2018 College Report

FEBRUARY 2018 APRIL 2018 JUNE 2018 Communication Studies hosts its 30th Annual COMM Week, with keynote speeches by Dr. Jennifer Teiss and alumna Dr. Brittani Crook, now a User Experience Researcher at Facebook; Music hosts their 29th annual Hill Country Jazz Festival and 14th annual Eddie Durham Celebration; Michael Burns and two students work with NBC’s Today Show covering the Winter Olympics in South Korea; Melinda Villagran coordinates the second Health Scholars Showcase on campus. MARCH 2018 MAY 2018 JULY 2018 Te LBJ Debate Society and For the second year nearly 60 Te College hosts Study Abroad Elton Abernathy Forensics Society graduate students earn their masters programs in London/Stratford win the Pi Kappa Delta Division degree and nearly 700 students (Teatre), London (Dance), I National Championship, the earn their undergraduate degree; Florence/Rome (Art), Barcelona/ second national title for our speech Music hosts their 19th annual Madrid (Journalism), and London/ and debate team; Journalism and Feria del Mariachi; Journalism and Geneva (Journalism); Graduate Mass Communication faculty and Mass Communication hosts the student Audrey Webb and alumnus students team up for SXTXState, Governor’s Committee on People Jordan Morille two of thirty (from their 11th year covering the SXSW with Disabilities’ 35th annual 850) selected for Samuel French Interactive Conference; fve theatre Barbara Jordan Media Awards; Of Of Broadway Short Play students are selected as National Distinguished Alumnus Wayne Festival; TxState Presents caps Finalists for Kennedy Center Oquin enjoys the European season of record attendance and American College Teatre Festival premiere of his organ concerto revenue with 177 performances awards; Music presents the opera Resilience ; Merge Dance performs attended by 34,629 people and over Hansel and Gretel . in London. $258,000 in ticket sales. Merge Dance Company presents Resilient , their 10th annual concert; Steve Beebe is the frst recipient of the Dean’s Seminar Distinguished Achievement Award, presenting a lecture on C.S. Lewis; Allison Price wins the Stage Directors and Choreographers Fellowship at the National Kennedy Center American College Teatre Festival, becoming Teatre’s 12th national champion; Teatre presents a sold-out production of Ragtime , which is later named the Best Production of 2017-18 by the Austin Critics Table Awards. Music hosts 9th International Piano Festival and the Ben I. Gomez Piano Competition, with winner receiving concerto performances with the Laredo Philharmonic and the Round Rock Symphony; Teatre hosts a co-production with artists from Brazil, a reciprocal performance from a production created last summer in that country; undergraduate musical theatre student Rachel Webb performs to over 2000 people at TEDx Fargo; academic units host 10 summer camps, attended by over 1800 grade school and high school students. COLLEGE REPORT 2018 | 25