Graduate Research Symposium Success!

Congratulations to Eric Wilbanks and Laura Zdanski, who won top honors for their research at the Graduate Research Symposium! Kudos as well to their mentors Erik Thomas and Huiling Ding.

The English Department was admirably represented at this event by four graduate researchers who presented posters and discussed their work with judges and interested faculty from across the university. Congratulations to all!

MA English, Linguistics Concentration
Eric Wilbanks –FIRST PLACE, HUMANITIES DIVISION
“SHtriking” Change in Raleigh’s Speech: Acoustic Analyses of (str) Retraction
Advisor: Erik Thomas

MS Technical Communication
Arthur Berger
“A study of a commercial contracting”
Advisor: Huiling Ding

Rachael Graham
“The Role of Technical Communication in Augmented Reality Systems”
Advisor: Huiling Ding

Laura Zdanski –THIRD PLACE, HUMANITIES DIVISION
“Information Flow Modeling in Hurricane Risk Communication”
Advisor: Huiling Ding