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Congratulations to the following faculty members who are receiving tenure:

Gary Hanson, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been named the recipient of the 2016 Edward L. Bliss Award for Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Education.

Stina Olafsdottir, university bursar, has been selected to serve on the executive board of the Women’s Network of Ohio (WNO), an affiliate of the American Council on Education (ACE). 

Uma Krishnan, Department of English, won an Honorable Mention for the 2016 CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award on April 8, 2016, during the 2016 CCCC Annual Convention in Houston, Texas.

WKSU reporter/host Amanda Rabinowitz has been recognized by the Radio-Television-Digital News Association (RTDNA) with a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Writing. The Murrow Awards are considered among the most-prestigious broadcast media awards. 

Virginia Dressler, University Libraries, presented “Digitally Archiving History: A Game Plan for Large, Unruly Archival Collections with Limited Staffing” at the Archiving 2016 Conference at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., on April 20, 2016.

Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, presented a paper titled "Process-learning as a Factor in Evaluation" at the First International Workshop on System And User-Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in March 2016.

Catherine L. Smith, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, is co-author of a paper titled “Exploring the Use of Query Auto Completion: Search Behavior and Query Entry Profile,” presented at the Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in March 2016.

Susanna Fein, Department of English, presented “Surreal Realms of Grief in the Book of the Duchess” at the Canada Chaucer Conference, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on April 16, 2016.

John Lewis, Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, spoke on “Organizational Learning: The Deeper Purpose of Knowledge Management” at the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Knowledge Management Association meetup on Friday, March 18.