The April meeting of the Birmingham Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication was held in Haley Center on Saturday, 20 April. The meeting brought together 42 students, faculty, and professional technical communicators who collectively engaged in sessions that focused on the theme of the meeting "Working Together." Major topics covered coping with difficult people, collaborating to build a web site, and getting the information you need from people who are not easy to interview or survey. Presenters from the department included Betsy Smith, Joyce Rothschild and Heather Lord. There was also a session on student portfolios in which MTPC students Alise Chabaud, Lowell Lambert, Heather Lord, Nathan Meier, and Amanda Ray displayed their works-in-progress portfolios. The day concluded with a meeting of the advisory group for the Master of Technical and Professional Communication program.

Students recognized for their outstanding academic achievements and other work in their curriculum were MTPC students Alise Chabaud and Heather Lord, who received the Betty Travis Naugle Fellowship for Technical and Professional Communication, and Nathan Meier, who received the AU-Department of English Technical and Professional Communication Award. Brooke Bullman, a junior English major completing the technical and professional communication concentration, received the Birmingham STC Chapter Academic Award in Technical and Professional Communication.

Among the participants were department graduates Karrie Brock, Melissa Heltz, John Garner, Susan Hessler, Melissa Womack, Charlotte Bowman, and Julia Smith.

Please click here to see the awards graduate students received.  Pictures below.

Kay Marsh will be reading her paper, "A New Look at the Exegetical Significance of the Sparrow in Ancrene Riwle" at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University this July.

Tom Nunnally published "Glossing the Folk" in American Speech 76.2: 158-76 (Summer 2001).

 

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Susanna Haines has been awarded the Susan Stacy Entrekin Yates Award from Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, presented annually to outstanding junior students at Auburn University. Criteria include scholarship, activities, and character. The nominated student must have completed a minimum of 61 credit hours by the end of Fall Semester of the year of nomination and have a minimum 3.699 GPA.

 

Graduate Student Reception at Pebble Hill - May 1

Sigma Tau Delta Induction Ceremony - April 28 

2002 Sigma Tau Delta Inductees:  Gina Caison, Neil Costes, Amy Greene,Tracee Griffin, Susanna Haines,Sara Hyder, Callie Mauldin, Sara Mcginley, Kia Powell, Kristin Scruggs, Nicole Self, Emily Thornbury

The Tweed Jacket Classic - May 1

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Society for Technical Communication Workshop - April 22 

OPEN  HOUSE - May 1 to show off our "new look"

 

 

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