This Wednesday and Thursday (April 7-8, noon to noon) get ready for PilotsGive! We’re looking for 2,500 donors to support scholarships, emergency assistance, academics, Pilot Athletics, student services, and more during this 24 hours of Pilot Pride. Here are a few ways you can support our Pilots this year: Wear purple! Do you have your […]
Archives for March 2021
Update
Amber Vermeesch, nursing, was elected as a Distinguished Practitioner & Fellow by the National Academies of Practice. Claire McKinley-Yoder, nursing, coauthored “Primary school classmate characteristics and school nursing predicting graduation from high school.” Public Health Nursing [published ahead of print] 00: 1– 10. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12896 Claire McKinley-Yoder, nursing, presented “The Relationships Among Individual and School Characteristics […]
Public Humanities at UP: Imagining PRF’s Future, April 8
What are the “Public Humanities”? How have UP faculty and students participated in Public Humanities work? And how might the Public Humanities enable or inspire your own thinking, learning, and teaching—and be mutually enriching for you and for the public? The organizers of the Public Research Fellows program invite you to join a discussion of these questions and more on Thursday, April 8 from 4-5:15 p.m. at this […]
New Men’s Basketball Coach: Shantay Legans
The University of Portland has hired Shantay Legans as men’s basketball head coach, Vice President for Athletics Scott Leykam announced last Monday. Legans comes to The Bluff after 12 years at Eastern Washington University where he helped lead the Eagles to five of its seven all-time postseason appearances. In his four years as head coach […]
New Director for Office of Alumni and Parent Relations: Gina Amato Yazzolino
Gina Amato Yazzolino ’96 has been named director of alumni and parent relations effective April 12. Yazzolino succeeds Craig Swinyard, Ph.D. ’98, who stepped away from the position last December to resume teaching as an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics. “Our University of Portland community will benefit from Gina’s strong non-profit experience and […]
Reminder: Proctorio Available for Campus Wide Use
As we approach finals, the ATSI team would like to remind you that Proctorio, an online proctoring solution, is available for use with exams given via Moodle. This solution will allow you to flag certain behaviors for observation by the plugin, which will submit reports to you following your exam to review any questionable activity which it observes based […]
Visio Divina With The Saint John’s Bible: The Crucifixion
As the Church enters its Holy Week, you’re invited to take some time—about 15 minutes—wherever you are, to enter imaginatively into the illumination of The Crucifixion from The Saint John’s Bible and hear the story of Jesus’s path to the death that would set the world free. This is Visio Divina—sacred seeing—an ancient form of contemplative prayer that requires […]
Clark Library: UP Student Newspapers Digital Archive
The Clark Library is pleased to announce the launch of an online UP Student Newspapers Collection. In October 2019, the library received an Oregon Heritage Grant to digitize and preserve UP’s student newspapers: The Columbiad and The Beacon. It took a year and a half to digitize the print newspapers which are housed in the University Archives. Now, eleven decades (1902-2016) consisting of […]
So You Want an Internship? Workshop, March 30
Do you know students who are looking for an internship? This workshop will help them create an Internship Search Action Plan, and orient them to the resources that will help them along the process! If your students are thinking about gaining professional experience over the summer, but don’t know where to start or feel stuck: […]
New Men’s Basketball Coach: Shantay Legans
The University of Portland has hired Shantay Legans as men’s basketball head coach, Vice President for Athletics Scott Leykam announced last Monday. Legans comes to The Bluff after 12 years at Eastern Washington University where he helped lead the Eagles to five of its seven all-time postseason appearances. In his four years as head coach […]