Garaventa Center Podcast

At once a meditation on the Christian tradition regarding pilgrimage as well as a reaching out to the broader cultural understanding of that word, Hannon’s book—which includes a foreword by acclaimed essayist and biographer Michael N. McGregor—offers nourishment for all those seeking wisdom for their own journeys.

While liturgy is often viewed as healing for survivors of clergy abuse, Liturgy in the Shadows of Trauma reveals how the crisis undermines worship’s ability to offer grace. Authors David Turnbloom, Megan Breen, Noah Lamberger, and Kate Tyschper highlight the church’s role in hindering recovery while offering foundations for genuine liturgical healing.

Book launch and talk with the editors of Beneath the Roar and Tumult, Karen Eifler and Rachel Wheeler.  Beneath the Roar and Tumult: Promoting Radical Hospitality and Belonging in College Classrooms is a collection of essays from professors across the many disciplines in Catholic colleges and universities who offer portable practices to embolden students to employ a prophetic lens to see the world clearly as it is, and then creatively imagine a better way forward. At a time when higher education is under extraordinary political pressure to be silent rather than prophetic, the volume makes a case for why and how the religious commitments of the institutions and faculty often compel prophetic education.

Drawing on his background in science and international affairs, UP alum Scott Knackstedt shares how innovation can be used to advance health equity in low-resource settings around the world, transforming barriers to access into opportunities for impact. As a Senior Commercialization Officer at PATH, a global health nonprofit based in Seattle, Scott helps develop affordable, life-saving technologies that range from low-cost devices to next-generation vaccine platforms. His work focuses on overcoming access challenges through formulation and delivery innovations that make health solutions more effective, scalable, and equitable.

Drawing on his background in science and international

affairs, UP alum Scott Knackstedt shares how innovation

can be used to advance health equity in low-resource settings around the

world, transforming barriers to access into opportunities for impact. As a

Senior Commercialization Officer at PATH, a global health nonprofit based in

Seattle, Scott helps develop affordable, life-saving technologies that range from

low-cost devices to next-generation vaccine platforms. His work focuses on

overcoming access challenges through formulation and delivery innovations that

make health solutions more effective, scalable, and equitable.

on his experience in government, non-profit, and private sector roles, David

Austin will shares insights on how technology, innovation,

policy-making, and strategic partnerships intersect in the global humanitarian

fight against hunger.

Austin, former Director of Strategic Partnerships with the United Nations World

Food Programme, has spent the last 30 years working with mission-driven

organizations in the relief and development sectors. As board chair for the

Children’s Literacy Project, he is currently working on disrupting generational

poverty in America through literacy intervention in church-school partnerships.

David is a UP School of Business non-profit MBA alum.

Engagement: A Guide for Real People Living Through Unreal Times

What

does it mean to stay human in an age of rapid acceleration and AI? Dr. Anctil offers a grounded, voice-driven guide to building trust, connection, and meaning

in a world that feels increasingly unreal.

Join us for this Beckman Humor Project dive into biology with UP’s Dr. Molly Matty. Dr. Matty’s research is at the intersections of genetics, microbiology and behavioral neuroscience. She aims to inspire everyone to feel empowered to explore biology.

Join us for this Beckman Humor Project dive into biology with UP’s Dr. Molly Matty. Dr. Matty’s research is at the intersections of genetics, microbiology and behavioral neuroscience. She aims to inspire everyone to feel empowered to explore biology.

2024 Zahm Lecture - Earth Democracy with Dr. Vandana Shiva, Indian scholar, author, ecofeminist, environmental activist, and food sovereignty advocate based in Delhi.

Pope Francis's call for environmental justice and care for the earth in his encyclical Laudato Si makes the connection between our environmental collapse and its impact on the poor and vulnerable: “We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental.” (LS, 139)

This lecture brings one of the foremost voices in environmental activism to University of Portland to expand on that insight and advocate for "Earth Democracy."