In Memory of Mrs. Simmons, on World Teacher's Day
~from Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub I was a lucky kid. I grew up in a really small town in a rural area of Oregon, but was part of a really big family. My mom is the second oldest of 12 […]
News of Note Week of September 26
Tim Amidon and Michele Simmons (Miami University) gave a research talk titled “Negotiating ‘messy’ research context and design through adaptive research stances” at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) in Washington, D.C. While […]
News of Note Week of September 12
Dan Beachy-Quick has a group of poems in the new Flag + Void: http://flagandvoid.com/volumeeight. He also has an essay published at Full-Stop: http://www.full-stop.net/2016/09/14/features/essays/danbeachyquick/whitenesses/ Harrison Candelaria Fletcher’s essay, “Open Season,” has just appeared in Brevity’s Special Issue on Race, Racism and Racialization http://brevitymag.com/current-issue/open-season/. […]
Reading Series: Andrew Mangan and Vauhini Vara, a Reflection by Jill Salahub
~From Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub Usually one of our communications interns goes to the reading and writes about the event. They’ve written some really great pieces this semester that give a good sense of what it’s like to go to a […]
(Almost) Alumni Profile: Ashley Alfirevic
~From Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub English major and department communications intern Ashley Alfirevic will be graduating next week. I am incredibly sad to see her go. Ashley has worked with me as an intern doing department communications for the past […]
John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell: Memories and Good Wishes
~From Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub This Thursday, May 5, the English department will be holding a very special celebration. John Calderazzo and SueEllen Campbell are retiring this year, and as sad as we are to see them go, we are sending […]
News of Note Week of March 7
Antero Garcia has a new chapter titled “Teacher as Dungeon Master: Connected learning, democratic classrooms, and rolling for initiative” in the book The role-playing society: Essays on the cultural influence of RPGs (MacFarland). Antero Garcia has been announced as a […]
Embracing One’s Community through Giving
The upcoming issue of the College of Liberal Arts enewsletter, where this post will be featured, is a special issue in which all the stories feature development-focused content that showcases the impact of our CLA donors. We were asked to contribute a […]
News of Note Week of November 2nd
The SpeakOut! writing program won the “Program of the Year” award last night at the Larimer County Jail volunteer awards banquet. Congrats to the facilitators and writers! Two of Dan Beachy-Quick’s essays, “Heraclitean Thirst” and “Circles” are featured at the […]
News of Note Week of April 6th
Associate Professor of Creative Writing Dan Beachy-Quick has been named a fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Beachy-Quick was one of 175 scholars, artists and scientists selected to receive a 2015 Guggenheim fellowship and one of 10 recipients […]