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Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group (Apr. 4)

March 16, 2025

At the next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group we will be discussing the article “The Antisocial Century” by Derek Thompson. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-03-17, 2025-03-31, Events, Issues Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Garaventa Center

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Jan. 31)

January 6, 2025

At the next FILDG meeting we will be discussing the introduction and conclusion from Marcia Bjornerud’s book “Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World.” Refreshments will be served and all faculty and staff are welcome. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2025-01-06, 2025-01-20, Issues Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Nov. 15)

October 28, 2024

At the next FILDG meeting, we will be discussing “Earth’s Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes We Are Only Starting to Understand” by Ferris Jabr and the poem “Stone” by Charles Simic. All faculty and staff are welcome. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-10-28, Issues Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group (Sept. 20)

August 30, 2024

We invite all faculty and staff to join the first meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group [FILDG] for the 2024-25 academic year. We will be discussing “Tears and Ashes” by Vincent Miller and “The Last Two Northern White Rhinos on Earth” by Sam Anderson. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-09-02, Issues Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Apr. 5)

March 4, 2024

At our next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group we will be discussing three readings by Vandana Shiva, who will be giving the September 2024 Zahm Lecture: “Everything I know I Learned in the Forest,” “Women and the Gendered Politics of Food,” and Introduction to Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace. (Read More).

Filed Under: 03-04-2024, 2024-03-18, Issues Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Feb. 9)

January 8, 2024

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be Friday, Feb. 9 from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Murphy Room. We will be discussing the Introduction to Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University by Kathleen Fitzpatrick. (Read More)

Filed Under: 01-08-2024, 01-22-2024, Issues Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Nov. 10)

October 23, 2023

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion group will highlight three pieces of 20th century writing from Fr. Ted Hesburgh, Kate Cohen, and Alicia Suskrin Ostriker. (Read More)

Filed Under: 10-23-2023, 11-06-2023, Issues Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Garaventa Center

Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group Re-Scheduled (Apr. 14)

March 17, 2023

To accommodate the staff/faculty retreat being held on March 31, the final gathering of the Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group will move to Friday, April 14, 3:30 p.m. in the Murphy Room of Franz Hall. All are welcome to explore the poem “Outing, Iowa,” the introduction to Alice Dreger’s Galileo’s Middle Finger, and Alexander King […]

Filed Under: 2023-03-20, 2023-04-03 Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Jan. 27)

January 21, 2023

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be on Friday, January 27, 3:30–5:30 p.m. in the Murphy Room. We will discuss Montas, “Making Peace with the Unconscious: Freud” (excerpted from Rescuing Socrates) and Ziegler, “Practice Makes Reception.” All readings are available on the Garavena Center website. Refreshments will be served. […]

Filed Under: 2023-01-23 Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Garaventa Center

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Nov. 11) 

October 30, 2022

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be Friday, November 11, from 3:30–5 p.m. in the Murphy Room. We will discuss “Tears and Ashes: Three Ways of Looking at Recent Wildfires in the West” by Vincent Miller (article from March 2022 Commonweal), “Innovations for Eco-Spiritual Practice” by Rachel Wheeler (chapter […]

Filed Under: 10-17-2022, 10-31-2022 Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group

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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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