Congratulations today go to a number of MFA candidates: Justin Mundhenk (fiction), LuLing Osofsky (nonfiction), Lauren Trembath-Neuberger (nonfiction), and alums Quinnie Kenworthy and Pam Galbreath, all won this cool PIE award, which “honors instructors who inspire excitement, inquiry, and autonomy in first-year courses. Recipients of the PIE Award are nominated on-line by sophomore students, and then selected by a committee based on thoughtfulness and volume of student nominations. Students’ descriptions of nominees reveal the heart of excellence in lower-division instruction, courses that comprise the foundation of students’ college experience and the crucial seed of intellectual self-awareness.”

Way to go!