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Hear from recent graduates who completed the minor in professional writing at UC Davis! In this video, Anjali Bhat, former peer advisor for the minor, shares her experiences with UWP courses, UWP faculty, and professional writing internships. Special thanks to our video producers Joseph Nunez and Melanie Zelaya, interns for the Professional Writing Program, for coordinating the series and for their vision of featuring the good work of our amazing UC Davis students.

UWP Director Dana Ferris and DE PhD student Amy Lombardi published the article "Collaborative Placement of Multilingual Writers: Combining Formal Assessment and Self-Evaluation" in volume 13.1 of The Journal of Writing Assessment. They examines the results of a collaborative placement study involving students in UWP EMS courses. 

By Oliver Tseng, Writing and Editing Intern, Professional Writing Program

From cultivating skills to general interest, students select minors for many different reasons.

Joseph Horton published his essay "I Watched My Baby's First Ultrasound From My Car in a Parking Lot Across the Street" on April 13 on the Time website.

Sasha Abramsky's twice weekly column, "Signal:Noise," is being published  in the Nation magazine at 

UWP Lecturers play a major role in UC Davis’s First-Year Seminar program. In Spring 2019, just over 10% of all first-year seminars offered at UC Davis were taught by UWP Unit 18 Lecturers. People who taught First-Year Seminars in 2019 include Sarah Faye, Erika I-Tremblay, Amy Clarke, Karma Waltonen, Andrea Ross, Bill Sewell, Andy Jones, Elisabeth Lore, Theresa Walsh, Jillian Azevedo, Pam Demory, Kathie Gossett, Lisa Sperber, Alison Bright, Katie Rodger, Ken Anderson, Heather Milton, Sophia Jin, Katie Arosteguy, and Agnes Stark.

Scott Herring's book Yellowstone's Lost Legend: "Uncle" Billy Hoffer, Renaissance Man of the Early Park, has been published by Riverbend Publishing. The book is a biography of the wilderness guide, wildlife census taker, explorer, and expert skier, tracker, and naturalist Billy Hofer.

Amy Clarke has received an Excellence in the Teaching of Study Abroad Award for 2020. A reception for Amy and other award winners will be held at the UC Davis International Center Multipurpose Room on Thursday, March 5^th from 4:00-6:00pm. More information about the reception can be found at https://globalaffairs.ucdavis.edu/international-connections

Sasha Ambramsky was interviewed on the MIchael Slate show on KPFK in Los Angeles. Ambrasky discussed Donald Trump and war crimes. You can listen to the interview at https://archive.kpfk.org/mp3/kpfk_200117_100000michaelslate.mp3