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Dialects Aren’t ‘Bad English’ — They’re Patterns

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Sep 3, 2017

Graduate Student Notes

Threa Almontaser published her poem “Sympathy for Foreign Mothers” in the Baltimore Review.

Sep 3, 2017

Graduate Student Notes

Threa Almontaser published her poem “Sympathy for Foreign Mothers” in the Baltimore Review.

Sep 3, 2017

Faculty Notes for July/August

BELLE BOGGS Belle Boggs is a finalist, along with Margot Lee Shetterly and Annette Gordon-Reed, for the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction. She taught at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley in California this summer. She will present on two panels — A Woman’s Place: Ecotone Essayists Expand the Boundaries of Place-Based Writing and…

Aug 30, 2017

Spewing Venom And Mingling With Humans: What Movies Get Wrong About Dinosaurs

NC State film studies professor Marsha Gordon joins several NC State paleontologists on this radio broadcast about dinosaur depictions in the movies, and how accurate information on the screen can help bridge the gap between scientists and the public.

Aug 17, 2017

The sound of inclusion: Why teachers’ words matter

NC State's Language and Life Project provides videos and podcasts about language that can help teachers learn how to respond to students who speak differently and avoid cultural and linguistic bias.

Aug 9, 2017

Movies on the Radio: Vacation Films

The most compelling vacation films may be those that show characters another side of themselves. NC State's film studies prof Marsha Gordon discusses vacation films on WUNC-FM's "Movies on the Radio" program.

Aug 9, 2017

Sampling DNA From a 1,000-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript

NC State English Prof Tim Stinson looks to animal DNA to discover how book production changed over time. Early manuscripts were likely made up of related animals from the same herd. But as book-producing guilds sprang up in cities, parchment arrived from all over.

Aug 8, 2017

Meet Our New Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences welcomes a dozen new tenured and tenure-track faculty to its ranks for the 2017-2018 year. Their scholarship and research interests range from race and immigration to organizational health psychology and urban food systems of the ancient world.

Aug 7, 2017

Maryellen Smith (M.S. Technical Communication ’07)

Alumna Maryellen Smith explains how her degree in technical communication serves her well every day.

Jul 31, 2017

Dialects Aren’t ‘Bad English’ — They’re Patterns

Graduate student Jessica Hatcher discusses the importance of educating teachers and others about language variation.