RCID Students Awarded Teaching Distinctions and Grant Funding

Congratulations to our many Graduate Teaching Assistants who received a Clemson "Difference Makers" award! An anonymous survey conducted by University Housing gave on-campus students the opportunity to identify a particularly impacting faculty or staff member. We are happy to boast seven such mentors in our ranks. Congratulations to Jimmy Butts, Kristie Byrum, Jared Colton, Patricia Fancher, Michael Lucas, Lauren Mitchell, and Glenn Southergill!

Additionally, many of our students will hit the road with some funding provided by the Clemson's Professional Enrichment Grant (PEG) initiative for a variety of professionalization experiences. We're pleased to congratulate the following PEG recipients: Kristie Byrum, Patricia Fancher, John Jay Jacobs, Stephen Lind, and Drew Stowe!

Lind used this opportunity for a trip to California to conduct original interviews and archive research for his dissertation. "The competitive funding provided through the Graduate Student Government is an essential component of Clemson's support of graduate research," said Lind, making possible "research and presentations that often simply would not happen otherwise."

Congrats, all!

Day of Service with ReWiGo

S3S members reached out to the community last weekend in constructing a wheelchair ramp for an Easley, SC household. Check it out:

J. Butts & P. Fancher at the saw

G. Southergill

H. Christiansen, S. Lind, P. Fancher, J. Butts, M. Osborn

The finished product! K. Elrick, G. Southergill, J. Colton, A. Colton

The day of service was coordinated by ReWiGo Ministries Program Director Sara Newton, who earned her degree in Architecture right here in Tiger Town! More pictures and additional information at Facebook.com/ReWiGo.

Thank you for a great year!

S3S wants to congratulate this year's graduates as well as thank our generous hosts who provided warm hospitality for our S3S parties throughout the year.  

Many thanks to our hosts ---

Sharon, Don, and Cheyenne Henry

Dave and Julie Blakesley (and family)

Patricia Fancher and Kelly Cooper

Anthony and Keri Collamati (and family)

Victor, Toni, and Roman Vitanza

Jimmy and Lauren Butts

We look forward to another great year starting in August -- See you then!

(Jimmy Butts, Kelly Cooper, and Lauren Butts
at the April S3S Party hosted by the Blakesleys)

4th-Years Accept Faculty Positions

Congratulations to 4th-year RCID candidates (and soon-to-be graduates) on their newly accepted faculty positions across the country:

Nicole McFarlane has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English (Rhetoric/Composition) position at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, NC.

Nicole Snell has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment in the Department of Information Design and Corporate Communication (IDCC) at Bentley University in Waltham, MA.

Anthony Collamati has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of New Media Studies in the interdisciplinary Communication and New Media Studies program at Alma College in Alma, MI.

Curtis Newbold has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Communication, New Media and Technical Communication in the Professional Communication program at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT.

Lauren Mitchell Passes Exams

Congratulations to third-year RCID doctoral candidate and S3S vice president, Lauren Mitchell for passing her comprehensive/qualifying exams!  On Tuesday, March 13, in the beautiful new Lee Hall addition, Lauren delivered her "4th Exam" multi-modal presentation of her project, titled "TRANSITIONING URBANISMS: the fringing benefits of rhetoric in architecture."


Lauren's study draws on a provocative mixture of elements, including her architectural background, rhetorical theories of electrate invention, and her time in Myrtle Beach, SC.  Through her dissertation, Lauren will defend the claim for architecture that, "without balancing our emphasis on design as making form as well as making forms of knowledge, the field will progressively make less and less impact in public environments." 

"Similarly," Lauren contends, "without learning to speak to a wider audience, making engagements with fields that are already steeped in practices of making and designing objects, rhetoric scholars will continually miss out on productive bodily engagements capable of accelerating the expansion of the field.  It is specifically on the topic of invention within both rhetoric and architecture where the two can begin to enfold each other in mutually productive ways."


To see photos of Lauren's exam presentation, visit the RCID News Blog.

Carolina Rhetoric Conference a Success!

In February, S3S successfully hosted the Carolina Rhetoric Conference, inviting graduate students interested in rhetoric from across the Carolinas to participate in two days of  networking and idea sharing.  The conference included a wide variety of rich panel presentations, professionalization workshops, a keynote/webinar presentation, and a digital showcase.

READ MORE at the Clemson Grad School News Site: HERE.

S3S wants to thank all of the supporters, including the Rhetoric Society of America, Clemson Graduate School, Graduate Student Government, Dean's Office in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities, The Campbell Chair of Technical Communication, Parlor Press, the Hendrix Student Center, and the many faculty, friends, and students of RCID.

The 2013 Carolina Rhetoric Conference will be hosted by the graduate students at North Carolina State University.

RCID Research in the News

Rock Hill, SC's newspaper The Herald is running full spread features as part of their promotion for the traveling Peanuts Naturally exhibit coming to the York County Museum. As part of their first feature, Herald editor Paul Osmundson recently spoke with RCID PhD candidate Stephen Lind about his dissertation research on the Peanuts franchise. Read the full interview HERE.