Skip to main content
NC State Home
Retiring NC State poet helped save endangered script from extinction

Uncategorized

Feb 19, 2016

Two Fulbright Faculty Land in Slovak Republic

Two Humanities and Social Sciences faculty members received Fulbright scholar awards to teach and study in Slovakia. Bob Kochersberger (English) is teaching journalism at the University of Constantine the Philosopher. Sixty miles away, Heidi Hobbs (Political Science) is at the University of Economics in Bratislava, developing curricula for a specialized certificate program and teaching a short course on American Society in Global Perspectives.

Feb 2, 2016

Alumna Wires Rural Idaho Hospital

Darla Anglen-Whitley (English '86) is on the front lines of a health-care revolution. She manages health informatics at Syringa Hospital and Clinics in rural Idaho, where she oversees technology that gives patients electronic access to their doctors and medical records. The American Hospital Association named Syringa Idaho’s most wired hospital in 2014 and 2015 in recognition of its work to give patients and doctors a system for secure online communication and access to medical records.

Feb 2, 2016

Alumna Wires Rural Idaho Hospital

Darla Anglen-Whitley (English '86) is on the front lines of a health-care revolution. She manages health informatics at Syringa Hospital and Clinics in rural Idaho, where she oversees technology that gives patients electronic access to their doctors and medical records. The American Hospital Association named Syringa Idaho’s most wired hospital in 2014 and 2015 in recognition of its work to give patients and doctors a system for secure online communication and access to medical records.

Jan 29, 2016

Marsha Gordon gives radio talk

On January 27, Marsha Gordon presented her monthly “Movies on the Radio” show on WUNC’s The State of Things, this time about favorite food films/scenes.

Jan 29, 2016

Free Verse Editions releases new titles

Free Verse Editions, edited by Jon Thompson, announces its Fall 2016 titles: Ana Cristina César, At Your Feet and Other Poems, translated by Brenda Hillman and Helen Frances Hillman; Hannah Craig, This History That Just Happened; Derek Gromadzki, Pilgrimage Suites; Donald Platt, Man Praying; Nicolas Pesquès, Overyellow, translated by Cole Swensen; Ethel Rackin, Go On; Christopher Sindt, System and Population. Hannah Craig’s This History That Just Happened was selected by Yusef…

Jan 29, 2016

Tim Stinson presents at MLA

Tim Stinson presented “Editing the Old Is New Again: The Siege of Jerusalem and Piers Plowman Electronic Archives” at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX. He also organized and moderated a panel entitled “Editing Unruly Objects” on behalf of the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions.

Jan 29, 2016

Huiling Ding receives award

Huiling Ding was awarded the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2016 Best Book Award in Technical and Scientific Communication for her book Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic: Transcultural Communication about SARS. 

Jan 29, 2016

Chris Anson receives grant, gives talks

Chris Anson, his son Ian, and CRDM doctoral students Chen Chen and Meridith Reed have received a research grant from the Conference on College Composition and Communication for their study “Talking About Writing: Mining Key Concepts in Students’ Reflections on Drafts in Progress.” Anson recently spoke at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul,…

Jan 29, 2016

NC State Poetry Contest Seeks Entries

Calling all North Carolina poets! The NC State Poetry Contest, organized by the university’s creative writing program, is accepting entries for its 2016 competition.

Jan 20, 2016

Retiring NC State poet helped save endangered script from extinction

After trending toward extinction for decades, the fate of Vietnam’s ancient script, Chữ Nôm, now has a healthier outlook. NC State English professor John Balaban has helped lead many of the developments that kick-started Nôm’s rebound from an endangered calligraphic way of writing to a preserved tradition.