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The Writer’s Progress 2023 Brings Miami Writers Together to Celebrate a Year of Writing Excellence
The HCWE strives to foster a community of writers and writing on Miami’s campus, and to celebrate that culture of writing, we host an annual gathering called “The Writer’s Progres...
CAS announces its 2023-24 Dean’s Scholars
29 rising seniors will receive stipends to support their research projects
Congratulations to the Spring 2023 Faculty Writing Fellows Cohort
The Howe Center for Writing Excellence and Howe Writing Across the Curriculum (HWAC) program are thrilled to welcome 10 new Miami faculty members as Faculty Writing Fellows Program alumni.
HCWE Co-Sponsors Artificial Intelligence Conference for Ohio Educators
New forms of artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, have caused quite the stir in education circles in recent months. The advances in large language models have led many educators at all le...
Writers Share Goals and Reflections from HWC Junior Faculty Writing Hours
The Howe Writing Center’s Junior Faculty Writing Hours Challenge provides time, space, support, and structure for junior faculty members to pursue their writing goals. Part of this program in...
Graduate Student Spotlight: Surya Prakash Pandeya
Surya Prakash Pandeya is a Mechanical Engineering graduate student from Nepal who came to the United States in January 2021 to study at Miami University.
Students collaborate with Enjoy Oxford to create a website redesign, a niche brochure, and social media content.
HWAC Graduate Assistant Director Receives CCCC Emergent Researcher Award
We at the Howe Center for Writing Excellence are proud to announce that our very own Will Chesher, graduate assistant director with Howe Writing Across the Curriculum, is a recipient of the 2022-20...
Assistant professor Xinyi Xiao leads research on self-morphing 4D printing technology
Assistant professor Xinyi Xiao researches advanced thermo-responsive and self-morphing 4D printing technology alongside masters student Surya Prakash Pandeya at Miami University’s College of ...
Myaamia Center, IT Services win 2023 CIO 100 Award
The collaborative work will bring the knowledge and tools necessary for successful language revitalization to more Native peoples in the U.S. and beyond
HCWE Announces 2023 Howe Award Recipients
Each spring semester, the Howe Center for Writing Excellence presents the Roger and Joyce Howe Award for Excellence in Disciplinary Writing Instruction. This award recognizes individual faculty mem...
EHS faculty honored for social work and school psychology research
Understanding ways to break down barriers and make transformative changes
National Reading Month: Expand Your Ideas About Reading and Writing
March is National Reading Month, a celebration that encourages reading for all ages and promotes reading as a key feature for learning, social, and professional development.
Every unit of energy that we as a community can conserve through personal conservation measures furthers the impact of the energy systems transformation projects which have been implemented and are...
Faculty Research Profile: Sina Esteky
Concentrating on branding and marketing in different cultural contexts, Sina Esteky conducts research that spans multiple continents.
Excerpts from the Asynchronous Graduate Writing Hours Progress Log
One of the major components of this spring’s Howe Writing with Community Support program is The Progress Log, an asynchronous opportunity for writers to share their progress and build a suppo...
Middletown STEM lecture focuses on laser-driven shock waves
Research applications include engineering, health care, materials development, and safety devices
Elea Cooper ‘24 is working to analyze the severity of impact and what this could mean for Oxford in the future.
Caroline Bartoszek ‘23 works with Dr. Jennifer Quinn to explore conditioned inhibition in female rodents and its implications for PTSD research.
HWC Graduate Assistant Director Emma Boddy Participates in 2023 Three Minute Thesis Competition
If you had to explain your thesis in three minutes or less, could you do it? The Dr. Gerald H. Sanders Three Minute Thesis Competition, hosted by the Miami University Graduate School, asks graduate...
Miami’s 2023 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition winners
Ten finalists competed in the Graduate School’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition
Senior Anthropology major explores communication patterns of primates in the Ecuadorian jungle
Nico Jaworski ‘23 spent the summer analyzing the calls of woolly monkeys in Ecuador to better understand travel patterns and group decision making among the primate family.
Howe Center for Writing Excellence News Roundup for February and March 2023
February may just be the busiest month yet for the Howe Writing Center. Not only have Graduate Writing Hours begun, guided by new programming introduced to further develop the community and collabo...
Zoology student examines how cyanobacteria may be the key to curbing climate change
Luke Croner ‘23 discusses the potentialities of using energy transference in cyanobacteria to combat climate change.
Hannah Seinfeld ‘23 works to implement DEI initiatives within children’s educational apps for teachers and speech pathologists.
Diplomacy Lab projects offer Miami students the chance to help shape international policy
Real world research opportunities realized through U.S. State Department
Bunsi Chapadia’s Undergraduate Summer Scholars (USS) project gave her a new perspective on providing medical care to underserved populations.
Madeline McKinney, a graduate student in Miami University’s College of Engineering and Computing, recently won second place in AIChE’s annual Three Minute Thesis competition out of 11 f...
RedHawk Launch Accelerator announces eighth cohort of startups
Six companies will be part of the latest group of startups in the RedHawk Launch Accelerator.
Farmer School professor named University Faculty Scholar
A professor of information systems and analytics has been named a University Faculty Scholar at Miami
Assistant professor Jeff Kruth publishes new research book
The book explores his and other authors’ case studies on industrialization across various countries, and examines the relationship between our contemporary cultures and cities and our histories.
Peer review, also known as peer response or peer assessment, plays an important role in supporting student writers as they navigate the challenges of the writing process. In Spring 2023, the Howe C...
The Howe Center for Writing Excellence would like to remind the Miami University community that nominations for the Roger & Joyce Howe Award for Excellence in Disciplinary Writing Instruction a...
Congratulations to the Fall 2022 Faculty Writing Fellows Cohort
The Howe Center for Writing Excellence and Howe Writing Across the Curriculum (HWAC) program is thrilled to welcome 11 new Miami faculty members as Faculty Writing Fellows Program alumni.
Psychology senior explores the efficacy of psilocybin for depression treatment
Jon Sciortino ‘23 works in Dr. Matthew McMurray’s lab to find a similar non-hallucinogenic compound that can alleviate symptoms faster and with less side effects.
Associate Professor of Art History Pepper Stetler wins grant from Andy Warhol Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation’s goal is to support a wide range of artistic expression in America and does so by providing grants for writers’ work.
Farmer School names inaugural group of Research Fellows
Six FSB faculty are being recognized for their top-tier research
Art Education students present at statewide OAEA conference
OAEA is the leading professional membership organization exclusively for visual arts educators in Ohio.
FSB entrepreneurship department honored with Miami University President's Medal
For the first time, an entire department at Miami University received the President's Medal.
Assistant Professor of Architecture Elizabeth Keslacy wins “Best Paper” by ACSA
Keslacy was awarded Best Paper for her work titled, “Re-reading the Pedestrian Mall: Race and Urban Landscape in the Memphis Mid-America Mall.”
Gretchen Allman ‘23 joined the Undergraduate Summer Scholars program to pursue a topic centered in a region of heightened political conflict.
Alexander, in collaboration with her colleague Cala Coats (Arizona State University), published volume 39 of the journal November 15, 2022. The edition’s theme is “Rethinking Ritual Eco...
There is an urgent need for Theatres for Young Audiences to produce plays that share the stories and experiences of people of color and to ensure works by playwrights of color are produced regularl...
Miami University’s Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (MURPL) was recently selected as the 56th team to compete at the 2023 Spaceport America Cup this summer.
Miami University senior Jasmine Tran recently attended the Future Leaders in Chemical Science award symposium and presented her research on predicting physical properties.
The Howe Center emphasizes that writing is collaborative, and as such, so is the scholarship surrounding it. From October 27 through October 29, 2022, three graduate students at Miami University...
Health Careers Week prepares students for the future of medicine and healthcare
During the week of Oct. 17, Miami students had the opportunity to acquire real-life experience in healthcare careers through the Mallory-Wilson Center for Healthcare Education.
Faculty Research Profile: Saruna Ghimire
Focusing on the study of healthy aging among diverse communities, Saruna Ghimire collaborates with researchers in Nepal, Australia and Bangladesh.
Student Spotlight: Lielyn Mercer
Lielyn Mercer is a sophomore Chemical Engineering student at Miami University who recently added the new Humanitarian Engineering minor.
Undergraduate takes on Antarctica to research microbials in frozen lakes
Eckhardt Karsten ‘24 traveled to Antarctica this semester to study climate change’s impact on salinity and microbial communities.
Miami junior investigates economic truths behind popular consumer platforms
Mary Le ‘24 helped develop and refine a model to understand economic effects of popular consumer platforms including Airbnb, Amazon, and Uber.
Miami faculty have long been recognized as innovative teachers and teacher/scholars. Those characteristics are on full display to a national audience in a new book available now for pre-order, Chan...
Graduate Student Spotlight: Allie Filiatraut
Graduate student Allie Filiatraut has recently been hired as a Research and Development Engineer for Georgia-Pacific. She will be working with Dixie Products Group to design future retail in August...
Miami senior explores depictions of women in contemporary literature to highlight societal issues
English major Caroline Funk’s original short story collection was influenced by gender-based literary analysis
Miami students take part in Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
Twelve Miami students recently traveled to Orlando, FL to attend Grace Hopper Celebration, a three-day conference where they were able to gather with other women in computing and participate in a v...
HCWE Staff Welcome Local and National Advisory Boards to the Howe Center for Writing Excellence
King Library was abuzz with excitement in the week leading up to the Howe Center for Writing Excellence’s National Advisory Board meeting--the first in-person event since 2019. Donors Roger a...
The research team's retinal organoid model is highly reproducible, making it useful for high-throughput drug screening, according to the National Eye Institute's 3D ROC judges
Research opportunities at the heart of upcoming webinar
Erwin Gianchandani of the National Science Foundation to speak on mission of new TIP directorate
The Roger & Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence has earned three national awards in 2022 for outstanding writing scholarship and program development.
Miami University to develop and offer courses to train technicians and engineers for Intel's workforce.
Miami University Symphony Orchestra film selected for the International Diversity Film Festival
“The Curious Happenings of Chokfi and Kokopelli” features a composition by Native American composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate
Miami alumni’s creation rocketing from outerwear to outer space
A special insulation created by a pair of Miami graduates is heading to space.
External funding at Miami University sets new record in fiscal year 2022
The $35.2 million received for FY2022 is more than 34% over FY 2021 — which was also a record year for funding, Miami’s Office of Research and Innovation reports
Recent Miami University graduate Lexie Adams receives American Institute of Chemical Engineers award
Lexie Adams, a May 2021 Miami University graduate, has recently received the 2022 AIChE Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development, and Manufacturing Forum Student Award for her research during her time...
Early College Academy addresses equity gap in higher education
The Early College Academy gives high school students the chance to earn a two-year degree at no extra cost while they complete their high school credits.
Myaamia Center receives $472,397 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant
The funding will develop an assessment and evaluation protocol regarding health and wellness within the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma
Philippe Giabbanelli’s study focused on the popular issue of bots on Twitter and whether or not their presence had any effect on recent political events
Authors, Accolades and Achievements
Their study finds that college-imposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates for students reduced total U.S. COVID-19 deaths in fall 2021 by approximately 5%
Entrepreneurship program earns Top 25 ranking for research
The Department of Entrepreneurship has been ranked in the Top 25 for research for the first time.
CEC student Yiwen Shi is currently working on summer research which focuses on developing a novel approach for the prediction of ventricular tachycardia circuits by using personalized computational...
