Humanities News, Features, and Other Updates

Jordan Dagenais, an STC major, has been selected as the 2016-17 Humanities Department Scholar. He  and other departmental scholars will be recognized at the 2016 Student Leadership Awards, to be held on Friday April 15, 2016, from 6:00 – 8:00 PM in the MUB Ballroom.

Two Humanities PhD students have been recognized by the MTU Graduate School for their outstanding work.

• Joel Beattie has been awarded a Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship for Spring 2016.
• Lindsay Hingst has been awarded an Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for Spring 2016.

Congratulations to both of our award-winners!

A few spaces are still open for spouses of international faculty and scholars wishing to attend a basic English class starting Monday, February 1. Participants will meet from 7 to 8:45 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays through February 25 in Walker 138.

The course, also known as Survival English, will help beginners feel more confident and relaxed around Americans. Lessons will offer simple words and phrases for greeting people and shopping in Houghton.

The class is limited to eight participants. Besides faculty and scholars, spouses of graduate students are also welcome, space permitting. The course fee is $10.

To register, email comlanguage@mtu.edu.

(This article first appeared in Tech Today.)

Marika Seigel (HU) authored an op-ed piece, “What Voters Can Learn from Flint Water Crisis,” in Tuesday’s Al Jazeera America.

(This post originally appeared in Tech Today.)

The Michigan Tech Multiliteracies Center is a free interdisciplinary resource for Tech students, faculty and staff working on diverse types of writing and presentations typically encountered in academic and professional life. We commonly assist with resumes, reports, essays, multimedia projects, speeches, document formatting and citations.

The MTMC is available for scheduled classroom workshops, and we are dedicated to working with instructors of all diciplines. Michigan Tech institutional research has found that students who sign up for MTMC appointments are more likely to receive higher grades and return the following year.

We hope all instructors encourage their students to visit the MTMC for writing and presentation assignments. In order to help instructors offer extra credit for MTMC attendance, we provide “receipt of appointment” slips to students on request.

This semester, the MTMC is starting a new email tutoring service. Students will be able to email their papers to the MTMC and receive written feedback. Because this service is new, it will have limited availability (six appointments per week).

For videos and written instructions about how to make an appointment with the MTMC, visit our website.

The MTMC offers students study teams, one-on-one sessions, graduate writing groups, standing weekly appointments and online appointments. We work with students on every stage of the writing and presenting process, from brainstorming to polishing.

Questions and requests can be directed to Bill De Herder, the MTMC Assistant Director. The MTMC is located in the Walker Arts and Humanities Center, Room 107.

(This article originally appeared in Tech Today.)

Based on her dissertation research and her teaching, Valorie Troesch has been selected as a National Academy of Engineering Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Education.

What is a book? What is a viewer’s physical relationship to a text? What is the role of literature in our lives?

Today and tomorrow, join students from Lisa Johnson’s (VPA) 2D design class and Laura Kasson Fiss’s (HU) Literary Survey A in contemplating these and related questions. View their artwork and read their wall texts, posted at nine locations around campus. Grab a map outside the Humanities or Visual and Performing Arts department offices, or simply be on the lookout for books and booklike projects as you go through your daily routine.

(This article originally appeared in Tech Today.)