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Fourth Annual Student Project Award Winners

2014 Award Winners UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS Best Undergraduate Essay Allison Guntz Best Project in Professional and Technical Writing Allison Guntz MA IN WRD AWARDS Best Project in Professional and Technical Writing Jeffrey Melichar, Arielle Lockett, Brendan Bergen, & Matt D’Agostino Best Project in Teaching Writing and Language Bridget Wagner Best Project in Rhetoric and Discourse Molly Rentscher MA IN NMS AWARDS Best Interactive Media Design Hilary Conlisk Best New Media Content Jill Ochawa GRADUATE TESOL AWARD Best Project in TESOL Lauren Martyn Visit our Facebook page for more photos from the WRD Awards Party, held Friday, June 6, 2014, at Cortelyou

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Spread the WoRD 2014: Conference Recap

Spread the WoRD, the sixth annual student conference, was a huge success thanks to the participation of MA in WRD and MA in NMS graduate students, WRD undergraduate students, friends, family, and WRD faculty. The conference was held in Courtelyou Commons on May 17, and approximately 100 individuals attended throughout the day. Attendees enjoyed a light breakfast and lunch and participated in a Jeopardy-style trivia game on the topics of rhetoric and new media.

June 3, 2014 depaulwrd

WoRDing It Your Way with Kimberly Coon

This month, we interviewed Kimberly Coon, a 2012 grad of the MA in WRD program. Kim used her experiences in WRD to land an exciting job in the non-profit sector. What was your academic and professional background prior to entering WRD? What I focused on once I was in the WRD program was a really natural extension of what I’d spent the five or so years prior to WRD doing, which was finding ways to tell the stories non-profits are creating through their cause-based work.

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Congratulations to our 2013-2014 Graduates!

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.

June 1, 2014 depaulwrd

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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WRD/NMS Career Talk – June 3

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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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Content Strategy for a Cause

In AQ 2013, students in NMS 509/WRD 530: Multimedia Content Strategy partnered with three nonprofit organizations to explore how organizations can strategically collect and use photographs and video. The course offered students the chance to apply practical and critical readings on content strategy to the real-world cases of their partner organizations. The idea for this course came from Assistant Professor and Director of MA in WRD Lisa Dush’s interest in new media storytelling in organizations.

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WRD Offers China Teaching Program

Our latest newsletter profiled Professor Jason Schneider’s summer travels to Huaqiao University. This teaching opportunity is a product of the connections that Schneider and WRD Chair Peter Vandenberg forged during those visits. For TESOL grads interested in teaching abroad, the connection between DePaul and Huaqiao makes the process much more accessible. Schneider stated that DePaul is “offering an opportunity to go abroad in which much of the leg work and administrative work has already been completed.”