C L A S S young scientists selected from around the world to spend a week in Lindau, Germany, to meet with 27 physics Nobel Laureates. Abe is currently a Ph.D. student in the physics department at Purdue University. He is also the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2009) and a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (2007). We heard from Allison McGillivray recently, who writes: “I heard from my good friend Kacy Keippela that Jeff Dietrich will be speaking at UP this month (January 2013). I am writing to express my great excitement at his visit. I was sent to intern with the Los Angeles Catholic Worker during the summer of 2006 through the University of Portland. After spending six weeks with this community, I felt I had for the first time in my life experienced what it meant to be an active Catholic. Upon graduating from UP, I soon decided to move in as a full-time volunteer and lived with Jeff and the LA Catholic Worker for two extremely formative years. I am now living in Champaign, Illinois, with my husband, Sam Yergler, who was also a live-in volunteer with the Los Angeles Catholic Worker. Our friendship, mar-
riage, goals, and world views would be woefully underdeveloped if not for our time in Los Angeles, where we served and grew in relationship with the poor, practiced self-sacrifice, spoke openly about our values and beliefs, challenged ourselves to forgive others and ask for forgiveness ourselves, and to bring our hopes for peace to the forefront of our daily lives. We are deeply dedicated to a life of simplicity, and are preparing to move into a 28-foot RV this spring in which we hope to travel the country in search of good work and community. I hope to spend the rest of my life practicing the simple truths of love, forgiveness, and peace that I learned in Los Angeles, and I am undoubtedly grateful to the Garaventa Center for bringing Jeff Dietrich to the University of Portland to speak about his life of service.” Thank you Allison, and our prayers to you for a safe and rewarding journey. Andrew Elliott writes: “My wife, Elizabeth (née Watje, Class of 2008) and I closed on our first house recently. Please update our address, as we are moving out of our place on Waverleigh Blvd.” Thanks Andrew, and congratulations on your new home.
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Earning bachelor’s degrees from the University of Portland and honored at the December 14, 2012 ROTC commissioning and graduation ceremony, l-r: Trent Amerson, history; Kourtney Kugler-Major, chemistry; and Andrew Lynch, mechanical engineering. Thompson Faller presented their diplomas before a crowd of well-wishers in Mago Hunt Center Theater. We have Andrew’s mom, Ann Hemmen Lynch ’75, to thank for letting us know, and for providing us with a little background: “One, the officer who administered Andrew’s oath is his cousin; two, UP has been a family school for us, going back to somewhere in the 1940s. Andrew’s grandfather, parents, and three siblings have attended, with numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins as well.” Thanks Ann, and our thanks also to Trent, Kourtney, and Andrew for their service to God and country. ’08 POSITIVE IMPACT
The Portland Pilots women’s rowing team christened their newest boat on Saturday, February 16, at the Portland Boathouse following practice on the Willamette River. The team’s newest four-oared shell was named the Rosa Civitatem, which is Latin for “Rose City.” The boat was made possible though the cooperative effort of the University, the athletics department, and the amazingly supportive parents of our student-athletes. Rev. Gerard Olinger, C.S.C., vice president for student affairs at the University of Portland, presided over the ceremony. Rosa Civitatem joins the eightperson shell Fr. Bill and the four-person shell Al and Sue Corrado in the UP fleet.
Sarah Bortvedt has won a prestigious 2012 Impact Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is working on her doctorate in cell and molecular physiology. Her work focuses on the role of the small intestines in processing and absorbing and/or storing ingested fats. “The result of Sarah’s work demonstrate for the first time that intestinal insulin resistance and associated abnormal lipid absorption may represent new and early mechanisms that promote obesity and fatty liver,” said P. Kay Lund, Bortvedt’s advisor. Her work will help improve diagnosis, treatment, and prevention for obesity and diabetes.
’10 A SMART HIRE Intel Corporation hired Chelsea Hossaini as their northwest region communications manager in Hillsboro. Hossaini’s background com-
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bines public relations, marketing, community relations and event management. She graduated maxima cum laude with a bachelor of arts in communication studies with an emphasis on media studies. In her new position, Chelsea serves as the primary point of contact for site media relations, external communications, and the promotion of national programs and events. “Intel’s largest and