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Two English faculty awarded grants to improve undergraduate teaching, learning

Two of 10 new grants to develop innovative undergraduate teaching strategies have been awarded to CAS faculty in the Department of English. Irom Bimbisar, clinical assistant professor, and Patricia Freitag Ericsson, associate professor and director of composition, submitted winning proposals for the WSU Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith Teaching and Learning grants.

Bimbisar and Ericsson’s respective projects titled, “Multimodality or Learning from Unfamiliar Sources” and “Teacher Feedback on Student Composing through Recorded Voice Commentary,” are designed to address one of three issues: promoting active learning in large classes, documenting student achievement of intended learning outcomes in lower-division university common requirements (UCORE) courses, and integrating sustainability issues into curriculum.

Read more about the grants

Saving early digital works

Electronic literature lives on through the WSUV ‘Pathfinders’ project—saving early digital works of the late 20th century.

An ambitious effort is under way in Vancouver to preserve electronic literature from the past. The project, “Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature,” debuted at WSU Vancouver this week. The project is led by Dene Grigar, director and associate professor in the digital technology and culture program at WSU Vancouver, and Stuart Moulthrop, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

With constant changes in technology, electronic artists face a continuous demand to preserve and update their work. Read more about the project

Three students earn prestigious national scholarships to study abroad

Benjamin A Gilman International Scholarship
Benjamin A Gilman International Scholarship
Three WSU students will study in Asia this fall as a result of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships. The recipients are: Galen Green, a sophomore English major from WSU Vancouver; Jackie Hill, a senior Chinese major at WSU Pullman; and Maria Peden, a senior anthropology major at WSU Vancouver. Green and Hill will study in China, and Peden will spend a year at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. More than 30 WSU students since 2006 have received the prestigious scholarship.

Find out more about the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship recipients at WSU News.

In Memoriam

Robert Owen “Bob” Johnson, 86, professor emeritus of English at WSU, passed away on June 3, 2013, at Bishop Place in Pullman. Alexander Hammond, also emeritus in the Department of English, expressed fond memories of Johnson’s welcoming him to the department in 1975 and of Johnson’s administrative support for the American Studies program, his bibliographical scholarship on the New Yorker magazine, and his “wicked play in the department’s poker game.”

Read Johnson’s obituary in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News >>