<div dir="ltr"><div>SEHE Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Monday March 31st, 2025, at the very beginning of our Spring Quarter, the National Book Foundation / National Book Award administrators, staff, designated interviewer will come to UCR with a special event for the newly named Science + Literature Awards, and our campus guest on their initial tour,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Claire</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wahmanholm, winner. This is a very special event and a first for UCR to host the National Book Foundation.</div><div><br></div><div>They bring their admin/staff to host, and the interviewer, as well as the honored guest. They give 100 books free to have signed, and also supply their own travel, and honoraria costs. We cover hotel, ASL, and presentation space / recording costs for our venus, only. </div><div><br></div><div>They ask that we fill the seats are for guest and interviewer (Claire Wahmanholm and Donika Kelly). </div><div><br></div><div>Wondering if I can get a headcount on who might support by getting students (and colleagues) interested and who might be able to encourage current classes  to be excited about this and perhaps add extra credit (or require) to Spring syllabus, and send an announcement to new students, once we are able to do that for our Spring sessions.</div><div><br></div><div>Some information on the awards. I've been fortunate to be called upon to nominate for these awards and we have hosted 3 of the 9 winners prior, but through Writers Week and mostly just prior to their awards being announced. I have turned over Writers Week to other colleagues to direct, so this will be my biggie for this year, though I am (as usual) completely behind the scenes on day of event. NBF will host, Donika Kelly will interview and Clair Wahmanholm will be our honored guest with this newly announced award.</div><div><br></div><div>My very best!</div><div><br></div><div>Allison</div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/announcing-the-2025-science-literature-titles/" target="_blank">https://www.nationalbook.org/announcing-the-2025-science-literature-titles/</a><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><div>"<a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/people/claire-wahmanholm/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,44,93);box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:currentcolor;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,198,6);font-family:NewParis"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top"><span class="gmail-il">Claire</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wahmanholm</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,15,8);font-family:NewParis;font-size:17px">’s </span><i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8);font-family:NewParis">Meltwater </i><span style="color:rgb(0,15,8);font-family:NewParis;font-size:17px">dissects the vulnerability of parenthood and our natural world, with embedded erasure poems of Lacy M. Johnson’s “How to Mourn a Glacier” throughout the collection. </span><i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8);font-family:NewParis">Meltwater </i><span style="color:rgb(0,15,8);font-family:NewParis;font-size:17px">simultaneously mourns the disastrous effects of the climate crisis while finding moments of joy in the everyday through the eyes of a new mother."</span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><div>from:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:NewParis;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8)">The National Book Foundation (NBF) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today announced selected titles for the fourth year of the Science + Literature program, made possible by a three-year, $525,000 renewal grant from the Sloan Foundation. The initiative identifies three books annually, across fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, that deepen readers’ understanding of science and technology. Authors receive a $10,000 cash prize, are celebrated at a public ceremony in March, and are featured in associated national public programming. The titles are selected by a committee of five scientific and literary experts, also announced today.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border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="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">“We are delighted to join the National Book Foundation in recognizing these three powerful and unique writers engaging with scientific themes and characters across poetry, fiction, and nonfiction,” said Doron Weber, Vice President and Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. “These gifted storytellers shine a scientific and poetic light on the beauties and terrors of nature and what they reveal to us about our deepest selves and our existence on this planet. We’re proud to add Ramona Ausubel,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gmail-il">Claire</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wahmanholm, and Ed Yong to Sloan’s nationwide book program, which has supported over 200 books from Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winner <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">American Prometheus</em>, the basis of Christopher Nolan’s hit film <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Oppenheimer</em>; and Margot Lee Shetterly’s <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Hidden Figures</em> to recent works such as by Nicola Twilley’s <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Frostbite</em> and Patchen Barss’ <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">The Impossible Man</em>.”</p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:NewParis;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8)">On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 join the National Book Foundation and Sloan Foundation for an in-person ceremony at The Cooper Union’s Frederick P. Rose Auditorium featuring readings and conversation with the selected authors. The program is free and open to the public, and livestreamed for readers everywhere. For the third consecutive year, the Science + Literature Ceremony is presented in partnership with The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a distinguished private college of art, architecture and engineering founded in 1859 by inventor, industrialist, and philanthropist Peter Cooper. For in-person and livestream tickets, <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-science-literature-ceremony-tickets-1205966962649?aff=oddtdtcreator" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,44,93);box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:currentcolor;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,198,6)">please register here</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:NewParis;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8)">The 2025 selection committee includes authors and scientists whose work across fields interrogates and advances public understanding of the limitless connections between science, technology, and the humanities. <a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/people/sara-goudarzi/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,44,93);box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:currentcolor;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,198,6)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Sara Goudarzi</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top"> </span>is a science journalist and author of the novel <i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">The Almond in the Apricot</i>; <a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/people/elizabeth-kolbert/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,44,93);box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:currentcolor;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,198,6)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Elizabeth Kolbert</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top"> </span>is a journalist and the author of <i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">The Sixth Extinction</i>, among others; <a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/people/beronda-l-montgomery/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,44,93);box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:currentcolor;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,198,6)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Beronda L. Montgomery</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top"> </span>is a biologist and the author of <i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Lessons From Plants</i>; <a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/people/craig-santos-perez/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,44,93);box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:currentcolor;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,198,6)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Craig Santos Perez</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top"> </span>(Chair) is an eco-poet and Winner of the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry for <i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">from unincorporated territory [åmot]</i>; and <a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/people/joshua-sarinana/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,44,93);box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:currentcolor;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,198,6)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Joshua Sariñana</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top"> </span>is a neuroscientist, artist, and writer.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:NewParis;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8)">Public events featuring the selected authors will take place in cities across the country in Spring 2025 following the March ceremony, including with partners at <a href="https://www2.mccneb.edu/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,44,93);box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:currentcolor;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,198,6)">Metropolitan Community College</a>, a public community college system in Omaha, NE; and the <a href="https://www.ucr.edu/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,44,93);box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:currentcolor;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,198,6)">University of California, Riverside</a>, a public research university in Riverside, CA. Event details will be announced alongside the NBF Presents spring season on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:NewParis;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8)"><a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/programs/science-literature/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(22,44,93);box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:currentcolor;text-decoration-color:rgb(255,198,6)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Learn more about the Science + Literature program here</span></a>.</p><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:20px 0px 0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8);font-family:NewParis;display:block;clear:both;height:0px"></span><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:NewParis;font-weight:normal;font-size:17px;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(22,44,93);font-stretch:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:26px;vertical-align:top">2025 Science + Literature Selected Titles:</span></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:NewParis;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ramona Ausubel</span>, <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">The Last Animal<br style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(229,231,235)"></em>Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:NewParis;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-il">Claire</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wahmanholm</span>, <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Meltwater<br style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(229,231,235)"></em>Milkweed Editions</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:NewParis;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ed Yong</span>, <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us<br style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(229,231,235)"></em>Random House / Penguin Random House</p><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:20px 0px 0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8);font-family:NewParis;display:block;clear:both;height:0px"></span><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-family:NewParis;font-weight:normal;font-size:17px;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(22,44,93);font-stretch:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:26px;vertical-align:top">Author Biographies:</span></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:NewParis;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ramona Ausubel </span>is the national bestselling author of five books, most recently <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">The Last Animal</em>. She is the recipient of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and has been a finalist for both the California and Colorado Book Awards and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. Her work has been published in <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">The New Yorker</em>, the <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">New York Times</em>, <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">The Paris Review Daily</em>, <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">One Story</em>, <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Tin House</em>, the <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Oxford American</em>, <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Ploughshares</em>, and elsewhere. She is a professor at Colorado State University and lives in Boulder, Colorado with her family.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:NewParis;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-il">Claire</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wahmanholm </span>is the author of <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Wilder</em>, <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Redmouth</em>, and, most recently, <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">Meltwater</em>, which was a finalist for the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the 2024 Minnesota Book Award. A 2020 McKnight Writer Fellow, and the winner of the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize, she lives in the Twin Cities.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:NewParis;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ed Yong </span>is a Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer based in Oakland. He is the author of two bestselling books: <i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life</i>, and <i style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top">An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us</i>, which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. He was a guest editor of the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology, a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a member of Liminal—a science communication collective, co-founded by his wife Liz Neeley. He has a corgi named Typo.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:NewParis;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8)"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-family:NewParis;padding:0px;font-size:17px;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(0,15,8)"><br></p></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><font size="1"><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, </i></font><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Distinguished Professor of </i><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Creative Writing</i></font></div><div><font size="1"><i style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/shop/products/look-at-this-blue" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Look at This Blue </a></i></font></div><div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><i>     Weird Times, Be Kind</i></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">If this correspondence arrives past your work hours, please do not feel obligated to respond until an appropriate time. </span><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Respecting work/life balance is important to me.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="1"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>