Graduate Student Accomplishments

Cindy Rogers Receives the Faculty Council Award for Research and Scholarship by Women at the Master's Level

Cindy Rogers received the Women's Faculty Council Award for Research and Scholarship by Women at the Master's Level.The award reception is set for Thursday, April 21 where she will deliver a presentation on her research. [Spring 2005]

Candie McKee Receives a Society for Technical Communication Distinguished Chapter Service Award

Candie McKee, a PhD student in Technical Writing, received a Distinguished Chapter Service Award from the national Society for Technical Communication (STC).The award recognizes McKee's work as former president of the Oklahoma Chapter of STC. [Spring 2005]

Paula Anca Farca Receives the 2005 Nobel Laureate Scholarship

Paula Anca Farca, a doctoral student in literature with an emphasis in contemporary fiction, recently received the 2005 Nobel Laureate Scholarship. The Association for Women in Communications offers the $2000 scholarship to champion the advancement of women across all communications disciplines. [Spring 2005]

Clay Matthews Publishes Poems

Clay Matthews, a doctoral creative writing student, was recently selected to appear in storySouth: The Best of 2005 . Other poems are recently published or forthcoming in Poet Lore, Diner, Gulf Stream, Spork, Unpleasant Event Schedule, Concho River Review, New Hampshire Review, Softblow, H_NGM_N, and Good Foot. [Spring 2005]

Tim Bradford Receives the Koret Young Writer on Jewish Themes Award

Tim Bradford, doctoral candidate with an emphasis in Creative Writing, has received the 2004-2005 Koret Young Writer on Jewish Themes Award for his novella-in-progress based on the history of the Vélodrome d’Hiver, an indoor cycling stadium in Paris. During the 2005-2006 academic year, he will spend six months in Paris doing archival research and three months at Stanford University as a writer-in-residence. [Spring 2005]

Cindy Rogers Wins the Jim Falls Paper Prize

Cindy Rogers recently won the Jim Falls Paper Prize for her essay, "Arming Arthur: The Middle English Inheritance of Epic Arming Scenes". She presented her winning paper at the February 2005 Mid-American Medieval Association Conference. The prize honors the best Graduate Student Paper at the conference. [Spring 2005]

Tim Bradford Publishes Poems and is Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

Tim Bradford, doctoral student, was runner-up in the 2003 Terminus chapbook contest (announced fall 2004), and his poem "Elaborate Board Game" appeared in the most recent issue of Terminus . He was named a Merit Award Winner in the 2004 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest, and his poem "Showdown" appeared in the summer 2004 issue of Bombay Gin . His poems "Survival" and "Nomads with Samsonite" appeared in the spring 2004 issue of Poems & Plays . In winter 2004, his poem "A Mnemonic Device for Old Loves and the Sestina" was published in Runes: A Review of Poetry and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. [Fall 2004]

Chris Hayden Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship

Chris Hayden, a 2004 Master's graduate in TESL/Linguistics, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Hungary. He left in August to teach English for the 2004-2005 academic year at Karoli Gaspar University. [Fall 2004]

Dinah Cox Publishes Stories and Places 3rd in Atlantic Monthly Writing Competition

Dinah Cox, a doctoral Creative Writing student, placed third in the highly competitive 2003 Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Competition for Fiction. She also has stories forthcoming in North Dakota Quarterly and Other Voices. [Fall 2004] 

Constance Squires Wins Prestigious Short Story Award

Constance Squires, a doctoral student with an emphasis in Creative Writing, recently won the Annual Bob Shacochis Short Story Award. The Gingko Tree Review, at Drury University in Missouri, sponsors this prestigious national award that includes both publication in The Gingko Tree Review and a $1000 prize. National Book Award and American Book Award winner Bob Shacochis himself selected Squires' story, and she has been invited to the Drury University campus to give a reading in September. [Summer 2004]

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