Department News

May 27, 2009
Two Students Pick Up Travel Awards
QCB Research and Travel Grants and ARHU Graduate Travel Awards help fund student projects.
May 26, 2009
2009 Commencement Award Winners
Department sponsored prizes and awards were announced at the spring commencement ceremony on May 22, 2009.
May 11, 2009
In Memoriam, Edward Berlinski
The Department mourns the loss of Ed Berlinski, Lecturer in Professional Writing, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on May 6, 2009.
May 5, 2009
2009-2010 Dissertation Fellowships Annnounced
Departmental and University support helps enable student success.
May 5, 2009
Plumly Nominated for PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award
PEN has named Stanley Plumly's Posthumous Keats (W.W. Norton, 2008) runner-up for the best biography of the year.
May 5, 2009
Teaching Assistants Earn Acclaim from CTE
Eight students from the Department of English have been named Distinguished Teaching Assistants by the University's Center for Teaching Excellence.
May 4, 2009
Berlin To Retire at End of Semester
The career of Adele Berlin, Robert H. Smith Professor of Bible, was celebrated by the University on the occasion of her retirement.
April 15, 2009
Backyards are Front and Center in New Book
Michael Olmert's Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies: Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life in the Eighteenth-Century Mid Atlantic is now available from Cornell University Press.
April 15, 2009
Collier Honored by American Academy of Arts and Letters
Michael Collier will accept his prize at the 2009 "Academy Awards in Literature" at a New York City gala this May.
April 14, 2009
Conferencing Honoring Adele Berllin Planned for May
The work of Robert H. Smith Professor of Hebrew Bible Adele Berlin will be the focus of the "Biblical Poetics and Interpretation" conference to be held on May 3, 2009.

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