Recent Faculty Achievements
NOTEWORTHY FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS
Dr. Terry Likes (Department Head) has produced a documentary, "Does anyone care: The state of international news coverage among U.S. media." It aired in September on many Tennessee radio stations via ClearChannel Radio. He has also attended the National Broadcasting Society Conference as well as the Society of Professional Journalists. He has submitted, "The Amazing Race." A seminar on career options for both NBS and SPJ for the coming year. Likes will be a panelist for a Dec. 5 workshop: From the Newsroom & Workroom to the Classroom at Belmont University.
Ms. Kimberley LaMarque is the President of the Columbia University Alumni Club of Nashville and has been appointed by Mayor Karl Dean to sit on the Metro Arts Commission Board. She attended the National Communication Association Conference in November in Chicago. She also created a New Play Reading Series. Reading 2 new plays Spring 2010: Revenge of a King by Herb Newsome (A Hip Hop Version of Hamlet) and In The Red And Brown Water by Tarell McCraney. Finally, she has in development a new television show Spring 2010: TSU THE VIEW (working title). Formatted after the talk show THE VIEW. Focusing on Hot Topics, Fashion, and Interview Segments.
Mr. Alan Griggs has been working with a cross section of students to coordinate the establishment of a media convergence effort, bringing together the various talents of TSU students in different media to contribute their work as part of a central website and to better prepare them for a media world that is transforming. He is in the beginning stages of starting a student chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists. He also provides guidance for students producing a weekly television show. His research and writing continues on two biographies of noted Tennesseans and also in his role as a producer/reporter for "Tennessee's Wild Side." He has judged several competitions during the recent Forensics Tournament on campus, spoke to groups of high school students about broadcast media during a statewide gathering at David Lipscomb University and was interviewed for a radio documentary on the media.
Mr. Terrell Clark, Mr. Washington Dobbins and Mr. Marc Payne judged the Robert N. Murrell Oratorial contest. Clark notes that TSU students Lanial Madden won first place for the under classmen and Lakesha L.Hutchison won fourth place for the upper classmen in this event. He was really proud of his students and all the hard work they put into developing their public speaking skills. This is what it is all about as an educator to see your students grow and learn professionally and academically. This is truly good news!!!
Dr. Lawrence James was a participant at the Lincoln Center Institute: National Educators Workshop in New York City last July. This was a week-long workshop for teachers and teaching artists on using imagination and aesthetics for improved creative and artistic pedagogy. In August he Directed and Coordinated the Invited Production: "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill", College Fringe Division--2 Performances at the National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. From September - December he was a grant participant for Enhancing the Diversity of the Geosciences, Division of Research and Sponsored Programs. This program involves using creative performance and projects to advance and accelerate the recruitment of underrepresented groups. He coordinated the production of creative student projects on African-American slaves and the exploration of Mammoth Cave National Park. James is a program participant in the Common Reader Program at Tennessee State University where they adapt material for performance readings from 2009-10 University common reader, "The Parable of the Sower" for Orientation and other departmental classes and programs. Finally, he is a Respondent/Adjudicator for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region IV.
Mr. Reed Bergen directed the freshman theatre production of "Runaways" in fall 2009.
Mr. Marc Payne directed the fall main stage production of "What the Wine Sellers Buy".
Special thanks to Mr. Mark Collino (Theatre Technical Manager) and Mr. Barry Scott (Theatre Manager) for their parts in helping with the fall plays production design, construction and marketing.
Dr. Qi Tang has redesigned the COMM 4300 class, Psychology of Communication as well as the Intercultural Comm class. She served as the alternate judge for Murrel Oratorical Speech Contest. Drs. Glass and Tang are revamping of the speech comm curriculum. As far as Tang's research goes, she is revising chapters of her dissertation and plan to submit them for publication. Also, she is collaborating with someone on a article for spring NCA submission.
Ms. Pamela E. Foster was named a Tennessee scholar at the National Historic Preservation Conference Oct. 13-17 for her work in encouraging research and preservation of stories of African-Americans. The eight news students she teaches have published news and opinion pieces and interviewed President Johnson.
Conferences/seminars
Dr. Donald Page and Ms. Kimberley LaMarque will attend the National Communication Association conference. Dr. Terry Likes attended the Society of Professional Journalists conference and will attend the National Broadcasting Society conference. Dr. Page, Dr. Likes, Ms. Melissa Forte, Mr. Sean Laflin, Mr. Joe Richie and Dr. Coreen Jackson will attend the Broadcast Education Association conference. Dr. Lawrence James and Mr. Marc Payne will attend the Southeastern Theatre Conference to recruit theatre majors. Mr. James Stephens is attending a multi-media workshop put on by the Poynter Institute held in Nashville, TN. Dr. Page, Ms. Forte and Dr. Jackson attended the regional Broadcast Education Association conference in Cincinnati where Dr. Jackson presented the results of her research. Dr. Qi Tang, Dr. Veronica Glass and Mr. James Stephens will present results of their research at the regional SSCA conference in Memphis in spring 2009. Ms. Pamela E. Foster presented an excerpt of her upcoming book "And the Works of Anna Mariah" at the Southern Women Writers Conference Sept. 24-27. Ms. Emily Kofoed presented her paper "The discursive representations of borderlands: An analysis of visual culture and conceptions of place occurring at the U.S.-Mexico Border" in a Scholar-to-Scholar session at the National Communication Association Convention in Chicago. She was also named to the Top Paper panel for the Master's Education division of the convention for her work, "The use of reflection and refraction as counterhegemonic appropriation strategies in the Colombian Strike of Crossed Legs".