September 2023 College News

College of Fine Arts and Communication | 11 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) SPRING SOCIAL ON THE RIVER Research Enhancement Program (REP) applications are now open! All applications are due by 5PM on Friday, October 6th. Eligible faculty members can apply for up to $8,000 if submitting alone or $16,000 if submitting with two or more collaborators. Faculty of Practice are eligible to apply for a REP. After back- to-back years of earning record amounts of REP funds, CoFAC is hoping to continue its success with securing funding for fantastic creative and research-focused faculty projects. Please contact the C3 Team if you have any questions regarding REP guidelines, budgets, narratives, or submission procedures. Matthew Winn (mwinn@txstate.edu) is more than happy to review your proposal and give high-quality feedback, while Meredith Williams ( mc65@txstate.edu ) can help you manage the funding if awarded. Additionally, helpful resources such as a recorded 2023 CoFAC REP Workshop, budget cheat sheet, narrative template, and examples of successful REP applications can be found on C3’s Internal Funding Page. THE C3 TEAM WILL BE AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER CoFAC faculty who have an idea for a research or creative project that requires funding to be conducted for external funding opportunities with the help of C3 services and resources. For example, faculty can learn how to use and search for funding on the PIVOT funding database through a recorded PIVOT workshop. In this C3 led workshop, Pre-Award Research Coordinator Matthew Winn shows faculty how to actively create and save funding searches, how to passively receive weekly emails with new funding opportunities, and how to get the most out of PIVOT through advanced searches. Additionally, faculty can look through C3’s curated external funding opportunities that are broken down by each of the five CoFAC units. Finally, faculty are encouraged to reach out to the C3 Team if they would like to learn more about applying for external funding opportunities. 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