Honors Newsletter 3 Northern State University Patty Blount, author of Send, Delivers the Larry and Julie Poeppel Family Common Read Lecture The Larry and Julie Poeppel Family Common Read Lecture took place at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, 2022. Now in its 13th year, the NSU Common Read program has grown into the largest academic event on Northern’s campus, attracting internationally recognized authors. The event is supported through a generous endowment by the Poeppel family. Attendees were invited to gather in the Johnson Fine Arts Center’s Jewett Theater to hear author Patty Blount speak about her book Send. The event was free and open to the public. In her books, Blount tackles young adult issues. Send deals with the consequences of one action that Dan, the protagonist, uploaded online when he was 13 and how that affected him, his family, and the victim’s family. It also deals with mental health issues as Dan struggles with all the emotions he went through, the guilt, the ups and downs, an inner voice, and what he put everyone else through. Nine NSU Honors Students Attend National Conference Nine NSU students were accepted to present their Honors undergraduate research at the NCHC conference this year. That’s a 100 percent acceptance rate for the third year in a row for NSU. The typical NCHC acceptance rate for the student research poster competition is around 65 percent. NSU Honors students from a variety of disciplines have been accepted to present at the National Collegiate Honors Conference since 2013, and seven NSU Honors students have placed in the top 3. Northern’s overall acceptance rate at the NCHC from 2013 through 2022 is 96 percent -- 64 of 67 Northern students who have submitted abstracts have been accepted. The Northern students who presented are: • Mariah William • Kayla Jensen • Taren Tschetter • Alexandria Arndt • Kara Sinar • Ai (Andy) Qiang • Lauren Forsyth • Camryn Wipf • Kenissa Ross
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