News Archive

AE Brodsky presents at Cosmic Visions Workshop – April 28, 2023 

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Anne-Elizabeth Brodsky discusses “Tiny Texts, Big Thinking, and the First-Year Classroom” as part of the Cosmic Visions Workshop 2: Exoplanets and Life at the Space Telescope Science Institute. 

UWP Faculty Presentations at DELTA Teaching Forum – May 1, 2023

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The DELTA Teaching Forum is a day of presentations, demonstrations, and networking opportunities devoted to the exploration of teaching innovation at Johns Hopkins University including the work of DELTA grant recipients. The symposium is intended to provoke conversation, spark new thinking, and advance the ongoing pursuit of teaching excellence. The keynote speakers are MacArthur Fellow Safiya Noble...

The Writing Center Presents a Reading Week Study Event

Join your friends at the Writing Center for The Long Night Against Procrastination! Get some serious studying done in a collaborative, supportive environment. Sign up to attend! Event limited to 25 students.

AI + Writing

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ChatGPT and other AI writing platforms are here, and higher education, like all sectors, must grapple with what these tools mean for how we do our work. The University Writing Program and the Writing Center are staying abreast of this conversation and sharing it with faculty and students across a number of contexts. We envision...

Birthing Justice Screening

Birthing Justice

We invite you to a screening and panel discussion of the documentary, Birthing Justice, on April 11, 2023, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. EDT in Mudd Hall at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus. The event will be followed by a reception in the Mudd Hall Atrium on the Homewood Campus. You may register for the event on Eventbrite.  ...

Responding to Student Writing: April Workshops

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UWP invites faculty and TAs at Homewood and Peabody to talk through the challenges of commenting on and grading student writing. We encourage you to bring what you’re working on in class right now–assignments you’re giving, student work you’ve received, and so on. Of course, please also bring your questions and concerns, big and small....

UWP Director Pavesich, Panelist for ChatGPT Town Hall

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Krieger School Faculty and Staff are invited to attend a Town Hall conversation about the possible implications of ChatGPT and other AI technologies.

ChatGPT and Pizza — Feb. 23 11:30a.m.

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ChatGPT and College Students:  What does this mean for you? (and why are your professors so freaked out?) Join your peers for pizza! and a discussion of what ChatGPT means for higher education and you.   When:  Thursday, February 23 11:30a.m. – 1p.m. Where:  Writing Center, Gilman 230 ChatGPT has been all over the news of late.  Is...

UWP Lecturer Interviews Authors Bourland & Rukeyser

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Senior Lecturer Nate Brown recently interviewed two novelists about their work. Writing for the Los Angeles Review of Books, his conversation with Baltimore-based novelist Barbara Bourland investigates the complexities of western princess narratives and the fundamental problems of life under capitalism, topics central to the author’s latest work, The Force of Such Beauty. In the...

Dr. Lisa E. Wright Reflects on “Radical Writing Center Praxis” by Laura Greenfield (2019)

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Lecturer Lisa E. Wright along with Oklahoma State University Writing Center Director Anna Sicari reviewed Laura Greenfield’s text Radical Writing Center Praxis: A Paradigm for Ethical Political Engagement. Together they converse about  Greenfield’s theories and models that call writing center tutors and directors to be committed to social justice and antiracist work. After implementing some...