PhD student Vincent Manzie received the Top Student Paper Award at the 2017 International Crisis & Risk Communication Conference in Orlando, FL. The paper is “Applying the Rhetoric of Renewal Model in a Contemporary African Context: Lessons Learned from Royal Dutch Shell Oil Crisis in Nigeria.”
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) published a review of Nada Gligorov’s “Neuroethics and the Scientific Revision of Common Sense” in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. It can be found here.
Brooklyn Magazine published a feature article about Roxane Gay, a Michigan Tech Humanities alumna and outspoken women’s rights author and activist.
PhD Students Vincent Manzie and Tolulope Odebunmi will present their papers on the topic of “Crisis and Communication in Cross-Cultural Contexts” at the RTC Colloquium from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday (Feb. 24) in Walker 134.
Manzie’s presentation will be “Applying the Rhetoric of Renewal Model in a Contemporary African Context: Lessons Learned from the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Crisis in Nigeria.”
Odebunmi will present “Whatsapp: A Safe Haven for Gender Transgression?”
Read the abstracts online.
Eric Michael Johnson, who graduated with a degree in Scientific and Technical Communication in 2012, was featured in an article in the Duluth News Tribune for earning a role as the drumming instructor in two episodes of the NBC drama “This Is Us” (Season 1, Episodes 13 and 14).
While at Michigan Tech, Johnson created a parody video of Al Yankovic’s “White and Nerdy” for a digital media course. In the article, Johnson recalls his time filming the video:
“It celebrates the geek, nerd culture at Michigan Tech. It is a celebration of that because I absolutely identify as a big sci-fi geek,” he said. Being in front and behind the camera in creating the video, he said “it was right around then that I really started to fall in love with the idea of filmmaking.”
Best-selling author and Michigan Tech humanities alumna Roxane Gay (PhD in Rhetoric and Technical Communication, 2010) has withdrawn a planned book, “How To Be Heard,” from Simon & Schuster, to protest the publisher’s book deal with alt-right provocateur and Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopolous. The story has been widely covered internationally, in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Salon, Time, Buzzfeed and many other media outlets.
L. Syd M Johnson (HU) published “When Hypothetical Vulnerability Becomes Actual: Research Participation and the Autonomy of Pregnant Women” in Clinical Research Involving Pregnant Women, F. Baylis & A. Ballantyne (eds), Springer, 2016. Read the abstract or download the book here.
The Michigan Tech community is invited to attend a presentation by Michigan Reading Association President, Sean Kottke from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan.19 in Alumni Lounge A.
Kottke is a consultant with the Michigan Department of Education and is President of the Michigan Reading Association. The title of his presentation is “Adolescent Boys, Literature and
This presentation is provided by the English Education Program in collaboration with the Copper Country Reading Council. Dinner will be provided at no charge, but it is possible to just attend the talk.
RSVP by January 16.
National Public Radio aired an interview with Roxane Gay, a noted writer and alumna of Michigan Tech’s Humanities program. The interview ran on NPR’s “All Things Considered” program. You can read highlights of the interview here.
Dany Jacob joins Michigan Tech’s Department of Humanities as a visiting assistant professor. He earned his PhD in Romance Literature and Languages at State University of New York, Buffalo.
Jacob worked as a graduate teaching assistant at SUNY, Buffalo, teaching multiple levels of French. He also served as Graduate Student Association president for romance literature and language and “The French Connection,” as well as graduate student representative for academic integrity and grievance pool and round table moderator for “Re-opening our Minds” at SUNY, Buffalo. He was a nominee for the Milton Plesur Award and is a member of Association of Teachers of French.