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Honors Reading Courses

Honors Readings Courses for 2025-2026—Now Accepting Proposals (Nov. 27)

October 28, 2024

The Honors Program is looking for faculty-led readings courses to be offered next year (fall 2025 and spring 2026). This is a fun opportunity to teach a 1-credit, pass/no pass course to a group of no more than 15 curious and academically engaged juniors and/or seniors. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-10-28, Academics, Issues Tagged With: honors program, Honors Reading Courses

Honors Reading Course Available to Faculty (Proposals Due by Dec. 1)

September 11, 2023

Honors Students take two one-credit reading courses in their junior and senior years. These courses are a wonderful opportunity for faculty to test something new that appeals to an interdisciplinary group of students. Interested faculty members are invited to send a course proposal to program director Cara Hersh by Friday, December 1. (Read More)

Filed Under: 10-09-2023, 2023-09-11, 2023-09-25, Issues Tagged With: Honors Prgram, Honors Reading Courses

Honors Reading Course Available to Faculty (Proposals Due by Feb. 27) 

January 21, 2023

Faculty members interested in offering an Honors Program reading course during the 2023–2024 academic year are invited to send a course proposal to program director Cara Hersh by Monday, February 27. Honors students, in their junior and senior years, take two one-credit reading courses. Courses are limited to 15 students and are offered pass/no pass. […]

Filed Under: 2023-01-23, 2023-02-06, 2023-02-20 Tagged With: Cara Hersh, Honors Reading Courses

Honors Reading Courses Available to Faculty

October 27, 2017

Faculty members interested in offering an Honors Program reading course during the 2017-2018 academic year are invited to send a course proposal to program director John Orr by Wednesday, November 15. Honors students, in their junior and senior years, take two one-credit readings courses. Courses are limited to 15 students and are offered pass/no pass. […]

Filed Under: 10-30-2017, Academics, Honors Program, Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement Tagged With: Honors Prgram, Honors Reading Courses, John Orr

Honors Reading Courses Available to Faculty

September 9, 2016

Faculty members interested in offering one of the Honors Program reading courses during the 2017-2018 academic year are invited to send a course proposal to program director John Orr by Monday, October 24. Honors students, in their junior and senior years, take two one-credit-hour readings courses. Courses are limited to 15 students and are offered […]

Filed Under: 09-12-2016, Academics, Honors Program Tagged With: honors program, Honors Reading Courses, Michele Leasor

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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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