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  • News of Note Week of May 11th

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    Next week, John Calderazzo will present two science communication workshops.  He’ll work on basic communication skills with 20 or so CSU researchers in energy, vet-med, and ecology who will soon present their work at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to members of Congress, the press, and potential funders. …

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  • News of Note Week of May 4th

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    Good news from E.J. Levy: “My award-winning story collection, ‘Love, In Theory,’ is being released today in France by Editions Payot & Rivages, publishers of (among others) Elmore Leonard, David Lodge, Alison Lurie, and Willa Cather. They compare my work to that of Lorrie Moore, Grace Paley, and Nobel Prize…

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  • News of Note Week of April 27th

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    Antero Garcia recently received grant funding as a co-PI on a project funded by the George Lucas Educational Foundation. “Composing Our World: Supporting Literacy and Social and Emotional Learning through 9th Grade ELA Project-Based Learning” is a three year study taking place throughout Northern Colorado. On May 2, Nancy Henke…

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  • News of Note Week of April 20th

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    Alumnus Justin Hocking’s memoir The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld won the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. The book is also: a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, listed as one of Ten Brilliant Books That Will Grab You from Page One in Kirkus Reviews and The Huffington Post,…

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  • News of Note Week of April 13th

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    Dan Beachy-Quick’s new book, gentlessness, has just been published by Tupelo Press, and received an early review here: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-936797-57-8. It is accompanied by a chapbook, Shields & Shards & Stitches & Songs also just out from Omnidawn. Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang just returned from AWP in Minneapolis, where they…

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  • News of Note Week of April 6th

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    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 in the organization’s poetry category, (there were more than 3,100…

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  • News of Note Week of March 30th

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    CLA Spring Faculty/Staff Meeting and Awards Ceremony: Three of our MFA students — Abby Kerstetter, Matt Truslow, and Nate Barron — will be featured readers at the College of Liberal Arts Spring Faculty/Staff Meeting & Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, April 8th. Past spring meetings have included entertainment from theatre and…

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  • News of Note Week of March 23rd

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    Dan Beachy-Quick participated on a panel on “Translation and the Fluidic Text” at the &now conference at CALARTS. He’ll also be giving a lecture for the Monfort professorship in Wed @ 4:00 in Pathology 101. Read more about it here: http://english.colostate.edu/2015/03/monfortprofessorlecture/ Leslee Becker’s “Terrier,” a story that appeared in The…

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  • News of Note Week of March 9th

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    Spring Break at CSU begins Saturday, March 14 and ends Sunday, March 22. Next week, Tim Amidon will be traveling to Tampa, Florida to attend the Conference on College Composition and Communication. While at CCCCs, he will be leading the annual meeting of CCCC Intellectual Property (IP) Caucus, attending a…

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  • News of Note Week of March 2nd

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    Dan Beachy-Quick has been invited to be the Visiting Hurst Professor at Washington University in St. Louis next spring, a two week appointment. Also, his poem, titled “Poem,” included in an anthology titled Liberation to be published by Beacon Press next spring. Matthew Cooperman’s manuscript Spool has won the 2014…

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