New TA Q&A
Jorge Ambacher, MA, ENGL Samuel Arthur, MA, ENGL Zack Bukovich, MFA, CWE Haley Greer, PhD, RPC Droste Hennings, MA, TESL Katie Painter, MA, ENGL What do you wish your students knew about you? Jorge: One thing … Continue reading New TA Q&A
Jorge Ambacher, MA, ENGL Samuel Arthur, MA, ENGL Zack Bukovich, MFA, CWE Haley Greer, PhD, RPC Droste Hennings, MA, TESL Katie Painter, MA, ENGL What do you wish your students knew about you? Jorge: One thing … Continue reading New TA Q&A
Congratulations to the following graduate students! Recipients of the Graduate College Research Excellence Awards (REA) and/or Teaching Excellence Awards (TEA) by the Graduate Studies Committee Spring 2024 Research Excellence Awards Spring 2024 Abdulrahman Alharthi ALT Gary Ockey, Major Professor Jessica Brock CWE Charissa … Continue reading The Department of English recognizes graduate student excellence in teaching and research for Spring 2024
Evgeny Chukharev (PI) and Emily Dux Speltz (Co-PI) received a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to organize a workshop on how humans and artificial intelligence systems comprehend and generate written language. Workshop participants will discuss their current research, identify key challenges, explore possible solutions, and map future research directions. Through dialogue between the cognitive, … Continue reading Evgeny Chukharev & Emily Dux Speltz received a grant from the National Science Foundation
You’re invited to attend Stuart Selber’s talk, “Framing AI for Curriculum Reform,” at 1:10pm on Wednesday, April 17. This presentation will prepare the ground for curriculum reform by providing ways to think about artificial intelligence that are both useful for students and professionally responsible for teachers. The goal is to establish working assumptions about AI … Continue reading Framing AI for Curriculum Reform
Summer Awad, a third year Creative Writing and the Environment MFA student from Knoxville, Tennessee, has been named a Fulbright Award winner for the 2024-25 academic year. She will be teaching English at the university level in Morocco. “I am grateful to have the opportunity to go back to Morocco after spending time there last … Continue reading Summer Awad named a Fulbright Award winner
Feel free to come to Ross 212 between 4:15 and 5:15 on Friday, April 12, to ask him questions and learn more about his research. Are humans fundamentally irrational? Is that why so many people commit statistical and logical blunders and fall for fake news, medical quackery, paranormal woo-woo, and conspiracy theories? Is Artificial Intelligence … Continue reading 2024 Goldtrap Lecture meet and greet — “Natural and Artificial Intelligence: How Rational Are Humans?”
Are humans fundamentally irrational? Is that why so many people commit statistical and logical blunders and fall for fake news, medical quackery, paranormal woo-woo, and conspiracy theories? Is Artificial Intelligence rendering the human mind irrelevant? In this lecture, acclaimed scientist and author Steve Pinker presents an alternative. We humans, after all, have discovered the laws … Continue reading 2024 Goldtrap Lecture — “Natural and Artificial Intelligence: How Rational Are Humans?”
Please join us for the totally fun and interactive “Science with Cyclones” event that English 312 students in the Communicating Science and Public Engagement Course will be hosting on Thursday, April 11th 5:30-7p at Reiman Gardens. The event is FREE and open to the public… and will be a great time… with Cy as a special … Continue reading Science with Cyclones
Sharon Wiederanders, an RCPC alum who works for Garmin, will be the guest speaker at our next STC meeting on Tuesday, April 9, at 5:30 in Ross 212. Everyone is welcome!
Dear all, I have great news! Amy Walton, Brenna Dixon, and I were awarded a Miller Grant to lead the ISUComm Foundation Courses Redesign Institute, which will bring together instructors—term faculty, graduate students, and TTE faculty—this summer to collaboratively create and update assignments and learning activities for 150, 250, and 250H. I’ll send out a … Continue reading Director’s Letter