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(Please send notice of pertinent information to medievalst@cornell.edu) Jenna Tynan, Jamie Friedman's student in MEDVL 101, "Aspects of Medieval Culture: Writing Women in the Middle Ages," has won an award from the J.S. Knight Institute for her essay, "The Anchoress and the Self-Proclaimed Prophet: Medieval Female Writers in Ecclesiastical Society." Jamie also received a Writing Exercise Award honorable mention for "Important Elements of the Introductory Paragraph," an assignment used in the same course. Nicole Marafioti won a total of three awards from the J. S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines during the 2006/07 academic year. At the end of the fall semester, she won the Writing Exercises award for her assignment "Preparing to Write a Research Paper," created for MEDVL 103, "Legends, Fantasy & Vision: The Anglo-Saxons -- Scholars, Saints and Heroes." Nicole was also awarded an honorable mention for her Assignment Sequence, "Counterargument, Close Reading, and Historical Synthesis," for the same course. In the spring she won an Exercise and Handouts Award for her writing exercise "Clarity, Concision, and Introductory Paragraphs," designed for MEDVL 101, "Aspects of Medieval Culture: Barbarian Kings and Kingdoms -- The Franks in the Early Middle Ages." Five seniors graduated this year (May 2007) with concentrations in Medieval Studies. Four majored in History: Matthew Collin (also Economics), Stephanie Contino, Jessie Rosenberg, and Elizabeth Walgenbach. Dana Joy Meepos majored in English. A special thanks are due to Stephanie and Elizabeth for their work with Quodlibet and other events this year; we will miss them. Paul Milliman, grad student in History, defended his thesis in January and has a job in the History Dept.
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