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English professor Brandie R. Siegfried passed away in February after a battle with breast cancer. The English department renamed its Women in Academia panel in her honor, and other campus organizations have honors in the works. (BYU Photo)
The BYU English Department recently renamed its Women in Academia panel in honor of a professor who passed away earlier this year.
English professor Brandie R. Siegfried passed away on Feb. 17 after a battle with breast cancer, and the college remembers her as an advocate for women’s education. The panel, now called the Brandie R. Siegfried Women in Academia Panel, began seven years ago as a means of informing students about the variety of work available in academia.
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A Short Edition story dispenser is seen on the BYU campus. BYU students beat top schools including Harvard and Carnegie Mellon in the Short Edition writing contest. (Claire Moore/BYU Photo)
“BYU students have compelling stories to tell, and they tell them beautifully,” said Leslee Thorne-Murphy, College of Humanities associate dean, who helped facilitate BYU’s participation in the Short Edition contest. “They represented our university admirably.”
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Kennedy Center academic advisor Anna Ortiz was recently named the BYU Academic Advisor of the Year. (Anna Ortiz)
An academic advisor at the Kennedy Center was recently named the BYU Academic Advisor of the Year. Anna Ortiz has worked in the advisement center for nine years. Ortiz helps students map out coursework and connects them with resources. She also works with nonprofit organizations and has worked on community development p
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ByBritney Sam
Earlier this month, the Brigham Young University College of Humanities began a short story initiative that hit campus with a large assistance from English professor Leslee Thorne-Murphy.
Currently, there are a total of two machines on campus. One vending machine is located in the Cougareat in the student Wilkinson Center, and the second is in the Harold B. Lee Library on the ground floor.
These machines offer randomly selected literature that prints three different options for stories. Including a one, three, or five-minute read using rolls of receipt paper. Luckily for college students there is absolutely no cost to get one, and it is touch-free making it coronavirus-safe.
THE NEXT GENERATION. James Davis Nicoll’s
Young People Read Old SFF panel took a look at “’No Trading Voyage’ by Doris Pitkin Buck”. What did they think of this 1963 poem?
This month’s entry is from Doris Pitkin Buck, a Science Fiction Writers of America founder. Buck was mainly associated with
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which for various stupid reason was not a magazine I followed closely back in the day. Accordingly, I was not familiar with her work when I encountered this example of it way, way back in 2019. I see I carefully side-stepped my issues with poetry in my review. Let’s see what my Young People made of her poem.