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Writing Conference Features Alumni Roundtables
The UWP's spring University Writing and Research Conference spotlighted the work of over 20 former UW students as they presented research conducted in their fall 2020 UW1020 classes.

GW Debate Hosts Challenges to Gender Equality Forum with Participation from UWP Professor Rachel Riedner
Professor Rachel Riedner (Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies; Professor of Writing and of WGSS) participated in this year's "Challenges to Gender Equality in 2021: an intern

CWPA statement on Jan. 6 Events and the Importance of Writing & Rhetoric
The Council of Writing Program Administrators issued the following statement on January 12, in response to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Debate Director Weighs in on Muted Mics
Paul Hayes, GW debate director, argues that presidential debates are supposed to educate voters by allowing them to see how candidates perform in one of the campaign's few unmediated

Robin Marcus Recognized for Innovative Teaching
Robin Marcus, a veteran teaching professor of writing in UWP, was recently recognized as the recipient of the 2020 Robert W. Kenny Prize for Innovation in Teaching of Introductory Courses. The prize is a well-deserved recognition of Marcus’s commitment to teaching and to her students, including her recent work employing antiracist labor-based grading in the classroom