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Royce Best, Ph.D., Awarded George E. Owen Teaching Award

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!

Former UWP instructor Alexandra Lossada recipient of Gender and Racial Justice Scholars Award

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...

Rebecca Wilbanks publishes article on gene editing bioethics

Rebecca Wilbanks

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...

Resources for Accessible Teaching

Royce Best

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...

Under Matthew Pavesich, Krieger offers expanded writing instruction

Matt Pavesich

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.

Aliza Watters helps push undergraduate education forward

Aliza Watters writing on a chalkboard

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.  

A fall semester like no other

How our faculty and students managed a virtual fall 2020 semester amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

First-Year Students Ask Deep Questions

In their first days at Johns Hopkins, students start to develop connections and the ideas that can lead to world-changing discussions.

University committee outlines new model for undergraduate education at JHU

Hopkins community invited to share feedback on CUE2 draft report online or in person