Honors College professor sees classroom as empowering space for students hopeful for a more equal world
2021 Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award: Megha Anwer
Nothing could be more noble than the pursuit of a more equal world. And Megha Anwer, clinical assistant professor in the Honors College, sees her classroom as the very space that empowers Purdue students to imagine and collaborate toward that.
A theorist of visual culture, with expertise in global cinema and issues of racial, gender, class and caste equity, Anwer invites her students to engage with the visual and literary cultures of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries by exploring the power dynamics that infuse those cultures. She does this through her courses as varied and topical as the Evolution of Ideas: Photography and Film, Interdisciplinary Writing: James Bond, Hitchcock in the City, Alabama: The Radical South, or Images of Racial Violence.
Grange Community Nursery and Primary School has created a new early years outdoor area The play space was designed by specialists to ensure that it gives children the chance to develop their balance, co-ordination, communication and social skills as well as their physical strength.
Leo Brooks and Dylan Doyle A climbing unit featuring a slide, wobble bridge and two climbing sections is the focal point of the playground.
Thomas Wood A mud kitchen and large sand pit give children the chance to develop their creativity and imagination through play, whilst exploring the natural world around them. As reading is at the heart of the school s curriculum, children are encouraged to take their favourite stories outside to share to one another in the new quiet area, which is surrounded by vegetable patches.
Emily Jones
Emily Jones locally hosts Morning Edition and reports on all things coastal Georgia for GPB’s Savannah bureau. Before coming to GPB, she studied broadcast journalism at the Columbia Journalism School and urban history at Brown University. She’s worked for the Wall Street Journal Radio Network, WHYY in Philadelphia, and WBRU and RIPR in Providence. In addition to anchoring and reporting news at WBRU, Emily hosted the alt-rock station’s Retro Lunch as her DJ alter-ego, Domino.
And in one election, a teenager is hoping to become the country s youngest councillor. Standing in his way in the Trull, Pitminster and Corfe by-election for a seat on Somerset West and Taunton Council will be a councillor of many years experience and the only candidate local to the patch. Among those hoping to attract your vote for the vacancy left by the resignation in February of Liberal Democrat councillor Martin Hill will be the 18-year-old chairman of the Labour party in Taunton Deane. Samuel Booker, a previous president of the student union at Exeter University, was just 17 when he took up the post in the local Labour party.
Local roundup: Hanover softball nets first victory of season
Staff Reports
Modified: 4/26/2021 11:23:00 PM
NORWICH Every Hanover High softball player scored at least one run as the Marauders picked up their first victory of the spring season in a 22-10 defeat of Fall Mountain on Monday afternoon.
Hanover (1-4) entered the bottom of the fifth with a two-run lead and scored nine times in the frame to force the mercy rule. Freshman Sage Johnson drove in senior Grace Lewandowski on a sacrifice for the walk-off win.
Senior Emilee Jones pitched all five innings for the Marauders. Junior Izzy Kachikis went 4-for-4 with four singles, four runs scored and one stolen base.