2009 News
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Oopali Operajita (MAPW'95), CEO, Cicero, has launched the Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition,™ a competition for MBA, Engineering,and Science & Technology undergraduate (final year), and graduate students that focuses on bringing new sustainable and clean technologies to market through innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Operajita (MAPW'95) launches the Al Gore Sustainable Technology Venture Competition
Thursday, July 30, 2009
At its anual conference in Minneapolis, the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) announced Linda Flower's book, Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of
Public Engagement the winner of its 2008 award for best book. MORE
Linda Flower Wins RSA Book Award
Public Engagement the winner of its 2008 award for best book.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
CMU Creative writing alumnus Adam Atkinson was featured in a story about the thriving literary scene in Pittsburgh, in Monday's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. MORE
CW Alum Adam Atkinson and the Pittsburgh Literati
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Hilary Masters, Professor of English and Creative writing was recently featured in an article in the Pittburgh Post-Gazette for accomplishing the rare taks of publishing two books in a single year. MORE
Hilary Masters Publishes Two Books in One Year
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
This year, the IEEE Professional Communication Society named Professor Suguru Ishizaki, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Design, winner of the 2009 James M. Lufkin Award for Best Paper. MORE
Suguru Ishizaki Wins James M. Lufkin Award
Thursday, June 11, 2009
MAPW and Rhetoric alumnus Karen Schriver has won this year's Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) Award for Excellence in Program Assessment with CMU Professor Dick Hayes (Psychology). MORE
Schriver and Hayes Win CPTSC Assessment Award
Monday, June 1, 2009
We are pleased to announce that English Ph.D. degree candidate Mario J. Castagnaro, has been selected as one of the 2009 co-winners of the H&SS Graduate Student Teaching Award. MORE
PhD Candidate Mario Castagnaro wins Teaching Award
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Terrance Hayes Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Professor Terrance Hayes is a 2009 recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2009 Guggenheim Fellowships.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Technical Writing Program Alumni Honored by STC
Independent technical writer and CMU TW alumnus Janis Ramey was named a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication at this year's conference in Atlanta.