News Archive

2006

Graduate students receive research grants

5/1/2006 - Graduate students Rachel Baumgardner, Jennifer Haley and Yonghong Cheng have each been awarded a Graduate Student Grant to be used toward expenses associated with their research projects.

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Bruce Hozeski's book Hildegard’s Healing Plants made available in Braille

4/28/2006 - Bruce W. Hozeski’s latest book entitled Hildegard’s Healing Plants has been made available in Braille by the Braille Institute of America and will be distributed to various libraries for the visually impaired.

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Undergraduate award winners and scholarship winners

4/25/2006 - The department is pleased to announce our undergraduate scholarship winners and award winners for this year:

• Barry Wright Memorial Scholarship: Nate Logan
   
• Matt Jones Creative Writing Scholarship: Anthony Settineri
   
• Writing Center Tutor of the Year: Jason Glassburn
   
• Paul Robb Scholarship: Megan McCreery
   
• Leslie and Patrick Ballard Scholarship: Carla Alderman, Steven Loser
   
• Elizabeth Martin Scholarship: Robert Miller, Carla Alderman
   
• Outstanding Graduating Senior: Lydia Storie
  
  Krista Quesenberry, Jennifer Lee, and Leslie Ann Jenkins were also finalists for Outstanding Graduating Senior.

List of past honorees

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English major recognized as Outstanding Future Educator

4/21/2006 - The Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education recognized English major Crystal (Marrs) Biehl (English/language arts education) as an  Outstanding Future Educator at its annual recognition lunch on April 21, 2006. Other Ball State students receiving awards were Allison Baker (special education), Christopher Evrard (visual arts education), Ashley Penrod (elementary education), Adam Sax (elementary education), and Julia Wilson (elementary education). The program included several presentations on the needs of first-year students and a motivational presentation by Molly Seward, 2005 Indiana Teacher of the Year.

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Sharon Hillman wins A. Jane Morton Award

4/20/2006 - The department is pleased to announce that Sharon Hillman has been awarded the A. Jane Morton Award for 2006.  The Morton Award, the highest honor that a staff member can receive at Ball State, recognizes one full-time staff member annually for excellence through service.

As administrative coordinator, Hillman makes sure the English department runs smoothly.  She manages reports, budgets, and other functions for a department of nearly 170 people. Department faculty consistently praise Sharon for her reliability, her sense of humor, and her dedication. As one supporting letter stated, "we could not function without her."

Professor Hozeski noted that Sharon's service goes beyond her regular job expectations.  "We have many, many extra functions in the department: receptions for visiting speakers, book fairs, fundraisers, births, deaths, emergency surgeries—the list goes on."

Hillman was honored at this year's Staff Recognition and Retirement Awards Program April 20 in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. The award includes a monetary gift, a framed lithograph, and a bound collection of the nominating letters.

Hillman has worked in the department since 1987. She has served as administrative coordinator since 1995.

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Carmen Siering wins doctoral dissertation award

4/13/2006 - The Ball State University Alumni Association honored Carmen Siering with its Distinguished Dissertation award for 2005-2006. Her dissertation, “Rhetorical Vision: Resistance, Fantasy, and the Work of Texts in Creating and Sustaining Subculture,” was selected for the award by an intra-university committee of faculty scholars on the basis of its originality, significant contribution to knowledge, quality of writing, and potential forpublication.  Siering's work was nominated by Professors Fleckenstein, Lauren Onkey, and Jayne Beilke.

The award carries an $800 honorarium and a plaque. In addition, the dissertation advisor, Professor Fleckenstein, will receive a plaque in recognition of her work. The award is funded through the generosity of the Ball State University Alumni Association.

Siering was honored at the Annual Graduate Student Recognition Reception on Thursday, April 13, 2006.

Several doctoral students in English have received this award in recent years, including Luz Mary Rincon in 2004, Carolyn Goffman in 2003, and Kurt Bullock in 2002.  List of honorees

Graduate students honored for exceptional achievement

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