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January/February 2010

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Adam Johnson, lecturer in English and a 1999 Wallace Stegner fellow in fiction, was one of 10 winners of the Whiting Writers' Awards, a $50,000 award for early-career writers. • In November, the symposium A Great American Thing honored art professor emerita Wanda Corn.

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