Nicole Ralston, education, presented “How to read and use data: A road trip” with Jacqueline Waggoner) as an invited presentation for the Kappa Delti Pi International Honor Society in Education in September 2016. Ralston and Waggoner were also awarded a $25,000 grant from the Spirit Mountain Community Fund for “Impact of a New Alternative School Model: Open School Investigation.”
Lars Erik Larson, English, presented a paper on September 24 in Big Sky, Montana for the Western Literature Association Conference. The paper, “Quiet Violence in Willy Vlautin’s Novels,” explored the American epidemic of domestic brutality as represented in the Portland novelist’s work. Vlautin will present a reading on the UP campus on Monday, November 28.