News - August

The exterior of the Shiley Marcos Center for Design at twilight

Award-Winning Innovation Hub: UP’s Shiley-Marcos Center for Design & Innovation Earns Regional Honors

Engineering

Awards and Rankings

August 30, 2024

University of Portland’s innovative new building brought home two Awards of Merit at the recent ‘2024 Regional Best Projects’ competition sponsored by Engineering News-Record Northwest.

Vandana Shiva

Earth Democracy: World-Renowned Advocate Dr. Vandana Shiva Headlines UP’s Sept. 10 Zahm Lecture

Garaventa Center

August 27, 2024

In four decades of advocacy for earth democracy, anti-globalization, food sovereignty, and ecofeminism—Dr. Vandana Shiva has been dubbed the “Gandhi of grain,” named a 2003 Time Magazine “environmental hero,” and selected one of Forbes’ “seven most powerful women on the globe” in 2010.

The UP belltower at sunset

Artificial Intelligence and Catholic Higher Education: UP to Host National Conference on Mission-Based Teaching in the Age of AI

Dundon-Berchtold Institute

College of Arts and Sciences

August 13, 2024

In a continuing effort to provide forward-looking instruction and career readiness opportunities for students, University of Portland will host a national conference on artificial intelligence for Catholic higher education institutions October 18-20, 2024 on the UP campus.

Ambassador Cecilia Adeng and Juan Guaidó

Collins Lecture Brings Two Leaders from the Global South to UP Campus to Discuss ‘Faith & Politics in a Divided World’

August 12, 2024

South Sudan’s representative to the United Nations and Venezuela’s former interim president visited the University of Portland campus on the evening of August 8 to headline the 2024 Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (EMO) Collins Lecture—“Faith and Politics in a Divided World.”