UP’s fall 2022 Schoenfeldt Speaker will be Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye, who joins our campus Tues. Sept. 13. A self-described “wandering poet,” she’s lived and worked in San Antonio, TX, while spending the past 40 years traveling the country and world leading writing workshops and inspiring people of all ages with her poetry. Across over 30 […]
Lars Erik Larson
Summer Writing Center Availability
The Writing Center (in Franz 120, the Learning Resource Center) is available to your summer students as a resource for their writing assignments. In contrast with regular semesters, where students make appointments via an online schedule, summer appointments are made via email on an as-needed basis. Writing@up.edu is the general e-mail through which students can […]
New Podcast From Award-Winning Teacher
All faculty and staff who wanted to attend the recent afternoon Teaching and Scholarship presentation by Lars Erik Larson but had previous commitments can see his talk, “Dialectical Teaching in a Righteous Age,” as a 22-minute podcast at this link: http://tinyurl.com/o57qdd4. Larsen’s talk is featured on the new Garaventa Center series Solloquia Tempestiva, the center’ […]
2013 Faculty Awards
The University’s 2013 Faculty Awards were presented on Tuesday, May 7, at the Faculty Awards Dinner, with the following results: The James Culligan Award, established in 1953 in memory of a dedicated servant of the University and presented annually to a faculty member in recognition of distinguished service, was presented to John Orr, English, who […]