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Academic Technology Services & Innovations

May 2022 Zoom Update

May 31, 2022

Another month means more updates, so please do not forget to make sure that your Zoom client is up to date. For more information on making updates, as well as an overview of new features for the month of May, please see our May 16th Techtalk Blog post.

Filed Under: 05-31-2022 Tagged With: Academic Technology Services & Innovations, Zoom

ATSI: VoiceThread Enables New Assignments Experience

June 30, 2021

VoiceThread’s new assignments experience launched for everyone on June 30. Visit ATSI’s TechTalk site to learn more about the changes and access training materials.

Filed Under: 07-06-2021, Academic Technology Services, Campus Services Tagged With: Academic Technology Services & Innovations

June Zoom Updates

June 3, 2021

Zoom has released its new updates for the month of June including a number of bug and security fixes. For more information on the newest features and how to ensure that your Zoom client has the most recent updates, visit ATSI’s monthly Zoom article on the Techtalk Blog. Questions about using Zoom? Contact ATSI

Filed Under: 06-07-2021, Academic Technology Services, Academics Tagged With: Academic Technology Services & Innovations

May Zoom Updates

May 7, 2021

Zoom has released a couple of exciting new features for the month of May, as well as standard monthly bug and security fixes. For more information on the newest features and how to ensure that your Zoom client has the most recent updates, visit ATSI’s monthly Zoom article on the Techtalk Blog.

Filed Under: 05-10-2021, Academic Technology Services, Academics Tagged With: Academic Technology Services & Innovations

Welcome Ryan Ingersoll, New Director of ATSI

April 16, 2021

Information services is pleased to welcome Ryan Ingersoll as director of academic technology and innovation. In this position he will oversee development of classroom and on-line academic technology, with an eye on innovation and digital literacy among our faculty. In addition, post COVID he will have the opportunity to re-imagine the student-run On The Bluff […]

Filed Under: 04-19-2021, Academic Technology Services, Academics, Information Services Tagged With: Academic Technology Services & Innovations, Ryan Ingersoll

April Zoom Update

April 9, 2021

With a new month comes new updates, and users should check their Zoom version now to make sure they apply these updates. For more information, including an important FYI for Mac users, please read ATSI’s newest TechTalk Article.  

Filed Under: 04-12-2021, Academic Technology Services, Academics Tagged With: Academic Technology Services & Innovations

New Features for Zoom and Poll Everywhere

January 8, 2021

Over the month of December, two of academic technology services and innovation’s key tools received updated functionality that will be beneficial to online course work. See ATSI’s December Techtalk post about the updates for more information. For additional resources or training for either platform, please feel free to reach out to ATSI via email (atsi@up.edu).

Filed Under: 01-11-2021, Academic Technology Services, Academics Tagged With: Academic Technology Services & Innovations

Zoom: Connect with Confidence!

November 6, 2020

Zoom has announced a two-part webinar series to take place this month. The series will be aimed at helping users increase their skill in building connection in online classrooms and meetings. For more information, or to sign up for the series, see Academic Technology Services and Innovation’s November 4th TechTalk post using this link. For […]

Filed Under: 11-09-2020, Academic Technology Services, Academics Tagged With: Academic Technology Services & Innovations, Dawn Lloyd

WordPress Downtime: 8-10 p.m., Oct. 29

October 23, 2020

Academic technology services and innovation (ATSI) will be performing maintenance on its WordPress platform to ensure best function and security. To enable technicians to complete this maintenance, pages on sites-dev.up.edu will be unavailable from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday, October 29. Please contact ATSI with any questions.

Filed Under: 10-26-2020, Academic Technology Services, Academics, Information Services Tagged With: Academic Technology Services & Innovations, Wordpress

New Features In ATSI Tools for Online Instruction

October 2, 2020

Both Zoom and TechSmith have recently announced key updates to their available features to enhance use in online instruction. To find out more about these new features, please see our post in the TechTalk Blog: New Features Coming to Zoom and TechSmith. We hope you will find these new features exciting and helpful! For more […]

Filed Under: 10-05-2020, Academic Technology Services, Academics Tagged With: Academic Technology Services & Innovations, Dawn Lloyd

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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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