{"id":5201,"date":"2015-05-13T16:07:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bsuenglish.wordpress.com\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2019-01-31T16:48:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:48:59","slug":"good-news-for-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2015\/05\/13\/good-news-for-april-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News for April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the latest installment of the \u201cGood News\u201d<\/a> series, the Ball State English department<\/a> highlights the accomplishments of our faculty and students up through the month of April.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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Yes, we’re a little late. Finals are tough!<\/strong><\/div>\n

Faculty<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Dr. Carolyn Mackay working in Yecuatla, Mexico.<\/p><\/div>\n

Drs. Frank<\/strong>\u00a0Trechsel and Carolyn Mackay<\/strong> <\/strong>have each received a sizable fellowship<\/a> which will allow them to do a year of research in Mexico. The grant was part of a joint initiative between National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages.\u00a0Their project title is “A Dictionary of Misantla Totonac,” and it was one of just 232 humanities projects awarded in the United States and one of seven in the state of Indiana.<\/p>\n

Dr. Pat Collier<\/strong> will be a Virginia Ball Center Fellow in Spring 2016. In his symposium, “Everyday Life in Middletown,” students will study and create a documentary film about everyday life in Muncie, drawing on the growing body of \u201ctheory of everyday life\u201d and borrowing from the radical aesthetics of the revolutionary Mass Observation project in 1930s Britain. The project will thus partake in\u2014and revise and expand\u2014the tradition of \u201cMiddletown Studies.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Mary Lou Vercellotti<\/strong>‘s article “The Development of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Second Language Performance: A Longitudinal Study”<\/a> was recently published in Applied Linguistics<\/em>, one of the top three linguistics journals in her discipline<\/span>.<\/em>\u00a0This study is note-worthy because\u00a0the results offer the field important evidence to inform language learning theories and will most likely inform future language-learning pedagogy.<\/p>\n

Prof. Liz Whiteacre<\/strong> is the recipient of a 2015 Excellence in Teaching Award. She will be provided the assistance of an instructional development team and stipend for her project, titled “Building Community: Engaging Students through Literary Citizenship,” to redesign her ENG 308 Poetry Writing course. Prof. Whiteacre will also be recognized at the Fall Convocation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Megumi Hamada <\/strong>is the\u00a0recipient of an\u00a0ADVANCE<\/span>\u00a0Proposal Development\u00a0Award which will allow her to take a course release in Spring 2016 to focus on her research.Prof. Pete Davis<\/strong> was chosen by the\u00a0Student Honors Council to receive the 2015 C. Warren Vander Hill award for outstanding honors faculty.<\/p>\n

Prof. Jill Christman
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Jill Christman and her daughter Ella speak with visiting author Eliot Schrefer in March 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n