September 2020 College News

DANCE Dance Studies, Per formance & Choreography, Single Teaching Certif ication, & Dual Teaching Certif ications FACULTY ACCOLADES Ana Baer’s screendance Thule was selected to screen during ADF Movies by Movers, US on June 15 and Dance Days Chania, Greece on July 27 - 29. [ 1 ] Additionally, her screendance LaSabina was selected to screen during the 60 Second International Film Festival in Pakistan in August and the International Extreme- Short Film Competition at the Chiayi Municipal Art Museum in Taiwan during July. Ana co-produced the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema - Online Brazil Event (August 10 - 24) and presented the lecture "From Inception to Production" as well as the screendance Olhar Migrante in collaboration with Dançaberta. Christa Oliver won the Liberate Artists Forward Movement Educator Award, and she was a guest speaker at the Creative Collision Community Arts Event for adolescents in San Marcos. The Wall and Homemaker (both collaborations between Michelle Nance , Ana Baer and Richard Hall ) as well as WCS:InBeetweenness (collaboration with Michelle Nance and Heike Salzer ) [ 2 ] were invited to The Summer Company online. Nicole Wesley curated and directed a 5-day dance intensive at Wimberley Dance Elite hosting Megan Moss from the Dance Division and Jeremiah Porter from Musical Theatre. She is co-directing the 2020 COCO Dance Festival entitled Alien and has been a host and has hosted dance professionals around the country including Mx Oops (New York), Anne Wharton (Texas) and Jenise Anthony &Mohamed Diaby (Trinidad/New York) in the COCO Online Master Class Series and the COCO Convos Series. The COCO Dance Festival was recently featured online on the Queen’s Hall website and was featured in this month’s Caribbean Beat magazine. Nicole taught a recruitment master class at Heather Stolle’s studio which resulted in 3 new Dance division majors. [ 3] Ana Baer’s screendance Thule WCS:InBeetweenness , a collaboration with Michelle Nance and Heike Salzer Wesley-Heather Stolle's School of Dance Summer 2020 Dance Intensive with Dance Division students Lilly Thurman, Mark Gonzalez and Daniel Garcia 8 | September | College Newss 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) REP APPL ICATIONS ARE OPEN Research Enhancement Program (REP) applications are now open! All applications are due by 5PM on Tuesday, October 13th. Eligible faculty members can apply for up to $8,000 if submitting alone or $16,000 if submitting with two or more collaborators. This year, Faculty of Practice are eligible to apply for an REP. Please contact the C3 Center if you have any questions regarding REP guidelines, budgets, narratives, or submission procedures. Matthew Winn (mwinn@txstate.edu) and Lisa Fossum (lisa@txstate.edu) are more than happy to review your proposal and give high quality feedback. Additionally, helpful resources such as a recorded 2020 COFAC REP Workshop, budget cheat sheet, narrative template, and examples of successful REP applications can be found on C3’s Internal Funding Page. F IRST NSF GRANT AWARDED Dr. Sean Justice (Art and Design) and his Co-PI Dr. Lori Assaf (College of Education) were awarded a $450K PreK-12 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their project, Exploring Early Childhood Teachers’ Abilities to Identify Computational Thinking Precursors to Strengthen Computer Science in Classrooms. This is the first NSF grant to be awarded to a lead Project Investigator (PI). Dr. Justice and Dr. Assaf ’s project will last three years and will focus on the design and implementation of culturally relevant computer science learning activities for young children. Their goal is to design a replicable model of PreK-2 teacher professional development to address a lack of early childhood learning research in computer science education. Furthermore, their project will investigate ways to engage PreK-2 teachers with computational thinking (a problem-solving process), and to help them integrate it into their day-to-day classroom activities. As with Dr. Justice’s previous project, Families Learning Together, this project will positively impact students, families, and teachers in the San Marcos community. HAVE AN IDEA ?! CONTACT Lisa Fossum, M.P.A. Award Management 512.245.6719 lisa@txstate.edu MatthewWinn, M.A. Proposal Development 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.