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ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning has started a two-year research seminar, “Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer,” that will explore the composition skills students learn in the classroom and use in new settings, such as an upper level course, an internship or the workplace.

Eric Ashley Hairston, associate professor of English and law and humanities, authored a chapter in the recently-published book, New Essays on Phillis Wheatley, edited by John C. Shields, distinguished professor of English at Illinois State University, and Dr. Eric Lamore.

Two ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ professors and eight students spent several days in Zambia late this spring to help Habitat for Humanity with building homes for orphans and vulnerable children impacted by HIV/AIDS.

Fifteen ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ faculty members participated in the Sixth Annual Faculty Writing Residency from May 31through June 3. The annual program sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning inspires and supports faculty writing.

Rebecca Pope-Ruark, an assistant professor of English in the Professional Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) concentration, co-wrote and published the article entitled "Let's Scrum: How Scrum Methodology Encourages Students to See Themselves as Collaborators" with three English majors in PWR - Michelle Eichel '10, Sarah Talbott '11, and Kasey Thornton '12.

Published this month, Permanent Vacation: Twenty Writers on Work and LIfe in Our National Parks includes an essay by English professor Cassandra Kircher, who worked at Rocky Mountain National Park seven seasons before returning to graduate school and leaving behind a magical place.

Michelle Trim published a chapter in the new anthology The 21st Century Motherhood Movement:
Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to Do It. Her chapter is titled, "Articulating a Rhetoric of Agency for Pregnancy Through Intersectionality: The National Advocates for Pregnant Women."

The Haw River has been key to the region’s growth and development over the centuries, and as associate professor emerita Anne Cassebaum writes in her new book, Down Along the Haw: The History of a North Carolina River, its importance can’t be ignored as efforts continue to preserve one of the region’s vital waterways.

CELEBRATE! 2011 continued Thursday afternoon at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ with four student presentations on academic service-learning projects that involved community outreach over the past year.