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Department News and Awards
Barb Gomperts, English Department Office Manager, won the College of Humanities and Social Sciences' Mary Roper Award for outstanding service. Barb shares this award with Jen Barnard of the Modern and Classical Languages Department. Congratulations Barb!
Faculty News and Awards
Eric G. Anderson has been awarded a $15,000 fellowship by The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities to complete his book On Native Southern Ground. He will be in residency in Charlottesville during Fall semester 2009. More faculty awards...
Student News and Awards
Shannon Pennell, English '11, wins a CHSS Dean's Challenge Award. Shannon volunteers each week as a peer mentor assisting Mason students with learning disabilities and disorders in successfully completing their pursuit of a degree. Also during her time at Mason, Shannon has written for the campus literary magazine Vox Pop, been a part of the Program Board Film Committee, and completed the Honors Program in the English major as a junior (a program normally only pursued by seniors). Off-campus, she recently went door-to-door working for the Public Interest Research Group trying to foster grassroots support for legislation requiring greater use of alternative fuels.
Pannell is also the winner of the English Department's James L. Jackson Prize. Read the complete list of 2008-2009 English Department award winners.
more student awards...