The Daily Bruin

The George Fox Veterans Club has some upcoming events for members and students alike.

• Today (Friday), the club is meeting in the Murdock Library’s Room 103 from 8 to 10 a.m.
• On Wednesday, Sept 28, the club will host a community dinner open to everyone! Join us from 5:15 to 7 p.m. The dinner will be at the Dundee Community Center (1026 OR-99W).
• Every Tuesday from 9 to 10 a.m., join the Veterans Club and local veterans for black coffee. Have a chance to meet some of our patron members! We’ll meet at 2902 E. 2nd St. in Newberg.

Contact Stauros Gibson, club president, at sgibson21@georgefox.edu if you have any questions or for further information.

The event management system used by the university, RegFox, is increasing their service fees starting on Oct. 1. RegFox pricing will go from $0.99 flat per paid registrant to $0.99 + 1% per paid registrant, with a maximum fee capped at $4.99 per registrant.

Marketing communications has full details on our website, including a payment calculator that can help determine what you need to charge for events.

Questions? Contact Peter Crackenberg at pcrackenberg@georgefox.edu.

Each semester, employees who are mothers of young/school-aged children, as well as expectant mothers, gather for an informal networking lunch. Join us for our next gathering from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 29, in Canyon Commons 102. Lunch will be provided.

If you plan to attend, please RSVP at this link. See you there!

Contact Lindsay Knox at lknox@georgefox.edu if you have questions.

Tomorrow (Friday) marks another Friday @ Fox visit day. Prospective students will be participating in campus tours, visiting classes, eating lunch on campus, and touring academic departments of interest.

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions is asking students and employees to help make visitors feel the Be Known promise during their time with us tomorrow.

A few things to note:

• There will be tours rotating through campus and residence areas at 9 a.m., 10 a.m., 1 p.m., and 2 p.m.
• Plan to park in areas outside of the Stevens lot if possible to ensure enough spaces for visitors.
• Consider offering a helping hand if visitors need directions or have questions about George Fox.

If you have questions, contact Lauren Hill at hilll@georgefox.edu.

Come experience playful and engaging mathematics on a Math Walk!

Yesterday (Wednesday), prospective teachers from George Fox created a Math Walk on the sidewalks near the Newberg Public Library. This Math Walk consists of fun and engaging math problems for all ages on the sidewalk in chalk. Bring your friends and family to solve some mathematics problems. The problems will be up all weekend or as long as weather allows.

A QR code to reply digitally with solutions is available inside the library. Contact Nicole Enzinger at nenzinger@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

Plant Services will be closed this Friday, Sept. 23, for our Hess Creek Canyon Clean-Up Day.

If you would like to join us on our next clean-up day, it will be Friday, Oct. 14.

Thank you.

If your students use APA 7 formatting, remind them to join the Academic Resource Center for an APA workshop with Sue O’Donnell. Students will learn the details of APA style, including formatting, citations, references, writing style, and more.

The event happens today (Wednesday) from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. A virtual attendance link is available here.

Email Hannah Jackson at hjackson@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

Flu vaccines are here at the Health and Counseling Center! We don’t bill insurance, so a copay of $20 will be collected, unless you have the George Fox health insurance, in which case your flu shot is free. Call 503-554-2340 to schedule your appointment.

The HCC is open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

We have been covering preparation for various kinds of emergencies and disasters this month. September is also a national suicide prevention month, o this week, for Wellness Wednesday, we are sharing practical information on what to do in case of a mental health emergency.

For more information, contact Aga Luptak at aluptak@georgefox.edu.

Join us on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 3-4, for the Interprofessional Primary Care Institute’s Strengthening Team™ Ethics & Legal Considerations Suicide Prevention two-day event.

Day 1: We will explore safety, security, risk and common ethical and legal concerns in healthcare practice, followed by applying these concepts to emerging roles in primary care (behavioral health clinicians and culturally responsive community health workers). We will share experiences of power differentials in high-quality primary care early adopters.

Day 2: Kent Corso, PsyD, will present “Proactive Reduction of Suicide in Populations via Evidence-Based Research.” After that, we will discuss suicide in healthcare workers, as well as a system-wide approach to suicide prevention in primary care sustained since 2011.

If you would like to register for the event, sign up here. Contact Tammy O’Doherty at todohert@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Finance has updated several forms on the website for FY23. Remember to visit the website and download a current version of your favorite forms to use for FY23.

Please delete any blank templates of the older forms from your files, and use the new versions going forward. Here is the link to the finance forms page.

Questions? Contact Lael May in Finance at ext. 2170 or email at lmay@georgefox.edu.

The university has a business account with Amazon for all purchases concerning university business. Please do not order any items for the university from Amazon using your personal Amazon account.

If you need help getting set up with the university’s Amazon business account, please email Kathi Becker at kbecker@georgefox.edu or Frank Charles at fcharles@georgefox.edu.

National Care for Kids Day, held annually on Sept. 20, offers an opportunity to positively impact a child’s life in a variety of ways both large and small, because we all know there are many ways to be a role model in a child’s life.

The spiritual life office would like to invite you into serving in two particular opportunities today (Tuesday):

• Donate needed items (below) to the resource rooms of our Title I schools in Newberg
• Attend the Big Bruin and Foster Parents Night Out Training (5:30-7:30 p.m. in Canyon Commons Banquet Rooms)

For the donation drive, we will be collecting full-size hygiene items to give to elementary school resource rooms. Items needed include: shampoo, conditioner, deodorants, body wash, soap, loofahs, hair brushes, combs, toothpaste and toothbrushes.

Items can be either be brought to the 5:30 p.m. training in Canyon Commons, or dropped off at the SpiL (Barclay) House (just outside the north entrance to Canyon Commons).

To learn more about Title I schools, visit this site. To learn more about events today, contact Rusty St. Cyr at rstcyr@georgefox.edu.

Every Wednesday this semester, Contemplative (Quaker) Worship will be held from 2:15 to 2:45 p.m. in Hoover 104.

In quiet waiting before the Lord, in addition to doing business with God as each of us needs, those present will be welcome to share a message from the Lord as they might feel led. We will then close with sharing and prayer. Spiritual life credit is available.

Contact Paul Anderson at panderso@georgefox.edu with any questions.

The city of Newberg is asking everyone to be mindful when parking on city streets throughout Newberg and Dundee.

Check out these safety tips, and contact Kim Knoernschild at kknoernschild@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Join the Academic Resource Center for an APA 7 workshop with Sue O’Donnell this Wednesday, Sept. 21, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. Learn the details of APA style, including formatting, citations, references, writing style, and more. We will also have a Zoom option (link to be provided soon!).

Questions? Email Hannah Jackson at hjackson@georgefox.edu.

One of our graduates is on the brink of changing how doctors treat chronic cardiac disease. Joel Rurik, a 2016 graduate of George Fox’s biology program, will explain the details of his research in a lecture all are welcome to attend on Monday, Sept. 26, at 3 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Rurik is now a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he does cutting-edge gene therapy research. Most recently, his team’s work was featured on the front cover of Science, the top research journal in the United States.

Cardiac fibrosis, a scarring of the heart, underlies most cardiovascular diseases and remains challenging to target therapeutically. Chronic cardiac disease often results in fibrosis, which negatively affects heart health and function. Therapies targeting this cardiac fibrosis remain limited, but Rurik’s research offers a promising and tractable immunotherapy approach for tackling fibrosis.

Contact Carly Reumann at creumann@georgefox.edu for more information.

Come see renowned Christian author, teacher and alumnus Richard J. Foster present an award in his name to pastor and fellow author Trevor Hudson on Monday, Oct. 3. The 7 p.m. presentation in Canyon Commons will be followed by Hudson’s keynote speech and a reception. Hudson will also speak at chapel the next morning, Oct. 4, at 10:50 a.m.

A selection committee selected Hudson as the first recipient of the Richard J. Foster Award in Spiritual Formation. The award recognizes those whose intellectual and practical work helps others come into an ongoing transformational relationship with Jesus Christ.

Hudson is the author of more than 20 books, the most recent of which, Seeking God: Finding Another Kind of Life with St Ignatius and Dallas Willard, was released in September.

Contact Carly Reumann at creumann@georgefox.edu for more information.

Learn how you can reduce your risk of falling by volunteering to receive training in balance and strengthening strategies from our doctor of physical therapy students. A session is scheduled at 9 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 14, in the Medical Sciences Building (448 Werth Blvd., in Newberg).

Please contact Lyndsay Stutzenberger at lstutzenberger@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2463 with your questions or to sign up.

Have you had a taste of working outside and would like another opportunity to do so again? Plant Services will be setting up a Hess Creek Canyon cleanup day once a month. For those volunteering to help us remove invasive species plants and clearing brush, we will be providing a Bon Appetit lunch.

We will announce the cleanup day each month. This month’s work day is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 23. Check in at the Thomas Center (1101 Villa Road) at 8 a.m. Work will begin at 8:30 a.m. and will continue all day, ending at 4 p.m.

The Plant Services office will be closed on the designated cleanup day. If you are interested in joining us, your RSVP is required on this form. Those wishing to have a provided lunch will need to RSVP by the end of business day on Tuesday, Sept. 20. Thank you for your consideration!

If you have questions, contact Dixie Downey at ddowney@georgefox.edu.