2018 College Report

EXTERNAL RECOGNITIONS CONTINUED SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE MARTIN MCCAIN SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE CHUCK NEY MARTIN MCCAIN won two 2015 Billboard Global Music Awards Silver Medals. CRAIG HELLA JOHNSON , as Artistic Director and Conductor of Conspirare, has earned eight Grammy nominations, winning for their album Te Sacred Spirit of Russia . TODD OXFORD was nominated for a Grammy for his 2014 solo CD Synaesthesia ; it won two Billboard Global Music Awards Silver Medals. His 2016 solo CD Tango Magnetism also won two Global Music Awards Silver Medals. He earned two other Global Music Awards in 2013. TRICIA BURKE received the 2014 Article of the Year Award from the Journal of Family Communication . REBEKAH FOX received the 2014 Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award from the Southern States Communication Association. REBEKAH FOX and ANN BURNETTE received the 2014 James Madison Prize from the Free Speech Division of the Southern States Communication Association. CRAIG HELLA JOHNSON was selected by the Texas Commission on the Arts as the 2013 State of Texas Music Artist of the Year. In 2012, a 1996 article co-written by TOM GRIMES was recognized as one of the 50 most cited articles in the Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly’s then 84-year publishing history. ERINA DUGANNE received a 2011 Marlene Nathan Meyerson Photography Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center. 22 | COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND COMMUNICATION MARIAN HOUSER received the 2010 Past President’s President Award from the Eastern Communication Association. CYNTHIA GONZALES , as a vocalist and soprano section leader with the professional choral ensemble Conspirare, sang on the Grammy-nominated albums A Company of Voices (2009), Treshold of Night (2008), and Requiem (2006). IAN DAVIDSON and FAITH DEBOW were performers on Conspirare’s Grammy-nominated album A Company of Voices . CHUCK NEY received a 2008 Kennedy Center American College Teatre Festival (KC/ACTF) National Faculty Fellowship in Directing Award. ROSEANN MANDZIUK received the 2008 Gender Scholar of the Year Award from the Southern States Communication Association. MAUREEN KEELEY’S 2007 book Final Conversations: Helping the Living and the Dying Talk to Each Other (co- authored with Julie Yingling) was awarded Book of the Year in Consumer Health by the American Journal of Nursing , Silver winner Self-Help Book of the Year by Foreword magazine, and Bronze winner in Aging/Death & Dying (Ippy) Award from Independent Publishing. KAITLIN HOPKINS received Ovation Award nominations in 2005 and 2003 and a Drama Desk Award nomination in 2001. Her Broadway credits include Noises Of and How the Grinch Stole Christmas . She performs on the original cast albums for Bat Boy: Te Musical , Te Great American Trailer Park Musical , and Bare: A Pop Opera.