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Alumni Spotlight: Check out Annotations!
Check out the latest issue of Annotations, our alumni newsletter! Find out about recent books by alumni authors and meet our newest faculty members. Learn about the extraordinary life of Mildred Fish Harnack, '25, the only American woman executed by the Nazis. And join us in celebrating Sally Mead Hands, who bequeathed a significant estate gift to the English Department, and David Zimmerman, who won the UW-Systems's top teaching honor. There's much more, too!
David Clewell (BA '77): Poet Laureate
In March 2010, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon appointed UW English alum David Clewell to be the state's new Poet Laureate.
Odyssey Project: Hope, Transformation
Emily Auerbach, professor of English, directs the Odyssey Project, a six-credit class in the humanities, designed to give adults who are facing economic barriers to education a chance to enroll as Unversity Special Students and start college.
The Gulf Crisis is Not Over
Professor Anne McClintock journeys to the Gulf Coast to see whether reports are true that the ecosystem is recovering better than expected from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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