March 2020 College News

1 Steven Beebe 's 11th edition of Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach 2 Elizabeth K. Eger at the WSCA where she received a Top Paper Award in the Organizational Communication Interest Group 3 M.A. alumnus Mark Generous and Professor Maureen Keeley 4 | March | College News COMMUNICATION STUDIES Communication Studies, Health Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Leadership Studies, Organizational Communication, Persuasive Communication, Political Communication, & Teacher Certif ication in Communication Studies FACULTY ACCOLADES Steven Beebe published the 11th edition of Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach with co- author Susan J. Beebe. [ 1 ] Ann Burnette was recently quoted in the NBC News article “Election Stress Disorder: How to Cope with the Anxiety as Political Tensions Intensify.” Ann also welcomed Dr. David Zarefsky, Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University, to her COMM 4321 American Speeches class. Dr. Zarefsky gave a talk on his forthcoming book on Lyndon B. Johnson's March 31, 1968, “Renunciation Speech.” He was in San Marcos to deliver a lecture on "LBJ's War on Poverty 50+ Years Later" to the LBJ Museum of San Marcos. Michael Burns received the Presidential Distinction Award for Service and will represent the College of Fine Arts and Communication as a nominee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Service. Stephanie Dailey received the Presidential Distinction Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity and will represent the College of Fine Arts and Communication as a nominee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activity. She was also part of a team that was awarded a library online resource grant in the amount of $30,740. Elizabeth K. Eger received a Top Paper Award in the Organizational Communication Interest Group of the Western States Communication Association (WSCA) Annual Conference for “Co-constructing organizational identity and culture with those we serve: An Ethnography of a transgender nonproft organization communicating family identity and identifcation.” [ 2 ] She also created and presented a panel at the conference, “Centering Intersectionality and Diference in Communication Studies Pedagogy: Teaching Practices for Critique, Agitation, and Justice.” Elizabeth was also part of a team that was awarded a library online resource grant in the amount of $30,740. Te purpose of the online resource grant is to enable the purchasing of larger one-time online resources no one department can easily aford with its library allocation. Kristen Farris received the Presidential Distinction Award for Teaching and will represent the College of Fine Arts and Communication as a nominee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching. Marian Houser received the Presidential Distinction Award for Service and will represent the College of Fine Arts and Communication as a nominee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Service. Maureen Keeley received the College Achievement Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity. She was also part of a team that was awarded a library online resource grant in the amount of $30,740. Cassandra LeClair gave a presentation on creating connections through communication at the 2020 New Braunfels Beauty and Wellness Show. She also received the College Achievement Award for Teaching. Roseann Mandziuk received the College Achievement Award for Teaching. Manusheela Pokharel had three papers accepted to the International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference. “Temporal frames, temporal focus, and sun safe behaviors: A message experiment,” “Comparing melanoma death and survivor narratives: A message experiment,” and “Te ‘discourse of derision’ in U.S. education news” will be presented at the 70th Annual International Communication Association Conference, Gold Coast, Australia. She was also part of a team that was awarded a library online resource grant in the amount of $30,740. Lindsay Timmerman served as a breakout session speaker at the 10th annual Leadership Institute Conference at Texas State. Her session entitled “Te Dark Side of Communication: Embracing Complicated Communication,” focused on communication challenges and struggles in leadership. STUDENT ACCOLADES An event entitled “Submitting to NCA & Beyond” was hosted by the Communication Studies Graduate Association (CSGA) as the frst session in its professional development series. Elizabeth Eger , Manu Pokharel , and Josh Miller provided advice and tips about the conference submission process, encouraging students view themselves as emerging scholars who have valuable contributions to make to the feld of Communication Studies. CSGA will host other professional development events throughout the semester. ALUMNI ACCOLADES Cara Gustafson (B.A., 2016) recently accepted a position as Communications Specialist at Public Blueprint in Austin. She serves as the frm’s primary point-of-contact on communications issues with the press and manages public-facing channels and public relations eforts. Cara spent the three previous years serving as Communications Director for State Representative Garnet Coleman. TOP FOUR PAPER AWARD Maureen Keeley received a Top Four Paper Award from the Health Communication Division at the Western Communication Association Conference for “Final conversations (FCs) and coping: A quantitative and qualitative exploration,” co-authored with M.A. alum Mark Generous . Maureen and Mark also had “End of life communication and growth following death” accepted for publication in the journal Omega . [ 3] College of Fine Arts and Communication | 5