Awards – English /english/category/news/awards/ UW-Milwaukee Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:02:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 PhD student David Kocik 2024 Research Fellow at Strong National Museum of Play /english/phd-student-david-kocik-2024-research-fellow-at-strong-national-museum-of-play/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:22:18 +0000 /english/?p=13868 Media, cinema, and digital studies PhD student David Kocik was a 2024 Research Fellow at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. His research is highlighted on the Museum’s website. 

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]]> Media, cinema, and digital studies PhD student David Kocik was a 2024 Research Fellow at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. 

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]]> PhD student Jessica Hoover recipient of James and Sylvia Thayer Research Fellowship /english/phd-student-jessica-hoover-recipient-of-james-and-sylvia-thayer-research-fellowship/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:18:32 +0000 /english/?p=13866 Media, cinema, and digital studies PhD student Jessica Hoover is the recipient of a James and Sylvia Thayer Research Fellowship from the UCLA Library Special Collections. Jess talks about her research into women TV comedy-variety performers like Carol Burnett and shares …

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]]> Media, cinema, and digital studies PhD student Jessica Hoover is the recipient of a James and Sylvia Thayer Research Fellowship from the UCLA Library Special Collections. Jess talks about her research into women TV comedy-variety performers like Carol Burnett and .

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]]> Dr. Ching-In Chen Wins Fellowship from Academy of America Poets /english/dr-ching-in-chen-wins-fellowship-from-academy-of-america-poets/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:58:17 +0000 /english/?p=13859 Creative Writing program alum Dr. Ching-In Chen (PhD, 2015) recently won a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. The award is part of a program that, in the words of the Academy, honors “laureates’ literary excellence while enabling them …

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]]> Creative Writing program alum Dr. Ching-In Chen (PhD, 2015) recently won a $50,000 fellowship from the . The award is part of a program that, in the words of the Academy, honors “laureates’ literary excellence while enabling them to undertake meaningful and innovative projects that enrich the lives of community members, including youth, through responsive and interactive poetry activities.” Dr. Chen was named poet laureate of Redmond, Washington in 2024 and teaches at the University of Washington-Bothell. Supported by the fellowship, Dr. Chen plans to “work with organizations that are part of the local food ecosystem to sponsor a community youth poetry gathering, with a focus on transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-expansive poets. Dr. Chen will also solicit work from global poets through other UNESCO Cities of Literature and Gastronomy to share at these gatherings, and will print and distribute poetry postcards featuring these poems alongside the poems by local poets.

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