UP Rowing

Pilots Rowing Team Open House and Regatta, Oct. 30

October 21, 2016

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to join the UP rowing team at their home race, the Portland Fall Classic Regatta and Open House on Sunday, October 30, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., at the Portland Boathouse on 1515 SE Water Avenue.

The Portland Boathouse is “next to” Omsi and under the Hawthorne Bridge. Follow exits #300 from I-5 northbound or #300B from I-5 southbound.

The UP teams will be racing throughout the morning, and coffee and refreshments will be available to all Pilot fans at the team tent in the Festival Plaza.

UP Race Schedule:

8:36am Varsity 8+
8:38am JV 8+
10:58am V4+
11:00am JV 4+
11:17am Novice 8+
11:20am Novice 4+

Pilots Rowing Team Open House and Regatta, Oct. 26

October 20, 2014

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to join the UP rowing team family at their last home race, the Portland Fall Classic Regatta, on Sunday, October 26, from 8 a.m. to noon, at the Portland Boathouse (1515 SE Water Avenue). UP teams will be racing throughout the morning, so please come out to support the team, tour the boathouse the UP rowing team calls home, and meet other supporters of the Pilots. Coffee and refreshments will be available to all Pilot fans at our team tent.

Race Start Times:

8:36 a.m: Varsity Eight start time
8:38 a.m: 2nd Varsity Eight start time
10:58 a.m: Varsity Four start time
11:17 a.m: Novice Eight start time
11:20 a.m: Novice Four start time

The crews will launch approximately 50-60 minutes before each race start time above. Come meet the UP athletes and coaches, watch the boats handled from the rack to the dock, and cheer the team from the shore as they race by. A boathouse tour with rowing coach Pasha Spencer (pictured) will take place at 10 a.m. For more information contact athletics at 7117 or go to www.portlandpilots.com.

Ami Ahern-Rindell, Biology, participated in onsite campus visits during October 29 – November 1 to review several PUIs (Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions) in Oklahoma who together are recipients of an NIH-INBRE Consortium Award. This multi-million dollar grant provides funding for 5 years to improve biomedical research across the state of Oklahoma collaboratively between research intensive universities, PUIs, and Community Colleges.

Rachel Wheeler, theology, served as facilitator for Day of Reflection, Ascension Catholic Church, Portland, OR, National Pastoral Musicians Portland Chapter, November 2019.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, serves as a reviewer for Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, November2019-Present.

Nicole Ralston, education, had her piece, titled “Investigating the impacts of a collaborative language teacher professional development”(with Jacqueline Waggoner, Rebecca Smith) published in Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (TESL-EJ), 24 (2), 1-14, August 2019.

Hannah Highlander, mathematics, presented “My career in biomathematics and mathematical modeling, driven and sustained by my undergraduate research collaborators,” at a special session on Research and Successful Collaborations of Mothers in Mathematical Biology, Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in the Sciences (SACNAS) , Honolulu, Hawaii.

Kevin Jones, social work, had five poems published in the Autumn 2019 issue of The Bamboo Hut, an online and print journal of English language tanshi (short poems). Jones is currently working on a research project exploring the therapeutic effects of poetry writing for youth who have experienced trauma.

Laura Dyer, biology, and her research students Pia Fornell and Cole Malibiran, attended the Murdock College Science Research Conference (November 8-9) where Malibiran gave an oral presentation titled “Coronary artery maturation in response to shear stress.” Fornell received the best poster award for developmental biology/physiology for her poster, “Identifying how sonic hedgehog signaling affects cardiac neural crest migration following fetal alcohol exposure.”

Patricia McDonald and Frances Pimentel, marketing and communications, received awards at the annual UCDA (University and College Designers Association) Design Awards for “Excellence in the Integrated Campaign” category: University of Portland Wonder Admissions Campaign, and honorable mention in the “Campaign Strategy” category for University of Portland Pilots Give Campaign.

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