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What's New2008 Sigma Tau Delta Convention Sigma Tau Delta Receives 2008 Student Organization Award
The Word Gets a MakeoverWant the latest in English departmental news? This is the place to be! Although Sigma Tau Delta has recently decided to issue The Word annually in PDF format, we don't want to keep our loyal readers waiting until the fall of each year to learn anything new about the English department's outstanding students, faculty, and alumni. The "What's New" section will thus function as a bulletin board for all the goings-on that occur in the English department after the fall issue of The Word has been published. So if by some cruel twist of fate you miss the English Festival this May, look in "What's New" for details. Read the article below for information on the 2008 Sigma Tau Delta convention. And check this page in the near future for more student, faculty, and alumni updates! For the fall 2007 issue of The Word, click here. For back issues, visit the Archives section. * * * Press Release: UW-Eau Claire Students and Faculty Recognized at Sigma Tau Delta ConventionMarch 26, 2008 Several students, a student organization and a faculty member from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire participated in and received honors or recognition at the 2008 Sigma Tau Delta convention held in Louisville, Ky., March 5-8. Junior Stephanie Schiefelbein, Hastings, Minn., was awarded a $3,000 Junior Scholarship, which honors Dr. E. Nelson James, a long-time executive secretary of STD. To be considered for the scholarship, Schiefelbein wrote an application essay and obtained two letters of recommendation. At the convention, Schiefelbein was appointed by the STD Board of Regents to a two-year term as a student adviser, making her one of only two students with voting rights on the board. She is the youngest student advisor to have ever been appointed. Stephanie also read a critical essay, “Yellow Book,” during the convention. The UW-Eau Claire Theta Zeta chapter of Sigma Tau Delta received $700 for being named an Outstanding Chapter of 2008. Out of 700 Sigma Tau Delta chapters nationwide, only two other chapters were given this honor. The Eau Claire chapter received a plaque, which is on display in the Kate Gill Library. STD adviser Gloria Hochstein, adjunct assistant professor of English, was elected convention chair for 2009. She also will continue to serve her four-year term as Midwestern Regent on the STD Board of Regents. Graduate student Daniel Hardy was elected by the alumni members as the first alumni representative to the board. (Hardy was instrumental in creating this position in 2007 when he served as Midwestern Student Representative to the board.) He also read a critical essay, “Queering Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book in ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’” and read a creative non-fiction piece, “Acid.” Other UW-Eau Claire students participating in the convention were senior Charlie Payseur, Mundelein, Ill., who chaired two panels and created a poster display; and senior Elizabeth Vindedahl, Minneapolis, who read a creative piece, “Umbrella Days.” For more information, contact Hochstein at hochstgj@uwec.edu or 715-836-5041. * * * Sigma Tau Delta Receives 2008 Student Organization AwardMarch 4, 2008 At the Student Leadership Recognition Awards ceremony, Thursday, Feb. 21, English students and organizations received awards given by the UW-Eau Claire Foundation and the UW-Eau Claire Alumni Association. Sigma Tau Delta received the 2008 Student Organization Award, which comes with a plaque and a check. The plaque is on display in the Kate Gill. (Sigma Tau Delta received this award also in 2001 and in 2005.) In nominating the honor society for the award, a vice president of a Russian university praised its service to the department of modern languages of Kemerovo State University. For years, the group has sent books about English and American literature, dictionaries, thesauruses and textbooks on English grammar and writing and study materials to Russian students. Gloria J. Hochstein was nominated for Student Organization Advisor Award for 2008 in recognition of outstanding achievement in promoting leadership in the Theta Zeta chapter of Sigma Tau Delta. Even better news: Stephanie Schiefelbein (president of Sigma Tau Delta) received one of four Student Leadership Awards. There were approximately 140 students nominated for that category, and it comes with a $250 award and a plaque. * * * January 2008 Alumni UpdatesIn response to a survey sent out in the fall 2007 issue of The Afterword, several UW-Eau Claire English alumni shared some of their memories and proudest achievements. Click here to view the full record of their responses. * * * What's Old? How about this photo of the UW-Eau Claire English Faculty : |
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