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Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize, Dave Barry, who once annoyed North Dakota, visited Elon for Fall Convocation and the 2011 Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture.

An excerpt from Associate Professor Barbara Gordon's co-authored book, Breast Cancer Recurrence and Advanced Disease: Comprehensive Expert Guidance appears in the September/October issue of Coping with Cancer, a magazine that reaches more than 500,000 readers.

At the invitation of the Korea Herald, South Korea's largest English-speaking newspaper, Associate Progessor Crystal S. Anderson in the Department of English wrote an editorial on the spread of Hallyu (Korean Wave, a transnational cultural movement involving music, film and television) in the United States.

Banned Books Reading is Tuesday, Oct. 4, from 7-9 p.m. in Alamance 305.

Michelle Trim, a lecturer in the Department of English, gave the presentation, "Resisting Automatic Adoption and Uncritical Use of Technology in Student Research," at this past weekend's Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy in Savannah, Ga.

Tim Peeples, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of English, and Paula Rosinski, Writing Center Director and Associate Professor of English, were honored Sept. 19 for their roles in founding the Carolinas Writing Program Administrators professional organization.

Paul Crenshaw, assistant professor of English, has received an arts fellowship grant in fiction writing from the North Carolina Arts Council.

Janet Myers, associate professor of English and director of national and international fellowships, attended the biannual meeting of the National Association of Fellowship Advisors in Chicago July 13-16.