This year, the MA in WRD and MA in NMS programs graduated a total of 31 students! Congratulations to our graduates and best wishes in your future endeavors.
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Category: Graduate
News & Updates
WRD students, alumni, and faculty share their recent professional and academic achievements. Students & Alumni Sarah Brown (MA in WRD 2010) presented “The Girl Scout Career Model: Open Badging and Representations of Learning” at CCCC in Indianapolis, Indiana in March. Eric Iberri (MA in WRD 2010) recently began working as a Proposal Editor for SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA. Stephanie Irvine (MA in WRD 2011) quit her full-time marketing job in February to pursue an independent writing career.
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Alumni and Faculty News
WRD alumni and faculty share their recent professional and academic achievements. Alumni Jessica Vician (MA in NMS 2013) and colleague Libby VanWhy (MS in HCI 2014) launched YOUparent.com, a parenting website that provides community support for child success, in December 2013. Laura Collins (MA in NMS 2013) designed the winning logo for the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation’s new project, Gen Ops Plus. The project expands grant-making opportunities for Chicago-region art groups. Ana Milena Ribero (MA in WRD 2009) received the Scholars for the Dream Award from the Conference for College Composition and Communication.
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WoRDing It Your Way with Joe Anderson & Mark Lazio
This quarter, we feature two students who recently graduated from the MA in WRD and the Teaching Apprenticeship Program (TAP). Joe Anderson and Mark Lazio both received MA in WRD 2013. Here, they share with us how the TAP program helped them achieve their academic and post-graduation goals.
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Intern Beat: Hilary Conlisk, MA in NMS
We spoke with Hilary Conlisk, MA in NMS 2014, about her recent experience as an intern at Neiger Design Inc. Conlisk interned for both work experience and course credit through WRD’s Professional Internship program. Take a look at why this internship was Hilary’s favorite to date!
Continue readingWoRDing It Your Way with Adrienne Vitt
Recent graduate Adrienne Vitt, MA in NMS 2013, shared with us how she customized the MA in NMS program with courses in nonprofit communications and strategic brand management to help her achieve her academic and post-graduation goals.
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Student, Alumni, and Faculty News
WRD students, alumni, and faculty share their recent professional and academic achievements. Students Katie Booth (MA in WRD) presented her paper “One Who, Two Who, Old Who, New Who: The Discourse of Identity in the Doctor Who Fan Community,” at the Midwest Popular Culture / American Culture Association Conference in St. Louis, MO, on October 12, 2013. Booth’s paper is an analysis of recorded interviews with fans of the cult television series, focusing on identity and authenticity as represented in language.
Continue readingWRD Staff and Faculty Pursuing New Opportunities
As we say goodbye to this year’s MA NMS and MA WRD graduates, we also have to say goodbye to faculty members Associate Professor Matthew Abraham, Assistant Professor Rene Agustín De los Santos, and Associate Professor Chris Tardy as they leave DePaul to pursue new teaching positions.
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Alumni Spotlight: Chad Seader
Recent graduate, Chad Seader, MAWRD 2013, shared with us how he customized the MAWRD program to help him achieve his academic goals and what he’ll be doing as a post-graduate. Q: What was your academic and professional background prior to entering WRD? Directly before entering MAWRD, I had completed my BA in Philosophy for Northeastern Illinois University, but in my last year at NEIU I decided to switch over to rhetoric and composition for my graduate education.
Continue readingCongrats to Our WRD Student Project Awards Winners!
Congratulations to the winners of the Third Annual WRD Student Project Awards Competition! This year’s winners were honored earlier this week at WRD Fest.
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