Professor Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Hoa Nguyen ’91 Receive Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists
They’re among four poets internationally to receive the award.
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Ted Kaouk (PhD 2014) was selected as one of four employees from the US Department of Agriculture to participate in the Excellence in Government Fellows Program for 2014-2015.
Howard Norman's memoir, I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place, and novel, Next Life Might Be Kinder, will come out in Japanese, German, French and Dutch editions at the end of this year or beginning of next.
Danuta Hinc presented a paper, “Herta Müller’s ‘Der König Verneigt Sich Ünd Tötet’ and the Displacement in the Origins of Language,” at Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures Panel at the SCMLA Conference in Austin, Texas, in October 2014.
MFA student Kelsey Kerr's poem "I dare you." will be published in the second issue of Slippery Elm.
David Paglin is working on creating an English Department-based environmental/sustainability student communication/co-ordination panel -- called UMCP-AWASH (Anacostia Watershed Action for Sustainable Heritage).
Writing Center administrators Leigh Ryan and Tom Earles presented on “Tutoring Writing and Professionalism” at the European Writing Centers Association conference in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany in July.
Michael Olmert's "This Helpless Human Tide" was printed in the autumn number of "Colonial Williamsburg" magazine.
Sangeeta Ray participated in a roundtable on a symposium, ‘The University at the Boundaries of Knowledge” with Robert Young (NYU) at Old Dominion University on Thursday October 23rd, 2014.
Writing Center tutors James Gray and Dionte Harris joined a select group of invited students at the Naylor Undergraduate Writing Research Workshop, Nov 14-16 at York University of Pennsylvania.