Casa Abierta
On March 14, 2008, the institution opened its doors to 9th, 10th, and 11th graders of Puerto Rico’s private and public schools. Over 2000 students from around the island were welcomed into Coliseo Mangual to learn about the diversity of our faculties and departments.
Representation from the Department of English was immense and faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduate students collaborated in making this all-day event an overwhelming success!
Amongst the English faculty members were Roberto López, Iris Toro, Myrna Rivera, Carmen Maldonado, Betsy Morales, Stephanie Cardona, Raymond Knight, Waleska Morciglio, Gayle Griggs, Rosita Rivera, Sandra Ríos, Mary Leonard, Jocelyn Géliga, and Aixa Rodríguez.
Way to go, Department of English!
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This past Thursday, March 27, 2008, exemplary students from Arts & Sciences received special recognition for their academic excellence.
Please help us to congratulate the following students from the Department of English who, through their hard work, are on the Honor Roll!
Isabel Abón, Emily Aguiló, Adriana Caraballo, Christopher Hernández, Marshley Márquez, Angel Matos, Leslie Mendoza, Juan Ñeco, Yolanda Padilla, Ileana Pagán, Lorianne Ramírez, Gabriel Romaguera, Katherine Rosa, Astrid Sambolín, Julio Vega, and Roxana Velázquez.
Filed under Announcements, Chronicles, Events, News, Students, Undergraduate Students | Comment (0)Congratulations to María Quintero!
Maria Quintero, T.A. for the English department, has had an article entitled “Life at the University of Puerto Rico’s Arts and Sciences English Writing Center,” accepted for publication in The Writing Lab Journal, an affiliate of NCTE from Purdue University.
Her research, an ethnographic study of the peer tutors in the writing center, explores the unique ESL scenario in the only Writing Center in Puerto Rico, an island that due to its historical context, does not fall into any typical category in the tutoring of English writing.
Filed under Announcements, Chronicles, Graduate Students, Students, Undergraduate Students | Comment (0)ETC Printer Update and Policies
The ETC printer has been installed in the English Department and is available in a limited manner, for the time being.
This means that while it is currently not available through the network, you can bring the file in a Flash drive or memory stick to Nannette or other work-study or ETC staff in the English Department and they can print it out for you. It will be available during the hours the English Department is open, and while the workstation is staffed. Daly doesn’t have access to the printer at this time.
Given the heavy usage this limited resource received during its time in the ETC, the use of the printer will be limited to 100 pages per Faculty member and 50 per Teaching Assistant, until the end of the semester. We are no longer be able to print student papers.
I will keep you all posted with developments on the printer situation. Thank you for your patience and cooperation.
Leo Flores
ETC Coordinator
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CINE Film Clips
Dr. Mary E. Sefranek’s January/February Chronicles
At the start of the new year (January 11, 2008), I was pleased to welcome to our campus the teachers, parents, and 6th grade students participating in my Arts and Sciences seed grant funded research “Portraits of San Sebastián: The Production of Digital Bilingual Narratives in La Escuela Nueva Elemental Urbana for a digital photography workshop with the Oficina de Prensa. This activity was reported on our institution’s homepage and is archived at http://www.uprm.edu/news/articles/as2008010.html
Filed under Chronicles | Comment (0)Doctoral & Postdoctoral Scholarships provided by UPR
Scholarships This link explains the Presidential Scholarships offered by the UPR system for doctoral & postdoctoral studies.
Filed under Announcements, Graduate Students, Students, Undergraduate Students | Comment (0)MAEE Thesis Writers’ Workshop
MAEE Thesis Writers’ Workshop
Tuesdays, 4-6 p.m., in the Writing Center SH-109
MAEE students can…
1. diagnose their own editing needs
2. learn theory and practice of proof reading
3. de-mystify the APA manual
4. form support groups with other MAEE students
ETC Printer is Offline
The ETC Printer is currently offline. We will be installing a new print server in the English Department this week and it will be available after Spring break. Please make alternate plans for printing this week.
Stay posted for new printing instructions in the ETC and English Department blogs.
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