Our WIC team members have had a good year at conferences:

In June 2023, Alex-Mahmou Werndli (former WIC graduate intern and assistant), Dr. Vicki Tolar Burton (former WIC Director), and Dr. Sarah Tinker Perrault presented as a panel at the International Writing Across the Curriculum conference in Clemson, South Carolina. The panel was on “Award-Winning Writers Look Back on WAC: Lessons for Our Current and Future Programs.”

In March 2024, several current and former members of the WIC team attended the Conference on College Composition and Communication. WIC graduate assistant Casey Dawson shared her work in progress at the Research Network Forum, where Dr. Sarah Tinker Perrault was a table leader. On the same panel, former WIC intern Yvette Rosales presented on ““A Disciplinary Approach to Rhetorical Genre Awareness in First-Year Composition” and Sarah presented on “A Critical Approach to Teaching Science Writing.” WIC graduate intern Georgia Grace Wright also attended their panel and many others. The conference also provided opportunities to connect with former WIC team members, including Olivia Rowland (a current PhD student at Ohio State University) and Michael J. Faris (Associate Professor at Texas Tech University).

Finally, in May 2024, WIC undergraduate assistant Elizabeth Nguyen was the lead organizer of a Philosophy conference here at OSU with the theme “The Big Ideas: What Shapes Our World, the Way We Think, and Our Lives.” Elizabeth was also recognized for this with the Tony Vogt Outstanding Service Award from SHPR.