Online PhD Cohort Takes Name

As is traditional with new PhD cohorts, the 14 new doctoral students in the online program have chosen a name, Something With A Six.  They join 5 previous cohorts to form an online doctoral program of 56 students. All the cohort names are as follows:

• Frodotypicals (or Frodos)
• M² (or Em-Squares)
• Third Degreez
• Quadrophonics
• Fifth Iteration
• Something With A Six (or SWAS)

Doctoral Annual Review Schedule (f2f)

2010 Annual PhD Reviews

12-Feb
352 Student Chair Member Member
9:00 McKenzie, K. Dragga Carter Kimball
10:00 Visconti, Kerrie Still Rice Kimball
11:00 McMichael, Melonie Koerber Baehr Rickly
12:00 Ray, Anirban Baehr Kimball Carter
13:00 Pohland, Liz Kimball Koerber Baehr

353
9:00 Brandenburg, Laura Lang Baehr Cargile Cook
10:00 Watson, Paul Carter Baake Koerber
11:00 Jahnke, Nathan Still Cargile Cook Booher
12:00 Krahmer, Ana Still Lang Cargile Cook
13:00 Bowen, Beth Rickly Cargile Cook Booher

19-Feb
352 Student Chair Member Member
9:00 Mellon, Sarah Eaton Barker Booher
10:00 Rasberry, Todd Zdenek Rice Eaton
11:00 Latham, Roberta Eaton Still Baake
12:00 Schafer, Robert Eaton Baake Rice
13:00 Christofides, Chris Kemp Baake Zdenek
14:00 Edgell, David Eaton Baake Dragga

353
9:00 Zobel, Gregory Carter Still Zdenek
10:00 Wang, Xiling Barker Baake Booher
11:00 Bacon, Shon Kemp Baehr Booher
12:00 Wery, Ronda Kemp Carter Rickly

Hughes Defends

Lori Hughes successfully defended her dissertation on March 23rd. Her tltle is “Tutoring Technical Documents in the Writing Center: implications for tutor training and practices.” and her committee is Ken Baake (chair), Fred Kemp, and Rebecca Rickly.

Garrison Defends

Kevin Garrison successfully defended his dissertation on March 23rd. His tltle is “TECHNOLOGY STUDIES AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION: SUBSTANTIVE RHETORIC REVISITED.” and his committee is Rich Rice (chair), Fred Kemp, and Joyce Carter.

Musick defense late July

Fawn Musick’s dissertation defense took place July 18th, 4:00, room 353. She passed easily.

Chair: Ken Baake

Arnett Defense 6/24

Jonathan Arnett’s dissertation defense will take place Tue. June 24, at 3 p.m., Room 357

Chair: Amy Koerber

Youngblood defense 6/18

Susan Youngblood’s dissertation defense will take place 9:30 – 11:30 am on June 18th in room 303.

Chair: Ken Baake

Brewer defense 6/17

Pam Brewer’s dissertation defense will take place 9-11 am in room 362 on June 17th — more details later.

Chair: Kirk St. Amant

Lancaster defense 6/5

Please mark your calenders to attend the dissertation defense of Amber Lancaster, a doctoral student in the technical communication and rhetoric program, on Thursday, June 5th, from 2:00 to 4:00 in English 357. Amber’s dissertation title is “Usability Evaluation Methods: A Comparative Study of Low-Fidelity and High-Fidelithy Prototyping.”

Chair: Joyce Locke Carter
Committee: Rebecca Rickly and Amy Koerber

D’Angelo Defends

Congratulations are in order for Barbara D’Angelo, who passed her dissertation defense yesterday. Barbara’s dissertation is titled “Outcomes and Assessment for Undergraduate Technical Communication Programs,” and her committee was Rebecca Rickly (chair), Miles Kimball, Susan Lang, and Ed White (outside member from the University of Arizona).

Barbara is the first student from the 4-year-old online PhD program in Technical Communication and Rhetoric to defend.

Watch the defense: http://media.english.ttu.edu/graduate/defenses/dangelo-barb.wmv