Matthew Wynn Sivils received the 2016 A&S Distinguished Alumni Award from the English Department at Oklahoma State University. The Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes an A&S alumni whose life and achievements have demonstrated a record of distinguished service in their community, and extraordinary achievement in a particular discipline, organization, or cause.
Prashant Rajan, adjunct assistant professor of English and Communications Studies, along with Shweta Chopra, assistant professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering have research published in the Information Technologies and International Development journal. Read the article here Ames Tribune article
Their presentation titles (also from left to right): It’s all the Rage, Insult to Injury: Transgender/Translucent, Feminist Rebellion in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Executioner.
Last month, dual-degree graduate student Adam Blake Wright (MFA Creative Writing and MS Sustainable Agriculture) was selected as one of two Julia Child Foundation Scholarship winners at the Eating Words conference in Iowa City. A panel of nationally recognized food writers and magazine editors honored Adam for his Edible: Iowa River Valley article, “Sharing the Harvest: A … Continue reading Adam Blake Wright selected as one of two Julia Child Foundation Scholarship winners at the Eating Words Conference
Oxford University Press will host a blog post from Brianna Burke on The Hunger Games. It is titled “The Hunger Games are Playing on Loop—and I am Tired of Watching” and will go live on Saturday, Dec. 5th.
Hui-Hsien Feng, PhD Student in Applied Linguistics & Technology, received a Graduate College Research Excellence Award for Fall 2015 for her dissertation entitled “Designing, implementing, and evaluating an automated writing evaluation tool for improving EFL graduate students’ abstract writing: A case in Taiwan.”
Stacy Tye-Williams, an assistant professor of communications studies and English, is a nominee for the 2015 Academic Minute Listener’s Choice Award. Tye-Williams was featured in a January 2015 segment for her research on workplace bullies. Vote and listen to Tye-Williams’ essay here. (Scroll to the vote section at the bottom of the page.) A podcast on the research … Continue reading Stacy Tye-Williams nominee for 2015 Academic Minute Listener’s Choice Award
MFA Alum, John Linstrom edits Centennial Edition of Liberty Hyde Bailey’s landmark agrarian manifesto, The Holy Earth: The Birth of a New Land Ethic, published by Counterpoint Press with an introduction by Wendell Berry. The Centennial Edition of The Holy Earth by Liberty Hyde Bailey — New introduction by Wendell Berry, edited by John Linstrom, forthcoming from Counterpoint Press, … Continue reading MFA Alum, John Linstrom edits Centennial Edition of Liberty Hyde Bailey’s landmark agrarian manifesto, The Holy Earth: The Birth of a New Land Ethic
MFA Alum, Lindsay Tigue receives the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize for her poetry collection, System of Ghosts, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press in 2016. Lindsay Tigue is the author of System of Ghosts, winner of the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize and forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in April 2016. She writes poetry and fiction and her work … Continue reading 2014 MFA Alum Lindsay Tigue
MFA Alum, Lindsay Tigue receives the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize for her poetry collection, System of Ghosts, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press in 2016. Lindsay Tigue is the author of System of Ghosts, winner of the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize and forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in April 2016. She writes poetry and fiction … Continue reading 2014 MFA Alum Lindsay Tigue receives the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize