This Side of Home

Heighten Your Intercultural Understanding: “This Side of Home”

November 23, 2016

watson-renee-copy With Vision 2020, the University’s new strategic plan, the UP community seeks to enhance intercultural understandings, including attitudes, knowledge, and skills. To assist in this endeavor, the School of Education is hosting a reading group to probe culturally relevant practices and strategies.

This Side of Home, by Renée Watson (pictured), takes place in Portland, and explores the experiences of young African Americans in an evolving city. A free copy of this book will be distributed to anyone who responds to this invitation and who agrees to participate (on a first-come, first-serve basis) by November 30.

Participants will read the first section of the book, “Summer,” pages 3-75, and meet in the Terrace Room on Wednesday, January 18, between 12:15 and 1 p.m., for a brown bag lunch and to discuss the reading. Three additional discussions are scheduled on Wednesdays between 12:15 and 1 p.m. on February 8, March 8, and April 5. Seats are limited; please RSVP to Sally Hood (hood@up.edu) no later than November 30.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his article, “Letter: Pope John Paul II, by the numbers,” published in the May 29, 2020 edition of The Columbian. See the article here.

Jordyn Wolfand, Shiley School of Engineering, contributed “Stormwater control impacts on runoff volume and peak flow: A meta-analysis of watershed modeling studies” (with Colin D. Bell, Chelsea L. Panos, Aditi S. Bhaskar, Ryan L. Gilliom, Terri S. Hogue, Kristina G. Hopkins, Anne J. Jefferson) in Hydrological Processes, May 2020 (DOI: 10.1002/hyp.13784)

Michael Cameron, theology, was granted the Thomas F. Martin O.S.A. Saint Augustine Fellowship, Villanova, University, in January 2020. He contributed “Lucifer: Patristic and Early Medieval Christianity” in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, eds. Christine Helmer, et al. (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2019), vol. 17: 102-106, October 2019. He also presented “On the Road to Conversion with Augustine: A Lenten Retreat Based on The Confessions of Saint Augustine” at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Portland, OR, March 2020.

Jeffrey White, international languages & cultures, presented “With a pandemic comes the opportunity for bold visions in redesign” as moderator and host for the Northwest College Reading and Learning Association Tides of Change Video Conference Lunch Series, with co-presenters Adrienne Beebe and Liz Coleman, May 2020.

Rachel Wheeler, theology, reviewed The Great Conversation: Nature and the Care of the Soul by Belden C. Lane, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, in Spiritus 20, no. 1 (2020): 129-130, April 2020.

Aaron Moss, Shiley School of Engineering, contributed “Simplified Parsing Expression Derivatives” in Language and Automata Theory and Applications, Leporati A., Martín-Vide C., Shapira D., Zandron C. (eds) LATA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 120, 38. February 2020.

Nelson Coates, physics, was granted a patent for “Thermoelectric polymer aerogels and methods of fabrication thereof,” (with coauthors Ayaskanta Sahu and Jeffrey Urban, and student coauthors Boris Russ, Edmond Zaia, Madeleine Gordon, Preston Zhou) U.S. Patent 10,522,732, December 2019. He also contributed “In-situ resonant band engineering of solution-processed semiconductors generates high performance n-type thermoelectric nano-inks” (with coauthors Ayaskanta Sahu, Miao Liu, Fan Yang, Jason Forster, Ya-Qian Zhang, Mary Scott, Kristin Persson, and Jeffrey Urban; and student coauthors Boris Russ, Edmond Zaia, Madeleine Gordon, Rachel Segalman) in Nat Commun 11, April 2020. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15933-2

Bruce Conkle, performing and fine arts, was featured in an article, “Artist Bruce Conkle: Isolation as meditation time” in Oregon Artswatch, May 11, 2020. See the article here.