The annual Writing Program Award Ceremony honors and recognizes the university’s outstanding faculty who teach writing across campus. This year’s event will be held Wednesday, May 3, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Guilford House Parlor (first floor).
Attend the event to thank and congratulate the individuals who make CWRU’s Writing Program possible.
Light refreshments will be served.
Awards will be presented to the following individuals:
- Vanessa Hildebrand (anthropology), winner of the Jessica Melton Perry Award for Distinguished Teaching in Disciplinary & Professional Writing;
- James Newlin (English), winner of the SAGES Excellence in Writing Instruction Award;
- John Wiehl (English), winner of the WRC Excellence in Consulting Award.
The following students, who are recipients of First Seminar and University Seminar Essay Prizes this year, will be acknowledged:
Katherine Steinberg
“Translation in Paradise: The Intersection of Languages and their Impact in Gurnah’s East Africa”
Written for USSY 285V: Castaways and Cannibals: Stories of Empire; Kristine Kelly (seminar leader).
Erin Camia
“RBF and the Reluctance to Accept Women’s Anger”
Written for USSY 289J: Beauty Myths Today; Megan Jewell (seminar leader).
Jessica Nash
“Re-fashioning the Field: On Gender and Computer Science”
Written for USNA 287P: Women and Science; Barbara Burgess-Van Aken (seminar leader).
Ondrej Maxian
“Conserving Culture: CBPR as a Framework for Group Research”
Written for USNA 287K: Human Research Ethics; Michael Householder (seminar leader).
Zhihan Wang
“Myth Dismissed: A Case Study on College Students’ Perceptions of Sleep Deprivation”
Written for FSCC 100: Social Meanings of Health; Mary Assad (seminar leader).
Yiyang Wang
“Two Sides of a Coin – Analysis of An Unquiet Mind”
Written for FSCC 100: Social Meanings of Health; Mary Assad (seminar leader).
Claire Howard
“Unethical Behavior in the Wounded Warrior Project”
Written for FSSO 119: Philanthropy in America; Barbara Burgess-Van Aken (seminar leader).