The Communication Factor
Newsletter of the Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication at Rice University Fall-2003

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Staff Spotlights: Scholarships & Presentations

Successful PhD Defense
Cain Project instructor Julie Zeleznik successfully defended her dissertation at Iowa State University in March. She received her degree on May 9th. She also gave invited presentations at McGill University and at Carleton College in Canada this spring.

VIGRE Grant
The Cain Project is pleased to have been included in the new VIGRE project recently funded by the NSF. Vertically integrated research teams from the departments of CAAM, STAT and MATH will be learning visual design, giving oral presentations and writing for publication as part of the project. We look forward to this research collaboration with faculty from these departments and their teams.

CCCC/ATTW Conference Presentations
Dr. Jan Hewitt’s presentation on “A Model That Helps Native and Non-Native English-Speaking Graduate Students” was accepted for the 2003 Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York City in March.
Dr. Linda Driskill and Dr. Deborah Andrews of the University of Delaware presented a workshop on “Assessing Writing in College Courses” at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, also in New York City in March.
Janie Hammons, a writing coach with the Cain Project, attended both the ATTW and CCCC meetings.

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