Tag: Tim Amidon
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News of Note Week of March 20
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Read More: News of Note Week of March 20Recently, Tim Amidon presented research at two concurrent conferences in Portland: the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) and the Conference on College Composition and Communication. At ATTW, Battalion Chief Randy Callahan of Poudre Fire Authority joined Tim to speak about the ongoing community based research projects that they…
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News of Note Week of November 30
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Read More: News of Note Week of November 30On October 28th, Tim Amidon, Elizabeth Williams (Communication Studies), Kim Henry (Psychology), and Tiffany Lipsey (Health and Exercise Science) partnered with the Poudre Fire Authority to host a symposium on the intersections of work, knowledge, and safety in the fireservice. Over 70 fireservice leaders from as far away as Oakland,…
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Adaptive Challenges Symposium: On Work, Knowledge, and Safety in the U.S. Fireservice
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Read More: Adaptive Challenges Symposium: On Work, Knowledge, and Safety in the U.S. FireserviceOn Friday, firefighters, researchers, and fire-service officials are gathering at the Colorado State University Powerhouse Campus for the Adaptive Challenges Symposium. The event is sponsored by Poudre Fire Authority and organized by Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition Tim Amidon in collaboration with Professor Elizabeth Williams in Communication Studies, Professor…
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News of Note Week of September 26
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Read More: News of Note Week of September 26Tim 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 at SIGDOC, Tim also participated in “Draw to communicate: How…
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News of Note Week of September 5th
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Read More: News of Note Week of September 5th“Points of Intersection,” a conversation between Andrew Altschul and the writer-brothers Geoffrey and Tobias Wolff, has been published in the most recent issue of Zyzzyva. Tim Amidon’s peer-reviewed article, “(dis)Owning Tech: Ensuring Value and Agency at the Moment of Interface,” was published in Hybrid Pedagogy: A Digital Journal of Learning,…
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What Faculty Really Do Over Summer Break: Tim Amidon
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Read More: What Faculty Really Do Over Summer Break: Tim AmidonTimothy Amidon, an assistant professor in the Department of English at Colorado State University, spent his summer (and much of his academic career!) researching the role of firefighter communication in preventing disasters and tragedies. Tim has more than 15 years of experience in the fire service as a firefighter and officer…
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News of Note Week of May 2
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Read More: News of Note Week of May 2Dan Beachy-Quick will be on Colorado Matters on the Denver NPR station on May 11. Ellen Brinks has been invited to give a plenary talk at the conference “Forgotten Geographies in the Fin de Siècle, 1880-1920,” at Birkbeck College, University of London, in early July. Doug Cloud’s article, “Talking Climate Change…
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English Department Colloquium: Zach Hutchins, Jaime Jordan, and Tim Amidon
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Read More: English Department Colloquium: Zach Hutchins, Jaime Jordan, and Tim Amidon~by English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic Approaching the entrance to department chair Louann Reid’s house, I felt a sense of ease and confidence after noticing the door had been changed from screen to glass for the winter. I could handle this. No door fiascos this time around. Aside from…
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News of Note Week of November 2nd
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Read More: News of Note Week of November 2ndThe 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 online journal Fogged Clarity: http://foggedclarity.com Doug Cloud presented a paper titled…