Welcome Back and Be Safe, Please

January 10, 2020

A painted wall with a rainbow and be safe, be respectful, be responsible motivational words

With the beginning of the spring 2020 semester, the public safety office asks that faculty, staff, and students keep the following safety precautions in mind, according to marketing and communications vice president Michael Lewellen:

Be mindful of your surroundings and report any unusual or suspicious activity to public safety.
Carry your student, staff or faculty ID card with you at all times.
As always, all residence halls are ID card accessible 24 hours a day.

As part of UP’s safety protocols, please note the following access information for other campus buildings:

Academic buildings will have open access from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., with ID card access only from 5 p.m. to midnight.
The Chiles Center will have open access from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Beauchamp Recreation & Wellness Center is ID card access only.
Doors to Waldschmidt Hall will have ID card access during the business day (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) for all students, faculty, and staff. Visitors and guests will enter through the main entrance where a building concierge can provide assistance as needed.
The Clark Library will have open access from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., with ID card access from 5 p.m. until 2 a.m. for late-evening study.
On weekends, academic and office buildings will be ID card access only from 7 a.m. to midnight.

If you have any questions about this information, please contact public safety at x4444 or publicsafety@up.edu.

Kevin Jones, social work, had a poem titled “The Cold Road” published in Juniper, A Poetry Journal. Jones is currently working on a research project exploring the therapeutic effects of poetry writing for youth who have experienced trauma. You can read the poem using this link.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, published, “Birthday curiosities for Kamala Harris,” www.newsindiatimes.com, News India Times, Parikh Worldwide Media LLC, New York, Vol. LI, No. 43, p. 13, October 30, 2020. The same article was also published as “Birthday curiosities for Kamala Harris,” www.desitalk.com, Desi Talk, Parikh Worldwide Media LLC, New York, NY, Vol. XXIV, No. 44, p. 19, October 30, 2020.

September Nelson, nursing, contributed “Lateral integration of care services” in C. R. King, S. O’Toole-Girard, C. G. Rapp (Eds.), Clinical nurse leader: Certification review (pp. 55-64). Springer Publishing, October 2020.

Lars Larson, English, delivered a paper on cyclical displacement titled “West of India: Postwestern Patterns in the Rajneesh Oregon of Wild Wild Country” at the Western Literature Association Conference on Oct. 23 (held online of course, even as it was scheduled to take place in his hometown of San Diego).

Andra Davis, nursing, contributed “Nurse-led telephonic symptom support for patients receiving chemotherapy” (with Bell, J., Reed, S., Kim, K., Stacey, D., & Joseph, J.) in Oncology Nursing Forum 47(6), E199-E210, November 2020.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, wrote “Encounter: A New Icon of The Martyrs of Uganda” in Portland Magazine. Vol. 39. No. 1. (Fall 2020), 24 – 31.

Jacquie Van Hoomissen and Sarina Saturn co-led a collaborative of faculty who are participating in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Inclusive Excellence Grant Competition for $1,000,000 to support inclusive excellent in science higher education. They recently learned that the UP collaborative was selected as one of only 108 campuses to participate in the next phase of the competition. They will be participating in an HHMI supported learning community to further understand how to make our campus more inclusive.