November 2006:
Number 511
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A newsletter for the students, faculty and staff of the Collin County Community College District. Published monthly. For information or submissions, call 972.599.3142. Cougar News welcomes student and faculty submissions. Next deadline: Nov. 10 All submissions are due by 5 p.m. on the due date. Photos cannot be returned. Text should be emailed to mrobinson@ccccd.edu or sent on disk. Please submit copy that is proofed, edited and saved in Word format. Cougar News staff: Lisa Vasquez, director; Mark Robinson, editor; Marcy Cadena-Smith, contributor; Sydney Portilla-Diggs, student correspondent; Stephanie Hall, student correspondent; Ana Palmer, special contributor; Ginny Topfer, special contributor; Nick Young, photography and layout
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Faculty and Staff News
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| Chris Grooms | Professor of English Chris Grooms recently presented on local place-name research in Wales at the 41st International Congress of Medieval Studies. The international congress offers a wide range of new perspectives and discussions on literature in the medieval and early modern period. Grooms also had an opportunity to share course organization and development perspectives with faculty teaching literature surveys in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Austria and France.
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| Lisa Roy-Davis | English Professor Lisa Roy-Davis recently presented a paper at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, Calif. The paper, exploring the impact of race and race-thinking on early American literature, was written as a result of her participation in Collin's Faculty Study Grant program.
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| Helen Sullivan | Helen Sullivan, assistant director of the Convergence Technology Center (CTC), recently served as facilitator and presenter at the four-day IT conference Synergy06, held in Boston. Her presentation on the CTC Business Advisory Council and job skills validation process was well received with several colleges and businesses expressing interest in this process and Collin's experience.
Ellen McKinney, division secretary in the Public Relations Department, published her first novel, a murder mystery titled Best Kept Secret.
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