Miscellany

Poet MariJo Moore read from her work on Wednesday, November 7, as part of the Writers Reading Series of Eastern North Carolina.  Click on review.

Margaret Bauer was interviewed by WUNC radio for "The State of Things" on October 31, 2001.  She discussed the latest issue of NCLR that focuses on science fiction. NCLR's new website, designed by Sally Lawrence, is now up at http://www.ecu.edu/nclr.

The Creative Writing faculty raised $247.50 for Afghan children through U.N.I.C.E.F. by sponsoring a reading on November 6.  Click on review.

Tom Shields recently received a call from representatives of the "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" program wanting to know if a question they were preparing about the 1580s Roanoke Colonies was correctly worded.  "In case anyone wants to know," Shields said, "the question was, 'Who was the last governor of the Roanoke Colonies?' And the answer is John White, in case you find yourself in the hot seat about to win a million dollars."

Shields also serves as the principal investigator for one of Joyner Library's new online Eastern North Carolina digital history exhibits, "John Lawson: Imagining a Life."  The exhibit examines some of the ways that John Lawson -- an early eighteenth-century explorer, settler, scientist, and writer, as well as one of the founders of both Bath and New Bern, North Carolina -- has been portrayed by various people from his own contemporaries to twentieth-century local historians.  The exhibit went online on October 18, 2001.

The Rhetoric & Composition Faculty have begun a Brown Bag Series on Teaching and Research.  "Facilitating Discussion in the Classroom" featured presentations by Ellen Arnold, Cheryl Dudasik-Wiggs, and Gay Wilentz.  "Responding to Student Writing" featured Michael Aceto, Joanne Dunn, and Todd Finley.  Plans for future sessions include presentations about research-in-progress.  For more information, please contact Laura Micciche at miccichel@mail.ecu.edu or 328-6702.