Stephen Luft (graduate student, East Asian languages and literatures) presented a paper, “How Reliable is Daily Grading? An Investigation of the Interrater Reliability of Daily Grades Assigned by Trained Teachers,” at the American Association of Teachers of Japanese Annual Spring Conference in San Diego, California. He also was a co-recipient (with Kanako Yao, a fellow OSU Japanese pedagogy PhD student) of the 2013 Hamako Ito-Chaplin Memorial Award for Excellence in Japanese Language Teaching, which is administered by the Association of Asian Studies.