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News Archives Karen Burke LeFevre Presents in London - 09.07.2000 Karen Burke LeFevre, Associate Professor of Communication and Rhetoric and Director of the Writing Center, was a speaker at the Headache World 2000 conference in London on September 7. Her presentation was part of the panel "Media Medicine: Educating the 21st Century Headache Patient".
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Audrey Bennett Receives Award for Best Paper - 09.01.2000 Audrey Bennett, Assistant Professor of graphics in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication, recently received a Best Poster Paper Award for her paper "Transcending Space and Culture: Interactive Aesthetics That Facilitate Remote Participation in Graphic Design Processes." The award was given at the CoDesign 2000 conference in Coventry, UK.
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Emilie West Gould Publishes Article in SIGCHI - 08.31.2000 Emilie West Gould, LL&C Ph.D. student, is the coauthor of the feature article in the current Interactions, a publication of the Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), part of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). The article, "Crosscurrents: Cultural Dimensions and Global Web User-Interface Design," speculates on the usefulness of crosscultural communication theory for designing websites. Emilie and the article's co-author, Aaron Marcus, helped present a one-day workshop on the topic at the last March's SIGCHI conference in Amsterdam. A similar paper also went into the proceedings of the 6th Conference on Human Factors and the Web just held in Austin during August 2000.
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Roger Grice Recieves Order of Merit Award from Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity - 08.03.2000 Roger A. Grice, Clinical Assistant Professor of Technical Communication, was elected to Lambda Chi Alpha International Fraternity's prestigious Order of Merit at a formal banquet held in Atlanta, GA. The Order of Merit is the highest achievement the international fraternity offers for alumni volunteer service, and has been recieved by a select 270 alumni (out of a possible 230,000 in the US and Canada), since it's inception in 1935. Dr. Grice has served as a chapter advisor to Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at Rensselaer since 1995, but has been involved with the chapter at his alma mater, Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, since 1965. Additionally, he currently serves as chairman of the Leadership Committee to the Greek Relationship Statement Task Force, and is an honorary initiate of the Order of Omega Greek Honor Society. Lambda Chi Alpha International Fraternity is one of the largest men's general fraternities in North America. Founded in 1909 at Boston University, it has more than 230,000 initiated members and has held subsidiaries (called chapters) at more than 300 universities.
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Raymond Lutzky and Angela Eaton Win STC Scholarships - 08.01.2000 Raymond Lutzky, EMAC Junior, and Angela Eaton, LL&C Ph.D. Student, have both been awarded the Dr. Kenneth M. Gordon Memorial Scholarship, in a national competition sponsored by the Northern California Chapters of the Society for Technical Communication.
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Arabella Lyon Publishes Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored - 08.16.1999 LL&C alumnus Arabella Lyon, now of Temple University, published Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored, Penn State University Press, 1998.
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Ellen Cushman Receives Richard Braddock Award - 08.16.1999 LL&C alumnus Ellen Cushman received the 1997 Richard Braddock Award for the outstanding article in College Composition and Communication for her article "The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change." She also received the 1997 James A. Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation The Struggle and the Tools.
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Laura J. Gurak Publishes Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace - 08.16.1999 LL&C alumnus Laura J. Gurak, University of Minnesota, published Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace: The Online Protests over Lotus Marketplace and the Clipper Chip, Yale University Press, 1997. She also received the Distinguished Teaching Award, 1996-97, from Minnesota's College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Science.
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LL&C Receives ACM SIGDOC Diana Award - 08.16.1999 The Department of Language, Literature, and Communication at RPI was chosen as the 1999 recipient of the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Documentation (ACM SIGDOC) Diana Award. Each year the ACM SIGDOC presents a Diana award to honor organizations that support and promote quality computer documentation. Previous award-winners include Netscape, Xerox Corporation, Apple Computer, and the Communication Design Center of Carnegie Mellon University. The contributions that singled the department out for this award were numerous, but the SIGDOC Executive Board was most impressed by the research contributions of the faculty and students and the department's commitment to providing a unique, interdisciplinary environment for the study and practice of computer systems documentation.
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Stephen Doheny-Farina Publishes The Wired Neighborhood - 08.16.1999 LL&C alumnus Stephen Doheny-Farina, Clarkson University, published The Wired Neighborhood, Yale University Press, 1996.
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Timothy Stephen Receives ACA's Outstanding Service to the Public Award - 08.16.1999 LL&C faculty member Timothy Stephen was recently named the 1999 recipient of the American Communication Association's "Outstanding Service to the Public Award". Stephen has also received the "Prize for Excellence in Information Services" from the International Communication Association and awards for the top three divisional and top four divisional research papers from the International Communication Association.
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