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The UP Writing Center is Open!

September 2, 2025

The UP Writing Center is an amazing peer-tutoring resource that can support student writers from any discipline. Starting September 2, students can book appointments through the Learning Commons scheduler or visit during drop-in hours. Our Writing Assistant Co-Pilots represent an array of majors from all five UP colleges and can assist writers at all levels, and at any stage of the process. (Read More)

Filed Under: 2025-09-01, 2025-09-15, Academics, Issues Tagged With: Writing Center

NOW OPEN: The UP Writing Center

September 13, 2024

The UP Writing Center is a terrific peer-tutoring resource that can support student writers from any discipline and is open for the Fall 2024 semester. Students can meet their Writing Assistant in person in the Learning Commons (BC 163) or online. We count on faculty to get the word out to students about this valuable resource, so please consider encouraging your students to seek us out. (Read More).

Filed Under: 2024-09-16, Issues Tagged With: Learning Commons, Writing Center

The Writing Center Welcomes Your Students! 

October 15, 2022

The UP Writing Center—a terrific peer-tutoring resource that can support student writers from any discipline—is open. Students can meet their Writing Assistant in person in the Learning Commons (BC 163) or online (via Zoom). We count on faculty to get the word out to students about this valuable resource, so please consider encouraging your students […]

Filed Under: 10-17-2022 Tagged With: Writing Center

The Writing Center Will Be Back in Business This Fall!

September 5, 2022

The UP Writing Center—an awesome peer-tutoring resource that can help student writers from any discipline—is open for the semester. We count on faculty to get the word out to students about this valuable resource, so please consider encouraging your students to seek us out. Students can meet their Writing Assistant in person in the Learning Commons (BC 163) […]

Filed Under: 09-06-2022 Tagged With: Writing Center

Writing Assistance Available for Summer Classes

May 14, 2021

Summer faculty who assign writing: the virtual Writing Center is open and ready to help your students with their papers-in-process. Rather than using our online scheduler, in the summer, students can email writing@up.edu to book appointments, which will be held on Zoom. Please visit the Writing Center website for more information and for online writing resources, […]

Filed Under: 05-17-2021, 05-24-2021, Academics, Campus Services, Writing Center Tagged With: Molly Hiro, Writing Center

Faculty: Please Promote the Writing Center in Your Classes!

January 22, 2021

The Writing Center is gearing up for another virtual semester of helping student writers at any stage of the writing process, at any level, and in any discipline, according to director Molly Hiro, English. The center’s 23 writing assistants (WAs) held hundreds of Zoom appointments last fall, and are ready to field that many more […]

Filed Under: 01-25-2021, 02-01-2021, 02-08-2021, Academics, Campus Services, Writing Center Tagged With: Molly Hiro, Writing Center

Writing Center Ready to Help Writers Online This Fall

August 28, 2020

Student typing on laptop

After a successful test run in the spring, the Writing Center is gearing up for a fully remote fall, and the center is counting on UP faculty to get the word out that writing assistants (WAs) are ready and able to help UP writers throughout the term. WAs can help writers from all disciplines, at […]

Filed Under: 08-17-2020, 08-24-2020, 08-31-2020, Writing Center Tagged With: Molly Hiro, Writing Center

Virtual Writing Assistance Available All Summer

May 29, 2020

While the in-person Writing Center will remain closed until further notice, virtual writing assistance is available for all students taking courses at UP this summer. If you’re teaching a summer course, especially one involving writing, will you let your students know about this service? One-on-one sessions with our experienced writing assistants will happen via video, […]

Filed Under: 05-18-2020, 05-25-2020, 06-01-2020, Academics, Campus Services Tagged With: Molly Hiro, Writing Center

UP Writing Center and Integrated Writing Program: At Your Service

January 17, 2020

The Integrated Writing Program and the Writing Center are gearing up to serve the UP community in spring 2020. The Writing Center (BC 163) is a completely free resource, staffed with trained writing assistants who can help students at all levels, from all disciplines, at all stages of the writing process. The center opens for the spring […]

Filed Under: 01-13-2020, 01-20-2020, Academics, Campus Services, Writing Center Tagged With: Molly Hiro, Writing Center

UP Writing Center and Writing Program At Your Service

August 23, 2019

The Writing Center and Writing Program are gearing up to serve the UP community in fall 2019, according to Molly Hiro, English. The Writing Center (in the Learning Commons, BC 163) is a completely free resource, staffed with trained Writing Assistants who can help students at all levels, from all disciplines, at all stages of the writing process. […]

Filed Under: 08-26-2019, 09-03-2019, Academics, Campus Services, English Tagged With: Molly Hiro, Writing Center

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Nick McRee, Sociology and Social Work, published “Academic debate and civic engagement in adolescence and young adulthood: evidence from a national longitudinal study.” Argumentation and Advocacy, 61(3–4), 323–338. He also published “When Chairs Shield Faculty from Service Opportunities: Protecting Colleagues or Hindering Community?” The Department Chair, 36(3), 11-13.

Katie Danielson, Education, was awarded a grant from The Spencer Foundation in the amount of $374,940.00 for the “Collaborating Towards Transformational Visions for Digital School Systems” project. Danielson also published “Learning to let go: Transformations in teachers’ pedagogical reasoning about classroom discussion.” Co-authors: Gotwalt, E., Kavanagh, S. Teaching and Teacher Education. January 2026

Daniel Bulek, Nursing & Health Innovations, published “From monoamine deficits to multiscale plasticity: Twenty-five years of ketamine and the neurophysiology of depression.” Journal of Neurophysiology, jn.00516.2025.

Dave Houglum, Director of Leadership Studies and Leadership Professor of Practice in the Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, facilitated a multi-day series of invited leadership development workshops for the staff team at Lutherhaven Ministries in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Houglum led six interactive sessions focused on DiSC-informed leadership, coaching-centered leadership, servant leadership and accompaniment, powerful feedback, and the co-creation of team commitments to support healthy culture and sustainable impact. In addition, Houglum provided multiple individual leadership coaching sessions for staff members throughout the engagement. January 2026.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, published the following articles in VoiceAfrique.org: “The Saturated Wisdom of Saint Joseph: Relevant Virtues for Our Times.” (Reflections on the Readings of the Fourth Sunday of Advent, 2025). December 19, 2025. “The Gift of the Nativity is Grounded in an Ethics of Neighborliness.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Mass on Christmas Day, December 25, 2025). December 24, 2025. “The Spirituality of Ambition and the Grace of the Incarnation.” Reflections on the Readings for the Vigil Mass of Christmas, 2025. December 24, 2025. “The Theotokos: A Mirror in Which We Discover Ourselves as Bearers of God’s Life to Each Other.” (Reflection on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God.) December 31, 2025. “Jesus Christ: The Revealer of the Grace of Encounters and an Embrace of Difference.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord. January 4, 2026.) January 3, 2026. “Christian Baptism as a Summon for Global Justice: What We Must Embrace for Our Times.” (Reflections on the Readings for the Sunday of the Baptism of the Lord. January 11, 2026.) January 10, 2026. Aihiokhai also published a review of The Cross and the Olive Tree: Cultivating Palestinian Theology Amid Gaza. Edited by John S. Munayer and Samuel S. Munayer. Orbis Books, 2025. Catholicbooksreview.org

Jeff Kerssen-Griep, Communication and Media, presented “Teaching with Transformative International Conflict Partners” on the panel, “Healing Divides and Elevating Connections within Conflict & Peacebuilding.” National Communication Association Convention. November, 2025.

Christi Richardson-Zboralski, Director of Marketing – Graduate Programs, published a short story under pen name, Christi R. Suzanne, entitled “Outlaw’s Dust.” In Lisa Diane Kastner (Ed.) 27 Stories: An LA Wildfire Anthology. Running Wild Press. January 7, 2026. All proceeds from this anthology go toward Habitat for Humanity LA. Find it on the Broadway Books website or on Bookshop.org.

Fr. Pat Hannon, CSC, published From Glory to Glory: A Pilgrim’s Notes From the Badlands of Grace. Occasioned by the author’s walking, with siblings, the famous Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2024, the book traces all manner of other pilgrimages—to and from home, family, love, self, and God. One Subject Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. November, 2025.

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