Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote an article, “My View: Cleary’s literary life summed up on 103rd birthday,” published in the April 12, 2019 edition of the Portland Tribune. See the article here.
Bro. Thomas Giumenta, C.S.C., will celebrate 50 years as a Holy Cross brother with a Renewal of Vows ceremony during the 10:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, April 28, in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher. All are invited to wish Bro. Thomas well and congratulate him on his milestone year.
Mehmet Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his paper “Structural Performance of Residential Settlements in Western South America” accepted for the 43rd IAHS World Congress on Housing to be held in Cochabamba, Bolivia on October 7-9, 2019.
Andrew Guest, psychological sciences, has in the last month presented “Three dimensional Sport Psychology: Conceptualizing public issues as integrated with performance and mental health” at the annual Social Justice Through Sport & Exercise Psychology conference at Pacific University; “Using Research to Make, Measure, and Meet Youth Development Goals” at the US Soccer Foundation Urban Soccer Symposium in Washington DC; and a guest lecture at Pacific University (with UP alum and professor of political science at Pacific Dr. Jules Boycoff) on Sports, Politics, and International Development.
Jakob Kotas, mathematics, presented “Optimal airline de-ice scheduling,” University of Hawaii at Manoa Applied Mathematics Seminar, Honolulu, HI (Sep 26, 2018), “Optimal airline de-ice scheduling,” Oregon Liberal Arts Mathematics Colloquium, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR (Feb 23, 2019), “Standards-based grading for ordinary differential equations: a parallel study,” MAA Pacific Northwest Section Annual Meeting, University of Portland, Portland, OR (Apr 13, 2019), “Optimal airline de-ice scheduling” at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM), Baltimore, MD (Jan 16, 2019), and “A model for prion fibril growth based on oligomeric building blocks,” AMS Spring Central and Wester Joint Sectional Meeting, Honolulu, HI (Mar 24, 2019). He also wrote “Optimal stopping for response-guided dosing” in Networks and Homogeneous Media 14 (2019), no. 1, 43-52, March 2019.
Buck Taylor, chemistry, had his paper, “Computational and Experimental Investigation of Alkene Hydrogenation by a Pincer-Type [P2Si]Rh Complex: Alkane Release via Competitive σ-Bond Metathesis and Reductive Elimination” (with Matthew Whited and student coauthors Michael Trenerry, Kaitlyn DeMeulenaere) published in Organometallics, 2019 , 38 , 1493–1501.
Elizabeth Aguilera, Office of Student Activities, presented “Coyolxauhqui’s Serpents,” (co-written with Emily Umberger) at the Animal Symbolism in Postclassic Mesoamerica symposium at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 13, 2019.
Cara Poor, Shiley School of Engineering, presented “Integrating Ethics Across the Civil Engineering Program” (with Mehmet Inan and student coauthor Abigail Chase) and published in Proceedings of the 2019 American Society of Engineering Education Pacific Northwest Section Conference. Corvallis, Oregon, March 2019.