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English Colloquia

English Department Writing Colloquia

Spring 2019

Spring 2018

Fall 2017

Embedded Quotations Claim and Evidence
Dr. Andrew Osborn

Narrated Presentation | Presentation PowerPoint | Downloadable Handout 

How to Read Your Way to Better Writing
Dr. Kevin Saylor

Session Audio | Downloadable Handout 

Academic Discourse
Dr. Greg Roper

Session Audio

Monologue to Dialogue
Dr. Scott Crider

Session Audio

Caring for the Reader's Soul: Ancient Rhetoric and the Contemporary Essay.
Dr. Scott Crider

Session Audio

An Interesting Concept at the End
Dr. Debra Romanick Baldwin

Session Audio

Aeneid as a Philosophic Epic
Dr. John Alvis

Session Audio

Introductions - Where Do I Begin?
Dr. Andrew Moran

Session Audio

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Alumna Establishes Endowed Scholarship to Honor Longtime UD Administrator, Historian

“No one is more deserving of a scholarship in her name than Sybil Novinski,” said President Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D., BA ’82 MA ’83, at the ceremony celebrating the Sybil Novinski Scholarship Fund endowed by Eileen McPherson Meinert, BA ’83, and her husband, David Meinert. “This is something that many alumni, faculty and administrators have talked about, and this is a great day because we get to honor someone who’s meant so much to so many.”

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Physics, Chemistry Professors Receive Air Force Grant

In September, the U.S. Air Force awarded the University of Dallas and Cerium Labs a $500,000 STTR Phase II contract to develop a "Silicon Nitride Seal for Thermal Barrier Coating in Gas Turbines for Extended Engine Life.” Affiliate Research Assistant Professor of Physics Will Flanagan, Ph.D., and Associate Professor of Chemistry Ellen Steinmiller, Ph.D., are co-principal investigators on the project. This award builds on a smaller $50,000 Phase I award earlier this year. UD’s portion of the award is $150,000.

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Patriotic Ceremony Honors UD Veterans

Against the backdrop of a picture perfect day, students, faculty and staff gathered on the mall in front of the Haggerty Science Center to pay tribute to veterans who have served our country.

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