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(12/04/17 9:47pm)
Finals week is upon us. With final papers, senior capstones, presentations and exams to get ready for, it’s imperative to take a study break. As the Chronicle of Higher Education said, finals week is one of the most stressful time of the week. It’s important to take a study break and take care of your own mental health.
(11/30/17 6:57am)
Kappa Delta Pi (KDP), the international honor society in education at University of Portland annually organizes a service project that aims to give back to the community. This year, KDP is hosting a blanket drive to raise money to make brand new fleece blankets for infants in a local hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
(11/28/17 10:43pm)
At the University of Portland, students of color make up about 40 percent of the student population. Since I wasn’t used to being in a predominantly white setting, I experienced a mild culture shock. Not only was I homesick, but I also felt disconnected from my Filipino and islander roots.
(11/22/17 2:59am)
The university’s Digital Lab provides technological equipment and resources beyond borrowing cameras and using Mac computers. The facility offers a variety of tools from audio to photography as well as advanced printers. One of them is 3-D printing and is available to all students, staff and faculty.
(11/18/17 7:14pm)
Watch the magic of Clark Library's 3D printer, as Digital Lab Coordinator Jose Velazco makes an anchor digital design come to life.
(11/15/17 7:32am)
She played soccer as a kid until she fractured a growth plate in her hip. Devastated that she could no longer play, she switched to a lower impact sport: rowing. In high school, she suddenly fell in love with every stroke and every race that the sport soon became a big part of her life.
(11/05/17 6:49pm)
(11/03/17 10:22pm)
Students, neighbors, faculty and staff joined the celebration of Dia de los Muertos — a Mexican holiday that aims to honor and celebrate dead loved ones — at the Quiet Side of Bauccio Commons on its last day of celebration on Nov. 2. The celebration included pan dulce, sugar skulls, horchata, candles, flowers and picture frames of passed loved ones placed at the altar to honor those who passed away.
(10/31/17 11:51pm)
(11/01/17 12:20am)
Three-year-old Jean Paul Mugisha was holding his mother’s hand as they fled across the border to Rwanda. Along the grassy, unpaved mountain road, where they made their arduous trek, blood stains in the dirt spoke of the danger they were fleeing. The unceasing explosions and string of murders in the Democratic Republic of Congo, his fertile home, were getting worse.
(09/27/17 2:02am)
Samples for the new track that will soon be installed on River Campus.
(09/27/17 2:02am)
Map of intended River Campus development. Courtesy of James Kuffner.
(09/27/17 2:10am)
One day, below the bluff, along the shore of the Willamette River, rowers will climb into their boats and launch off a new dock at sunrise. This scene may feel far off, but it’s closer than one might think. The University of Portland will be the second university on the West Coast— after University of Washington-Seattle — to have a boathouse on campus, when the boathouse is built. Pilot territory is expanding beyond The Bluff, and plans have been made to further develop the land below campus known as River Campus.
(09/25/17 5:40pm)
Senior Austin Sly was walking into the library one day during his sophomore year when he saw his friend Elijah Fisher, who was facing a dilemma. As an avid “Hamilton” enthusiast, the theater major was thrilled to learn about open auditions for the cast of “Hamilton” happening up and down the West Coast. But when Sly encouraged Fisher to try out, the fervor was dampened. Fisher said he didn’t have the time or money to do so.
(09/19/17 3:20am)
Men far outnumber women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). According to Sharon Jones, the dean of the School of Engineering, there are far fewer female students than male students in the engineering department, with women making up about 26 percent of the department last year.
(08/28/17 9:03pm)
Each year for over ten decades, the University of Portland’s freshman class size has continuously increased. With approximately 1,018 students, the class of 2021 is the second largest and one of the most diverse freshmen classes in the university’s history, according to Jason McDonald, dean of admissions.
(04/29/17 1:13am)
Howard Hall’s creaking floors, moldy windows covered in cardboard and cracking ceiling look run-down, but the building also holds years of University of Portland history. Many juniors and seniors can recall running on one of the four treadmills, playing basketball in the old court where the floor would give every time you landed too hard, and making do with a tiny dance and free weights studio.
(04/02/17 4:28pm)
The University of Portland’s service and justice coordinators hosted a panel to discuss off-campus resources for survivors of sexual assault Thursday night in Saint Mary’s. The panelists included Executive Director of Call to Safety Rebecca Nickels, Campus Coordinator for the Oregon Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force Jackie Sandmeyer, and Volunteer Coordinator for the Sexual Assault Resource Center Morgan Evans.
(03/03/17 6:22am)
“What can the University of Portland do to improve diversity and inclusion on campus?”
(02/23/17 3:25am)
Linda Biehl was in her kitchen in Newport Beach, Calif. one afternoon when she received a phone call from one of daughters.