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Lars Larson

TLC From The TLC: Literary Thoughts for Covidian Times

October 30, 2020

As the distanced Fall 2020 semester enters its eleventh week, the spirits of UP professors may be low. For this week’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative post, Lars Larson offers this link of quotations drawn from literature for reflecting on our aims and our selves.

For more information contact Larson at larson@up.edu.

Filed Under: 11-02-2020, Academics, Campus Services, Teaching & Learning Collaborative Tagged With: Lars Larson, TLC from the TLC

2020 “Writers” Magazine: Ready For Readers

May 1, 2020

The 2020 volume of our campus’s student-made creative writing journal, Writers magazine,  made it into print just before campus shut down, according to Lars Larson, English. This year’s edition explores the theme of “Where I’m From,” beginning with a poem by Owen Klinger, and moving through stories, illustrations, verse, essays, and photographs that articulate where we find ourselves.  You can find the electronic version here. Additionally, Larson would be happy to send paper copies (“we have many”) to anyone interested. Email the proper campus (or home) address to larson@up.edu.

Filed Under: 05-04-2020, Academics, English Tagged With: English Department, Lars Larson, Writers Magazine

TLC From The TLC: Brown Bag Session on Feb. 12

February 7, 2020

In the fog of the semester, we all can use some small teaching interventions to refresh our work with students. Join Lars Larson and Jeffrey White at this TLC brown bag event on Wednesday, February 12, 11:30-12:15, in the Murphy Room as they present ten suggestions for intentional teaching drawn from a variety of practitioners and researchers in teaching and learning.

For more information contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu.

Filed Under: Academics, Garaventa Center, Teaching & Learning Collaborative Tagged With: Garaventa Center, Jeffrey White, Karen Eifler, Lars Larson, Teaching and Learning Collaborative

TLC Brownbag Session: “Ten Suggestions to Re-Vitalize Your Mid-Semester Teaching”

January 24, 2020

In the fog of the current semester, we all can use some small teaching interventions to refresh our work with students. Join Lars Larson and Jeffrey White at this TLC brown bag event on Wednesday, February 12, 11:30-12:15 p.m., in the Murphy Room as they present ten suggestions for intentional teaching drawn from a variety of practitioners and researchers in teaching and learning.

Filed Under: 01-27-2020, Academics, Teaching & Learning Collaborative Tagged With: Jeffrey White, Lars Larson, Teaching and Learning Collaborative

Schoenfeldt Writer Luis Alberto Urrea, Nov. 7

November 1, 2019

Luis Alberto UrreaAuthor Luis Alberto Urrea joins our campus as the fall 2019 Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer on Thursday, November 7, in Buckley Center Auditorium at 7 p.m.  He will also join us from 4-5 p.m. that day in BC 120 for an informal Q & A session, so bring your questions!

A member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Urrea is the critically acclaimed, best-selling author of 17 books, and has won numerous awards for his poetry, essays, and fiction (The Hummingbird’s Daughter, The Water Museum, Into the Beautiful North).  The Devil’s Highway, Urrea’s 2004 non-fiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, won the Lannan Literary Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest novel, The House of Broken Angels, set in San Diego, is a tragic-comic meditation by one sprawling family on the borderlands between life and death. He is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the U. of Illinois-Chicago.

The events are free and open to the public.  For details and questions contact English chair Lars Erik Larson at larson@up.edu.

Filed Under: 11-04-2019, Academics, English Tagged With: Lars Larson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series

Schoenfeldt Writer Luis Alberto Urrea to Visit, Nov. 7

October 17, 2019

Author Luis Alberto Urrea joins our campus as the fall 2019 Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer on Thursday, Nov. 7 in Buckley Center Auditorium at 7pm.  He will also join us from 4-5pm that day in BC 120 for an informal Q&A: bring your questions!  A member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Urrea is the critically acclaimed, best-selling author of 17 books, winning numerous awards for his poetry, essays, and fiction (The Hummingbird’s Daughter, The Water Museum, Into the Beautiful North).  The Devil’s Highway, Urrea’s 2004 non-fiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, won the Lannan Literary Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest novel The House of Broken Angels, set in San Diego, is a tragic-comic meditation by one sprawling family on the borderlands between life and death. He is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the U. of Illinois-Chicago.  The events are free and open to the public.  For details and questions contact English chair Lars Erik Larson at larson@up.edu.

Filed Under: 10-14-2019, 10-21-2019, 10-28-2019, Academics, English Tagged With: Lars Larson, Luis Alberto Urrea, Schoenfeldt Series

Poet and Musician Trevino Brings Plenty, Oct. 29

October 17, 2019

Join Lakota poet and musician Trevino L. Brings Plenty for a reading at the UP Bookstore on Tuesday Oct. 29 at 7:30pm.  A longtime resident of the Portland area, he has two poetry collections Wakpá Wanáǧi, Ghost River (2015) and Real Indian Junk Jewelry (2005), and was featured in the recent anthology New Poets of Native Nations (2018).  A handout of five of his poems can be found under his listing here under “Works by Trevino Brings Plenty.”  The event is free and open to the public.  For details and questions contact English Chair Lars Erik Larson larson@up.edu.

Filed Under: 10-14-2019, 10-21-2019, 10-28-2019, Academics, English Tagged With: Lars Larson, Readings and Lectures Series, Trevino L. Brings Plenty

TLC from The TLC: Cultivating World Citizenship

March 28, 2019

UP aims to cultivate world-citizenship in its students; are faculty up to the task?  In this week’s Teaching & Learning submission, Lars Larson reviews the book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things are Better Than you Think that can help orient our global imaginations more accurately.

For more information contact Larson at larson@up.edu.

Filed Under: 04-01-2019, Academics, Teaching & Learning Collaborative Tagged With: Lars Larson, Teaching & Learning Collaborative

ReadUP Website: See the Latest!

February 1, 2019

The ReadUP website has been updated to include several photos of people all over campus reading this year’s book, and also a video by Lars Larson, English, highlighting compelling elements and possible takeaways from the book, at this link.

For more information contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu.

Filed Under: 02-04-2019, Academics, Campus Services, Garaventa Center, ReadUP Tagged With: Garaventa Center, Karen Eifler, Lars Larson, ReadUP

TLC From The TLC Blog

January 11, 2019

How can white professors at UP achieve a more complex understanding of race and racism? In this week’s Teaching & Learning blog, Lars Larson offers an overview of this year’s College of Arts & Sciences book group selection, White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, by Robin DiAngelo (pictured).

For more information contact Larson at larson@up.edu.

Filed Under: 01-14-2019, Academics Tagged With: Lars Larson, Teaching & Learning Collaborative

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Katie Danielson, education, had her piece, “Effectiveness of scaling up a vocabulary intervention for low-income children, pre-K through first grade” (with coauthors Susan B. Neuman and Preeti Samudra) published in The Elementary School Journal, 121(3), 385-409. https://doi.org/10.1086/712492

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September Nelson, nursing, was awarded Outstanding Abstract at the Western Institute of Nursing – Gerontology Special Interest Group, April 2021. She also attended the Western Institute of Nursing Research Conference- Predictors of intent of leave among long-term care nurses, April 2021.

 

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