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Steve Kolmes and Russell Butkus joint-teach ENV 400, integrating seminar in environmental science. Students enjoy their bantering humor in the classroom. Photo by Parker Shoaff

Faculty friendships mix work and play

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The Pilots Experience card, free to students, gives discounts on businesses in the University Park community. Photo by David DiLoreto

Pilots 'Experience' integrates University Park businesses with UP community

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Illustration by Ann Truong

That awkward moment when…

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Senior Rohan Innis delivered roses to students Feb. 13 while followed by a camera crew of seniors An Nguyen and Terran Benedict. Photo by Spencer Young

Pilots stop to smell the roses

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Portland's Montage restaurant features a Cajun/Creole menu. Photo by Taylor Tobin

Entertain Me: Le Bistro Montage is worth the wait

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Print your UP-themed Valentine

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Junior Katelin Stanley is conducting research on English ivy in Forest Park in attempt to solve the problem of this invasive plant species. Photo by Parker Shoaff

Biology research student joins the anti-ivy league

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Seniors Kevin Ratuiste and Mairi Rodriguez do homework together in Kevin's Tyson apartment. Ratuiste and Rodriguez will be married in December, 2014. Photo by Kristen Garcia.

Ringing in graduation

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Louise Gluck was named United States poet laureate in 2003. She's published over ten books of poetry. Photo courtesy of The Poetry Foundation.

Former poet laureate Louise Glück speaks tonight

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10 books and movies to escape snowpocalypse

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(Left to right) Maureen Briare, associate director for music and campus ministry with her father Jim Kuffner, assistant vice president for community relations, and Maureen's daughter Raina Briare, a sophomore at UP. Photo by Kristen Garcia

University of Portland: a family affair

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Housing survival guide

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Running for their lives

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Facebook’s new app, Paper, is the best social media app ever

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5 course meal for the microwave

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Do you know your new laws?

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(Left to right) Panelists Kamauri Yeh, Mike Bodine and Laura Atwell lead a discussion of social media in the workplace. Behind them, audience members tweet commentary using the hashtag "#socmediaUP". Photo by Clare Duffy

UP alums talk working in social media

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A little blue penguin returning to its nest at dusk. O'Reilly studied the little blue penguins while in New Zealand. Photo courtesy of Katie O'Reilly

Penguins: new page in professor's bird studies

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Professor Jeff Kerssen-Griep plays in two contra dance bands: Joyride and Wild Hair. Photo courtesy of Jeff Kerssen-Griep

Contra dancing calls: The Portland contra dancing scene entices professors and students

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Senior Lindsey Morris with her friends Amma (left) and Afua (right), mother and daughter plantain sellers, in the town Ashaiman. Morris bought roasted plaintains and chatted with them nearly every morning on her way to work and passed by in the evening to wish them goodnight. Photo courtesy of Lindsey Morris

Culture shock: students return from rewarding semester in Ghana

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