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Our students, alumni and faculty are accomplishing some really great things!
Students - Mass Media
Armando Ramirez has been awarded acceptance and a full scholarship to Oklahoma State University's graduate Media Management program. Brandon Scott has been accepted to the graduate Journalism program at Syracuse University.
Students - Mass Media
KSWH The Pulse 99.9 and two radio broadcasting students, Nathan Looper and Brandon Tabor, were awarded a College Media Apple Award at the Spring 2005 National College Media Convention. The award is given annually to one college radio station in the nation in recognition of student excellence.
Students - Theatre
Two Henderson State University theatre students have received an all-expenses-paid trip to the National Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in April at Washington D.C. for the honors they received at the Region VI festival in 2005 at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Michael McGehee was awarded first place in the scene design competition with his design for the play Simon Says Shoot and will bring his design to the national competition. Hollie White was honored as the top student director in the region for her direction of Simon Says Shoot. White will be able to direct one of the student-written plays at the national competition. Other notable achievements by Henderson State theatre students at the regional festival include Rachel Archer, who was named one of 16 finalists out of more than 250 participants in the Irene Ryan Scholarship Acting competition. Archer and her scene partner, Ramsey Burress of Nashville, performed to an audience of more than 1,000 people at the Saturday evening Showcase of Scenes at the festival. Stuart Bailey was awarded second place in the lighting design competition. Justin Turner was one of six student playwrights chosen to participate in the 24-hour play festival. Turner's Simon Says Shoot was performed at the regional festival.
Students & Faculty - Mass Media
Douglas Gast, Assistant Professor, received a faculty development grant award to chair a panel at the 2005 Spring National College Media Convention in New York. Two graduate students, Mary Downey and Martin Downey, were awarded financial assistance by the Graduate School to attend the convention and serve on the panel with Professor Gast. Four undergraduate representatives of HTV and KSWH attended the conference and and were included on a backstage tour of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Montel Williams Show and Sports Illustrated.
Students & Faculty - Dance
Ms. Jennifer Maddox, dance instructor, received a faculty grant award that allowed the Henderson Dance Company to attend the American College Dance Festival in March 2005 at Washington University in St. Louis. The festival was represented by about 30 university dance companies and over 500 dancers. The dance company presented three original dances and take classes from other university dance instructors. Maddox also taught dance classes to students from other universities.
Faculty - Mass Media
Michael Taylor, Professor, received a grant for travel to Colorado to shoot footage and to do research on a documentary film about prisoner abuse among privatized prisoner-transport companies. The research grant funded a five-day trip to Colorado, where Professor Taylor conducted interviews with Robin Darbyshire in a Colorado women's prison.
Students - Mass Media
Video art students presented an exhibit of their work in December of 2004 on the third floor of Spencer's Corner in Hot Springs as part of the monthly Gallery Walk. The exhibit appealed to those "interested in seeing the conventional boundaries of art bulging at the seams."
Faculty - Theatre
Dr. Claudia Beach, Associate Professor, received a grant that allowed her to serve as a judge at various regional contests for the American College Theater Festival, where she serves as vice chair of Region VI. The grant allowed her to attend state festivals in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
Students - Communications
The Intercollegiate Debate Team competed against other Arkansas universities in the Arkansas State Communication Association Student Congress competition held at the Arkansas State Capitol. Tiffany Kelly received awards for excellent committee, superior caucus, best delegate and superior parliamentary procedures. Derek Fuzzell received a superior in committee, floor debate and parliamentary procedures. Richard Tillman received an excellent in floor debate and his bill passed both the Senate and the House to go to Gov. Huckabee for review. Melissa Todd received an excellent in committee and floor debate. Zack Ramsey received an excellent in committee and floor debate. Reagen Whitworth received an excellent in committee award.
Students - Theatre
Theatre students garnered awards in all categories at the Arkansas/Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, which took place on the campuses of Henderson State and Ouachita Baptist Universities. Ten Arkansas universities participated in the festival, which included full productions of plays, readings of new student-written works, workshops, and forums.
Faculty - Mass Media
Douglas Gast, Assistant Professor, received a grant to help fund his presentation at AutuMedia, part of the Festival of the New that celebrated the 2003 opening of the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. AutuMedia, a media exhibition produced by Media Bridges, displayed film and interactive artwork that is “multimedia” in an entirely new sense of the word.
Faculty - Mass Media
Michael Taylor made a presentation at the 2003 Convention of College Media Advisors. The convention was held in Dallas with more than 2,600 attending. Taylor’s discussion, entitled, “Beyond the Query Letter: Building Editorial Relationships” focused on helping magazine writers to build and maintain relationships with their editors. Having written freelance material for such publications as Sports Illustrated, Audubon, Reader’s Digest, and National Geographic, Taylor’s own experience with magazine editors allowed him to explain how these relationships can be developed.
Students & Faculty - Dance
The Department of Dance received an Arkansas Arts Council grant for a three-day intensive dance/movement improvisation workshop entitled, “The Moving Circle of Time.” Lucy DuBose of Little Rock, an Art in Education dance instructor, directed an experimental, collaborative improvisational score to facilitate a performance piece for the Henderson Dance Company. Brennan Gage and Michael McGehee designed the set for the project.
Faculty - Mass Media
A story by Associate Professor Michael Taylor was featured in the March 3, 2003, issue of Sports Illustrated and tells the story of an environmental battle in Tennessee that saved a cave system. In “Going Deep,” Taylor writes of Marion Smith, a 60-year-old caver who discovered Rumbling Falls, a 15-mile-long cave system that has one of the largest underground rooms in America inside it. The cave was at the center of an environmental controversy when the nearby town of Spencer, TN, announced plans to build a sewage plant that would dump effluent into the river that feeds into the cave system.