2013 Writing Contest Winners Announced | ||
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| The Humanities Department is pleased to announce the winners of the 48th Annual Writing Contest. A reception for all entrants, with awarding of prizes, will be held on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 12:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center. Congratulations to all of the winners! Read more here. |  | |
Davis Awarded Grant To Study Scientific Innovation Policy in the EU | ||
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 | Michael Davis, senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and professor of philosophy, has received a three–year grant from the European Commission Framework 7 to study scientific innovation policy in the European Union. Read more here. | |
Stolley's Open Access Academic Journal Push Referenced in Nature magazine | ||
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| Nature magazine cites the journal as allowing "scholars (to) build journal articles incrementally, with each version tracked and open online, available for collaboration and comment throughout." Karl Stolley, associate professor of technical communication, founded and launched Push in October 2012. Read more here. |  | |
Robinson Receives Digital Writing Scholarship | ||
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 | Joy Robinson (Ph.D., TECH) has been awarded the 2013 Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe Caring for the Future Scholarship, granted by the Computers & Writing Conference, a leading international digital writing conference. Read more here. | |
Digital Humanities Speaker Series: Embodied Learning | ||
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| In February, the humanities department hosted a talk by Leilah Lyons, assistant professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and director of digital learning for the New York Hall of Science, a hands–on science museum. Read more here. |  | |
Flanagan Explores Women and the City | ||
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 | Maureen A. Flanagan, chair of the Department of Humanities has written an essay, "The City, Still the Hope of Democracy? From Jane Addams and Mary Parker Follett to the Arab Spring," that has been published in the January 2013 issue of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Read more here. | |
News
Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick View and Discuss "The Untold History of the United States" at IIT
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Seminar Course on Science and Technology Studies Offered This Spring
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2012-2013 Humanities Department Speaker Series: Defining Boundaries and Goals in the Digital Humanities
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The Times Digital Archive now accessible through Galvin Library
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Metamorphoses: Staff and Faculty Changes
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Announcements
- Spring 2013 Graduate Course Flyer
- Writing Center
- Writing Center is now open on Fridays
- Research Course for PhD Students
- "Collaboration in Scientific Research: Ethical, Philosophical, and Other Perspectives on Scientific Practice"
- Academic Calendar
- University Calendar
- Upcoming events at IIT