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Kathy Weiss, associate professor of biology, received the university’s Achievement Award for Undergraduate Teaching and Doug Campbell, professor of art, was named recipient of the Undergraduate Faculty Research and Scholarship Award. At the graduate level, Terry Huffman, an education professor in the Educational Foundations and Leadership program, received the Faculty Achievement Award for Graduate Research and Scholarship, while Chris Meade, assistant professor of management, received the Faculty Achievement Award for Graduate Teaching. You can read more about them here.
Sarah Gibson’s (Cinema and Media Communication) interactive documentary, Steve Taylor’s Digital Clone, was awarded the Best of Festival King Foundation Award in the faculty interactive media category at the Broadcast Education Association national convention as well as Best in Competition in the faculty interactive documentary category. This is the highest distinction at BEA given to only the top 1.2 percent of all entries. In addition, Gibson’s companion documentary, Steve Taylor is Not Dead, screened at North Central University’s new documentary festival as a non-competition invited lead entry. Sarah also presented a paper, “Social Media in the Courtroom,†at the Pacific Northwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
Kevin T. Jones (Communication Arts) presented a paper, “I’m guilty, but leave my family alone: Circumventing personal disaster through sex scandal apologia,†at the Northwest Communication Association annual conference April 12-14, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The paper examined rhetorical strategies used by noteworthy individuals (i.e Tiger Woods) when confronting the media about a sex scandal. Several communication arts students presented papers as well. Seniors Lishan Zeng and Kaleb Olsen presented “The influence of uncertainty on self-disclosure/intimacy in intercultural communication,†and senior Amanda Kate Winkelman and junior Matayah Fox shared their paper “Mass Media Study: Online exposure compared to Internet involvement and disclosure.â€
Jim Steele (Business) was a featured speaker on the topic “A Leader’s Guide to Navigating Change†at Corvallis LEADS (Leadership, Education and Development Summit), sponsored by the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce on April 20.
Joel Perez (Dean of Transitions and Inclusion) was quoted in an Urban Faith article, “Doing College Diversity Well,†that appeared on the organization’s website on April 27. The article is available at this link.
Douglas Campbell (Visual Arts) had “Check,†a mixed media piece, and “Enore,†a monoprint, accepted into a juried exhibit, “Full Moon Rising,†at the Red Raven Gallery in Salem, Ore. The exhibit runs from May 2 through May 30. Also, his poems “Reims Rendezvous†and “Paths†are included in the Spring 2012 issue of Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature; his poem “The Demon Cupid†was included in the Winter 2011 issue of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review; and his poems “Rodin’s Gates of Hell†and “Constable’s Landscape†were included in the online journal Ides of March in April.