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Tag: Awards

  • English Professor Kathryn Ludwig Wins Lawhead Award
    July 3, 2023 by

    Kathryn Ludwig, assistant teaching professor of English, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Lawhead Award in General Education. This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to Ball State University’s Core Curriculum (UCC) program. In many respects, the core curriculum has become Ball State’s signature program. The university is widely recognized for […]

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  • President Mearns, A. J. Morton Family, and the 2023 winner of the A. Jane Morton Award

    English Administrative Coordinator Wins A. Jane Morton Award
    June 8, 2023 by

    Melissa Hull, administrative coordinator in the Department of English, has been named the 2023 recipient of the A. Jane Morton Award for Excellence in Staff Performance. Each year, the A. Jane Morton Award honoree is selected from a group of nominated active full-time exempt and non-exempt staff personnel who have been University employees for at […]

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  • Top 100 Students Profile: Sam Scoma
    March 31, 2022 by

    Sam Scoma is a Ball State senior who majors in English (her concentration being in Rhetoric & Writing). She has been placed onto the Top 100 Students list for the 2021-2022 school year, which recognizes 100 juniors & seniors that represent Beneficence both in and out the classroom. How has being a Top 100 student […]

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  • Top 100 Students Profile: Grace Babcock
    March 29, 2022 by

    Grace Babcock is a Ball State senior who majors in English (her concentration being in Literature). She has been placed onto the Top 100 Students list for the 2021-2022 school year, which recognizes 100 juniors & seniors that represent Beneficence both in and out the classroom. How has being a Top 100 student impacted how […]

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  • The 2020 English Awards Ceremony
    April 24, 2020 by

    Every spring, we gather and distribute awards and scholarships. This year, we’ll continue that tradition—online! Join us on our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages on Friday, April 24th from 4:00pm – 5:00pm as we hold our Online English Awards Ceremony. Towards the end of the event, we’ll be announcing the winner of the Outstanding Graduating […]

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  • Robert Bell Ball 2019 Scholarship and Award Winners!
    August 27, 2019 by

    Last year’s Robert Bell Ball was… strange — but we still had a good time! We had refreshments, a costume contest, and we also presented a boatload of #bsuenglish scholarships and awards. Read about our winners below! Excellence in Creative Writing Scholarship The Excellence in Creative Writing Scholarship is awarded by the Department of English […]

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  • August Good News
    September 2, 2018 by

    We were really busy over the summer, writing and researching and submitting and job hunting. So we’ve got a lot of good news to share this month! Faculty News Prof. Michael Begnal   His article “‘Bullets for Hands’: Witter Bynner, Arthur Davison Ficke, and the Spectra Poems of World War I” was published in Twentieth-Century Literature, […]

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  • Do you like free money? Just apply!
    February 18, 2015 by

    Last year, the department awarded over $11,000 to outstanding students. This year, we want more applicants than ever before! Apply by Monday, March 9, 2015, and show us why you deserve to receive scholarship money and recognition.  Undergraduate scholarships Barry Wright Memorial Scholarship If you like to write poetry, this is the scholarship for you! Previous winners: 2014: […]

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