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ChatGPT Wrote This Title: Exploring the Impact of AI on Our Minds and Society

Wednesday, April 19th, 7 p.m.

Humanities Center event: Wonder Drug: Needle Exchange as a Site of Care, Connection, and Renewal

Join Comp PhD Candidate CE Mackenzie for a talk at the Pitt Humanities Center on Oct 6, 12:30-2pm ET! With responses from Julie Beaulieu (GSWS) and Shalini Puri (English). Full details here: 

https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/wonder_drug_needle_exchange_as_a_site_of_care_connection_and_renewal 

PPW and DNID Graduation Ceremony

Pitt's Public and Professional Writing (PPW) and Digital Narrative and Design (DNID) Programs held a joint graduation ceremony in the Cathedral of Learning. View the programs pre-recorded speeches on our 2022 DNID PPW GRADUATION CEREMONY VIDEO.

The Pedagogy Committee's Innovative Course Showcase

The Pedagogy Committee welcomes you to a Course Innovation Showcase on Monday, April 25 from 10:30am to 12 noon via Zoom. This showcase will feature brief presentations from faculty teaching innovative course designs (new courses or reinterpretations of longstanding courses). 

Digital Media and Design Showcase on Friday, April 8th

The Digital Media and Design Showcase is finally here! Stop by this Friday from 9:00am-1:00pm on the fifth floor of the Cathedral of Learning.

Sampsonia Way Magazine hosts "The Everyday Pandemic" reading series and discussion

Join the student writers from Sampsonia Way Magazine for

Dr. Benjamin Miller and team win Year of Data and Society Grant for work on "Redressing Whiteness in a Crowdsourced Space"

Dr. Benjamin Miller was the lead author on a grant from the Year of Data and Society entitled "Redressing Whiteness in a Crowdsourced Space: Networks of Support in Writing Studies." The funds will be used for a series of related initiatives: to bring Dr.

Koloc Award Winner Reading at the International Cafe on Friday, March 25, at 3:30

This year's first-year writing Koloc Awards yielded three first place winners and eight honorable mentions. Thank you to graduate student judges Oscar Enriquez, Apala Kundu, Annie Martin, and Briana Wipf for deliberating over the submissions!

Dr. Jen Keating awarded Year of Data Grant for her place-based digital storytelling program in the Hill District.

The Politics of Power and Place: Giving Voice Through Curated Digital Storytelling asks students to consider the influence of place on how an organization functions and how compelling storytelling can deepen the work of an organization in their community.

Dr. Ellen Smith wins the Tina & David Bellet Teaching Excellence Award

The Composition Department would like to congratulate Dr. Ellen Smith on winning the Tina & David Bellet Teaching Excellence Award. The Bellet is awarded to Pitt educators demonstrating the highest levels of commitment to teaching, educators who prove highly effective in helping students achieve meaningful goals.

DBLAC launches Spring 2022 Reading Series

2022 Reading Series

Dr. Stephen Quigley and his research collaborators receive Year of Data and Society Grant

Stephen Quigley and his co-collaborator, Cassie Quigley (Science Education), along with graduate students Holly Plank (Learning Sciences) and Hillary Henry (Learning Sciences), have been awarded a Year of Data and Society grant for their science communication project titled My Nature Outing. My Nature Outing provides middle and high school students an ingress into environmental education and computer science.

Dr. Khirsten Scott and PhD student Elise Silva Awarded Year of Data and Society Grant

Dr. Annette Vee hosts Automating Writing Speaker Series

New Faculty Book: Composition and Big Data

Comp Program faculty member Dr. Ben Miller is celebrating the launch of a collection, Composition and Big Data, coedited with Dr. Amanda Licastro. (A double celebration since it’s also a Pitt Press book, in the series edited by Jean Ferguson Carr and Dave Bartholomae!)