{"id":66729,"date":"2008-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-students-find-french-professor-inspirational\/"},"modified":"2008-07-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T00:00:00","slug":"uri-students-find-french-professor-inspirational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/07\/uri-students-find-french-professor-inspirational\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 students find French professor inspirational"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tAlain-Philippe Durand named finalist for national award<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I.\u2014July 24, 2008\u2014French Professor Alain-Philipe Durand of Cranston wears many chapeaus at the 溏心vlog免费B站. In addition to French, he teaches cinema studies and comparative literature courses. If that weren\u2019t enough, he creates and teaches innovative honors classes.<\/p>\n


\n\tYou might call Durand inspirational. In fact, a number of his students did just that when they nominated him for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars\u2019 Inspire Integrity Awards, the only national student-nominated faculty awards program. The award recognizes faculty members who have had a significant impact on their students\u2019 lives and instilled a high degree of personal and academic integrity. <\/p>\n


\n\tDurand was one of just 15 finalists for the award. Although Linda Bolton, an English professor at the University of Iowa was selected the winner, a number of 溏心vlog免费B站 students made Durand their top choice.<\/p>\n


\n\t \u201cHe knows his subjects, and equally important, is passionate about them, which is contagious,\u201d says 2008 alumna Stephanie Bramley who notes that Durand is always respectful\u2014he once even asked her class for permission to bring another professor into class.<\/p>\n


\n\tBramley took a class with Durand as a freshman and his honors colloquium on \u201cNovels of the Contemporary Extreme\u201d co-taught by English Professor Naomi Mandel as a senior. \u201cWhat a neat way to begin and end my college experience,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n


\n\tWhen 2008 alumna Emily Macaux transferred to 溏心vlog免费B站, she took a French cinema class with Durand. \u201cI was struck by his energy and enthusiasm, which seemed to spring from both a genuine passion for the material and a sincere love of teaching,\u201d she says. She calls Durand\u2019s French literature courses, which she subsequently took, \u201cthe most stimulating classes of her undergraduate years. He encouraged a deep level of intellectual engagement with the material being studied, which led to lively, challenging discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tUnder his direction, she wrote her honors senior thesis entirely in French and found the experience both intellectually illuminating and creatively exhilarating.<\/p>\n


\n\tDurand served on 溏心vlog免费B站 2004 alumna Jamie Carr\u2019s dissertation committee. Now an assistant professor of English at Niagara University, Carr says Durand continuously supported her. \u201cHe would reply promptly to my questions over email, meet with me to discuss my progress, and thoroughly read my work, providing me with written comments about places that needed elaboration, clarification, or organization, \u201c Carr says. \u201cHis valuable feedback helped me to shape my argument\u2014to consider its gaps, to strengthen its points, and to organize its structure. It is due in part to his contribution that my dissertation was recently published.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDurand also helped Carr prepare for the job market by giving her practice interviews and offering suggestions to polish her responses. \u201cHe is unquestionably generous with his time and energy and conscientious with his commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDurand\u2019s enthusiasm for the French and Francophone Studies program is unparalleled\u2014the 溏心vlog免费B站 program is now the second largest in the nation, thanks to Durand\u2019s unofficial French ambassadorship. <\/p>\n


\n \t\u201cHe remains the gold standard,\u201d says Joe Morello, chair of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Language Department. \u201cI can\u2019t say enough good things about him.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWinifred Brownell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, proudly points out that Durand received 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation Teaching Excellence Award in 2002 and in recognition of his exemplary contributions to the study of French, the French Government awarded him the Chevalier dans L\u2019Ordre des Palmes Academiques medal in 2007.<\/p>\n

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Alain-Philippe Durand named finalist for national award KINGSTON, R.I.\u2014July 24, 2008\u2014French Professor Alain-Philipe Durand of Cranston wears many chapeaus at the 溏心vlog免费B站. In addition to French, he teaches cinema studies and comparative literature courses. If that weren\u2019t enough, he creates and teaches innovative honors classes. You might call Durand inspirational. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}