April & May 2016 College News

Ann Burnette received the John I. Sisco Excellence in Teaching Award from the Southern States Communication Association. She also presented “The Promise of America: Ted Cruz’s Rhetoric of Christian Conscience” with co-author Wayne Kraemer and “The First or Second Amendment? Displaying a Weapon in the South” with co-author Rebekah Fox to SSCA. While at the SSCA convention, Ann served as the moderator of the Spotlight Program, “LBJ and Presidential Legacies of Social Justice.” She was also a panelist on the “Colloquium on Rhetoric Roundtable: LBJ’s Voting Rights Act Speech at 50.” Stephanie Dailey published an article in the Western Journal of Communication entitled, “What Happens Before Full-Time Employment? Internships as a Mechanism of Anticipatory Socialization.” The study challenges the understanding of anticipatory socialization and assumptions about full-time employees as uncertain newcomers. Results show that internships may provide more realistic perceptions than traditional means of anticipatory socialization, like recruitment or vocational messages. Stephanie will also present findings from the data her Qualitative Inquiry in Communication (COMM 5325) students collected. Rebekah Fox assisted in the development of the interviewing tools used by Incident Commanders tasked with interviewing emergency responders to the San Bernadino shooting that occurred in December. She presented grant funded research “Reluctant to Simplify: Examining Assumptions about Communication in Wildland Fire” in Portland to the International Association of Wildland Fire Fuels and Fire Behavior Conference. Rebekah also spoke to the Forest Service “Learning From Unintended Consequences” training workshop about the role of storytelling in organizational learning in Tucson. Rebekah’s Environmental Communication (COMM 3318O) students performed an analysis on the wildland fire education tools used in the Austin area for the Capital Area Fire Adapted Communities Education and Outreach Task Force. She will present the findings to the task force in May. Sean Horan was honored with Article of the Year from the Eastern Communication Association for his article, “Priest as Teacher III: Parishioners’ Responsiveness and Priests’ Vocational Qualities,” published in Communication Quarterly . Sean also presented a paper to the ECA conference in Baltimore. The paper was co-authored with Tricia Burke and M.A. student Toni Morgan and is entitled, “Sex, alcohol, and risk: Parental messages and associated behavior of adult children.” Sean provided research-based commentary in an article titled “Why you should go on a second date (even if there was no spark)” for Greatist.com. Maureen Keeley submitted “Family Communication at the End of Life” to the Journal of Family Communication . She also contributed a piece entitled “End of Life Communication” to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication . Both publications are currently in-press. Wayne Kraemer was honored at the annual University Interscholastic League’s State Cross Examination Debate Tournament in recognition of twenty-five years as a contest director for UIL. He also presented “The Promise of America: Ted Cruz’s Rhetoric of Christian Conscience” to the SSCA conference with co-author Ann Burnette . Kristin LeBlanc Farris recently presented research entitled “Stigma and Health Literacy on Campus: Implications for Building a Culture of Mental Health Help-Seeking” to the Kentucky Conference on Health Communication. She also presented at the Hays County Alzheimer’s Association Caregiving Workshop about “Dementia and Marriage.” Kristin and Dr. Michael Burns , in conjunction with the Department of Retention and Management, hosted a COMM 1310 Lab Instructor Reunion as part of their longitudinal research on the basic communication course’s impact on the retention of students at Texas State. Roseann Mandziuk planned the 86th annual Southern States Communication Association conference that took place in Austin, April 6-10. The conference featured over 180 programs with over 800 attendees. Special sessions included a discussion of Lyndon Baines Johnson and Social Justice and a spotlight program about Songwriting With Soldiers. Roseann is currently the Vice President of SSCA and will serve as President in 2016-2017. Philip Salem is working with international publisher IGI Global to publish selected papers from the Organizational Communication Traditions, Transitions, and Transformations Conference held this February in Austin. In addition, Management Communication Quarterly has agreed to devote a special section of an upcoming issue to the conference. Phil Salem and Erik Timmerman from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will serve as