College of Arts and Sciences'
TSI Longmire Prize Awarded to Grady Wray
Grady Wray, assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, is the 2006 recipient of the Longmire Prize, presented at the 2006 Teaching Scholars Initiative Colloquium.
The Longmire Prize is named for the late William and Jane Longmire, who created a fund through their estates to improve teaching at OU. Recipients are given a monetary award and a personal plaque, and their name will be inscribed on a permanent plaque located in Ellison Hall.
Dr. Longmire’s gift is used by the college to stimulate and reward excellence in teaching by our faculty. The Longmire Prize is given annually to a faculty member in the College of Arts and Sciences who, in addition to exhibiting exemplary dedication to students and teaching, also is active in the scholarship of teaching and actively shares this knowledge with others.
Wray has been an instructor at OU for six years, where he has touched the lives of many students and instructors. Students at OU have changed their majors and career paths after taking his classes. In addition to teaching language classes, he also is responsible for teaching the required class for all incoming teaching assistants in his department, as well as a graduate seminar on the pedagogy of teaching foreign languages.
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A&S Alumni Event is scheduled in Dallas for Thursday, Feb. 16. To RSVP, please use this form.
A&S Faculty Authors Reception, 4 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 21, Ellison Hall 132. Held as part of FOCAS* on A&S Week. For more information, contact Darci Tucker.
Kaleidoscope Evening, 6 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24, Molly Shi Boren Ballroom, OMU. Proceeds go towards scholarship support for the Leadership Scholars. For tickets or for more information, contact Darci Tucker.
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Congratulations to psychology junior Jeff Harrison for being named the February Cheerleader of the month by American Cheerleader magazine. He also is the first male cheerleader to be named as such by the magazine.
The 2006 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni honorees are George W. Counts, retired clinical professor of medicine at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, who is representing the natural sciences; David Hall, professor at Northeastern University School of Law, representing the professional schools; Clara Sue Kidwell, professor of history and director of Native American Studies at OU, representing the humanities; and Gary D. Sandefur, dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, representing the social sciences.
Distinguished Service Award recipients for 2006 are Jeanne Hoffman Smith and Jon Withrow.
A&S students are eligible to register for Career Services at no additional cost to them. Visit their Web site at www.ou.edu/career to register online.
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Do It In 4! Get Going, Get Out and Get On with Your Life. An online guide to getting out of college in a timely manner. Lots of great links to help plan financially and academically for a great degree.
Visit the Web site of Leadership Scholars to learn more about the college's top students and to see a schedule of events.
The Next Step. This guide to planning a career for life after college is available at department advisors offices, Hobson Academic Services in Ellison Hall, Career Services at OMU and at the Dean's Office.
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Grady Wray |
Wray received his Ph.D. from Indiana University at Bloomington in 1999, and joined the faculty of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics in 2000. Specializing in women writers of colonial Spanish America, Wray's major focus concerns the religious writings of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
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| MLL&L offers a variety of courses and degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Portuguese and Spanish.
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