Graduate Student Erika Veth created her audio essay within a course titled "The Evolution of the Essay from Print to Video." During the semester, students composed a scholarly article on some aspect of the essay genre, and they also composed an artistic essay in the medium of their choice--print, audio, or mixed media. Erika chose to record her audio essay live on a Girdwood radio station. Her narrative, told with humor and seriousness, reveals her own maturing process as she comes to understand and to construct the meaning of volunteerism and community service, beginning from her days as a candy striper and continuing to her present work with local youth in conserving parkland.

Graduate Student Felix Sanchez created his video essay within a course titled "The Evolution of the Essay from Print to Video." During the semester, students composed a scholarly article on some aspect of the essay genre, and they also composed an artistic essay in the medium of their choice--print, audio, or mixed media. Felix used Macromedia Flash to explore family memories captured in the photographic images of several generations. His essay disrupts our sense of linear time as the photographs intertwine the past, present, and future. The narrator reveals a complex identity derived from a similar convergence of family and the larger community.