Chris Ambedkar Wins Design Educator Award of Excellence
Congratulations to Professor Chris Ambedkar, who has won the 2023 Design Educator Award of Excellence for Eastern Canada! The award, given by the Association of Registered Graphic Designers, celebrates outstanding contributions to student development and pedagogical research. Nominees… Read More
Joyce Grant Wins Global Youth & News Media Award!
Professor Joyce Grant, currently teaching Writing for Children in our Creative Writing & Publishing Degree, has won the Press Freedom Teaching Award from the Global Youth and New Media Organization. The prize acknowledges Professor Grant’s work to educate… Read More
Embracing Museums as Experiential Learning: Artifactual Analyses with New Anthropological Perspectives
By Daniel Jankulovski As children we visit museums and are witness to the excitement of seeing artifacts and world history. We walk through each floor twisting our necks to see what we may have missed as the plethora… Read More
Dungeons, Dragons, and Design Thinking: A Unique Twist on Experiential Learning
In a FHASS first, Professors Tom Nittoly (ESL) and Kasey Dunn (Creativity and Innovation) recently took experiential learning to a whole new “dimension.” On October 30, a pilot group of students embarked on an unexpected journey, combining the… Read More
Professor Sara Machan Publishes Children’s Books
ESL professor Sara Machan has written and illustrated a series of children’s books meant to help children with body positivity and dealing with anger. These books are intended to take topics children may struggle with and approach them… Read More
Professor Glenn Clifton Wins Award for Short Story
“Before 2035, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was considered a comedy…” Congratulations to Alchemy editor Glenn Clifton, who’s short story “Bottom’s Dream” will appear in the forthcoming anthology Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, Volume 1, published by Ansible… Read More
Dina Ernest Publishes 16 Nile Street
Kudos to FHASS professor Dina Ernest, who independently published her novel 16 Nile Street this year. Dina describes the plot as follows: The events of 16 Nile Street take place in Cairo, Egypt during and after the revolution… Read More
Reading Recommendations: On Writing that Makes It Up
Okay, I know any writing, even the autobiographical, is a form of making it up. But on the heels of recommending Wonderbook, with all the good advice contained therein, I want to offer a few suggestions for books… Read More
Book Recommendations: Read Plays
Inspired by a classroom visit this week to chat playwriting and the brightness of the students in the class (thanks for great questions), my book recommendations for this week are semi-books. They are published plays, which means they… Read More
Book Recommendation: Wonderbook
Wonderbook: the illustrated guide to creating imaginative fiction, by Jeff VanderMeer Full disclosure: I have not read Jeff VanderMeer’s fiction, though I’ve been meaning to read The Southern Reach Trilogy for years. His work, as I understand it,… Read More
