Tiffany and Andrew Bourelle Publish New On-line Resource

Tiffany Bourelle and Andrew Bourelle have published a webtext article in the digital peer-reviewed journal Kairos: Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. The article addresses how to develop a successful multimodal curriculum in a fully online classroom, providing instructors with advice on creating instructional tools.
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/19.1/praxis/robertson-et-al/index.html

Karra Shimabukuro Publishes Advice on How to Thrive in Graduate School

PhD student Karra Shimabukuro has written a guest post for Grad Hacker, a resource for grad students. Karra’s post deals with how to “thrive” and not just survive in graduate school. It can be found here: http://www.gradhacker.org/2014/03/31/thrive-not-survive/

Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres Fellowship

The Center for Regional Studies and the English Department at the University of New Mexico announce the Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres Fellowship

The Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres Fellowship supports graduate research and scholarship in the English Department directly related to the late Dr. Hector Torres’ fields, as well as the mission of the Center for Regional Studies. These areas include Chicano/a literary and cultural studies; theory (i.e. Marxism; post-structuralism; deconstruction; psychoanalysis; and globalization); film studies; and scholarship related to the mission of the CRS (including history; archival research; literature; and other interdisciplinary fields related to New Mexico, the USMexico borderlands, and the greater southwest).

The award amount ranges from $10,000 to $15,000 a year, depending on availability. Renewal is not automatic. The Fellowship is housed in the English Department but sponsored by the Center for Regional Studies.

Qualified graduate student applicants must meet the above criteria; be graduate students in good standing (3.0 GPA or better); maintain full-time graduate student standing during the tenure of the award; and complete a CRS application, which includes a letter of intent; transcripts; resume; two letters of recommendation; and proof of enrollment. Preference will be given first to advanced doctoral students (post-exams); doctoral students in coursework; and advanced MA students. Highly qualified applicants to the English doctoral program in American Literary Studies will also be considered for the fellowship for recruitment purposes. Submit all inquires and all application materials (in hardcopy) to Dr. Jesse Alemán, Professor, Department of English.

Deadline: March 18

Jonathan Davis Secord has received funding for a Manuscripts lab

Professor Jonathan Davis Secord has received a Teaching Allocation Grant, for a “manuscripts lab,” consisting of a high-powered computer workstation, to facilitate undergraduate and graduate education in the Middle Ages.

Manuscripts are one of the best teaching tools available for medievalists, engaging students in unique ways by providing direct access to real historical materials. Guarded by European libraries, manuscripts are difficult to access physically, but many are now available digitally. The manuscripts lab will provide the computing power necessary to utilize the huge digital images these new resources produce. For years to come, the lab will bring the Middle Ages to life before our students’ eyes.

British Library Makes Historic Books Available Online

Around 250,000 texts dating from 1700 - 1870 will be available to read and copy free thanks to a deal between the British Library and the search engine Google.

Read the entire BBC News article here.

ePublishing for Academia: Adobe Online Event

On June 9th at 9:00 AM Adobe is presenting an online seminar titled, "Adobe ePublishing for Academia." From the seminar description:

"Join John Schuman, Adobe Higher Education expert, as he covers how Case Western Reserve and Indiana University use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for publishing scholarly information to the next generation of tablet devices."


You can register for this free seminar here.

Resources: Media-Entertainment-Jobs

The Communications Career site Media-Entertainment-Jobs has a list of employment opportunities for communication/media graduates.


Check out the website here.

Resources: Yale Digital Commons

Yale University has launched its art and artifact collection online, including over 33,000 prints, drawings and photographs, and 45 rare books and manuscripts.

Take a look at this excellent research resource here.

Database of Victorian Magazines

Victorian lit researchers, students and aficionados should take a look at this database of Victorian Magazines: The 1890's Online.

From their site description:

"The 1890s Online is an electronic resource dedicated to the study of fin-de-siècle literature and culture from the perspective of the period’s innovative magazines. We publish facsimile editions of selected periodicals, together with paratexts of production and reception. This material is enhanced by two kinds of peer-reviewed commentary: biographies of the periodicals’ contributors and associates and critical essays on the material by experts in the field. The 1890s Online is a digital initiative supported by the Ryerson University Library."

Resources on the site includes facsimiles of The Yellow Book, as well as reviews from the 1890's, scholarly commentary and a bibliography.

Teaching Resources: Citation Game

Looking for a way to teach (or learn) how to find good source material and properly construct a bibliography? Developers at the University of Michigan have created a research and citation game. Learn more here.

Link out: Favorite Books of 2010

Looking for a last-minute present (or, as we all do, shopping for yourself as well)? Here's a blog post on some excellent books from 2010 that you might not even have heard of. Blog.drawn.ca is a blog primarily for illustrators and graphic designers but even for our non-visual rhetoric people it's worth a look - full of inspiration and creativity.

Visual Rhetoric: Choosing Fonts

Smashing Magazine has a helpful guide to the sometimes intimidating process of choosing fonts. Read it here.

OGS Awards - scholarships and grants

I. New Awards from OGS

The Office of Graduate Studies is pleased to announce a new suite of awards designed to help graduate students complete their degree programs, and to reward faculty members who take special initiative to help their students succeed. For these new awards, departments are invited to submit a single nomination for each award; nominations from individuals will not be considered.

Detailed descriptions and nomination instructions for each award are posted: http://www.unm.edu/~grad/indices/index_funding.html

One award is for faculty:

Faculty Mentor Award
Purpose Recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated extraordinary accomplishment in mentoring graduate students
Amount $1,500
Number of awards 4
Nomination deadline March 15, 2010

Two awards are for program initiatives:
Accelerate Grant
Purpose Supports departments’ initiative in developing programs to help students complete their degrees
Amount $3,000
Number of awards 2
Nomination deadline April 1, 2010
Award period Academic year 2010-2011

Graduate Recruitment Grants
Purpose Supports programs’ efforts to attract and retain graduate students (this program began in 2008)
Amount up to $3,000
Number of awards 10
Nomination deadline March 15, 2010
Award period Academic year 2010-2011

Three awards are for graduate students:

Student Mentor Award
Purpose Recognizes graduate students who have demonstrated extraordinary accomplishment in mentoring fellow students
Amount $1,000
Number of awards 4
Nomination deadline March 15, 2010

Future Faculty Grant
Purpose Reimburses expenses associated with professional development activities beyond those required by the degree program
Amount $2,000
Number of awards 2
Nomination deadline April 1, 2010
Award period Academic year 2010-2011

Graduate Research Supplement
Purpose Reimburses expenses associated with final research or creative work required to complete the degree, other than travel
Amount $2,000
Number of awards 10
Nomination deadline April 1, 2010
Award period Academic year 2010-2011

II. Continuing Awards
All of the following awards provide financial assistance for graduate students. Information about each of the following awards is available on the OGS Web site:
http://www.unm.edu/~grad/indices/index_funding.html

Research Project and Travel (RPT) Grants
Over $50,000 in small grants of no more than $1000 is distributed each year to support graduate students’ research and professional development.

New Mexico Scholars (3%) Awards
Over $800,000 in tuition scholarships for New Mexico resident graduate students is distributed through the schools and colleges each year.

Higher Education Department (HED) Fellowships
Forty-four fellowships are funded by the NM Higher Education Department

Regents’ Fellowships
Approximately 20 fellowships of $2000 are distributed each year.

American Association of University Women Scholarship
This Scholarship is awarded to outstanding female graduate students from Santa Fe County.

Dean’s Dissertation Award
A stipend of $8000 is awarded to a student in the final stage of completing the terminal degree.

Dean’s Dissertation Finalist Awards
Up to ten awards of $1000 are made to students who are finalists for the Dean’s Dissertation Award.

Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Prize
This $1000 award recognizes an outstanding dissertation each year.

III. Continuing Awards, Initiated in 2009
The following awards were created in AY 2009-2010 and will continue:

Provost’s Assistantships
Over $600,000 in new $14,000 stipend-only assistantships have been awarded. These are multiple year awards that will be re-allocated by OGS as they become vacant.

President’s Assistantships
Seven new full tuition-and-stipend assistantships have been awarded. These are multiple year awards that will be re-allocated by OGS as they become vacant.

Assistantship Supplements
In order to attract outstanding new students, six $5000 assistantship stipend supplements have been awarded. These are multiple year awards that will be re-allocated by OGS as they become vacant.

IV. OGS Strategic Initiatives
OGS provides limited funding assistance to a variety of initiatives that help graduate students to obtain their degrees. These may change from year to year. A current sample includes:

•  Teaching Assistants’ Resource Center (TARC) and International Teaching Assistants’ Resource Center (ITARC)
• Project for New Mexico Graduates of Color (PNMGC)
• Graduate Resource Center at CAPS
• Supplementary support for graduate students in grant-funded programs
• “Yellow Ribbon” program for graduate student veterans

File Sharing

Working collaboratively with someone and need a file sharing solution? DropBox might work for you, and it's free (the academic's favorite price).

Check it out here.

Tutorials: InDesign and Text Wrap

Trying to get your text to behave itself in InDesign? Check out this tutorial from Layers Magazine and learn the basics of text formatting and text wrap.

Text Wrap and Text Formatting in InDesign

Resources: Typophile

Here's a great forum for people interested in font design, typography and visual rhetoric:

Typophile.com