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06-13-2022

It’s Time to Order Your Regalia for Inauguration (by Aug. 2)

July 25, 2022

Click this link: https://www.jostens.com/apps/store/customer/1046045/University-of-Portland/ Select the “Graduation Caps & Gowns” tile and then select the catalog of their choice. Please make sure you select the correct event: Deadline to order your Inauguration regalia is August 2 Inauguration Friday, September 23 in the Chiles Center.  More details are available at up.edu/inauguration.

Filed Under: 06-13-2022, 06-27-2022, 07-11-2022, 07-25-2022

Health and Counseling Center—Limited Summer Hours

July 25, 2022

This summer, the Health and Counseling Center (HCC) will be open on a limited schedule. Most appointments will be in person over the summer, although telehealth is still available when appropriate. JULY—The primary care side of the HCC is closed for the month of July. Students should call to make counseling appointments Monday through Friday […]

Filed Under: 06-13-2022, 06-27-2022, 07-11-2022, 07-25-2022

Controller’s Office Year-End Procedures and Reminders

June 27, 2022

Fiscal year-end procedures are now available for reimbursement and payment requests and purchasing cards (pcards). Reimbursement and Payment Requests All Reimbursement and Payment Request forms to be paid against your FY22 budget need to be submitted to the Controller’s Office by Friday, July 15. Requests received after this date will be reviewed for materiality as to […]

Filed Under: 05-31-2022, 06-13-2022, 06-27-2022 Tagged With: Fiscal Year End, Lori Watson

Reminder: Learning Archive Retirement is Approaching!

June 27, 2022

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Information Services will be retiring the LearningArchive Moodle site on June 30. The LearningArchive houses Moodle course pages from Fall of 2011 through Summer of 2015. If you have course materials on this site that you haven’t already saved, please download copies of any items you wish to keep. To visit the LearningArchive Moodle site please go to learningarchive.up.edu and […]

Filed Under: 05-16-2022, 05-31-2022, 06-13-2022, 06-27-2022 Tagged With: Moodle

Ensure Your Email Client is Current

June 13, 2022

Information Services will be disabling Basic Authentication as a method of accessing email and other Office 365 services. If you are using a current Outlook client (2016 or later) or Mail for iOS client (11.3.1 or later), then you should already be using the newer secure authentication method. If you are using an older mail […]

Filed Under: 06-13-2022

Don’t Miss the Boat! Free Faculty/Staff Event Passes to Reunion 2022, June 24–26

June 13, 2022

After a three-year hiatus, Alumni Reunion is back! We encourage faculty and staff to join hundreds of alumni who will return to campus this summer. Celebrating groups include the resilient classes of 2020 and 2021, 50-Year Club inductees from the classes of 1970–1972, and Villa Alumni. The weekend kicks off on Friday with a 2020 […]

Filed Under: 05-31-2022, 06-13-2022 Tagged With: Reunion, Reunion 2022

New to the Bluff: Cheston Knapp, Senior Writer & Assoc. Editor of Portland Magazine, Marketing and Communications

June 13, 2022

We are so happy that Cheston has joined our team, and we can’t wait for you to enjoy his writing in Portland magazine. For more than a decade, he was the managing editor of Tin House magazine and the executive director of The Tin House Summer Workshop. He published his essay collection Up Up, Down Down in 2018 (writer Anthony Doer called it […]

Filed Under: 06-13-2022

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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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