October 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] College of Fine Arts and Communication | 9 HAVE AN IDEA ?! CONTACT MatthewWinn, M.A. Proposal Development 512.245.0040 mwinn@txstate.edu RESOURCE GUIDE: Lisa Fossum, 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) SAN MARCOS ARTS AND CULTURAL GRANT After being delayed by two months, the City of San Marcos Arts Commission announced that its 2021 Arts and Cultural Grant will be due Monday, November 9 by 2PM. Funds are available for art projects that promote or enhance the arts in San Marcos. Projects must also enhance tourism to the community. A project is an activity or series of closely related activities for which funds are requested. Te project must be completed within 12 months of the notifcation of the receipt of the funding. Funds may be requested to initiate cultural activities, to supplement existing arts programming; or, to provide enrichment or education. Here are the instructions and guidelines for the grant. Please read through these guidelines carefully. Tere have been some updates since last year’s funding cycle. If you are interested in applying for the grant or simply have more questions about the grant, please do not hesitate to email your Pre-Award Research Coordinator, Matthew Winn (mwinn@txstate.edu ). PHDIGITAL ONL INE INTO THE FUTURE School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s Dr. Cindy Royal received grants totaling $225,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation from 2018- 2020 for the PhDigital Bootcamp (phdigitalbootcamp. com) , teaching innovation and emerging digital media practices for doctoral students from universities across the U.S. and abroad. With COVID-19 in 2020, the program was unable to have the in-person component, and faculty adapted with additional online modules in web development, data journalism, analytics, 360 video/ virtual reality and use of drones. For the remaining balance of $50,000 that normally would have funded the in-person element, Dr. Royal submitted a proposal that was accepted for a grant extension to fund two more years to work with individual doctoral programs delivering PhDigital content completely online. Tis assures the continuation of the program in a format that can scale the ofering into the future.