Come join us for a fun night of games and conversation with our neighbors at the Friendsview Retirement Community on Thursday, Jan. 24. There will be ping pong, pool, shuffleboard, assorted board games and more.
We will meet at 6:15 p.m. in the Bauman lobby to walk over together. Questions? Contact jamesprojectgfu@gmail.com.
The Photography Club will be leading a photography walk in the canyon this Thursday, Jan. 24, and everyone is invited! We will be meeting on the Canyon Commons side of the bridge at 4 p.m.
Please bring your cameras or phones if you would like to join us and dress appropriately for the weather (coat and boots recommended). We plan on wrapping up around 5:30 p.m. so that we can start our usual Photography Club meeting at 6 p.m. in Lemmons 3. We would love for you to join us after the walk so that we can edit photos together.
If you have any questions please contact Tsacha Hyneman (thyneman17@georefox.edu) or Xylia Rehling (xrehling17@georgefox.edu).
Undergraduate commuters: Join us for the first commuter lunch of the semester on Thursday, Jan. 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Canyon Commons.
Please note that this lunch is exclusively for undergraduate commuter students. We look forward to seeing you there!
Any questions should be directed to Kristi Welker, director of commuter life, kwelker@georgefox.edu.
The IDEA Center is resuming normal drop-in times as of this week. If you need to drop in to see your CAP Coach, you can come during on of the following times:
Interested in working with the Portland Police? Stop by the Coffee Cottage conference room on Wednesday, Jan. 30, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. for coffee, pastries and conversation.
Questions? Please contact Grace Tissell at gtissell@georgefox.edu.
There will be no swing dance this Saturday, Jan. 26, due to contradictions with the live Jazz Band performance.
Hey George Fox students …
If you grab an amazing photo or video of something fun happening around campus, send it to content@georgefox.edu for a chance to be featured on social media and earn a $20 Visa gift card!
Something fun happening in your dorm? Send it our way! Something awesome happening at an ASC event? We want to see! Something crazy happening in science lab? Yep, send that too!
In short, if it’s awesome and if it’s happening at George Fox, we’d love to see it. Send your photo/video and a brief caption. If we decide to purchase your content, you’ll receive a Visa card shortly afterward.
Questions? Contact Sarah Reid (sreid@georgefox.edu).
On Tuesday, Feb. 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the IDEA Center is hosting its third annual Job & Internship Fair. Employers from the Portland area and beyond will be on campus to talk with students from all majors, looking to recruit for various jobs and internships.
This is an amazing opportunity to connect with industry-leading companies right here on the George Fox campus. Stay tuned for updates in the coming weeks!
Students are strongly encouraged to register for this event. To register, visit our web page on Handshake.
Questions? Contact Grace Tissell at gtissell@georgefox.edu.
You are invited to join the American Enterprise Institute for a free dinner and viewing of the president’s State of the Union address in Canyon Commons 103 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 29.
Please join us to listen and discuss the president’s address. Please RSVP here. Questions? Contact amarshall17@georgefox.edu.
The Black Student Union is hosting a spoken word event at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8, in Lemmons 8!
The theme is “Know the past, shape the future.†If anyone is interested in performing, please contact Ellie Watts at ewatts16@georgefox.edu to get involved. Your voice needs to be heard!
Want to learn more about film history? Come to the Fox Film Club at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, Jan. 24, in Lemmons 4. We will be watching and discussing the 1934 film It Happened One Night, directed by Frank Capra. All are welcome!
Questions? Contact Sean McNeil (smcneil17@georgefox.edu).
Come support men’s and women’s basketball at Bruin FanFest on Saturday, Jan. 26, in Wheeler Gymnasium. The event begins at 3:30 p.m., just prior to the 4 p.m. tip-off of the women’s basketball game against Lewis & Clark. The men will tip off at 6 p.m.
The activities will include:
All activities are free, and everyone who wears Bruin gear will get free admission to the basketball games!
Finally, the evening will also include a teddy bear toss, “Bruins and Bears,†during halftime of the women’s game, for which the school is collecting new teddy bears as a donation to sick children in hospitals. Teddy bears can be purchased beforehand and brought to the game, or at the ticket tables at the game.
Questions? Contact Mckenna Tillotson (mtillotson@georgefox.edu).
Are you interested in helping people? Have you ever considered a degree in social work? Social work is a profession for those with a desire to help people improve their lives.
If this sounds exciting to you, please plan to attend one of our info sessions to find out more about the major and about the many opportunities a degree in social work can provide!
We’ll be hosting two sessions in Stevens 109. Pizza will be provided in the evening session (Wednesday, Jan. 23, from 5 to 6 p.m.), and donuts will be provided in the morning session (Thursday, Jan 24, from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m.).
Please plan to join us if you’d like to know more. Contact Kim Rapp (rappk@georgefox.edu) if you have any questions.
STRONG, a group created to provide support to students dealing with chronic illness or pain that affects daily life (fibromyalgia, PTSD, ME/CFS, etc.), is getting started on campus.
These things are often invisible to the healthy population and can be isolating, especially as a college student. We want you to feel supported and heard in your community!
STRONG will have its first meeting of the semester this Thursday, Jan. 24, at 7 p.m. (location TBD). If you’re interested and would like more information or have questions, please contact Dani Hillenbrand at dhillenbrand17@georgefox.edu.
The university community is invited to Bauman Auditorium for “An Evening of Jazz†featuring saxophonist and flutist Erica von Kleist at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26.
Von Kleist will play with the university’s Jazz Ensemble and Faculty Jazz Quartet. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and established herself early on in her career on the New York jazz scene.
She has performed, toured and made Grammy-Nominated recordings with various artists, including the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Chris Potter, Sean Jones, Seth MacFarlane, and Rufus Reid.
Students and employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket. Additional tickets can be purchased here.
In addition to the concert, von Kleist is doing a masterclass on Friday, Jan. 25, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Ross 208. School-age students who come (middle schoolers and high schoolers) can get a voucher for a free ticket to the concert.
Volleyball’s rise in popularity over the past 30 years has created a growing need to better understand the biomechanical causes for shoulder injuries, particularly in youth volleyball players.
The biomedical engineering program is inviting a candidate to speak to how their research lab uses motion capture to analyze the mechanics of hitting a volleyball with the goal of creating better best-practices guidelines for strength and conditioning and repetition counts.
Join us from 3 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24, in EHS 102 to hear about several ongoing experiments in the lab, including using impulse and momentum techniques to estimate the forces on the body during a hit and ways to compare variation in types of motions. The presentation will highlight connections between the undergraduate engineering curriculum and the research techniques.
Questions? Contact Adina McConaughey (amcconaughey@georgefox.edu).
Undergrad commuters: We invite you to join the Commuter Life team for lunch. All lunches will be held from 11:30 a.m. to  1 p.m. Please see the schedule below for the dates and location of these lunches.
The lunches are highly social and all about building community among undergraduate commuters.
Any questions should be directed to Kristi Welker, director of Commuter Life, by emailing kwelker@georgefox.edu or calling 503-554-2308.
The politics department invites the university community to a special guest lecture, “Will America Ban Hate Speech?,” at 7 p.m. tonight (Tuesday) in Hoover 105.
Presenting will be Arthur Milikh, associate director and research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics. Milikh conducts research on America’s founding principles, oversees the center’s research portfolio, and gives talks on the tenets of the American political tradition to policymakers, political leaders and the public.
Contact Angela Umfleet at 503-554-2678 for more information.
Tired of working retail for the third summer in a row? Looking for a summer job with a purpose? Come check out the Christian Summer Camp Job Fair on Tuesday, Jan. 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the EHS Atrium.
There are many ministries from all over the Northwest coming to meet you! Positions are available in youth counseling, adventure camping, horse camping, challenge course facilitating, kitchen staff, life guarding, housekeeping, and more!
Contact Grace Tissell (gtissell@georgefox.edu) if you have any questions.
If you are a social work sophomore (or social work freshman who is planning on studying abroad) and are planning to apply to the BSW program, this is a reminder that the late application deadline is Friday, Jan. 25, by 5 p.m., when all application materials need to be turned in to the Meridian Street House (social work office).
