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Michelle Trim, a lecturer in the Department of English, gave the presentation, "Resisting Automatic Adoption and Uncritical Use of Technology in Student Research," at this past weekend's Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy in Savannah, Ga.

Tim Peeples, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of English, and Paula Rosinski, Writing Center Director and Associate Professor of English, were honored Sept. 19 for their roles in founding the Carolinas Writing Program Administrators professional organization.

Paul Crenshaw, assistant professor of English, has received an arts fellowship grant in fiction writing from the North Carolina Arts Council.

Janet Myers, associate professor of English and director of national and international fellowships, attended the biannual meeting of the National Association of Fellowship Advisors in Chicago July 13-16.

From researching new chemical methods of detecting explosives, to the mathematical modeling on synapses related to epileptic seizures, ¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· students taking part in a summer research program shared their work July 22 in a series of morning presentations that showcased a variety of academic disciplines from across campus.

Professor of English Rosemary Haskell published an op-ed piece about the Rupert Murdoch affair, entitled "Press Lords and Political Royalty," in the Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer, July 20, 2011, p. 9A.

Cassandra Kircher's essay, "Visiting the Iditarod Champ," was published this spring in Cold Mountain Review.

¸£ÀûÑÇÖÞ¹ú²ú¾«Æ·’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning has started a two-year research seminar, “Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer,” that will explore the composition skills students learn in the classroom and use in new settings, such as an upper level course, an internship or the workplace.