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Congratulations to Ching-In Chen, who received two awards this week: the 2014-15 UWM Asian Faculty and Staff Association Award, and a Writer Full Stipend Award from Can Serrat Art Residency in Spain!

Assistant Professor Scott Graham is the recipient of this year's UWM Research Foundation Award. Along with other award winners, he is honored at the Fall Awards Ceremony, on Wednesday, October 22, at 2 p.m. in the Union's Wisconsin Room. Congratulations!

Our own Rebecca Dunham's fourth collection of poems, which was funded by C21 and an RGI grant, was accepted for publication by Milkweed Editions. It's called Cold Pastoral and is forthcoming in 2016.

Professor Hassan's talk, “Prometheus Reclaimed: The Humanities in the Age of Marketing and Technology,” is a wide-ranging and provocative exploration of the challenges to higher education generally, and to the humanities particularly, in the age of marketing, digital media, and shifting values. Which way is forward? Ihab Hassan is Emeritus Vilas Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UWM, the recipient of many Guggenheim, Fulbright, and teaching awards, the author of fifteen books of cultural criticism and memoirs, and of some twenty-five stories published in literary journals. The event will take place on Thursday, September 18, at 4:30 p.m., in the UWM Zelazo Center.

Letters & Science In-Focus publication of August 2014 features our very own Scott Graham about his studies that suggest that the FDA's policies could be dangerous for nations's drug supply. For full story, check out: http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/publications/upload/2014-August-InFocus.pdf

Bill Keith received a S.T.A.R. award as a Stellar Student Affairs Partner. "Staff That Are Remarkable" awards are given by the division of Student Affairs, and Bill is being commended for many years of service as a faculty partner with different areas of Student Affairs, especially the Student Success Center. Congrats, Bill!

Ching-In Chen will be joining The Conversant as a Senior Editor this summer. The Conversant is a monthly journal featuring serial interview projects, talk poetries, and interviews between poets and other language-based artists. They are also open to queries for provocative interviews on writers and artists. For more, viist: http://theconversant.org/ Congratulations, Ching-In!