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Congratulations Spring 2024 Graduate & Undergraduate Award Winners!

Critical Literary Analysis Writing Award Awarded to an undergraduate or a graduate student for a single piece of critical exposition originally written for an English course at Iowa State University Malcolm Wei  Cross-Disciplinary Linguistics Scholarship Awarded annually to one student majoring in linguistics for exceptional academic performance Nora Carlson Laura Dupuis EnglQueer Outreach Award An annual award for … Continue reading Congratulations Spring 2024 Graduate & Undergraduate Award Winners!

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K.L. Cook is a 2024 recipient of the Margaret Ellen White Graduate Faculty Award!

This award is a reflection of K.L. Cook’s commitment to Iowa State, his professional reputation, and his esteem among peers. This award was established in 1985 by Margaret Ellen White to show her appreciation for excellent guidance and encouragement of graduate students. This award was founded to recognize a member of the graduate faculty who has demonstrated … Continue reading K.L. Cook is a 2024 recipient of the Margaret Ellen White Graduate Faculty Award!

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Angela Hakim has been selected for an English Language Specialist project

The U.S. Department of State announced the selection of Angela Hakim, a lecturer in the Department of English, for an English Language Specialist project focusing on curriculum development, English language teacher, and English medium instruction (EMI) lecturer development in Japan at Kumamoto University. She is part of a select group, as her project is one … Continue reading Angela Hakim has been selected for an English Language Specialist project

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Joan Chamberlin & Josh Taylor are the 2024 ISUComm Award winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 ISUComm awards. Joan Chamberlin We are pleased to announce Joan Chamberlin, Teaching Professor, as this year’s recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Foundational Speech Communication Courses Award. This award is given annually and recognizes instructors for their teaching excellence and teaching innovation in our ISUComm courses.  Awardee receives … Continue reading Joan Chamberlin & Josh Taylor are the 2024 ISUComm Award winners

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Director’s Letter — April 2024 (End of semester)

Dear all, If you missed Stuart Selber’s talk, “Framing AI for Curriculum Reform,” you may watch it here. Selber’s talk offered useful and responsible ways of thinking about AI in writing classes, and it was the unofficial kickoff to the ISUComm Foundation Courses Redesign Institute, which takes place in June (detailed information can be found … Continue reading Director’s Letter — April 2024 (End of semester)

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Up Next in ENGL 150/250 – Multimodal Reflection Activities

The end of the semester often focuses on reflection, and Ali Ebrahimpourlighvani and Sam Arthur have taken shared activities that encourage students to put their design skills into practice while sharing about themselves and their experiences. Ali’s activity, “My Life’s Two-Minute Snapshot,” gives students the opportunity to take the floor in mini oral single-slide presentations. … Continue reading Up Next in ENGL 150/250 – Multimodal Reflection Activities

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Instructor Spotlight: Finding Voice through Reflection and Imagination with Cornell Brellenthin

Cornell Brellenthin is an instructor teaching in the ISUComm Foundation Courses program, an active faculty member in the ISUComm mentorship program, and a creative writer exploring genres such as magical realism. While Brellenthin has been teaching for two decades now, she originally came to academia later in her career: she began work in the banking … Continue reading Instructor Spotlight: Finding Voice through Reflection and Imagination with Cornell Brellenthin