Our Writing Across the Curriculum program, program leadership, and WAC-affiliated faculty are regularly recognized for impactful pedagogy, research, and scholarship. We are happy to showcase some of these highlights here.
From left to right: Kimberly Harrison, Ming Fang, Christine Mortorana, Seyed Saman Khedmatgozar Dolati, Mekdelawit Deribe, Dylan Matthews, Alla Mirzoyan
WAC in FIU News
FIU News featured Seyed Saman Khedmatgozar Dolati, a fellow from our Writing Fellows Program. Dolati, a doctoral candidate and 2024 FIU Presidential Awardee, appreciated his time with Writing Across the Curriculum and credited our program with helping him coach his engineering peers.
Program Highlights
Ivan Lopez Wins 2025 Excellence in Teaching Award
WAC-affiliated faculty Ivan Lopez won a Faculty Senate Award for Excellence in Teaching. Ivan is a regular participant in WAC events, including our AI in Action workshop series and our Teaching with Writing in the Disciplines micro-credential. Congratulations, Ivan!
Dr. Ming Fang Wins 2024 Faculty Convocation Award
WAC Associate Director Dr. Ming Fang won a Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching at the 2024 Faculty Convocation Awards Ceremony.
Christine Martorana Featured on Inside Higher Ed
WAC Associate Director Dr. Christine Martorana was featured in an Inside Higher Ed article on the value of working with students to collaboratively design a course AI policy: Struggling to Create AI Policies? Ask Your Student.
UGS Fellows Featured on FIU News
FIU News featured WAC’s collaboration with the University Graduate School to train graduate students to be writing mentors: Graduate Writing Fellows Coach Peers to Success.
New WAC Student Badge
The WAC student badge has been a great success in Dr. Ryan Winter’s Research Methods course in the Psychology Department, and it will now be rolled out to all students taking the course. We’re excited for this next major step to enhance student writing and engagement across the department!
2023 IWAC Conference
At the 2023 International Writing Across the Curriculum conference, we presented our micro-credentialing program, aimed at integrating writing into the best practices of faculty and students alike.
Article Featured in Adapting the Past
Our article "Furthering WAC Influence Through Strategic Partnerships" was published in Adapting the Past to Reimagine Possible Futures: Celebrating and Critiquing WAC at 50.
Nomination for Exemplary WAC Program Award
In 2022, FIU's Writing Across the Curriculum Program was nominated for an Exemplary WAC Program Award, which "recognizes the extraordinary achievements of WAC teams to establish, maintain, and sustain programs that foster exemplary engagement with writing across the curriculum at their institution."
Jessica Liberles Gives Talk on Bioinformatics
WAC-affiliated Assistant Professor Jessica Liberles from the Department of Biological Sciences gave a talk titled "Bioinformatics for Biologists – teaching bioinformatics and research with writing and learning assistants" to FIU's Discipline-based Education Research community.
Uma Swamy Discusses WAC at 26th Biennial Conference of Chemistry Education
WAC-affiliated Senior Lecturer Uma Swamy from the FIU Department of Chemistry presented on her collaboration with WAC at the 26th Biennial Conference of Chemistry Education in her talk titled "Authentic Learning in an Online Chemistry Non-Majors Lab Course."