SURE Grant Recipient
Lauren Hallstrom, Spring 2019
Working with poet and Guggenheim Fellow Camille Dungy allowed Lauren Hallstrom to compose, revise, and organize a collection of poems entitled, “We Are All Waiting For Someone Else to Make Us: A Poetry Chapbook on Influence, Containment, and Communication.” Her attendance at the Northern Colorado Writers Conference and her interactions with journal editors have helped Lauren prepare the
manuscript for submission to presses and full-manuscript contests. Lauren sees her work as an act of giving and reflected, “For this act of giving to work, something must pass through a boundary—of the mind, the mouth, the boundary of the self—and become something that is not yours.” As she continues to share her work in public readings and in print, Lauren hopes to create community, breaking down the boundaries that divide us.
SURE Grant Recipient
Han Zhang, Spring 2019
With the guidance of Dr. Luciana Marques, Han Zhang used her SURE grant funding to conduct a study on the production of English fricatives by speakers of Chinese, to understand the way a first language influences the production of the speech sounds in a second language. In her project, “An Acoustic Analysis of /q/ Phoneme Substitution by Chinese-accented English,”
Han has developed research, experimental design, and data analysis skills that will give her an advantage at University College London, where she will attend the Master’s program in Language Sciences. Results of her research were submitted to the 2019 conference on Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching in Flagstaff, AZ.
SURE Grant Recipients
Tiffany Daigle, Fall 2018 
With Professor Gerald Delahunty, Tiffany Daigle used her SURE grant funding to perform research on “Patterns of Citing Sources in Academic Papers: A Comparative Analysis of the Reporting Devices Used by English Language Learners and Native English Speakers.” After spending hundreds of hours on the project, Tiffany reports that she has “developed skills which will be essential in my graduate studies.”
Preliminary results from their research were shared with the English Department at a brown bag luncheon in Spring 2018, and in Fall 2018, Tiffany shared her conclusions at the CoTESOL Conference in Denver. The editor for the Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching has encouraged Tiffany to submit her work for review, and Tiffany looks forward to pursuing further research as she pursues her masters degree.
SURE Grant Recipients
Seth Bodine, Spring 2018
Under the direction of Guggenheim recipient Dan Beachy-Quick, Seth Bodine used his SURE grant to write poetry in collaboration with artists from a variety of other genres, showcasing these creative partnerships in a performance of his work titled “Crossings: A Multi-Media Poetry Reading.” Sharing his poetry with a standing-room-only crowd at the Wolverine Farm Publick House, Seth read to participants in the thriving Fort Collins art scene as well as friends and supporters from the department. His collaboration with students from CSU’s School of Music, Theatre, and Dance attracted press coverage and culminated in the video “Homecoming.”
Working on “Crossings” left Seth with a desire to enroll in an MFA program in multimedia art, an option he explored at the end of the project. He has also embarked on new collaborations with other artists and describes his work as an exploration of “how we build a home through our words with others, in relationships, and in family.” Reflecting on his experience as a SURE recipient, Seth observed, “I feel like the project created more of a community between artists. . . . it sparked a lot of inspiration and hope for future projects.