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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.

An essay by Paul Crenshaw, assistant professor of English, has been selected for inclusion in Best American Essays 2011.

They are common stereotypes of Africa often portrayed in media: poverty, AIDS, a “primitiveness” of people who live there. As ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ senior Maggie Pahos prepared for a semester abroad in Ghana, she wanted to find ways to dispel those stereotypes through her own research, photography and creative writing, and her project is the latest to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on Lumen Scholars in the Class of 2011.

Crystal Anderson, an associate professor of English and coordinator of the American Studies Program and Faculty Fellow for the Multicultural Center, presented her research on Orientalism and the Harlem Renaissance at the 2011 MELUS (Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures in the United States) and USACLALS (United States Association for Commonwealth LIterature and Language Studies) Joint Conference in Boca Raton, Fla.

Rebecca Pope-Ruark, assistant professor of english in the professional writing and rhetoric concentration, presented with two students, Sarah Talbott '11 and Kasey Thornton '12, at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) Annual Conference held in Atlanta in April.

Paul Crenshaw, assistant professor of English, has won the Theodore Christian Hoepfner award for the best essay to appear in Southern Humanities Review in 2010.

English professor Kathy Lyday-Lee and three English majors (Matt Baker, Natalie Lampert, and Tosh Scheps) attended the International Sigma Tau Delta Convention in Pittsburgh from March 23-26.