In Fall 2022, the UWP doubled in size, welcoming seven new faculty members. Nate Brown, Deirdre Vinyard, and Anthony Wexler joined the program as Senior Lecturers, and at the rank of Lecturer, the program welcomes Laura Hartmann-Villalta, Arthur Russell, Morris Speller and Lisa Wright. Check out their profiles on our website for information on their...
UWP will be co-hosting a book signing for author and mathematics professor, Manil Suri’s, new book, The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math. Students, faculty, and staff attendance are welcomed!
Join UWP’s Dr. Hartmann-Villalta on Zoom this Wednesday, August 3 @ 8 AM (U.S. EST)* for a discussion of “What the Humanities Bring To Medicine”. *time on event flyer is Thailand time. Event begins at 8 AM
University Writing Program Director Matthew Pavesich was featured in the Spring 2022 issue of Arts and Sciences Magazine. Read his interview about what the program does, why writing skills are important, his plans for the program and more.
The University Writing Program is happy to announce that Dr. Royce Best was awarded the George E. Owen Teaching Award for 2022 by JHU’s Student Government Association’s student council. The award is given out to recipients “for outstanding teaching and devotion to undergraduates.” Congratulations, Dr. Best!
On Thursday, March 31 at 3:30, please join former UWP instructor Alexandra Lossada, recipient of a Gender and Racial Justice research award, who will present her work as part of a panel on Gender, Race, Citizenship and Public Policy. Alexandra’s presentation is titled “The Interpreter of Crimmigration and Detention,” and she will be joined by...
New gene editing technologies have the potential to efficiently spread a mutation through wild populations of plants and animals. Who should decide whether and how such potentially irreversible changes are made? University Writing Program faculty Rebecca Wilbanks was part of an interdisciplinary team of scholars convened by bioethics think tank The Hastings Center to address this...
Dr. Royce Best spoke at UWP in fall 2021 about Accessible Teaching: Some Places to Start. This lecture and workshop introduced teachers to some core and guiding principles of accessible pedagogy. Drawing from the field of disability studies, we considered the extent to which our attitudes, policies, and practices are rooted in ableism. We considered...
The new Expository Writing Program director leads an effort to provide writing classes to each first-year student and to integrate writing into all Arts and Sciences majors.
EWP faculty Aliza Watters was featured in the Spring 2021 issue of Arts & Sciences Magazine for her work on the Second Commission on Undergraduate Education, which aims to reshape the Hopkins undergraduate experience.
