokhai also published a review of The Cross and the Olive Tree: Cultivating Palestinian Theology Amid Gaza. Edited by John S. Munayer and Samuel S. Munayer. Orbis Books, 2025. Catholicbooksreview.org

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.

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