BGSU Scholarship Opportunities

Student Financial Aid has announced BGSU student scholarship opportunities for the 2007-08 school year.

The Harry Frankfather Scholarship awards can value up to $3,000 per student. Students must have financial need and work at a paying job a minimum of 10 hours/week. A signed statement of employment is required. The deadline is Friday, Oct. 12.

The Edwin L. Moseley Scholarship awards can also value up to $3,000 per student. Applicants must submit an essay on community service and educational value received from experience and have two letters of recommendation from BGSU faculty or administrators. The deadline is Friday, Oct. 12.

Applications for both scholarships are currently available on the Scholarship Bulletin Board (outside Student Financial Aid) or online under Scholarship Applications.

The Department of English will be announcing guidelines for its own scholarships and awards later in the semester.

English Graduate Reception

This Friday, September 21, the Department will be co-hosting a Graduate Reception along with the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA).

The graduate reception will kick off with a welcome from the Graduate Coordinator, Piya Lapinski, followed by poetry and fiction readings by Brad Modlin, assistant poetry editor of Mid American Review (MAR) and Priscilla Wysong, assistant fiction editor of MAR.

The reception will also include announcements regarding upcoming EGSA events by Jennifer Almjeld, Erin Dietel-McLaughlin, and Jessica Alexander, and announcements from Graduate Student Senate representative, Linh Nguyen. Faculty representatives from the different programs will speak briefly about each program.

The reception takes place at 5 pm in Bowen-Thompson Student Union 201.

Literature Alumni News

The latest issue of The Minnesota Review includes an interview with noted linguist and public intellectual Noam Chomsky conducted by Department alumna Heather Steffen (Literature, ’03). Heather, who is working on her doctorate in Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, also serves as Managing Editor of the journal. You can read her interview with Chomsky on pages 55-65 of the current issue (68).