This week, e-Inside presents more of ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ employees’ favorite summer vacation photos. Watch out for more photos in the next issue. See photos from last week’s issue Josiah Murphy, secretary in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, relaxes in the garden during a visit to a friend’s home in Minnesota. Josiah Murphy shared this photo of homemade ice cream with handpicked fruit that she enjoyed during her vacation. Alana Thompson, financial aid counselor, together with her husband David Thompson, a current Ph.D. student at Kent State,...
While hundreds of applicants hoped to be selected to participate in the Sirenland Writers Conference, only a handful of them were chosen to attend the week-long event in Positano, Italy. James Winter, an English lecturer on the ÇàÄêɬµ¼º½ Salem Campus, was one of 10 applicants selected for the fiction writing workshop last spring. To apply for the conference, Winter had to submit qualifying fiction writing. The conference limited its selection to 10 writers for each of three workshops in mixed-genre, fiction and memoir writing. “In submitting work to my peers, I was doing ex...