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CTRW @ 2024 CCCC Annual Convention

Join us for the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s (CCCC/NCTE) 2023 Annual Convention: The “Navigating Writing, Navigating History” panel examines the historical, material, and ideological forces that buffet the creation of centers for research and teaching of writing, focusing on the creation of a new center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and comparing the …

CTRW Outreach Surveys

Calling all instructors and administrators: At the Center for Teaching and Research on Writing (CTRW), we support writing research and instruction across the curricula and disciplines, and as part of our outreach efforts this summer, the CTRW wants to hear from instructors and administrators at UW about your writing needs: Take the Instructor’s General Survey …

WCER Grants Announcement – August-September 2023

The Grant Notification Service from the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) lists grant opportunities in education sciences. To submit a grant proposal, contact WCER Director Courtney Bell to receive permission to work through—and, if funded, have the project housed in—WCER. Include the following required information: Additional information is available on the MyWCER Grants & Contracts page. If you …

Christa Olson Wins RSA Book Award

Congratulations to Chair Christa Olson, who has won the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Book Award for her work American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States (Ohio State UP 2021). The selection committee writes: Dr. Olson’s American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States is a breathtaking work of scholarship. Here, Olson …

NSF Grant for Improving Undergraduate STEM Education

Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) National Science Foundation (NSF) The IUSE: EHR is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program is open …

Kate Vieira Wins ‘Kay W. Levin Award for Short Nonfiction’

Congratulations to Kate Vieira, GMWP Director of Faculty, for her essay “Someone Else’s Language” (Guernica Magazine), which received the 2022 Kay W. Levin Award for Short Nonfiction. A reading and celebration will be held at Arts & Literature Laboratory (ALL) on Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 6 PM. The event is free and open to …

LuMing Mao – ‘Reimagining the Global’

Join us as Professor LuMing Mao presents his talk on “Reimagining the Global: Fluidity, Temporality, and Multiplicity” in HCW 7191 on April 13, 2023: See details below: How should we write a global history of rhetoric in the twenty-first century? How can we both recognize the inherent limitation of such a project and leverage its …

Call for Proposals: CCCC 2023-2024 Research Initiative

Call for Proposals: 2023–2024 Research Initiative The Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) Research Initiative is soliciting proposals due September 1, 2023: https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/awards/researchinitiative. Awards up to $10,000. Details from the CCCC announcement: CCCC’s Research Initiative speaks to the belief that bold, creative research furthers the organization’s mission to advocate for broad and evolving definitions …