Heather Lettner-Rust's

This summer, Heather Lettner-Rust’s article about the rhetorical foundation of Goal 14 titled “Making Rhetoric Visible:  Re-visioning a Capstone Writing Seminar” was published in the inaugural issue of *Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, http://www.presenttensejournal.org, an online  journal published at Purdue University.  Continuing to spin out work from her dissertation, she will present qualitative […]

Steven Isaac

On Sunday, 14 November, at the North American Conference on British Studies in Baltimore, Steven Issac presented a paper, “The Role of Urban Forces in Plantagenet Warfare, 1140—1216” as part of a panel on Aspects of Medieval Warfare.  The commentator, Prof. Richard Abels, was impressed by Steven’s contention that as early as the twelfth century, […]

Brett Hursey

Thus far in 2010,  Brett Hursey’s plays have won 22 awards and appeared on stage 33 times including 11 off/off-off Broadway productions, as well as international productions in Canada and Belgium.

Tim Holmstrom

Working with collegues at Fermilab, Tim Holmstrom has published “Study of the rare hyperon decay Omega- -> Xi- pi+ pi-.” in Physics Letters

Ryan Hebert

Ryan Hebert, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities won a choral composition competition sponsored by the Jefferson Choral Society of Lynchburg.  The competition was open to all composers residing in the commonwealth of Virginia.  The winning piece, composed this fall by Hebert, is a setting of the famous poem, “i carry your […]

Steve Faulkner

The filming of the movie based on Steve Faulkner’s book Waterwalk: A Passage of Ghosts, is about 90 percent complete. A second edition of the book will be published with the movie, for which he has written an Afterword. A short documentary about the journey of the French-Canadians Joliet and Marquette is being shot in […]

Suzanne Donnelly

Suzanne Donnelly will be presenting a poster entitled “Beyond the textbook: Reconfiguring textbook and online resources to promote student engagement in the introductory college physics classroom” at the annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy sponsored by the Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research (CIDER) in February 2011. She will also be presenting two papers, […]

Kerri Cushman

Kerri Cushman had a solo exhibition at Wichita State University, KS. As a visiting artist she gave a lecture and held a workshop on Eastern papermaking methods. Her artist books were exhibited internationally in the U.K. and nationally in MD, IL, TN, MI, CA, and Richmond, VA.

Craig Challender

Poems by Craig Challender have recently appeared in The Paterson Literary Review, Mikrokosmos, The Asheville Poetry Review, and The Connecticut Review.  One of Dr. Challender’s poems, “Bequest,” won Mikrokosmos’ best-of-genre prize; and Connecticut Review has nominated “How to be Lucky” for a Pushcart Prize.  Both poems were written during Dr. Challender’s Spring 2009 sabbatical.

Jennifer Capaldo

Jennifer Capaldo is a Semi-Finalist for the American Prize in the Art Song division.  The announcement, and some basic information about the competition is available at the following link:  http://www.theamericanprize.blogspot.com/