Faculty members from the departments of art and design and theatre and dance are recipients of this year's Missouri State University Foundation Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Service. About the awards From the provost's website: The Missouri State University Foundation Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Service are intended to provide incentives … [Read more...] about Three COAL faculty recognized with 2017 Foundation Awards
Dr. Etta Madden was one of 16 accepted applicants to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities' Summer Seminar (held at the American Academy in Rome) on Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento. This history gave context for her primary research interest, author Anne Hampton Brewster. … [Read more...] about Looking at Italian history brings into focus forgotten American author
World Mental Health Day, recognized on Oct. 10, serves as a day of education and advocacy for mental health disorders. Dr. Isabelle Bauman, associate professor of communication at Missouri State University, spent a sabbatical in spring 2013 synthesizing research on how interpersonal communication changes when someone has a mental health disorder and how mental health is … [Read more...] about Mental illness causes communication barriers
Follow Associate Professor of Dance Ruth Barnes as she documents her choreographic project "Here, There, and Everywhere" this summer from Scotland. "Here, There, and Everywhere" comprises both ethnographic research and original choreography while addressing notions of displacement and dislocation, isolation and community, and what it means to settle. Barnes will travel … [Read more...] about Dance professor blogs summer project from Scotland
An article by Dr. Mary Jane Pardue, assistant head of the department of media, journalism and film, was accepted for publication by the “Journalism and Mass Communication Educator.” Her article, entitled “Most Business Editors Find Journalism Graduates Still Unprepared,” is a follow-up to a research study Pardue completed 10 years ago. Her 2002 study focused on how well … [Read more...] about Follow-up study explores job readiness