January 2019 | University of Portland

News - January 2019

Compton Cowboy with horse

From Compton to Samana

Portland Magazine

January 31, 2019

How one writer aims to complicate the narratives we think we know—and shine a warm light on those we don’t.

Students and staff walking through Mudbone Grown garden

Stories of Our Neighbors

Portland Magazine

January 31, 2019

University of Portland's first North Portland Civil Rights Immersion.

Mother, baby, and grandmother

The Good Stuff

Portland Magazine

January 31, 2019

Psychology professor Sarina Saturn and postdoctoral student Deirdre Katz--along with 20 undergraduate research assistants--are studying babies, mothers, and grandmothers to measure inherited traits that are influenced by the life and circumstances of generations past.

photo of William Chafe

University of Portland to host Mazzocco Lecture speaker William Chafe, Mon., Feb. 4 at 7:15 p.m.

Garaventa Center

Political Science

January 29, 2019

The University of Portland will welcome William Chafe, author and emeritus professor of history at Duke University, on Monday, February 4 at 7:15 p.m. in Franz Hall Room 120.

Dr. Stephanie Salomone

Dr. Stephanie Salomone awarded Oregon Academy of Science 2019 Outstanding Educator Award for Higher Education

Mathematics

College of Arts and Sciences

January 18, 2019

The Oregon Academy of Science (OAS) has announced Dr. Stephanie Salomone, University of Portland Associate Professor of Mathematics, has been awarded their 2019 Outstanding Educator Award for Higher Education.

Women in Business Showcase

Pamplin School of Business launches Women in Business Showcase

Business

January 18, 2019

The University of Portland’s Pamplin School of Business will launch its first Women in Business Showcase on March 11, 2019, at the Portland Art Museum.

Blessed Basil Moreau, CSC

Hurry UP and Slow Down

Portland Magazine

January 18, 2019

Last summer 12 UP faculty went on a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the Holy Cross order. Here is one pilgrim’s meditation on the man who started it all.