September 2018 College News

Elizabeth K. Eger published “Transgender jobseekers navigating closeting communication in Management Communication Quarterly . Kristen Farris co-authored a manuscript in Communication Teory entitled, “Interpersonal communication and coping with cancer: A multidisciplinary theoretical review of the literature.” Also, Kristen and the COMM 1310 teaching team trained 15 new graduate instructional assistants through the Teaching and Learning Academy. [3] She also earned a Top Paper Award from the Instructional Communication Division at the National Communication Association for “Te road to hel(l) icopter teaching: An empirical examination of a novel instructional communication construct.” Rebekah Fox published “Teaching free speech across the communication studies curriculum” in the journal First Amendment Studies . Marian Houser earned a Top Paper Award from the Instructional Communication Division at the National Communication Association for “Te road to hel(l) icopter teaching: An empirical examination of a novel instructional communication construct.” Te data presented in the paper were collected by graduate students in Marian’s instructional communication course last spring. Te authors will present their manuscript at the NCA Convention in Salt Lake City this November. Wayne Kraemer presented research at the 9th International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) Conference hosted by the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Roseann Mandziuk presented “Confederate memory’s dutiful descendants: Disputed monuments and the rhetorical defenses of the United Daughters of the Confederacy” to the 9th International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) Conference hosted by the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She was recently selected as one of two nominees to stand for election to the position of Second Vice President of the National Communication Association. C. Erik Timmerman taught Communication 5329B (Communication & Negotiation) during the second summer session. In addition to reading classical and CLASS OF 2022 Michael Burns presented fve note-taking presentations at Bobcat Preview to over 2,000 new freshmen that will graduate in 2022. Bobcat Preview is a program that introduces activities, people, and traditions at Texas State and is designed to give new students at Texas State information that will help them be successful college students. He also gave a presentation to Texas State athletes at the J. Ryan Whittington Leadership Academy focusing on creative problem-solving and teamwork. contemporary research, three guest speakers attended class sessions to describe how negotiation and confict resolution are utilized in professional contexts. Dr. Zyg Maksymowicz from the Central Texas Dispute Resolution Center (CTDRC) discussed the connections between negotiation and mediation as well as the mediation services and training that are available from the CTDRC. Dr. Wayman Mullins from the Texas State University Department of Criminal Justice explained the characteristics of crisis and hostage negotiation and facilitated students’ participation in a simulation of a hostage negotiation scenario. Dr. Vincent Luizzi, from the Department of Philosophy and the Faculty Ombudsman at Texas State University, explained the role of an ombudsman and the connections between this role and other positions in a public university. Lindsay Timmerman presented “Stigmatized disclosure: Topics and reasons for withholding from close others” to the International Association for Relationship Research Conference. STUDENT ACCOLADES M.A. students Logan Carpenter and Trevor Kauer , and College of Fine Arts and Communication | 7