April May 2023 College News

Characterization of DACA Recipients," to the 13th Hofstra Presidential Conference in New York. Hofstra University brought together scholars, journalists, politicians, and members of the Obama administration to discuss Obama's accomplishments and legacy. Michael Burns received the 2023 Friend of Student Success Award from the Division of Student Success at Texas State. [2] Casey Chilton appeared on the podcast “Storytelling Movement” created and hosted by Ryan McPherson to discuss essential facilitation skills in small group discussion. He also provided presentation coaching to the Texas Youth Preparedness Council as they prepared to give presentations on their projects to the Texas Emergency Management Conference in San Antonio this summer. Stephanie Dailey published “Being creative within (or outside) the box: Bridging occupational identity gaps” in Management Communication Quarterly . Kristen Farris presented a paper co-authored with Maya Blitch , entitled, "Re-conceptualization of support (in)adequacy: An exploration of message feature and relational outcome differences for support gap messages" at the Southern States Communication Association Conference in St. Petersburg. Kristen also chaired and presented on a panel entitled, "The Future of Family Turbulence: Exploring Relational Turbulence in Family Contexts" at the SSCA conference. Rebekah Fox was named editor of the Southern Communication Journal at the Southern States Communication Association Convention in St. Petersburg. Wayne Kramer was presented with the Carrol and Barbara Hickey Award for Distinguished Service at the American Forensics Association National Speech Tournament. He also presented, "The Genius of America and the Model Immigrant: Barack Obama's Rhetorical Characterization of DACA Recipients," to the 13th Hofstra Presidential Conference in New York. Hofstra University brought together scholars, journalists, politicians, and members of the Obama administration to discuss Obama's accomplishments and legacy. College of Fine Arts and Communication | 9 Roseann Mandziuk presented “Where Femininity Meets Hate: Exposing the Rhetoric of Women and White Supremacy” as the Dean’s Seminar Distinguished Achievement recipient. This presentation focused on archival research projects that examine the rhetoric of two significant women’s organizations, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. Roseann attended the Eastern States Communication Association convention in Baltimore, Maryland. As immediate past president, she represented the National Communication Association on the panel "Enacting Transformational Change." She received the Top Paper Award from the Rhetoric and Public Address Division of the Southern States Communication Association for her essay, "'Where a fair white stone has been cast': The perverse feminism of the women of the Ku Klux Klan.” The paper was presented at the SSCA Convention in St. Petersburg. [3] Josh Miller presented “Happy talk and diverse representation in 9-1-1: Lone Star,” to the Southern States Communication Association Conference. The paper was co-authored with Claire Stevenson and Tyshee Sonnier . While at SSCA, he also participated on a panel entitled “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t: Articulating a Manifesto for Future Discourses of Allyship” and on a panel where he presented work on “The Future(s) of Hope(lessness): Queer Rhetorical Pedagogy and Academic Drag Amidst Toxicity.” He also responded to an Undergraduate Honors Conference panel on rhetorics across form. Manu Pokharel welcomed the students of COMM 5333 (Health Communication) to the BioCOMM Research Lab at Texas State to discuss the use of psychophysiological measures in Health Communication. The students were also able to see how psychophysiological data are collected using eye- tracking, GSR, and facial expression analysis system. BOBCATS SHINE AT SPRING TOURNAMENTS The LBJ Debate Society and Elton Abernathy Forensics Society, Texas State’s competitive speech and forensics team, competed in several tournaments during the spring semester.