Assistant Professor Mary Szybist wins poetry fellowship

Mary Szybist, assistant professor of English:

Szybist is one of only two poets in the country selected by the U.S. Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan, for the 2009 Witter Bynner Fellowship.  As part of this honor, Syzbist will read her poetry on February 26 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and receive a $10,000 fellowship provided by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. In return, fellowship winners are asked to organize a reading in their hometown and participate in the reading and recording session at the Library of Congress. On Szybist’s poetry, Ryan said, “Mary Szybist’s lovely musical touch is light and exact enough to catch the weight and grind of love. This is a hard paradox to master as she does.”

Read more about Szybist, her work and hear her read selected poems.

28 February 2009

• English
• faculty
• fellowship
• honor
• poetry
• reading

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Graduate school counseling program honored

Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling was one of seven schools honored at the Education Trust annual conference for its groundbreaking work in school counselor education. Lewis & Clark is a founding member of an initiative to establish innovative models for school counseling preparation. The initiative, in its tenth year, is designed to train school counselor graduate students and practicing counselors to help close achievement gaps of low-income students and students of color by improving counseling services in public schools.   Since its inception, 20 education programs have been developed to transform the role of school counselors.

Lewis & Clark faculty presented their work at the February conference and offered guidance and advice to other schools interested in pursuing this educational model. Laura Pedersen, assistant professor and school counseling program director, Danielle Torres, assistant professor of school counseling, and Mollie Galloway, dean and director of research and assessment, presented at a session titled “Transformed School Counselors Fostering College Readiness” at the conference in Austin, Texas.

26 February 2009

• conference
• counseling
• faculty
• honor
• presentation

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