2021-College-Report

external recognition LAUR I E F LUKER TEACH I NG Cindy Royal won the 2021 Gene Barnwell Waugh Mentor Award. Laurie Fluker (pictured) was named a 2020 Sun Belt Faculty of the Year recipient. Christa Oliver (pictured) won the 2020 Liberate Artists Forward Movement Educator Award; she is also a 2021 Mellon Fellow in the School of Theatre and Performance at Harvard. Amber Hinsley won the 2020 Grand Prize award in the Great Ideas for Teaching Competition. Kym Fox won the Society of Professional Journalists President’s Award in 2020. Gene Brenek was named the 2020 Austin Advertising Federation’s Educator of the Year. Jenny Buschhorn was named the 2019 Austin Advertising Federation’s Educator of the Year. Clay Craig was named the 2018 Austin Advertising Federation’s Educator of the Year. Jeremy Hutchins received the 2018 Texas Intercollegiate Forensics Association's Educator of the Year Award. Michael Devlin was the recipient of the 2018 Early Career Teaching Excellence Award from the Advertising Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Sean Justice received the 2017 Higher Education Art Educator of the Year award from the Texas Art Education Association. Lynn Ledbetter received the 2016 Phyllis Young Outstanding Studio Teacher of the Year Award 14 ■ C O L L E G E R E P O R T 2 0 2 1 CHR I STA OL I VER from the Texas Chapter of the American String Teachers Association. Ann Burnette received the 2016 John I. Sisco Excellence in Teaching Award from the Southern States Communication Association. Sarah Maines received a 2016 National Partners in American Theatre Mentor Award from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Marian L. Houser received the 2015 Teachers on Teaching Award from the National Communication Association. Kaysie Seitz Brown received the 2015 Texas Association of Health, Physical Recreation, and Dance Educator of the Year Award. David Nolan received the 2015 National Press Photographers Association’s Robin F. Garland Educator Award. Roseann Mandziuk received the 2014 Michael M. Osborn Teacher Scholar Award from the Southern States Communication Association. Wayne Kraemer received the 2014 Texas Speech Communication Association Educator of the Year Award; he also received the 2013 E. R. Nichols Award, a national forensics teaching award presented by Pi Kappa Delta. Kaitlin Hopkins received a 2013 Top Women Educator in the Arts Award from the Broadway Dreams Foundation. Cindy Royal received the 2013 Charles E. Scripps Journalism and Mass Communication Teacher of the Year Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation and received a 2013 John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship. J ENN I FER DATCHUK Teri Evans-Palmer received the 2011 Higher Education Educator of the Year Award from the Texas Art Education Association. SCHOLARLY AND CREAT I VE Jennifer Datchuk (pictured) was selected by the Texas Commission on the Arts as the 2021 State of Texas 3D Artist of the Year. Stephanie Dailey won the 2020 Linda L. Putnam Early Career Scholar Award from the International Communication Association. Elizabeth Eger won a 2020 Best Article Award from the National Communication Association. Joey Fauerso (pictured) won a 2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors grant. Amber Hinsley won a 2020 Best Article Award from the Newspaper Research Journal . In 2020 Craig Hella Johnson , Artistic Director and Conductor of Conspirare, earned his ninth Grammy nomination; previously, they won for their album The Sacred Spirit of Russia (2014). Johnny McAllister’s film Bull debuted at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and won three awards at the Deauville American Film Festival in France. Todd Oxford won a 2019 Global Music Award Silver Medal. Eugene Lee was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2019; he also won the 2019 Helen Hayes Award for Best Lead Actor. Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare received a 2019 Medal of Arts honor from the Texas Cultural Trust. JOEY FAUERSO John Lopez won the 2019 William Aguilar Cultural Arts Award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education. Phillip Owens had his sound designs selected for the 2019 Prague Quadrennial International Design Exhibit . ShelbyHadden’s film Tightly Wound won the Doc’Anims 2018 competition at Animatou in Switzerland. Soomin Remmler won Best of Show award in the Colored Pencil Society of America’s 26th Annual International Exhibition 2018 Chicago. Michael Devlin received the 2018 Emerging Scholar Award from the Communication and Sport Division of the National Communication Association. Beverly Penn was chosen to represent the state of Texas in the exhibition Women to Watch 2018 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Lindsay Timmerman and co-authors received the Distinguished Article Award from the Family Communication Division of the National Communication Association in 2017. Vanessa Higgins Joyce was selected as a 2017 Kopenhaver Center Fellow. Beverly Penn was awarded a 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Artist Award; she was selected by the Texas Commission on the Arts as the 2017 State of Texas 3D Artist of the Year. Michael Devlin was the second-place recipient of the 2017 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Most Promising Professor Award. Maureen Keeley received the 2016 Distinguished Article of the Year from the Health Communication ■ 15