October 2023 College News

DANCE Dance Studies, Per formance & Choreography, Single Teaching Certif ication, & Dual Teaching Certif ications FACULTY ACCOLADES Ana Baer’s screendance piece "HinterTerra" (a collaboration with Michelle Nance and Richard Hall) was selected for screening during the Women in Dance International Dance Film Fest, Yokohama, Japan. Additionally, her pieces "IXCHEL" and "Sympoiesis" were selected by Make Art Not War Film Festival Online, MX/Argentina. "Sympoiesis" will be shown at the Opening Door Dance Concert at Evans Auditorium, TXST. Lastly, her screendance piece "Stay Behind the Yellow Line" was selected by 60 Seconds International Film Festival, Islamabad, Pakistan. [1] Lynzy Lab opened her first art show entitled Something Shiny at Mid Main Gallery in Houston. The show ran for the month of October. [2] Rebekah Chappell alongside Kristin Marrs, presented their paper entitled "Dancing Across the Curriculum: Re-imagining Ballet Class in the Liberal Arts" at the 2023 CORPS de Ballet International Conference. Rebekah Chappell performed in Dance Carousel in Austin. Brandon Gonzalez performed in "Wise Faith" at the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival with guest artist Karen Nelson. He also taught a workshop entitled "Change State." The conference was hosted at Texas Women's University in Denton. ALUMNI ACCOLADES Kalista Reina , Lindsey Gerson , and Alexus Galeana performed with with Blue Lapis Light in Austin. [3] Ana Baer's screendance "Sympoiesis" was selected by Make Art Not War Film Festival Online Lynzy Lab opened her first art show Three alumni performed with Blue Lapis Light 8 | October 2023 | College News 1 2 3 College of Fine Arts and Communication | 9 FACULTY ACCOLADES Ann Burnette delivered a talk on the arguments used by woman suffrage leaders at the program “Selling Suffrage: Words and Symbols to Win the Vote and the ERA.” The occasion was a fundraising event for the Turning Point Suffrage 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 affection or control.” Michael Burns was the keynote speaker at The 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. This workshop was based off 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, Pacific 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] C3 The Center for Communication, Collaboration & Creativit y (C3) U.S. FOREST SERVICE AWARDS DR. FOX $100K TO RESEARCH AND IMPROVE COMMUNICATION FOR WILDLAND F IREF IGHTERS Communication Studies Professor, Dr. Rebekah Fox, was recently awarded $100 thousand from the United States Forest Service (USFS) to conduct mixed methods research on topics related to organizational communication and the barriers and facilitators of implementing the Wildfire Crisis Strategy (WCS). Specifically, Dr. Fox will examine previous insight from peer-reviewed publications, survey members of the Forest Service, hold focus groups, and create reports detailing the barriers within USFS to improving firefighter adaptability and skillsets. The data collected from this three-year project will be used to make recommendations and establish tools that can enhance wildfire crisis and risk management decision- making. Additionally, this research is expected to lead to both important academic publications and technical reports. C3 HOLDS FALL SOCIAL AT LOCAL RESTAURANT, INDUSTRY After the success of a similar event held in the spring, on October 18th the C3 Team held the first ever Fall Social event for CoFAC faculty to get to know each other and the team. Faculty from all five units showed up to enjoy some appetizers, courtesy of Dean Fleming, learn more about the grant and funding services that C3 offers, and to enjoy the company of their fellow CoFAC colleagues. A good time was had by all! If you were unable to make it to the Fall Social, be on the lookout for invitations to the Spring Social that will be held in mid-March. As always, if you ever have any grant related questions, please reach out to Matthew Winn (mwinn@txstate. edu) or Meredith Williams (mc65@txstate.edu ). HAVE AN IDEA ?! CONTACT MatthewWinn C3 Team 512.245.0040 mwinn@txstate.edu RESOURCE GUIDE: The Resource Guide was created to help faculty find and obtain funding and provide support in managing awards for research and creative projects. Meredith Williams C3 Team 512.245.6719 mc65@txstate.edu