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U.S. Department of State awards $35,000 grant to Benner, Phillips
8/4/20
The U.S. Department of State has awarded a $35,000 grant aimed at increasing education abroad opportunities for minority students to William Benner, PhD, an assistant professor of Spanish, and Annie Phillips, PhD, executive director for International Affairs.
ESFL's Phyllis Bridges discusses TWU's new pandemic collection with KRLD radio
7/31/20
To help chronicle the impact of COVID-19 and add rich context to its ongoing challenges, Texas Woman’s University is embarking on a project to collect writings in multiple forms. It's a new collection called Voices of the Coronavirus Pandemic: The Chancellor Carine M. Feyten Collection. KRLD's John Liddle talked with Phyllis Bridges, Cornaro Professor of English at TWU about the project.
Phyllis Bridges, PhD, appointed to board of Texas Folklore Society
4/22/20
Phyllis Bridges, Ph.D., Cornaro Professor of English, has been unanimously elected to a three-year term on the Board of the Texas Folklore Society and has been appointed to the search committee for the secretary-editor of the society. The Texas Folklore Society is in the process of moving from Stephen F. Austin State University to Tarleton State. Bridges has served as President of the Texas Folklore Society and has published numerous articles in their publications and proceedings.
Em Ramser receives TWU Alumni Association's Outstanding Student Award
3/24/20
The Awards and Honors Committee of the TWU Alumni Association has selected Em Ramser to receive the 2020 Outstanding Student Award.
TWU receives top national ranking for best bachelor's degrees in English
2/6/20
The undergraduate English program at Texas Woman's University is featured at #13 on the 2020 GradReports Best Colleges list. Rankings are based on median early-career salary data of over 5 million graduates from the U.S. Department of Education.