Miriam F. Williams is SIGDOC’s 2022 Rigo Award Winner. The Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC) is a subgroup of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an international society that brings together researchers and other professionals who are involved in the advancement of computing. The Rigo Award was established in honor of Joseph Rigo, the founder of SIGDOC, and is dedicated to outstanding achievements in the development of communication projects. As the 2022 Rigo Award Winner, Miriam will present the keynote address in October at SIGDOC’s 40th Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.

MFA fiction student Sabah Carrim’s short story “Dadima’s Key Ring” has just been shortlisted for the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2022.

Senior Lecturer William Jensen’s short story “Night Owls” appeared in Mystery Tribune.

Chandler Treon’s “Modeling a Minority: Summarizing the Asian American Experience in The Joy Luck Club and Crazy Rich Asians” was published in the Asian American Policy Review, a journal of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. It is available online here:

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