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Graduate Student Council Calls for Abstracts Auburn University's Graduate Student Council has issued a call for
abstracts for presentations at its annual Research Forum on May 17, 2000. Fifteen-minute presentations
of both papers and posters will be delivered in three separate categories: science, humanities, and the arts.
Cash prizes for the best paper and the best poster presentation will be awarded in each category.
Abstracts are due by March 7, 2000 and may be submitted by both
graduate and undergraduate students. Abstract submission forms are available on the EGO and "What Can I
Do With an English Degree?" bulletin boards on the 9th floor of Haley Center. Accepted papers and
poster presentations will be delivered at the Research Forum on May 17, 2000, from 8:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m. at the Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center.The GSC is also seeking volunteers from Auburn's professorial faculty to
serve as moderators and judges. The GSC will greatly appreciate any time you can contribute.For more information about the Research Forum or volunteering as a moderator
or judge, please contact the event co-ordinator, Angie MacDonald, or
your GSC senator, Kim Pruett.Contributions Needed for Alumni NewsletterContributions from graduate students, Instructors, and professorial faculty
are still welcome for the alumni newsletter. Please submit material to George
Crandell by Friday, February 11, 2000.
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Constance Relihan delivered "The Trapalonial Gentleman
and the Paduan Bride: Geography and Gender in Robert Greene's Pandosto" at the 1999 Modern Language
Association Convention in Chicago, an earlier version of which had been prepared for a seminar of the 1999 Shakespeare
Association of America Conference. Her article, "Humanist Learning, Eloquent Women, and the Use of Latin in Robert Greene's
Ciceronis Amor: Tullies Love" has been accepted for publication in Explorations in Renaissance Culture, and she
has recently published reviews in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology and The
Sixteenth Century Journal.
"'The Path Not Taken': Cultural Identity in the Interesting
Life of Olaudah Equiano" by Robin Sabino and Jennifer Hall, a former student, has recently appeared in the Spring
1999 issue of Melus, which focuses on African-American literature.
Leslie Worthington will be a panelist in a discussion entitled "Enriching
Current Course Content for Web Delivery" at the First Annual Alabama Distance Learning
Symposium to be held at Troy State University on March 9-10, 2000.
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