2017 College Report

EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL GRANTS EXTERNAL GRANTS AWARDED: DR. MELINDA VILLAGRAN ( Comm Studies ) – Bienestar Coalition (Year 3). Total Award: $694,573 . Sponsor: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). DR. MELINDA VILLAGRAN ( Comm Studies ), PAUL VILLAGRAN ( Journalism and Mass Communication ) and MARSHA BURNEY ( Comm Studies ) – Project SHARE (Year 2). Total Award: $900,000 . Sponsor: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Te Sexual Health Assessment and Risk Education (SHARE). REBEKAH FOX ( Comm Studies ) and AIMEE ROUNDTREE ( English) - Communicating about wildfre in the Wildland-Urban Interface for public safety and a healthy urban forest. Total Award: $20,110 . Sponsor: City of Austin Urban Forest Grant/Austin Community Foundation. KELLY KAUFHOLD and team: Judy Oskam, Jenny Buschhorn, Kym Fox, Dan Seed, Jessica James, Michael Devlin, Clay Craig, Salwa Khan, Dale Blasingame and Prisca Ngondo (all School of Journalism and Mass Communication faculty), will implement Phase II of the Medicare Improvements for Patients Act (MIPPA): Statewide Media Campaign and Associated Outreach Services. Total Award: $636,280. Sponsor: Texas Health and Human Services Commission. ANA BAER ( Dance ) - Merge Dance Company’s Interdisciplinary Dance Concert, Irretrievable , with Guest Artist Nathan Montgomery. Total Award: $3,800 . Sponsor: City of San Marcos Arts Commission. JOHN LOPEZ ( Music ) - Feria Del Mariachi. Total Award: $2,400 . Sponsor: City of San Marcos Arts Commission. KAYSIE BROWN ( Dance ) - Creation in Motion: Touring Ensemble for Young Audiences (CIM TEYA). Total Award: $1,900 . Sponsor: City of San Marcos Youth Master Plan Funding. EUGENE LEE ( Teatre ) – Black and Latino Playwrights Conference was awarded funding from 4 sources: (1) Up to $50,000 Matching National Endowment for the Humanities Access Grant, (2) $5,306 Texas State University Crowdfunding Campaign, (3) $5,000 from the Samuel and LaTanya R. Jackson Foundation, and (4) $5,000 from Humanities Texas. VLASTA SILHAVY ( Teatre ) and ANA BAER ( Dance ) - LEAP: Leadership, Empowerment and Arts Project Summer Camp for At-Risk Girls. Total Award: $5,000 . Sponsor: San Marcos Youth Commission. NICOLE WESLEY ( Dance ), ANA BAER ( Dance ) and the Merge Dance Company raised $2,705 for the Texas State University Crowdfunding Campaign: International COCO Dance Festival in Port of Spain, Trinidad. JASON KWAK ( Music ) and team raised $6,380 for the Texas State University Crowdfunding Campaign: Texas State International Piano Festival. GINA MCDANIEL TARVER ( Art and Design ) and collaborator Michele Greet (George Mason University) raised $3,408 for the Texas State University Crowdfunding Campaign: Translating Art Museums of Latin America. MAIA WRIGHT ( Art and Design ) and artist collaborator Kate Jarboe were awarded a Research Support Grant from Harvard University to conduct archival research in the Schlesinger Library at the Radclife Institute for Advanced Study. INTERNAL GRANTS AWARDED: ALESSANDRO SEGALINI ( Art and Design ) and Teri Evans-Palmer ( Art and Design ) won a Speed Networking grant –Longhands for Small Hands: Kinetic Writing Activities to Develop Critical Tinking Skills (1st Grade), $1,500 . MICHAEL RAU ( Teatre ) won a Teaching and Learning Technology Innovation Grant (TLTIG), Instructional Technologies Support - Location-Based Storytelling Using Bluetooth Beacons to Promote Teatre Projects, $3,982 . MICHELLE NANCE ( Dance ) and ANA BAER ( Dance ) - Building Bridges On Which to Dance: Contemporary Dance Residency with Guest Artist Rocio Luna (Morelia, Mexico). Total Award: $3,800 . City of San Marcos Arts Commission. Ms. Luna choreographed for the Merge Dance Company’s Irretrievable Spring Concert, $2,800 . VLASTA SILHAVY ( Teatre ) and ANA BAER ( Dance ) won an Equity & Access Grant - LEAP: Leadership, Empowerment and Arts Project Summer Camp for At-Risk Girls, $1,500 . COLLEGE REPORT 2017 | 51