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新闻 Brief: 2019年5月13日

2019年5月13日

Public Relations

The weekly news brief contains the latest news and information from 帕洛阿尔托 大学.

 

Online student wins PAC Speech Competition

帕洛阿尔托 大学 (PAC) student Leticia Villarreal was named Grand Champion of the 3rd annual PAC Speech Competition on Thursday, 五月 9. As the winner of the "DeLecour Cup," Villarreal took home a $300 scholarship. Villarreal joined the competition after enrolling in an online public speaking course with instructor Joseph Coppola in spring 2019, making her the first online student to win the Speech Competition. Other Speech Competition winners included:

  • 2nd place and recipient of a $200 scholarship: Megan Marques, Southwest Legacy High School dual credit student (Instructor: Samantha Arnold)
  • People's Choice Award and recipient of a $100 scholarship: Sydney Acevedo, 弗兰克·L. Madla Early 大学 High School student (Instructor: James Harris)
  • Judges' Awards and recipients of $40 cash prizes: Genoveva Muñoz, PAC student (Instructor: Tony Longoria), Joele罗梅罗, 弗兰克·L. Madla Early 大学 High School student (Instructor: James Harris), and Andrea Vargo, PAC student (Instructor: Tony Longoria)

These six winners earned their spots in the finals from over 1,000 speech students enrolled in the 2018-2019 academic year. The competition was judged by Dr. 罗伯特·加尔萨, president of 帕洛阿尔托 大学; Mike Behrend, 厨师, 餐馆老板, and 2018 TEDxPaloAlto大学 speaker; and Audrey Gossett-Louis, district attorney of the Texas 81st Judicial 区.

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帕洛阿尔托 大学 English instructor published

Dr. 梅丽莎Elston, assistant professor of English at 帕洛阿尔托 大学 (PAC), has published an article for the Spring 2019 issue of the Writing Program Administrators (WPA) Journal. The Council of Writing Program Administrators publishes empirical and theoretical research on issues in writing program administration. The research includes a wide range of research in various formats, research that not only helps both titled and untitled administrators of writing programs do their jobs, but also advance academically, institutionally, 而在全国范围内.

 

 

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