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Center for Gender and Sexuality

2025 Lavender Celebration (May 1)

April 28, 2025

The Center for Gender and Sexuality invites the community to our first Lavender Celebration! This event is a meaningful way to honor and uplift LGBTQ students and allies, and to create a supportive and inclusive space for them to feel recognized and appreciated. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-04-28, Events, Issues Tagged With: Center for Gender and Sexuality

This Is Our Calling: Songs of Hope and Unity (Apr. 12)

March 31, 2025

UP Performing & Fine Arts Department, Center for Gender and Sexuality, and Diversity and Inclusion Programs present This Is Our Calling: Songs of Hope and Unity! Featuring UP Bel Canto, Chamber Choir and Singers, with powerful music of love, social justice, celebration and peace. Admission is free and open to all! (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-31, Issues Tagged With: Center for Gender and Sexuality, Performing and Fine Arts

“Cultivate Your Closet” Spring Clothing Drive (Mar. 18-26)

March 16, 2025

All faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to donate any CLEAN clothing in preparation for a clothing giveaway sponsored by the Center for Gender and Sexuality. Students will have access to free clothing at the giveaway on March 26, where stylists from the UP WEWORETHAT Club will be helping to coordinate fits. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Center for Gender and Sexuality

Center for Gender and Sexuality Spring Events

February 3, 2025

Check out the selection of Spring events hosted by the Center for Gender and Sexuality. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-02-03, 2025-02-17, Events, Issues Tagged With: Center for Gender and Sexuality

OUTober Celebration and the NEW Center for Gender and Sexuality 

September 30, 2024

October is LGBTQ+ History Month! Uniquely known as OUTober, it is a time to recognize and celebrate the rich history, contributions, and struggles of the LGBTQ+ community. University of Portland’s Center for Gender and Sexuality (CGS) will celebrate OUTober with a series of programs and events for our campus community. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-09-30, 2024-10-14, Events, Issues Tagged With: Center for Gender and Sexuality, OUTober

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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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