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Sipping Like Babette

Portland Magazine

September 24, 2020

Professor Karen Eifler, co-director of the Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture, offers six reasons why it's possible to cultivate--despite pandemics, protests, and environmental catastrophes--a "sacramental imagination," the kind of imagination that finds grace and wonder in the smallest of things.

John Stewart

A Classroom is Kind of Home

Portland Magazine

Alumni

Education

September 23, 2020

John Stewart ’06 teaches ninth grade English and junior-level advanced placement (AP) language and serves as chair of the English department at Clackamas High School in Clackamas, OR. His 15-year career as a teacher has been marked by many challenges and rewards, but the closure of Oregon schools due to the COVID-19 outbreak has presented a unique set of challenges and impressions. We spoke to John shortly before the end of the spring 2020 semester.

University of Portland campus from above

University of Portland Ranked 2nd in Western Region on 2021 U.S. News & World Report Listings of Best Colleges and Universities

Awards and Rankings

September 15, 2020

The University of Portland is now ranked second out of 127 institutions listed in the “Regional Universities – West” classification according to U.S. News & World Report magazine. The University also placed second in the 2020 rankings – its highest ranking to date.

Franz Hall

Catholic Cosmologist Gintaras Duda to give 2020 Zahm Lecture, Wednesday, September 16

Garaventa Center

September 14, 2020

Catholic cosmologist and chair of physics at Creighton University Gintaras Duda will present the 2020 Zahm Lecture “From the Big Bang to The Saint John’s Bible: The Role of Astonishment in a Scientist’s Journey to Integrate Faith and Reason” on Wednesday, September 16 at 5 p.m. The virtual event is free and open to the public.

Brittney Cooper

University of Portland to host virtual lecture by Brittney Cooper on Friday, Sept. 4

College of Arts and Sciences

September 2, 2020

The University of Portland’s Public Research Fellows program will present a talk by Brittney Cooper, "Trust Black Women: The Importance of Black Women in U.S. Politics," on Friday, September 4, at 3:30 p.m., as part of the Public Research Fellows 2020-2021 Virtual Series. Cooper’s talk was postponed from its original March date and will now take place via Zoom.