• Angie Gora has joined BSU as the University’s first director of summer programs. Gora brings more than 10 years of experience creating and facilitating innovative programs at community recreation centers, small private colleges and large public universities. Angie can be reached at agora@bemidjistate.edu, 2851 or in Deputy 105A.

• Sherry Shindelar, adjunct professor in English, presented at the Oct. 2012 Citizenship and Belonging Triennial Conference of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers in Denver. Her presentation, “Transformations in Belonging Advancement and Retreat in Augusta Jane Evans Macaria and St. Elmo,” was a section from the first chapter of Shindelar’s in-progress dissertation, entitled “Will you, I will, and I do:  Re-Envisioning Matrimony in Civil War-era Literature.”

• Dr. Anton “Tony” Treuer, director of the American Indian Resource Center, won the Ken Hale Prize for Linguistics from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas in December. The prize honors renowned MIT linguist Kenneth Locke Hale (1934-2001), who worked on languages all over the world, including the indigenous languages of the Americas, throughout his life. Treuer was recognized for his outstanding academic and community work with the Ojibwe language.