We're proud to announce the winners of this year's creative writing awards!

• Garth Avant Award: Damian Dressick
• Ben Mounger Rawls Award: Courtney Watson
• Joan Johnson Award, Fiction: Claudia Smith
• Joan Johnson Award, Poetry: Greg Weiss

Congratulations to the following Alpha Nu Gamma members of Sigma Tau Delta who will be presenting papers at the Sigma Tau Delta International Convention and Conference in New Orleans on March 1:  Hannah Ryan, Dana Woodcock, and Blakely Owens.

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The 10th edition of Dr. Philip Kolin's popular textbook Successful Writing at Work has been published by Cengage.  Read more  in the Hattiesburg American.

• Monday, January 30  Last day to drop classes without financial penalty
• Tuesday, February 14  First meeting of the Big Book Read, 5:00 p.m. in LAB 346.  Bring your copy of Don Quixote and come prepared to discuss chapters 1-28.
• Monday - Tuesday, February 20-21  Mardi Gras
  
• Wednesday, February 29  Last day to drop classes on SOAR
• Monday - Friday, March 12-16  Spring Break
• Friday, March 23  Midterm grades due by 5:00 p.m.
• Friday, April 6  Good Friday

The Big Book Read will meet Tuesday, March 6th at 5:00 in LAB 364.

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Mother/Nature Interdisciplinary Conference

March 16-17, 2012

Thad Cochran Center
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. BARBARA GATES