October 2021 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 | 5 THE TEXAS STATE GALLERIES Galleries 1 & 2 , FLEX Space, and JCM Lobby are physically located within the School of Art & Design at Texas State Universit y. HOMESTEAD Bill Hutson | JCM Lobby SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 – MAY 18,2022 Bill Hutson was born in San Marcos, Texas in 1936. Homestead is the first presentation of the artist’s work in his hometown, anchored by Homestead with signs, symbols and numbers, a painting that derives from the artist’s memory of his family’s multi-generational property at 733 Center Street. The painting contains numerous references to the site and to San Marcos, references that hold personal significance for the artist. According to Hutson, the confluence of abstraction and representation, coupled with the overlapping of forms and lack of over all depth, allows for a composition that is free of a specific time or space—as elusive as the memories it represents. BUENA BROMA Israel Al e jandro Medina | FLEX Space OCTOBER 30 – NOVEMBER 12 Buena Broma depicts childhood memories of artist Israel Alejandro Medina. Israel makes large, provoking work with dirt, metal, found objects, toys, and combining them with sophisticated/primitive materials and processes. 4 | October | College News HAVE AN IDEA ?! CONTACT Meredith Williams C3 Team 512.245.6719 mc65@txstate.edu MatthewWinn C3 Team 512.245.0040 mwinn@txstate.edu RESOURCE GUIDE: 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) COSEARCH MAKES A SUCCESSFUL RETURN TO TXST! After taking a year of in 2020, CoSearch returned this mid-September. Tis year’s 6th annual CoSearch event featured, for the frst time, a theme surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion. Te two-day event was a resounding success, and almost every college was represented among the participants. Out of these competitors, six were College of Fine Arts and Communication faculty from Communication Studies, Music, Teatre and Dance, and Journalism and Mass Communication. Each of the twenty-one CoSearch participants had an opportunity to pitch one idea for a research or creative project that addressed a real-world issue. Competitors then voted on their favorite ideas and split up into teams to develop those ideas that culminated in fnal presentations to a panel of eight judges from the university and surrounding community. Te issues addressed by projects at CoSearch this year included: innovating to reliably provide access to safe drinking water to those in need, creating a bridge to graduate school for LatinX students, and using photovoice to promote inclusion of those with Autism within our communities. Tis year, Familia First, a project that seeks to use Virtual Reality to educate people, predominantly in underserved communities, about the causes and efects of diabetes, took home frst place. Winning team members included Dr. Lynn Brinckmeyer , Dr. Yong-Suk Yoo , Dr. Maria Resendiz , and Dr. Teresa Garcia . Te CoSearch team would like to extend huge thank you's to Vlasta Silhavy and her theatre students, who provided crucial assistance on both days of the event, and to Craig Aamot for allowing CoSearch to use video recordings of VocaLibre for the competition’s intermission entertainment. Congratulations to the CoSearch team and all who participated in the event on another great competition and experience!