USU English Department Lecturer Mary Ellen Greenwood, along with authors Ewa McGrail, Kristen Hawley Turner, Amy Piotrowski, Kathryn Caprino, and Lauren Zucker, recently received the 2022 Richard A. Meade Award for Research in English Education for their article “An Interconnected Framework for Assessment of Digital Multimodal Composition,” published in the July 2021 issue of English Education. This award is sponsored by English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Mary Ellen is currently working on a doctoral dissertation in curriculum and instruction through the School of Teacher Education and Leadership (USU). Co-author Amy Piotrowski is an associate professor of English education in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership with a secondary appointment in the English Department.