Congratulations, 

Dr. Catherine Kurkjian!

Recipient of the

2004 Connecticut Literacy 

Reading Award

as

Outstanding Literacy Educator

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Among Dr. Kurkjian's recent accomplishments include:

Editor, New England Reading Association Journal (NERAJ)

Associate Editor, The Dragon Lode, Journal of the International Reading Association Children's Literature and Reading Special Interest Group

Department Editor, Children's Book Department, The Reading Teacher 

Research Chair of the Connecticut Association for Reading Research

PT3 Goal 2 Grant Coordinator

2004 State Student Membership Award from the International Reading Association

Faculty Development Grant (2004-05): Empowering Writers: Faculty Training and Community Service Project

Area Chair of National Reading Conference Study Committee Proposals

First Jamaican M.S. in reading and language arts cohort in Montego Bay graduates in 2004. 

The department welcomes two new 2004-05 cohorts in Kingston and Montego Bay.

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Adrienne Chasteen Snow

is recipient of the Outstanding Scholar and Academic Award 2004.

The Reading and Language Arts Department 

houses professional journals:

The Dragon Lode, Journal of the International Reading Association Children's Literature and Reading Special Interest Group (Dr. H. Abadiano, Editor; Dr. C. Kurkjian, Associate Editor), and the New England Reading Journal (Dr. C. Kurkjian, Editor; Dr. H. Abadiano & Dr. J. Turner, section editors: Research in the Classroom)

The Reading and Language Arts Department's

Certification Programs Receive IRA/NCTE Accreditation 2002-2007.

Graduate Students Launch On-line Journal: 

The Literacy Looking Glass

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Researchers Kurkjian and Rush Join 

Case Technologies to Enhance Literacy Learning 

(CTELL) Project (2003)

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Turner and Foshay Head 

Tech Mania Project Highlighting 

Literacy and Technology in Classrooms (2002)

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