The PRF Newsletter
April 2025 Newsletter
In this Issue:
- Defending the Humanities in a Time of Federal Defunding: A Note on Our National Endowment for the Humanities Award
- Everyday Democracy Showcase: Join us Wed. 4/23
- PRF Program Update: Where We've Been, Where We're Headed
- Engaged Humanities Futures
- Project Spotlight: Deep Divisions
- The Reading Hour
- Portland and the Public Imagination: Bringing the Humanities to Big Ideas
October 2024 Newsletter
In this Issue:
- PRF 24-25: "Everyday Democracy"
- Introducing the Civic Humanities Working Group
- Snapshot of the PRF Student Cohort
- Project Spotlight: Conversation Projects
- Dialogue on Campus: New Initiatives, Upcoming Events
July 2024 Newsletter
The 2024 Showcase and 24-25 Sneak Peek
In this issue:
- Recapping the 2024 Showcase and Project Outcomes
- Program Wins Second NEH Grant Award
- 24-25 Theme: Introducing the Civic Humanities
- Call for Student Fellows
Jan. 2024 Newsletter
Engaging Portland
In this issue:
- Introducing the 23-24 PRF Projects
- Project Spotlight: Liberated Archives
- PRF Scholarship Awarded to Sophomore Lisanne Dobson
- Democracy in Action: Building Portland into Political Science and Global Affairs Curriculum
- Event Highlight: Authors of Loaners Visit UP
- Creating a "Humanities Futures" Professional Development Course
- Save the Date: Upcoming Events
Dec. 2022 Newsletter
Fall 2022 Recap: Engaging Humanities in Practice
In this issue:
- NEH Grant Update
- Event Recap: Naomi Shihab Nye, "Poetry and Vitality"
- Student Spotlight: Senior Hannah Monti
- PRF Builds Campus Conversation Model
- The Challenge of Defining the Humanities
September 2022 Newsletter
In this issue:
Announcing the Public Research Fellows Fall Series:
- Poetry & Vitality Workshop with Naomi Shihab Nye: M 9/12, 6:00-7:30pm, Bauccio Dining Room
- Collaborative Teaching in the Core Workshop: Th 9/15, 2:30- 3:45, Franz 222
- Campus Conversation: Reimagining Readiness: W 10/26, 4:00- 5:30pm, Teske Dining Room
- Faculty Lunch Discussions: Th 10/6, 1:00-2:30pm and F 11/4, 11:45-1:15pm, Teske Dining Room
May 2022 Newsletter
In this issue:
- PRF Showcase Recap
- Student Fellows Reflect on Their PRF Experience
- PRF 22-23: Engaging Humanities
Mar. 2022 Newsletter
In this issue:
- PRF Spring Series Recap
- College After Covid: Contribute to the Conversation
- Save the Date: PRF Showcase, 4/21, 5-7pm, Franz Hall
Jan. 2022 Newsletter
In this issue:
- Humanities "Versus" STEM? Roundtable, Th 2/3, 4-5:15pm
- Overheard at UP: Disciplinary Stereotypes Edition
- PRF Course Highlight: The World Needs Interdisciplinary Students
- Student Fellow Spotlight: Gina DiLisio
- Health and the Humanities: Local Perspectives
Nov. 2021 Newsletter
In this issue:
- PRF 21-22 Interdisciplinary Working Groups
- Table Talk: Stories of Our Dinner
- Loosen UP
- College After Covid: Archiving the Present to Imagine UP's Futures
- Introducing the Public Research Scholarship
May 2021 Newsletter
In this issue:
- PRF Showcase, Archive Feature New Directions in Academic Work
- Why PRF? Program Interns Produce Short Film on Year 2: Displacement and Justice
- Program Introduces New Interdisciplinary Working Group Structure for Year 3
Mar. 2021 Newsletter
In this issue:
- Save the Date: Public Humanities at UP, 4/8/21
- PRF Tools and Resources: Using the Humanities for All Archive
- Project Spotlight: Dear Stranger: College Edition
- Event Recap: Displacement and (In)Justice Community Roundtable
- Reading Course Highlight: Framing Undergraduate Research for Professional Contexts
Feb. 2021 Newsletter
In this issue:
- Save the Date: Displacement and (In)Justice in Portland, 2/18/21
- PRF Syllabus Snapshot: "How to Avoid a Post-Scholar America"
- Community Highlight: The Immigrant Story
- Student Fellow Spotlight
- Using the Humanities to Connect During Covid
November 2020 Newsletter
In this issue:
- Wrapping Year 1: PRF Hosts Brittney Cooper, Virtual Roundtable
- Program Launches New Theme: Displacement and Justice
- Introducing PRF Teaching Fellowships
- Project Highlight: Dr. Lezlie Cross's "Where Is Home?"
- Student Fellow Spotlight: Senior Alex Gonzalez
The Second Edition of the Public Research Fellows Newsletter is Here!
PRF is pleased to share our second newsletter ahead of the Symposium Friday, March 13. Read on to find out more about the day’s events, our (now virtual) keynote speaker Brittney Cooper, and the work our student and faculty fellows have been doing across the year.
University of Portland Public Research Fellows Program secures grants inspired by Centennial of Women’s Suffrage
The University of Portland’s inaugural Public Research Fellows Program has landed three external grants to support public humanities undergraduate research projects inspired by this year’s 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
PRF featured in The Beacon
"The 2019-20 academic year will host the inaugural Public Research Fellows program at the University of Portland, centered on the centennial of U.S. women’s suffrage..." Read the article.
