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- Dr. Teresa Dalle received the Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award for the academic year.
- Professor Cary Holladay is the recipient of the First Tennessee Professorship.
- Dr. Amy Eichhorn-Mulligan and Dr. Gene A. Plunka are among the 2008 recipients of the Arts and Humanities Faculty Research Grants.
- Dr. Charles Hall was recently awarded the Student Disability Services Outstanding Faculty Award at
the Presidential Leadership Recognition Awards Ceremony.
- The University of Wyoming's 2008-2009 Amy & Eric Burger Essays on Theatre Competition
recently awarded Dr. Gene A. Plunka a $2,500 prize for his essay, "Staging the Banality of Evil.."
- Dr. Charles Hall received an honorary doctorate from the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic
on November 14, 2007. The honorary degree, which was awarded at the annual ceremonial
meeting of the University of Bohemia Scientific Board, was granted in recognition
of Dr. Hall's almost twenty years of contributions in the areas of English language
teaching at UWB and his representation of the institution outside the Czech Republic.
The nominating speech outlined Dr. Hall's contributions to the field of applied linguistics,
as well as his important contributions to the University of Bohemia. The ceremony
was attended by University Board members, representatives of the City of Plzen, and
representatives from the U. S. Embassy in Prague, the Czech Republic.
- Dr. Kristen Iversen-Britt was honored April 5, 2009 at the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute Retrospective and
Celebration at the Red Line Art Gallery in Denver, where she read from her forthcoming
book, Full Body Burden: Growing up in the Shadow of Rocky Flats. Dr. Iversen-Britt has also been awarded a month-long residency at the Colorado Art Ranch in Trinidad,
Colorado.
Cary Holladay won the Miami University Press annual novella contest. The prize includes publication
of the novella in book form and $1,000. The novella, A Fight in the Doctor's Office, was chosen from more than 150 entries.
- Dr. Emily E. Thrush and Dr. Teresa S. Dalle have been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The
grant's primary objective is to prepare teachers in the Memphis and Shelby County
school systems to work with non-native speakers of English. Grant recipients will
also work with the University's College of Education, Health and Human Sciences to
infuse the curriculum and the knowledge and strategies needed by all teachers because
of the rapid growth of the ESL population in the local K-12 schools.
- Dr. Susan Popham's article, "Forms as Boundary Genres in Medicine, Science, and Business," has been
nominated for the NCTE award for Best Article Reporting Historical Research or Textual
Studies in Technical and Scientific Communication.
- Dr. Joseph Jones, Dr. Susan Popham, and Donna Daulton participated in a panel on "Wireless Computer Use in a Freshman Learning Community"
at the annual convention of the Conference for College Composition and Communication,
March 23, 2006. The research was funded by an IEL grant awarded Dr. Popham by the
Advanced Learning Center.
- On March 22, 2006, Dr. Susan Popham presented "Button Pushing Behavior: Electronic Patient Charts in a Juvenile Mental
Health Facility," at the annual conference for the Association for the Teachers of
Technical Writing.
- Cary Holladay has been awarded a $20,000 fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts for
2006. Her new short story collection, The Quick Change Artist, is scheduled to be published by Swallow Press in Fall, 2006.
- Dr. Reginald Martin has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the African-American Academy of Arts
and Letters and has been named editor of the Academy's monthly newsletter.
- Dr. Tom Carlson, Professor Emeritus, has recently published Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America (U of N.C. Press).
- Michael Compton, instructor, has been notified that his screenplay Rudy Tooty has been selected as
a finalist for the IFP Market Gordon Parks Award for Screenwriting. The winner, who
will receive a $5,000 prize, will be announced September 22, 2005 in New York.
- Dr. Stephen Tabachnick's Fiercer than Tigers: The Life and Works of Rex Warner (Michigan State University Press, 2002) has been praised as "well-documented, profound
and illuminating" by Leonidas Donskis, head of the Philosophy Department at Vytautas
Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania and a member of the European Cultural Parliament,
in a review in the winter 2005 issue of Utopian Studies.
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