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Archives for March 2021

PilotsGive, April 7-8: Together we all add UP!

March 30, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: 04-05-2021, Campus Services, Development, University Relations Tagged With: Development, PilotsGive

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March 26, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: Update

Public Humanities at UP: Imagining PRF’s Future, April 8

March 26, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: 03-29-2021, 04-05-2021, Academics, College of Arts & Sciences Tagged With: Public Research Fellows Program

New Men’s Basketball Coach: Shantay Legans

March 26, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured

New Director for Office of Alumni and Parent Relations: Gina Amato Yazzolino

March 25, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: 03-29-2021, Alumni, Alumni & Parent Relations, University Relations Tagged With: Alumni and Parent Relations, Bryce Strang, Gina Amato Yazzolino

Reminder: Proctorio Available for Campus Wide Use

March 25, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: 03-29-2021, 04-05-2021, 04-12-2021, Academic Technology Services, Academics, Campus Services Tagged With: ATSI

Visio Divina With The Saint John’s Bible: The Crucifixion

March 25, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: 03-29-2021, Academics, Campus Services, Garaventa Center Tagged With: Garaventa Center, The Saint John's Bible

Clark Library: UP Student Newspapers Digital Archive

March 24, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: 03-29-2021, 04-05-2021, Academics, Campus Services, Library, University Archives Tagged With: Clark Library, The Beacon, University Archives

So You Want an Internship? Workshop, March 30

March 23, 2021

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: […]

Filed Under: 03-29-2021, Academics, Career Services Tagged With: Career Center

New Men’s Basketball Coach: Shantay Legans

March 23, 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: 03-29-2021, Athletics Tagged With: Scott Leykam, Shantay Legans

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Susan Mcdaniel and Nicole Hanig, Music, will be performing on the concert series “Chatter PDX” on June 1 at 10:30 a.m. at the Pacific Center with Hilary Oseas, viola and James Shields, clarinet, both of the Oregon Symphony. There will also be spoken word from former professional football player and writer, Marcus Lattimore, in the hour-long concert. Tickets and information at ChatterPDX.

Maureen Briare, Nursing & Health Innovations, published Fountain of Life Mass Setting, with a special dedication to the priests and brothers of the Congregation of Holy Cross at the University of Portland. GIA Publications. Released April, 2025 

Mohammadhadi Hajilou, Engineering, presented “Effect of fuel size, ignition energy, and wind speed on smoldering to flaming transition of Douglas fir lumber.” Co-presenters: R. Spring, N. Bolden, A. Henry, T. Rowley, A. Burton. 14th US Combustion Meeting, Boston, MA. March 16-19, 2025. Hajilou also published “Fire Whirl Emissions and Burning Rates for Crude Oil Slicks of Varying Thickness.” Co-authors: J. Dowling, W. Cui, M. Gollner. Fuel, 393 138482 (2025).

Kiya Riverman, Environmental Science, was awarded a grant for $489,935.00 on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense, for her research “Impacts of spatial-temporal precipitation, snowpack properties, and snowmelt variability on alpine landscapes and runoff.” February 15, 2025.

Christina Astorga, Theology, served as a Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Moral Theology. February 26 – July 7, 2019. Astorga also served as the Head of the Local Arrangement Committee for the Catholic Theological Society of America. June 13, 2024 – June 15, 2025

Mohammad Arbabian, Business, published “Optimal Inventory Management Policies When Supply Is Bundled.” 9th North American Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Washington D.C. June, 2024. Arbabian also published “Evaluating the Role of 3D Printing in Decentralized Supply Chains: A Stackelberg Framework for Optimal Manufacturing Decisions.” 15th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. February, 2025.

Aziz Inan, Engineering, has been credited for his research on palindrome dates in multiple news outlets including: USA Today, NDTV, NBC New York, News9live, Courier Journal, 13newsnow.com, Ozarksfirst.com, Inquirer.net, Austin American-Statesman, and The News of Israel.

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