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My excellent students did amazing work for the community this spring! Including the one who wrote this article on our program for the campus public relations office: https://newark.osu.edu/news/ohio-state-newark-student-interns-thrive-in-professional-internships.html

I was honored to receive this year’s Faculty Award for Mentoring of Undergraduate Research from Ohio State Newark for my work with the professional writing interns.

The OSU English program included a brief description of my work in its Research Spotlight this month. https://english.osu.edu/news/research-spotlight-elizabeth-weiser

A nice blog post here from the grad students at TCU, my doctoral alma mater.

http://wbhrsa.weebly.com/blog/wbh-presents-alumni-award-to-elizabeth-weiser

Congratulations to Maria Bowen, with whom I worked as she traveled to New York City to examine the rhetoric of unity presented at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. Maria’s presentation, “You, Me, and 9/11,” was awarded 2nd prize at the Ohio State Newark Student Research Forum on March 5.

Maria’s research documented the way that 3,000 stories are renarrated into an individualized yet unified presentation. Combining object and narrative with intense personalized emotion, the museum encourages a type of identification that encourages visitors themselves to complete the circle and pick up the mantle of heroism. Thus “Never Forget” becomes a pledge of resilience, to continually resist not terrorism per se but the corrosive effects of its potential for fear and division.