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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif">ATTW is pleased to announce our 2022 Graduate Student Award Winners!<o:p> We are grateful to the review committees for doing the difficult work of selecting these winners from a very competitive pool of applicants.
Please read about our recipients' work below and be sure to register for the <a href="https://attw.org" title="https://attw.org">
ATTW 2022 Virtual Conference</a>! </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><o:p>We're very excited to honor our awardees and celebrate their work in community with all of you. Congratulations!</o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif">2022 Graduate Research Award Recipients:<o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif">Rachel Bryson, Utah State University:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black;background-color:white">Rachel Welton Bryson is a
PhD Candidate in Technical Communication & Rhetoric at Utah State University, where she teaches technical communication and first-year composition. Her research interests combine disability studies frameworks with the theory and practice of technical communication,
particularly in how those theories coalesce around learning design in higher education. Specifically, she studies faculty responsiveness to student disclosures of less-apparent disabilities, such as mental health disability, and how policies, practices, and
documentation surrounding disability accommodation both afford and constrain opportunities for student persistence and retention. Rachel lives in northern Utah with her geographer husband, three children, and a small but noisy flock of chickens.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif">Meghalee Das, Texas Tech:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-color:white">Meghalee
Das is a PhD candidate in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University (TTU), where she also teaches first-year composition and technical writing courses. Her research interests include user experience (UX), cultural inclusivity, online pedagogy,
and digital rhetoric. She has authored chapters on intercultural communication and UX in the custom textbook used by the TTU English Department’s technical writing courses, and her articles have appeared in <i>Technical Communication, Programmatic Perspectives,</i> and <i>Intercom</i>.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black;background-color:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black;background-color:white">Elena Kalodner-Martin,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black;background-color:white"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:white">University
of Massachusetts Amherst: Elena Kalodner-Martin is a PhD candidate in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where her research is at the intersection of the rhetoric of health and medicine, technical communication, and feminist
studies. Her dissertation theorizes patient narratives on social media as a form of technical and technological expertise. She currently teaches courses on social issues in computing in the College of Information and Computer Sciences.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif">Dina Lopez, Texas Tech:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black;background-color:white">Dina
Lopez is a PhD candidate in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Her research is on intercultural communication, organizational studies, storytelling, and rhetorical engagement with archives. She has over thirty
years combined experience teaching in English, Spanish, French, and Taekwondo. She stays active physically in CrossFit, running, and playing frisbee golf. She and her husband of thirty-eight years have three adult children and one grandbaby on the way.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif">2022 Amplification Award Recipients<o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif">Meghalee Das, Texas Tech:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-color:white">Meghalee
Das is a PhD candidate in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University (TTU), where she also teaches first-year composition and technical writing courses. Her research interests include user experience (UX), cultural inclusivity, online pedagogy,
and digital rhetoric. She has authored chapters on intercultural communication and UX in the custom textbook used by the TTU English Department’s technical writing courses, and her articles have appeared in <i>Technical Communication, Programmatic Perspectives,</i> and <i>Intercom</i>.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black;background-color:white">Elena Kalodner-Martin,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black;background-color:white"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:white">University
of Massachusetts Amherst: Elena Kalodner-Martin is a PhD candidate in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where her research is at the intersection of the rhetoric of health and medicine, technical communication, and feminist
studies. Her dissertation theorizes patient narratives on social media as a form of technical and technological expertise. She currently teaches courses on social issues in computing in the College of Information and Computer Sciences.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:white">Ruben “Ruby” Mendoza, Michigan State University</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);background-color:white">:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Ruben
"Ruby" Mendoza (they/them) is a PhD Candidate at Michigan State University's Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Department. They work through a scholarly throughline between technical and professional communication, social justice, and queer and transgender
rhetorics. Their dissertation project <i>Surviving and Thriving in Higher Education: A Queer and Trans*/formative BIPOC Coalitional Approach to Queer and Transgender Rhetorics</i>, seeks to collect data from existing and emergent BIPOC scholars to illuminate
how resistance represents an important component to prevent perpetuating harm in academic practices, including pedagogy, research, and community work. Currently, Ruby has several forthcoming research manuscripts in various journals, including in <i>IEEE ProComm
Conference</i> (2022), <i>Rhetoric of Health and Medicine</i>, and <i>Technical Communication and Social Justice</i>.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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