January & February 2020 College News

FACULTY ACCOLADES Ann Burnette delivered a talk on the arguments used by woman sufrage leaders at the program “Selling Sufrage: Words and Symbols to Win the Vote and the ERA.” Te occasion was a fundraising event for the Turning Point Sufrage Memorial Association, which is raising money for a national memorial to commemorate the movement that secured women’s right to vote. She was also interviewed as an expert on presidential communication by the Washington Post for a piece entitled, “From ‘my generals’ to ‘my Kevin,’ Trump's preferred possessive can be a sign of afection or control.” Michael Burns was the keynote speaker at Te Ohio State University's Academic Leadership Forum. [ 1 ] He guided the provost and every vice president, dean, and chair/director at Ohio State through a workshop focused on best practices for conducting interdisciplinary research. Tis workshop was based of of the CoSearch program he developed with Marian Houser. Manusheela Pokharel [ 2 ] published “Cancer information overload: Discriminant validity and relationship to sun safe behaviors,” in Patient Education and Counseling . Her article, “Health communication roles in Latino, Pacifc Islander, and Caucasian Families: A qualitative investigation” was recently published in the Journal of Genetic Counseling . STUDENT ACCOLADES M.A. students Sean Dyhre , Jorlanditha Austin , and Noah Dawson travelled with Dr. Stephanie Dailey to the Organizational Communication Mini Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [ 3] 1 Ana Baer's screendance, La Sabina , which was recognized for Best Editing by Global Shorts 2 Te Wall , a screendance by Ana Baer and Michelle Nance 3 A Moment , at the Long Center in Austin, produced by Shay Ishii 8 | January & February | College News DANCE Dance Studies, Per formance & Choreography, Single Teaching Certif ication, & Dual Teaching Certif ications FACULTY ACCOLADES Ana Baer’s La Sabina was recognized for Best Editing by Global Shorts, Los Angeles, CA. [ 1 ] Ana’s screendances La Sabina and Turbulence were selected for screening at ESMoA Film Festival, El Segundo, CA. Her screendance Wild-er-ness (in collaboration with Heike Salzer, Michelle Nance , Richard D. Hall and Robert Burton) won frst prize under the category of Innovation at the Jeju Drone Festival held at the Aerospace Museum in Jeju, South Korea. WECreate Spaces: InBetweenness , Ana’s latest screendance (produced in collaboration with Michelle Nance , Rocio Luna, Heike Salzer, Robert Burton and Joaquin Lopez Chas) was selected as the Video of the Month in January by Dance Magazine . Te Wall , screendance by Ana Baer and Michelle Nance , was screened during the Wimberley Film Festival. [ 2 ] Ana Baer and Christa Oliver produced MergeX on February 27-29 at the Performing Arts Center. Celebrating Merge Dance Company’s 10th season, the concert included choreography by Ana Baer and Christa Oliver , in addition to guest artists: Body Shift (a mixed ability company from Austin), Rosely Conz (Brazil), Erica Gionfriddo (ARCOS, Austin), Roxanne Gage (Austin Community College), and the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. Performers included student members of Merge Dance Company, in addition to faculty Kaysie Seitz Brown , Nicole Wesley , and Michelle Nance who premiered Ana Baer’s WECreate Spaces: Barriers flmed in El Paso. Shay Ishii produced A Moment at the Long Center in Austin on February 7-8. [ 3] Choreographic works were presented by Shay Ishii , Amanda McCorkle , and Kaysie Seitz Brown . Dancers included Kaysie Seitz Brown , LeAnne Smith , Nicole Wesley , Misti Galvan , and Michelle Nance . HAVE AN IDEA ?! CONTACT MatthewWinn, M.A. Proposal Development 512.245.0040 mwinn@txstate.edu RESOURCE GUIDE: Lisa Westerbeck, M.P.A. Award Management 512.245.6719 lisa@txstate.edu Te Resource Guide was created to help faculty fnd and obtain funding and provide support in managing awards for research and creative projects. C3 The Center for Communication, Collaboration & Creativit y (C3) RESEARCH BY THE PINT EVENT Te C3 Team and the C3 Advisory Board invite all COFAC faculty to the frst Research by the Pint Event at Hops & Grain Brewery in San Marcos, on Tursday April 2 at 5:30pm. Tere will be a brief discussion related to research goals and advice for tenure track faculty, but the event is largely designed to be an informal social gathering for COFAC faculty to meet their colleagues and share their ideas with one another. If you have any questions about the event, please email Matthew Winn (Pre-Award Research Coordinator) at mwinn@txstate.edu or Kelly Kaufhold (C3 Advisory Board Chair) at kellyhaufhold@txstate.edu. If you plan on attending the event, please register here so that we have an idea of how many faculty to expect. HANK HEHMSOTH COMPLETES SUCCESSFUL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP Jazz Researcher and Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Music, Hank Hehmsoth , recently completed his Berger-Carter-Berger Jazz Research Fellowship at the Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) at Rutgers University. Hehmsoth spent over a week at IJS sorting through and analyzing recordings and video footage of NEA Jazz Master Dan Morgenstern. As a director of the IJS at Rutgers from 1976 to 2013, producer of Chicago’s PBS station WTTW’s Just Jazz , and eight-time Grammy Award winner, Morgenstern is a legendary fgure in the world of Jazz music. During his fellowship, Hehmsoth uncovered previously uncatalogued and rare video footage of legendary jazz musicians including Billy Eckstine, Dexter Gordon, Ray Nance, and several others. Hehmsoth is currently working on an application for CLIR’s Recordings at Risk grant due at the end of May, that if awarded, will allow him to preserve and digitize dozens of interviews between Dan Morgenstern and various Jazz legends. For more information on Hehmsoth’s work, visit the Dan Morgenstern Collection webpage. College of Fine Arts and Communication | 9