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BGSU
and Mingo join to restore native language
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Mingo Nation representative Georgia
Adams (left) speaks at the 2003 PCA/CITE grant awards
reception Feb. 12. The Mingo and faculty member
Sheri Wells-Jensen (right) received a PCA grant
for the “Mingo Language Revitalization and
Cultural Exchange Program” to teach the vanishing
language to Mingo people. |
With
the help of a BGSU Partnerships for Community Action
grant, Sheri Wells-Jensen, English and interim director
of the master’s degree program in Teaching English
as a Second Language, and her husband, Jason, a TESL
instructor, are partnering with Mingo Indian Chief Mike
Adams and his wife, Georgia, to revitalize the nearly
extinct Mingo language so it may be passed on to the
next generation. Read
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Szporluk has new poetry book, NEA
fellowship
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 Larissa
Szporluk, English and Creative Writing Program,
has recently been recognized by the National Endowment
for the Arts with a $20,000 literature fellowship in
poetry. Her new book of poetry, Inside the Dog-Fish,
will be published in September by Alice James Books.
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On March
18, the BGSU Alumni Association will present Ohio Auditor
Betty Montgomery the Distinguished Alumnus Award in recognition
of her achievements and for serving as a role model for
Ohio women. Montogmery will also deliver the keynote address
for Women’s History Month that evening. Read
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