The Daily Bruin

The Plant Services office will be open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. this summer, starting Monday, May 1.

There’s still time to sign up for the Doctor of Physical Therapy program’s annual Run For Africa event on Saturday, May 6. The 5K or one-mile fun run/walk raises money to support PT’s medical mission to Uganda.

To learn a little about our medical mission, check out this video. To sign up for the event, visit this link.

Please join us at 3 p.m. in Roberts Center’s Room 203 on Monday, May 1, to honor the retirement of nursing professor Val Orton after 12 and a half years of service at George Fox. Light refreshments and beverages will be served.

Reach out to Heather Brammeier at hbrammeier@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

Go get your yearbook! Whether or not you reserved one, there is one waiting for you!

If you didn’t reserve a copy, go to the student life office in Hadlock to pick one up. If you did reserve one, it will be in your mailbox or in the student life office waiting for you.

Have a great summer, students and employees!

University Recreation is hosting a Wilderness First Responder course this August on the Newberg campus.

The course is ideal for anyone who spends a significant amount of time recreating in outdoor settings. The curriculum also provides essential training in wilderness medicine, leadership, and critical thinking for professionals and leaders working and traveling in outdoor, low-resource, and remote environments.

We have four spots remaining in this course, and they may go quickly!

For more information and to register, go here. Current George Fox students can also apply for a scholarship for the course by going here.

If you have questions about the course, please contact AJ Heil at aheil@georgefox.edu.

The Bridge Cafe will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. this summer. We will be trying out new menu items all summer long and have lunch specials available each week. Keep an eye out at georgefox.cafebonappetit.com for those specials.

Beginning this Saturday, April 29, the Murdock Library will be open this summer Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and closed on Saturdays and Sundays. The 24-hour space will remain open during the summer.

Contact Mary Cameron at mcameron@georgefox.edu with any questions.

The university community is invited to the Interprofessional Primary Care Institute’s “Focused Acceptance & Commitment Therapy” event May 9-11.

Both in-person and Zoom sessions will be hosted, with Tuesday’s event taking place from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and both Wednesday’s and Thursday’s meetings from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sessions will feature Dr. Patricia Robinson and Dr. Kirk Strosahl, founders of Focused Acceptance & Commitment Therapy and internationally renowned psychologists.

This CME is an excellent cross-training opportunity in behavioral theory and practice for the medical, dental, pharmacy and nursing professions.

For more information, please visit our event page. Questions? Write us at ipci@georgefox.edu.

We would love to see you and/or your colleagues in May at George Fox or on Zoom!

The Bruin Community Pantry food bank’s summer hours will start on Monday, May 1, and run through Friday, Aug. 25.

Here are our summer hours:

• Mondays: 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 4-6 p.m.
• Tuesdays: Noon to 1:30 p.m.; 4-5:30 p.m.
• Wednesdays: 9-11 a.m.
• Thursdays: 4-6 p.m.

We will be closed May 29, June 19 and July 4.

If you need access to the food bank outside of these hours, please contact Jere Witherspoon at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.

Mail Services will be adjusting the courier schedule for the summer season (May 1 to Aug. 25). Here is the schedule:

• Medical Sciences Building: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
• Portland Center: Tuesday (only)

If special courier arrangements need to be made, please reach out to Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

We are still in need of several willing servants to serve as ushers at the 3 p.m. undergraduate commencement ceremony on Saturday, April 29! Take tickets, hand out programs, direct graduates’ family and friends to their seats, and help make graduation a special event for all involved.

Please email Laurie Fair at LFair@georgefox.edu ASAP, if you are available. Thank you in advance!

Hadlock’s summer hours and closures are as follows:

General Summer Hours

• Monday – Friday: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Saturday & Sunday: Closed

Closures

• Saturday & Sunday, April 29-30: Closed (summer hours begin)
• Monday, May 29: Memorial Day
• Monday, June 19: Juneteenth Holiday
• Tuesday, July 4: Independence Day
• Thursday, Aug. 24: UREC Staff Training

Note: All three gym courts will be closed for the month of May for repairs and renovations.

Parkinson’s disease affects nearly 1 million people in the U.S. That’s 1 million individuals – moms, dads, sisters, brothers, grandparents, best friends – who are living with this progressive neurological disease. So, this April, during Parkinson’s Awareness Month, Providence Health Plan is sharing resources, information, and hope with all people affected by this disease.

Learning more about this condition and visualizing a world without the disease can empower us all to create change. Find out more here.

Starting in the fall 2023, the Bruin Community Pantry Nutrition Matters Kitchen will be offering cooking classes on Sunday afternoons.

If you are interested in teaching a cooking class, plan to attend one of four orientation sessions offered this summer. Everyone who is interested in teaching cooking classes to our students must participate in an orientation prior to teaching the class.

During the orientation you will be given a tour of the kitchen as well as information about the requirements for teaching a class. The orientation will take place in the Bruin Community Pantry (Roberts Center, Room 109).

If you are not able to attend any of the scheduled sessions, but really want to teach a cooking class, please contact Jere Witherspoon at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu. She is happy to meet with people individually as well. All instructors will be required to obtain a valid food handlers card in order to teach a class.

The following days and times have been set aside for trainings:

• Monday, May 8, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
• Thursday, May 18, 11 a.m. to noon
• Thursday, June 15, 4-5 p.m.
• Thursday, July 13, 9 to 10 a.m.

If you are interested in participating in this program, please email Jere Witherspoon and indicate which day you would like to attend for the orientation.

Mail Services has a lot of boxes available for packing and shipping. Come see what we have and take what you need!

Departments, if you have nice sturdy boxes that you want to get rid of, please bring them to Mail Services this week. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Looking for your next good book to read, but trying to save money? We’ve got just the thing for you! After our full shelves were cleared out in December, they’ve filled back up with new donations!

Make your way over to Minthorn, follow the fabulous carpet up to the third-floor hallway, and take your pick from our shelves of free books and journals. Your next favorite might be waiting for you!

Books have been lovingly donated by the esteemed faculty of the Department of Language & Literature and other thought leaders in our Minthorn midst. Happy finals, happy summer, and happy reading!

Contact Sarah Taylor at taylors@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Please join us for a research poster presentation and interact with sociology students today (Tuesday) from 12:45 to 2:45 p.m. in the EHS atrium. You can join at any time during that period. Enjoy light refreshments while browsing research posters that interest you.

Following is the list of presentations:

• Grace Anderson: “Go or Not to Go: Church Attendance Among George Fox Undergraduate Students”
• Chandler Camba and Gabriel Lachenmeier: “Identity Transformation During Recovery: The Case of Addicts in Newberg, Oregon”
• Melissa Galan and Citlalli Lopez-Bramasco: “Experiencing ‘Ring by Spring’ between White and Non-White Couples at George Fox University”
• Ruth Muñoz: “Intersectional Identity Reconstruction: The Case of Afghan Refugee Women in Beaverton, Oregon”
• Andrea Vazquez: “The Educational Experience of Students of Color at George Fox University”

Contact Young-IL Kim at ykim@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Please join us for an electrical engineering candidate’s research presentation on “Engineering Bioelectric Phenomena: Describing Membrane Bioimpedance, Excitation, and Circuit Synthesis.” Dr. Robert Melendy from the Oregon Institute of Technology will present on the topic today (Tuesday) from 4 to 5 p.m. in EHS 102.

Contact Adina McConaughey at amcconaughey@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Almost 50% of Americans have high blood pressure. The DASH diet is a science-supported diet that can help to reduce one’s blood pressure. In addition, people who follow a DASH diet experience improvements in weight and lipid levels, and have a reduced risk of heart disease and diabetes.

On Monday, May 15, the School of Physical Therapy will host an educational session at which participants can sample four DASH dishes and be entered to win one of three DASH cookbooks. The free 6 p.m. session in the Medical Sciences Building (448 Werth Blvd.) is limited to 30 participants and is open to the public.

To participate, email Jason Brumitt at jbrumitt@georgefox.edu.

Have any plates or silverware in your dorm kitchens, dorm rooms or offices? Please return them to Canyon Commons before the end of the school year. This helps keep costs down; we want purchasing to go toward your food, not plates!

Contact Katie Anderson at andersonk@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.