The Graduate College is proud to recognize our Graduate Students' scholarly accomplishments.  These accomplishments include presentations at professional meetings, publications, grants, scholarships, awards, leadership positions, special performances, etc.

Also visit our list of the:
Celebrity Classic Scholarship Recipients
College Tuition Fellowships
Graduate College Alumni Showcase
Graduate College Scholarship Awards
Texas State Graduate Excellence
Graduate Scholars Program Awards
Outstanding Graduate Student Awards (These awards are presented each April).

Dale Blasingame, a current graduate student at Texas State University-San Marcos, was awarded his second Emmy for "Best Evening Newscast" at the seventh annual Lone Star Emmy Awards on October 17, 2009.  Read more about it.

2009 - 2010

Israel Aguilar, School Improvement, presented a paper entitled “Transforming Principal Preparation: From Educational Administration to Leadership for Social Justice” at the University Council of Educational Administration Annual Convention in Anaheim, CA held November 2009.

Jonathan Allen, Criminal Justice, presented a paper entitled “Treatment Outcomes: Using CPAI to Control for Program Fidelity” at the American Society of Criminology Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA held November 2009.

Matt Anding, Geography, presented a poster entitled “The Use of a GIS to Delineate Potential Urban Deer Habitats and Analyze their Spatial Distributions” at the Annual Southwestern Division of Association of American Geographers in Little Rock, AR held October 2009.

Jane B. Atha, Environmental Geography, presented a poster entitled "Identification and Analysis of Fluvial Wood on a Basin Scale: What are the primary indicators of the presence of large wood within the Queets River Basin, Olympic Peninsula Washington?" at the Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium in Blacksburg, VA held October 2-4, 2009. She was awarded a student scholarship from Virginia Tech to attend the Symposium.

Laura E. Ayers, Anthropology, presented a paper entitled "Differential Decomposition in Terrestrial , Saltwater and Freshwater Environments: A Pilot Study" at the Texas Archaeological Society Annual Meeting in Del Rio, TX held October 2009.
-- presented a paper entitled "Differential Decomposition in Terrestrial , Saltwater and Freshwater Environments: A Pilot Study" at the Texas Association of Biological Anthropologist Annual Meeting in Austin, TX held November 2009. She received the Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation award.
-- presented a paper entitled "Differential Decomposition in Terrestrial , Saltwater and Freshwater Environments: A Pilot Study" at the American Academic of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA held February 2010. She was a contender for the Forensic Sciences Foundation Emerging Scientist Award, and received the Forensic Sciences Foundation Student Presentation Scholarship based on her abstract.
-- presented a paper entitled "Differential Decomposition in Terrestrial , Saltwater and Freshwater Environments: A Pilot Study" at the Texas Academy of Science Annual Meeting in Stephenville, TX held March 2010. She received the Honarable Mention in the Graduate Student Presentation Award category.

Karen Taylor Backor, School Improvement PhD., co-presented a paper with Karen Gonzales, Salwa Khan, & Dami Womack entitled "Transformative Citizenship Education for Adult U.S. Citizens: A Critical Perspective on Mexico - U.S. Immigration: The Mexican Perspective Represented in Film" at the CSOTTE conference in San Antonio, TX held October 18-20, 2009.

Sean Barnes, Communication Design, book entitled "The Three Bears" won The Michael Cronan Stewardship Award, at the 2010 Creative Summit.

Jonna Beck, Adult, Professional and Community Education, presented co-teaching developmental writing " A Heuristic Narrative in Preparation for further Qualitative Inquiry" at the Congreso Internacional de Educacion Superior in Heredia, Costa Rica, March 8-12, 2010.

Robert John Bexar II, Political Science, presented a paper entitled "The political influence on comic books and graphic novels from the Great Depression to Post 9/11" at the 40th Annual Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference in St. Louis, MO held March 31 - April 3, 2010.

Lara Bryant, Geographic Education, presented research entitled “A Collaborative Inquiry Model for Teaching GIS” at the National Council of Geography Education Annual Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico held September 25, 2009.

Clarissa Capra, Developmental and Adult Education, presented a concurrent session entitled “How to Help the Fish Survive” at the College Academic Support Programs Conference in San Antonio, TX held October 23, 2009.

Julia Chinnock, Theatre, presented paper entitled "The Shifting Image of Vampires in Popular Culture"  at the 40th Annual Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference in St. Loius, MO held March 31 - April 4, 2010.

Cathy Cooper, Geography, presented a paper entitled "Assessments in K-12 Geography" at the National Conference on Geographic Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico held September 2009.

Christopher Andrew Day, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "An assessment of the historical hydroclimatology of the Animas River basin at Durango, Colorado" at the Applied Geography Conference, held in Baton Rouge, LA held October 2009.

Christi Delgatty, Sociology, presented her research entitled "Volunteer Particiaption in Humanitarian Projects in West Africa: A Qualitative Study" for the International Research Conference for Graduate Students in San Marcos, TX held November 4-5, 2009.
-- presented her research entitled "Volunteer Participation in Humanitarian Projects in West Africa: A Qualitative Study" for the Sociology Section of the Southwestern Social Science Association Conference in Houston. TX held March 31 - April 3, 2010.
-- presented a paper entitled " The Negative Effect of Media Spectacle Surrounding the Beijing Olympics on the Chinese Community: A Literature Overview" for the International Studies Section of the Southwestern Social Science Association Conference in Houston. TX held March 31 - April 3, 2010.
-- presented her research entitled " Humanitarian Efforts in Africa: for the International Studies Section of the Southwestern Social Science Association Conference in Houston. TX held March 31 - April 3, 2010.

Danielle Devore, Communication Disorders, presented a poster entitled "Utility of Mini Mental State Examination in Predicting Discourse Comprehension" at the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention in New Orleans, LA held November 2009.

James Diep, School Psychology, presented a poster entitled "Social Justice in School Psychology: Philosophy, Beliefs, and Money" at the National Association of School Psychologists annual convention in Chicago, IL held March 2010.

Brian Erik Dickerson, Wildlife Ecology, presented a poster entitled "Road Density as a Proxy for Urbanization Effects Using the Red-Eared Slider in the Lower Rio Grande Valley" at the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting in Galveston, TX held February 2010.

T. Bernie Fang, Geographic Information Science, presented a poster entitled "Simulating Wind-carried Particulate Matter with Cellular Automata" at the 2010 American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) Air Pollution and Health Specialilty Conference in San Diego, CA held March 22-26 2010.

Christina Fleuriet, Communication Studies, presented a paper entitled “The Cyber Factor: An Analysis of Relational Maintenance through the use of Computer-Mediated Communication” at the National Communication Association Convention in Chicago, IL held November 2009.

Gram Garner, Communication Design, book entitled Universe Left Handed won Special Recognition Award at the 2010 Creative Summit; Universe Stamps Series won The Coveted Memorial Ralph Award.

Scott Matthew Harris, Theatre, presented a paper entitled "Superheroes Finally Take the Stage" at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference in St. Louis, MO held March 31 - April 3, 2010.

Alisa Heald, Social Work, co-presented a paper with Dr. Mary Tijerina, Dr. Christine Norton, and Dr. Amy Russell entitled “Shifting Paradigms in Social Work Research: Action Research Competencies and Curriculum” at the 55th Council in Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting in San Antonio, TX held November 2009.

Hope van der Heijden, Human Nutrition, presented a poster entitled "Maternal Characteristics and Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices in the Special Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) in San Marcos, Texas" at the Texas Dietetic Association Food and Nutrition Conference & Expo in Dallas, TX held March 18-20, 2010.

Erin Henry, Social Work, presented a poster entitled "God Built Me and God Don't Make Mistakes: Experiences of Older Adult Women with ADHD" at the Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting in San Antonio, TX held November 2009.

Patricia Hernandez, Developmental and Adult Education, presented in a panel entitled “Developmental Education Masters-level Students' Perspectives on Graduate Preparation” at the College Academic Support Programs (CASP) in San Antonio, TX held October 22, 2009.

Janelle Hibbing, Health Education, presented a teaching technique entitled "Sexting-It's a Big Deal” at the American School Health Association Conference in Denver, CO held October 28-31, 2009.

Lela A. Holt, Theatre, presented a paper entitled "José Joaquín Gamboa: Mexico's Forgotten Realist Playwright" at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature in Lawrence, KS held November 2009.
-- served as dramaturg for the Playwriting Symposium at the Mid-America Theatre Conference in Cleveland, OH held March 4-7, 2010.

Jeremey Honea, Communication Design, had three pieces entitled Please Do Not Feed The Fish, Stop the Labor Force, and Voices Not Violence accepted under the category of Posters at the American Instiute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Blue Ridge fourth annual Flux 09 Student Competition, 2009.
-- won bronze for "Gallery Materials" in the Graphic Design Category at the 2009 Art Directors Club of Houston show.
-- submitted a piece entitled Aquarelle under the category Logo at the LogoLounge, 2010. The piece was a selected entry.
-- submitted a piece entitled Private Testing under the poster category at the CMYK Top 100 Creatives, 2010. He was a selected entry.
-- submitted a piece entitled Dia del Humidor under the book category at the Creative Summit, 2010. He won the Award of Excellence.
-- submitted a piece entitled Texas State Gallery Materials under the brochure category at the 2009 Art Directors Club of Houston. He won bronze.
-- submitted a piece entitled The Almighty Bean under the book category at the 2009 Art Directors Club of Houston show. He won the Award of Excellence.

Ashley Hurst, Anthropology, presented a poster entitled “A Preliminary Assessment of the Population, Potential Food Resources, and Habitat Connectivity of Alouatta pigra in Métzabok, Chiapas, Mexico” at the Mid West Primate Interest Group in Allendale, MI held October 9-11, 2009.

Sampath Jayarathna, Computer Science, presented a poster entitled “Oculomotor Plant Biometrics: Person-Specific Features in Eye Movements” at the 2009 Sigma Xi International Research Conference in The Woodlands, TX held November 2009.

James Johanson, Developmental and Adult Education, participated in a panel entitled "Developmental Education Masters-level Students' Perspectives on Graduate Preparation" at the College Academic Support Conference (CASP) in San Antonio, TX held October 21, 2009. He received a certificate of appreciation.

Sameera Kapila, Communication Design, had five pieces entitled Mermaid's, Gator Textbooks, ChopStix, Dog Duty, and Dream Bakery accepted under the category of Identity at the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Blue Ridge fourth annual Flux 09 Student Competition, 2009.
-- had two pieces accepted entitled 2050 and Unicef accepted under the category of Posters at the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Blue Ridge fourth annual Flux 09 Student Competition, 2009.
-- won silver for "Child Labor is Growing" in the Graphic Design Category at the 2009 Art Directors Club of Houston Show.
-- submitted two posters entitled 2050 and r19ghts at the Creative Summit 24 2010. He received a Merit of Ecellence for both posters.
-- submitted a poster entitled r19ghts at the Poster4Tomorrow Poster Competition 2009. The poster debuted on December 10, 2009, in over 24 cities worldwide.

Salwa Khan, Adult, Professional and Community Education, co-presented a video/presentation with Karen Backor, Karen Gonzales, and Damaris Womack entitled “Transformative Citizenship Education for Adult U.S. Citizens: A Critical Perspective on Mexico-U.S. Immigration: The Mexican Perspective Represented in Film at the Consortium of State Organizations” for Texas Teacher Education (CSOTTE) conference in San Antonio, TX held October 18-20, 2009.

Becki Kielaszek, Family and Child Studies, presented a poster entitled "Students' Perceptions Regarding their Impending Transition Out of College" at the 71st National Council on Family Relations Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA held November 2009.

Kevin Kromenacker, Applied Sociology, presented a paper entitled "Polyamory as Deviance: Exploring Alienation in Monogamous Society" at the Southwestern Social Science Association in Houston, TX held April 2010.

Lauren A. Lamb, Communication Studies, presented a paper entitled "Yours, Mine, and Ours: A Preliminary Examination of Constructed Families within the Lesbian Community” at the 95th National Communication Association Convention in Chicago, IL held November 2009.

Grayson Lawrence, Communication Design, had his work entitled Clif Bar Operations Manual accepted under the category of Publications at the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Blue Ridge fourth annual Flux 09 Student Competition, 2009.
-- won silver for "Cliff Bar Rebranding Kit" in the Graphic Design Category at the 2009 Art Directors Club of Houston Show.

Xingjian Liu, Geography, presented a paper entitled "Modeling business return to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina using spatial probit model" at the 2009 Southwestern Division of AAG annual meeting in Little Rock, AR held 29-31 October 2009. He was one of the finalists in the best student paper competition.

Naveen Kumar Mahato, Wildlife Ecology, presented a paper entitled "A distribution model for guidance toward the conservation of Red panda (Ailurus fulgens) in Nepal" at the 11th Annual Ecological Integration Symposium: Understanding patterns and processes across scales in College Station, TX held March 26-27, 2010.
-- presented a paper " Distibution and GIS -based habitat model of Red panda (Ailurus fulgens) in Nepal" at the 113th Annual Meeting of thr Texas Academy of Science in Stephenville, TX held March 4-6, 2010.
-- presented a paper entitled "Status and Conservation of Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) in Nepal Himalaya" at the National Seminar on Red Panda Conservation initiatives in Sacred HImalayan Landscape of Nepal's Himalaya in Kathmandu, Nepal held February 20, 2010.

Caitlin McCrory, Creative Writing, presented a paper entitled “The Identity of the I in Rosmarie Waldrop's "Inserting the Mirror"” at the Southwest/Texas Pop Culture Association Conference in Albuquerque, NM held February 10-13, 2010.

Benjamin McVey, Communication Design,  poster entitled "Help Haiti, Donate" won Special Recognition Award at the 2010 Creative; That is Unbelievable process book won the Coveted Memorial Ralph Award.

Shawn Meek, Communication Design, had two pieces entitled Knit or Die and Urban Gardner accepted under the category of Indentity at the American Instiute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Blue Ridge fourth annual Flux 09 Student Competition, 2009.
-- three pieces, "Urban Gardner" under the category identity won Gold A award; "Milkbone" under the category advertising campaign won the Bronze award; "Student for Urban Gardener" under the category identity won the Judges Award from the 2010 American Advertising Federation (AAF) San Antonio competition (known as the ADDY's Award).
-- submitted a piece entitled Milkbone under the Advertising Campaign category at the AAF Addy 2010.  He won bronze.
-- submitted a piece entitled Urban Gardner under the Identity category at the AAF Addy 2010.  He won gold and the judges' award. He also won silver at regionals.
-- submitted two pieces entitled Knit or Die and Urban Gardener under the identity category at the Brass Ring Awards 2010.  He won silver for Urban Gardener and bronze for Knit or Die.
-- submitted two pieces entitled Knit or Die and Hell's Diner under the identity category with CMYK Magazine 2010.

Matthew S. Melancon, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Turkish University Students' Views about Sustainable Development" at the National Counsel for Geographic Education conference held October 2009.

Stacia Miller, Adult, Professional, and Community Education, presented a lecture entitled “Effectively Preparing the 21st Century Pre-service Physical Educator Utilizing a Progressive Approach” at the Physical Educator Teacher Educator Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC held October 7-10, 2009.

Juan Manuel Niño, School Improvement, presented a paper entitled “Transforming Principal Preparation: From Educational Administration to Leadership for Social Justice” at the University Council of Educational Administration Annual Convention in Anaheim, CA held on November 2009.

Chelsea Nooney, Health Education, presented a teaching technique entitled “Sexting: It's a Big Deal” at the American School Health Association (ASHA) in Denver, CO held October 28-31 2009.

Cristina Ocon, Anthropology, presented a paper and poster both entitled " Unsuitably Modern: Economic Opportunities and Social Exclusion in the Lacandon Jungle" at the Society for Applied Anthropology in Marida, Mexico held March 24-28, 2010.

Guy Parker, Communication Design, won a bronze in Television Single for "Casa Ole 'Grocery Store'Spot" in the Advertising Category at the 2009 Art Directors Club of Houston Show.

Keo Pierron, Communication Design, had seven pieces entitled Cook Au Vin, Dovetail Design & Construction, Horseshoe Café, Bathtub Rescue, Empire Design Build, Honey, and Ponzu Sushi House accepted under the category of Indentity at the American Instiute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Blue Ridge fourth annual Flux 09 Student Competition, 2009.  He also won Honorable Mention in Best of Show for his Identity, Ponzu Sushi House.

Anita Pokharel, Biology, gave an oral presentation entitled “Diversity of Frankia populations in root nodules of sympatrically grown Alnus species” at the Fall Meeting of the Texas Branch of The American Society for Microbiology in Tyler, TX held November 2009.

Waverly Ray, Geography, presented a paper entitled "Recruiting Underrepresented Students to Geography:  A Case Study of the Texas Geography Research Symposium" at the National Conference on Geography Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico held September 2009.
-- presented a paper entitled "Developing Methods and Instruments to Evaluate International Online Learning Collaborations" at the International Geographic Union-Commission on Geographical Education meeting in Tsukuba, Japan held August 8, 2009.

Susan V. Roberts, Aquatic Resources, presented a paper entitled "Conjunctive Use: An Improved Approach for Streamlined Water Management, with Solutions for the Rio Grande Watershed" at the American Water Resources Association 2009 Annual Conference in Seattle, WA held November 2009.

Brittany Rosen, Health Education, co-presented a teaching technique with Ashley Andreano and Kelly Wilson, PhD entitled "When Friends Cut Themselves" at the American School Health Association Conference in Denver, CO held October 29-31, 2009. She was awarded the American School Health Association Health Education Scholarship.

Michelle Saldaña, Communication Disorders, presented a poster entitled "Support for a Dimensional Account: Language Development after Early Days" at the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention in New Orleans, LA held November 2009.

Eric Samson, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled “Daylight Saving Time as an Expression of Rebellion in Chilón, Chiapas, Mexico” at the 2009 Applied Geography Conference in Baton Rouge, LA held October 2009.
-- presented a paper entitled “College Assessment of Beginning Geography Students” at the 2009 National Conference on Geography Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico held September 2009.

Beverly Saunders, Aquatic Resources, presented “Texas Reservoirs: An ILBM Approach” at the ILEC Meeting 2010 in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia held February 2010.

Sarah Scott, Criminal Justice, presented a poster entitled "Validation of the Wisconsin Risk Assessment Instrument for the Prediction of Absconding" at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Conference in San Diego, CA held February, 2010.

Arlene Serrano-Ramos, Adult, Professional, and Community Education, presented a paper entitled "Learning how to learn in the adult ESL classroom" at the Texas Association for Literacy and Adult Education (TALAE) in Dallas, TX held February 5, 2010.

Genaro Solis-Rivero, Communication Design, has had two of his logos, Red Caboose Hobby Store and Stay Dog Hotel, chosen as part of the yearly publication, LogoLounge Volume 6.

Crystal Sheedy, Anthropology, presented a paper entitled "The Compromised Social Position of Maya Women in the Yucatan Peninsula" at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) in Marida, Mexico held March 2010.

Desserae Shepston, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "The Northwest Forest Plan: A Pathway to Resilient Riparian Ecosystems?" at the Southwestern Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Little Rock, AR held October 2009.

Rhonda Adams Smith, Sociology, presented a paper entitled "Experiences of First-Generation Immigrants as First-Generation College Students" at the 4th International Conference on Social Science Research in Nashville, TN held December 2009.

Alisa Sokolova, Chemistry, presented a poster entitled "Partially-Fluorinated Polyimides Using Aliphatic Diamines" at the Society of Plastics Engineers International Polyoefins Conference in Houston, TX held February 21-24, 2010.  She was awarded 3rd place.

Melanie B. Stine, Environmental Geography, co-presented a poster with Dr. Lynn Resler entitled "Geomorphic Factors of Tree Succession at a Southern Appalachian Peatland" at the Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium in Blacksburg, VA held October 2-4, 2009. She placed third in the student poster competition.

Tim Swain, Counseling and Guidance, presented in the session entitled "Yo, Is That the Remix! Enhancing Multicultural Perspectives in the Classroom through Explorative Literacies and Urban Culture" at the College Communication and Composition Conference in Louisville, KY held March 17-20, 2010.

Alicia A. Taylor, Biology, gave an oral presentation entitled "Nanoparticle influence on bacterial mutagenesis" at the Texas Branch ASM Meeting in Tyler, TX held November 2009.
-- gave an oral presentation entitled, "Nanoparticle Influence on Bacterial Mutagenesis" at the Texas Academy of Science Meeting Spring 2010 in Stephenville, TX held March 5, 2010.
-- gave an oral presentation entitled "Nanoparticle Influence on Bacterial Toxicity" at the Texas State Biology Colloquium in San Marcos, TX held April 2,2010.
-- gave an oral presentation entitled "Nanoparticle Influence on Bacterial Toxicity" at the American Society of Microbiology Texas Spring 2010 Branch Meeting in New Braunfels, TX held April 8, 2010

Sunni Taylor, Aquatic Resources, presented a poster entitled "the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation in Louisiana Iris: I. nelsonii x I. hexagona" at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and International Research Conference in The Woodlands, TX held November 2009.
-- presented a paper entitled "The genetic architecture of reproductive isolation in Louisiana Iris: hybrid fitness in nature" at the Texas Academy of Science conference in Stephenville, TX held March 2010.

Meredith Tise, Anthropology, presented a paper entitled "A Metric Analysis of the Postcranial Skeleton of Hispanic Individuals to Improve the Estimation of Sex" at the Texas Archaeological Society in Del Rio, TX held October 2009.
-- presented a paper entitled "A Metric Analysis of the Postcranial Skeleton of Hispanic Individuals to Improve the Estimation of Sex" at the Texas Academy of Biological Anthropologists in Austin, TX held November 2009.
--presented a paper entitled "Postcranial Sex Estimation of Individuals Considered Hispanic" at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Seattle, WA held February 2010.
presented a paper entitled "A Metric Analysis of the Postcranial Skeleton of Hispanic Individuals to Improve the Estimation of Sex" at the Texas Academy of Science in Stephenville, TX held March 2010.

Benjamin Tobin, Aquatic Resources PhD, presented a paper entitled "The Effects of Fire Suppression Activities on Karst Aquifers: An Example from the Hidden Fire, Sequoia National Park, CA" at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Portland, OR held October 2009.

Matthew Tolman, Music, presented a piece entitled "Die Stimme" for Soprano, Violin and Piano at the Society of Composers Inc. Region VI Conference in Manhattan, KS held March 27, 2010. The piece was selected from a pool of over 600 professional and student composers.

Christi Townsend, Geography PhD presented a poster entitled "Do Texas High School Graduates Know World Geography? An Assessment of Geography Knowledge in College Freshman" at the Southwest Association of American Geographers Little Rock, AR held October 28-31, 2009.

Michele Tucci, Geographic Information Science, presented a paper entitled "Fragments from many pasts: layering the toponymic tapestry of Milan" at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association in Long Beach, CA held November 2009.

Pamela A. Wadende, Adult, Professional, and Community Education, presented a paper entitled “The greening of the African women: potentialities, prospects, and projects” at the Africa-Berlin International Conference in Berlin, Germany held October 29-31, 2009.
-- Personal Note: Thanks to the Graduate College for the continued financial support of travel to academic conferences. She is happy to report that because of this and other like support , she has received the 2009 Robert M. Seese International Student Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Education at Texas State University-San Marcos.

Jiao Wang, Geographic Information Science, presented a paper entitled “First Hand Experience from a Remote Sensing Lab Instructor” at the 2009 National Conference on Geography Education in San Juan, Puerto Rico held September 23-27, 2009.
-- presented a paper entitled “Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Water Use in El Paso County, Texas: An Assessment of the 1991 Water Conservation Ordinance” at the 32nd Applied Geography Conference in Baton Rouge, LA held October 28-31, 2009.

Howard E. Williams, Criminal Justice PhD, presented a paper entitled "Are the Recommendations of the Braidwood Commission on Conducted Energy Weapons Use Sound Public Policy?” at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Conference, in San Diego, CA held February 23-27, 2010.

Laura Decker Young, Creative Writing, presented a paper entitled "A Backward Glance and a Future Vision: The Construction of Circular Time in the Lyric Poetry of Louise Erdrich and Luci Tapahonso" at the Western Literature Association's 44th Annual Conference in Spearfish, SD held September 30 - October 3, 2009.

2008 - 2009 

Alisa Abuzeineh, Aquatic Resources, PhD, co-presented a poster with Casey Williams, Jacob Jackson, Mindy Conyers, Peter Tice, and Isabel Gomez entitled "Where do you need us? Four approaches to integrating scientific learning and interest in secondary education, 6-12^th grade" at the NSF GK-12 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. held March 27-29, 2009.

Dara Adams, Anthropology, co-presented a poster with Dr. Beth Erhart entitled "Differential Response to Predators in the Gray’s Bald-Faced Saki Monkey (Pithecia irrorata): A Playback Experiment" at the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Chicago, IL held March 31–April 4, 2009.

Nichole Adams, Social Work, co-presented a presentation with Stacie McGee entitled “Enhancing Social Work Education through International Learning” at the Texas Chapter of the annual National Association of Social Workers Conference in Galveston, TX held November 6-8, 2008.

Israel Aguilar, Adult, Professional, and Community Education PhD, co-presented a paper with Dr. Sarah Nelson, Naomi Garcia, Juan Niño, and Dessynie Edwards entitled "The Challenges of Novice Principlas: What it Means for Preparation Programs" at the British Educational Leadership in Management and Administration Society Annual International Conference in Sheffield, England, UK held July 3-5, 2009.

Karima Diane Alavi,Creative Writing, participated in a workshop entitled "The Failure of Do-it-Yourself Theology in Romantic Literature: The Case of Shelley's Frankenstein" at the Sigma Tau Delta regional conference in Austin, TX held October 17-19, 2008.
-- participated in a workshop entitled "Colonization of the Mind: Classroom Activities That Make it Real" at the annual conference of The National Council for the Social Studies in Houston, TX held November 14-16, 2008.

Paula Baldwin, Communication Studies, co-author with E. Wittenberg-Lyles, PhD, D. Parker Oliver, PhD, and G. Demiris, PhD, presented a paper entitled “Exploring Family Caregiver Communication in Hospice Team Meetings” at the National Communication Association Annual Conference in San Diego, CA held November 21-24, 2008.

Kevin M. Barrett, Environmental Geography, PhD, presented a poster entitled "The County Bias of Severe Thunderstorm Warnings and Severe Thunderstorm Weather Reports for the Central Texas Region" at the National Weather Association's  33^rd Annual Meeting in Louisville, KY held October 11-16, 2008.
-- presented a poster entitled "An Evaluation of Flash Flood Warnings and Flash Flood Reports for South Central Texas" at the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.

Andrew F. Besa, Rhetoric and Composition, presented a paper entitled "From Azusa St. to Main St.: Toward an Understanding of the Rhetoric of Latino Pentecostals" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Francisco, CA held March 11-15, 2009.

Tamara Biegas, Geographic Information Science, Ph.D., presented a poster entitled "A Correlation between BMI and Adolescent Behaviors in Urban Areas" at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009. - presented a poster entitled "A Relationship Between BMI and Adolescent Behaviors in Urban Areas" at the URISA GIS and Health Conference in Providence, RI held June 5-8, 2009.

Sandy Birnbaum, Population and Conservation Biology, presented a poster entitled “Habitat Characterization and Pilot Reintroduction of Star Cactus (Astrophytum asterias)” at the 56th Annual Meeting Southwestern Association of Naturalists in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México held April 23-25, 2009.

Rebecca Bowman, Spanish, presented "El altar" from my short story collection Portentos de otros anos at the Fourth Annual Tierra Tinta Conference on Latin American, Spanish and Luso-Brazilian Literatures at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma held October 16-17, 2008.

Keith Bremer, Geography, PhD, presented a poster entitled "Smart Growth: A preliminary status report on American urban planning" at the Association of American Geographers conference (AAG) in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.

Lara M.P. Bryant, Geography, presented "Mapping History: From Reality to Virtuality" at the National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference in Houston, TX held November 16-18, 2008.

Elizabeth Capalbo, Biology, presented a poster entitled, "Expression of M_odd Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors in the Retina of Bluegill and Zebrafish" at the Experimental Biology 2008 conference in San Diego, CA held April 5-9, 2009.
-- presented a poster entitled, "Diurinal Rhythms of Muscarinic Receptor Expression in the Eye of Zebrafish" at the Experimental Biology 2009 conference in New Orleans, LA held April 18-22, 2009.

Cristina Campbell, Population and Conservation Biology, gave an oral presentation entitled “Discovery and Efficacy of a Hypersensitive-like Plant Defense in Live Oak Against a Host-specific Gall Former” at the Southwestern Association of Naturalists in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, held April 23-25. She received the Howard McCarley Student Research Award for $1,000.00.

Aaron Carter-Cohn, Music, presented a paper entitled "Does Compositional Pedagogy Exist?" and a composition/musical performance entitled "Coincidence Frequency for Cello and Piano” at the 2009 College Music Society South Central Conference in Norman, OK held March 13-15, 2009. He received the 2009 Best Student Composition Award.
--presented a paper entitled "The Effect of Environment and Mentorship on the Teaching of Composition" at the Changing Face of Music Education 2nd International Conference in Tallinn, Estonia held April 23-25, 2009. Aaron was invited to chair a session on the main topic of the conference, "Music and Environment", and his paper was selected to be published in the conference proceedings.

Christine A. Coats, Geographic Education, PhD, presented a paper entitled "Rethinking Religion in the New Age of Environmental Stewardship: Opportunities for Geography Education" at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.

Cardin Coleman, Communication Disorders, presented a poster entitled “Conversational Syntax of School-Age Children with Late Language Emergence” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Chicago, IL held November 20-22, 2008.

Matthew Connolly, Geography, presented a poster entitled "Mapping the residential carbon footprint of Austin, Texas" at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.  

Cathy Cooper, Geography, arranged and moderated a panel discussion entitled, "More Geography in K-12 Classrooms: How to Enhance the Teaching and Learning of Geography in Our Schools" at the Middle Atlantic Division (MAD) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland held October 24-25, 2008. She also organized and led a field trip to Furnace Town, Maryland.
-- Co-presented a session with Mary Curtis and Audrey Mohan entitled "The Summer Cohort Ph.D. Program in Geographic Education" at the 2008 National Conference on Geography Education in Dearborn, Michigan, held October 9-12, 2008.
-- Received an award from the 2008 National Conference on Geography Education for the Best Content Article in the Journal of Geography in 2007.  The article was "Competing Visions, Shifting Boundaries: The Construction of Latin America as a World Region" by Marie D. Price and Catherine W. Cooper, Vol. 106, No.3, pp.113-122.

Melody W. Crenshaw, Geography, presented a paper titled, "Misunderstood in America: An Analysis of Geographic Content in Lesson Plans of the U.S.National Park Service" at the HERODOT Conference in Liverpool, UK held September 4-7, 2008.

Chandra Crosland, Educational Leadership, presented a paper entitled "Developing Equity-Centered Environments: Promising Practices for Educational Leaders in Diverse Contexts" at the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Conference Symposium in Orlando, FL held October 31, 2008.

Mary D. Curtis, Geography Education, presented a paper entitled "Addressing a Critical Blind Spot in American Geography Education" at the AAG 2009 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.

Khila R. Dahal, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Hazard and Risk: Perception of Glacial Lake Outburst Flooding from Tsho Rolpa Lake, Nepal" at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009. She won the Jeannee X. Kasperson Student Paper Award given by Hazards Specialty Group of the AAG.

Jeffrey Davis, Communication Design, won a poster competition at the Step Inside Design Step 100 competition. Publication is due out in March/April.
--  has had sixteen (16) logos selected for publication in a new LogoLounge project, Animals and Mythology, the second book in the new Master Library series. The book will be available 2010.

Christopher Andrew Day, Environmental Geography, presented a poster entitled "Assessing the impact of land cover change on surface runoff and flood risk for the Lower Cibolo Creek watershed, Texas" at the Annual Association of American Geographers Meeting, Las Vegas, NV held March 2009.

Mary C. Dobson, Population and Conservation Biology, presented a poster entitled "Patterns of fungal infection and herbivore attack in a hybrid swarm of Louisiana iris" at the Botany and Mycology Conference in Snowbird, UT held July 24-29, 2009.

Michelle H. Downey, Population and Conservation Biology, presented a paper entitled "The role of host plant fidelity in the evolution of reproductive isolation" at the Evolution Conference in Moscow, ID held June 12-16 2009.

Amber L. Drown, Literature, presented a paper entitled “The Universality of Place in the Poetry of Walt Whitman” at the American Studies Association of Texas 52nd Annual Meeting and Conference in San Marcos, TX held November 13-15, 2008.

Dessynie Edwards, Adult, Professional, and Community Education PhD, co-presented a paper with Dr. Sarah Nelson, Israel Aguilar, Juan Niño, and Naomi Garcia entitled "The Challenges of Novice Principlas: What it Means for Preparation Programs" at the British Educational Leadership in Management and Administration Society Annual International Conference in Sheffield, England, UK held July 3-5, 2009. 

Kathleen Eggemeyer, Aquatic Resources, presented an oral presentation entitled "The Role of Soil Depth in Woody Encroachment" at the Southwestern Association of Naturalist (SWAN) conference in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, held April 23-25, 2009.
--co-presented with Dr. Susan Schwinning a presentation entitled, "The Role of Soil Depth in Woody Encroachment" at the Ecological Society of America in Albuquerque, NM held August 2-7, 2009.

Kristen Epp, Aquatic Resources, Ph.D., gave an oral presentation entitled "Predation risk and prey experience in Eurycea nana" at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society in Pirenopolis, Brazil held June 22 - 26, 2009.

Dawn M. Estrada, Communication Studies, presented a paper entitled "Discourse in Large Organizations: Creating an Ideological Identity" at the Annual Convention of the Central States Communication Association in St. Louis, MO held April 1-5, 2009.

Tianfang Fang, Geographic Information Science, presented a poster entitled "A Case Study on Regional Land Use Change in Acheng District, China" at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.
--presented a paper entitled "GWSC-VMR,AGIS supported Conceptual Distributed Hydrological Model for Cold and Arid Regions" at the 17^th International Conference on Geoinformatics in Fairfax, VA held August 12-14, 2009. He won the GPGIS 2009 Best Student Paper Award (the 3rd place).

Vincent Farallo, Population and Conservation Biology, presented a paper entitled "Two Are Better Than One: An Improved Funnel Trap Design" at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México held April 23-25 2009. He received the SWAN Student Travel Award.

Kathy Faz, History, presented an oral presentation entitled “Collaborations for Resource Stewardship Across International Borders” at the George Wright Society Annual Meeting in Portland, OR held March 2-6, 2009. She received a George Wright Society Scholarship to attend and present.
-- presented an oral presentation entitled “Working Outside National Park Boundaries and Across Borders: The Future of Preserving and Interpreting Collective Histories” at the Texas Association of Museums in El Paso, TX held March 17-21, 2009.
-- presented an oral presentation entitled “Working Outside Park Boundaries and Across Borders: The Future of a Shared History” at the National Council on Public History Annual Meeting in Providence, RI held April 2-4, 2009.

Brent Ferguson, Music, presented a paper entitled, "Film Music and Emotion: A Bibliographic Essay" at the Music and the Moving Image Conference in New York, NY held May 29-31, 2009.
--presented a paper entitled "Film Music and Emotion: A Bibliographic Essay" at the IMS pre-conference study group in Amsterdam, The Netherlands held July 4-6, 2009.

Christina Fleuriet, Communication Studies, was selected to participate in the Rutgers University Invitational Masters Student Institute (IMSI) in their School of Communication, Information and Library Studies in New Brunswick, NJ held October 17-19, 2008.
--presented a paper entitled “Ann Richards’ Eulogy of Barbara Jordan: Some Rules Are Meant to be Broken” at the 2009 Central States Communication Association Convention in St. Louis, MO held March 3-April 5, 2009.
--presented a paper entitled “The Cyber Factor: Conveying Nonverbal Cues Through Computer-Mediated Communication” at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Communication Association held in Philadelphia, PA April 22-26, 2009.

Clara E. Folb, Aquatic Resources, presented "Life histories of the Guadalupe darter (Percina apristis) and the river darter (Percina shumardi)" at the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Conference in Fort Worth,TX held January 29-31, 2009.

Timothy A. Fotinos, Aquatic Resources PhD, presented a paper entitled "'Effective Heterogeneity': A New Framework for Interpreting Climate/Topography Interaction and Resulting Spatiotemporal Patterns of Plant Diversity" at the 24th Annual Landscape Ecology Symposium in Snowbird, UT held April 12-16, 2009.
--presented a poster entitled "Climate/topography interaction influences spatiotemporal soil moisture variability and resulting plant beta diversity" at the 94^th Annual Meeting of thr Ecological Society of America in Albuquerque, NM held August 2009.

Sayali Ganesh Gokhale, Geography, presented a poster entitled "Importance of the Waaghjaai Sacred Grove to the People of the Shedani Village, Pune, India: 2009" at the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.

Naomi Garcia, Adult, Professional, and Community Education PhD, co-presented a paper with Dr. Sarah Nelson, Israel Aguilar, Juan Niño, and Dessynie Edwards entitled "The Challenges of Novice Principlas: What it Means for Preparation Programs" at the British Educational Leadership in Management and Administration Society Annual International Conference in Sheffield, England, UK held July 3-5, 2009. 

Jennifer Griffin, Human Nutrition, presented a poster entitled "Dietary Vitamin A Decreases Liver Metastases of Colon Cancer in Mice" at the Experimental Biology Conference in New Orleans, LA held April 20, 2009.

Clinton Haffelder, Communication Design, won a poster competition at the Step Inside Design Step 100 competition. Publication is due out in March/April.
-- submitted a poster entitled "Corporate Warfare" to the Good 50 x 70 International 2009 Poster Competition (The Project That Helps Social Communication) May 2009. He was one of the winners in the competition.
-- has had a logo accepted into the new LogoLounge project, Animals and Mythology, the second book in the new Master Library Series. This second book in the series will be published 2010.

Christopher T.F. Hanson, Music, performed in an ensemble entitled "Texas State Improvisation Ensemble" at the International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) conference in Denver, CO held December 5-7, 2008. The ensemble was the only performing ensemble of the conference to receive an encore request from a standing audience.
-- Composition and Music History, presented a musical composition entitled "A Palimpsest on a Partita by Bach" at the International Society of Composers inc. Southwest Regional conference in Norman, OK held February 26-28, 2009.

Heather Hayes, Communication Studies, presented "Philosophy and Lincoln Douglas Debate" and "Postmodern Philosophy for the High School Classroom" at the Texas Speech Communication Association Annual Conference in Corpus Christi, TX held October 8-11, 2008.
--presented "Barack Obama and Issues of Race in America: The Critical Implications of Campaign 2008" at the National Communication Association Annual Conference San Diego, CA held November 19-23, 2008.  She was competitively selected for presentation and discussion in the "White Scholars/African American Texts" seminar.
--presented a paper entitled "The Religious Rhetoric of Barack Obama" at the Southern States Communication Association in Norfolk, VA held April 2-4, 2009.
-- presented a paper entitled "Raging Against the Hierarchy: Pollution, Purification, and Redemption in Rage Against the Machine" at the Eastern Communication Association Regional Conference in Philadelphia, PA held April 24-26, 2009.

Xueqin He, Geography, presented a poster entitled "Regional Variation in Environmental Attitudes and Behavior: A Comparison of East Coast and West Inland Areas in China" at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas, NV March 22-27, 2009.

Erin Henry, Social Work, presented "The Study Abroad Experience: Enhancing Social Work Education through International Learning" at the NASW-Texas Conference in Galveston, TX held November 6-8, 2008.

Genise Henry, Education-School Improvement, presented "Responding to the Education Debt through Community Focused Leadership" at the University Council for Education Administration Conference in Orlando, FL held October 30- November 2, 2008.

Lela A. Holt, Theatre, presented a paper entitled, "Towards an Inescapable Fate: Moira’s Thread of Destiny as Revealed in Fedra y otras griegas by Ximena Escalante" at the A Bi-national Celebration of Contemporary Mexican Theatre conference in El Paso, TX held November 12-15, 2008.

Jermey Honea, Communication Design, submitted a poster entitled "Stop the Labour Force" to the Good 50 x 70 International 2009 Poster Competition (The Project That Helps Social Communication) May 2009. He was one of the winners in the competition.
-- submitted a piece entitled Vans: Rip Off The Wall under the poster category at the Art Directors' Club of Houston 2008. He won bronze.

Julie "Dawn" Houser, Communication Design, submitted a poster entitled "Just Another Number" to the Good 50 x 70 International 2009 Poster Competition (The Project That Helps Social Communication) May 2009. She was one of the winners in the competition.

Hillary Huber, Anthropology, presented a poster entitled "Encouraging Gummivory in Captive Callitrichids" at the Midwest Primate Interest Group (MPIG) in Notre Dame, IN held September 19-20, 2008.
-- co-presented a poster with K.P .Lewis entitled "Gum’s the Word: Applying Knowledge from the Wild to Improve Environmental Enrichment for Captive Gummivores" at the 78th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Chicago, IL held March 31 – April 4, 2009.

Sophia Hurtado, Geography, presented a paper entitled "A Spatial Analysis of the Environmental Effects of Coal Power Plants" at the Applied Geography Conference in Wilmington, DE held October 15-18, 2008. She won the “Best Student Paper.”

Marvin Jastillana, Communication Design, submitted a poster entitled "Extinction" to the Good 50 x 70 International 2009 Poster Competition (The Project That Helps Social Communication) May 2009. He was one of the winners in the competition.
- - submitted a poster entitled "HIV is Not a Crime" to the Good 50 x 70 International 2009 Poster Competition (The Project That Helps Social Communication) May 2009. He was one of the winners in the competition.

Sameera Kapila, Communication Design, submitted a poster entitled "Growing Labour" to the Good 50 x 70 International 2009 Poster Competition (The Project That Helps Social Communication) May 2009. She was one of the winners in the competition.
-- submitted a poster entitled "2050" to the Good 50 x 70 International 2009 Poster Competition (The Project That Helps Social Communication) May 2009. She was one of the winners in the competition.

Jon Kedrowski, Geography, PhD, presented a paper entitled "Climber Perceptions on Mount Rainier: Measuring Crowding, Success, and Environmental Concerns" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.

Salwa Khan, Adult, Professional, and Community Education, co-presented a paper with Dr. Jovita Ross-Gordon entitled “Balancing Graduate Studies and the Demands of Adult Life” at the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education conference in Denver, CO held November 14, 2008. Patricia Hiller was a co-researcher, but was unable to attend the conference.
--co-presented a video entitled “La Ruptura de la Familia” at the AERA SIG-Adult Literacy and Adult Education Business Meeting at the AERA conference in San Diego, CA on April 16, 2009. The video documents the effects of illegal immigration in breaking up families in Mexico.

Russell Kirkscey, Communication Studies, refereed conference paper entitled, "From Homo Narrans to Homo Attendens: A Revision of the Narrative Paradigm” at the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division: National Communication Association Convention in San Diego, CA held November 2008.
- - refereed conference paper entitled "A New Era: Democracy, Expectancy, and Perspective by Incongruity after 9/11" at the Seventh Triennial Kenneth Burke Conference in Villanova, PA held June 2008.

Kristy Kollaus, Aquatic Resources, presented "Fish Assemblage Structure and Associations with Environmental Conditions in a Texas Spring-fed River" at 2009 Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society Conference in New Orleans, LA held January 16-18, 2009.

Kasey Kotrh, Theatre, presented a paper entitled "'It's Only Rock 'n' Roll': Stoppard's Use of Music in 'Rock 'n' Roll'" at the Hawaii International Conference for the Arts & Humanities in Honolulu, HI held January 9-12, 2009.

Ashley K. Krejci, Criminal Justice, presented a paper entitled "The Future Legal Issues of Registration and Notification Laws As They Apply to Juveniles" at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) Conference in Boston, MA held March 10-14, 2009.

Yana Kruglikova, Health Psychology, presented “Russia-U.S. Collaboration on Social Welfare Issues” at the Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference IV in Miami, Florida held November 5-8, 2008.

Yazmin Lazcano, English, presented “Changes, Challenges, and Choices: Teaching Writing to Chicano/a Students in the 21st Century” at the National Council of Teachers of English, San Antonio 98th Annual Convention, in San Antonio, TX held November 20–25, 2008.
-- presented a paper entitled "Part of the Ocean: Historical and Contemporary Chicana/o Rhetorical Waves of Thought" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication 60th Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA held March 11-14, 2009.

Christen Lester, Human Nutrition, presented a poster entitled "Anti-adhesive Properties of Culinary and Medicinal Plants Against Staphylococcus Aureus and Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in an Ex-vivo Porcine Skin Model" at the Experimental Biology Conference in New Orleans, LA held April 20, 2009.

Xingjian Liu, Geography, presented a paper entitled "Arc_Mat: A Matlab-Based Spatial Data Analysis Toolbox" at the American Association of Geographers 2009 Annual meeting in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009. He won the first place award in the Student Paper Competition of the AAG’s Graduate Student Affinity Group.
-- presented a paper entitled "Road Selection Based on Voronoi Diagram and 'Strokes' in Map Generalization" at the American Association of Geographers 2009 Annual meeting in Las Vegas, NV held March 22 -27, 2009. He was one of the five finalists in the Student Paper Competition of the AAG’s Cartography Specialty Group.
-- presented a paper entitled "Arc_Mat: A Matlab-Based Spatial Data Analysis Toolbox", at the Southern Regional Science Association 2009 annual meeting in San Antonio, TX held April 2009.

Blanca Loya, Rhetoric & Composition, presented “Reggaeton: The Discourse of Latinos” at the National Council of Teachers of English (98th Annual Convention) in San Antonio, TX held November 21, 2008.

Ryan S. Luna, Aquatic Resources, oral presentation entitled "Does weight of the rumen-reticulum organ increase with digesta load in white-tailed deer" at The Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society meeting in Lubbock, TX February 26-28, 2009.

Monirith Ly, Education, presented a paper entitled "Developing Research Capacity at the Royal University of Phnom Penh" at the Academy of Human Resource Development International Research Conference in Arlington, VA held February 18-22, 2009.

Lisa R. Magnusson, Literature, presented a paper entitled "Amoret: Elizabeth's 'True Feminitee' Revealed?" at the Texas Medieval Association Conference XVIII in Lubbock, TX held October 2- 5, 2008.

Rachel L. Marks, Communication Disorders, co-presented a poster with Dr. Frances Burns entitled “Linguistic Contexts for Third-Person Singular in African American English-Speaking Children” at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention held November 19-21, 2008 in Chicago, IL.

Erin McAuley, Geography, presented a paper co-authored with Sophia Hurtado entitled "Environmental Effects of Coal Power Plants on Texas Lakes" at the Applied Geography Conference in Wilmington, DE held October 15-18, 2008. Both Sophia Hurtado and Erin received the first place prize for the Student Paper Competition and received two professional licenses of ArcGIS as a reward.

Shwan F. McCracken, Aquatic Resources PhD., presented a paper entitled "Detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Amphibians from the Forest Floor to the Upper Canopy of an Eucadorian Amazon Lowland Rainforest" at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Portland, OR held July 22-27, 2009.

Caitlin McCrory, MFA Poetry, presented a paper entitled "(Mis) Perceptions of Storytelling: Differences of Cultural Ideologies" at The Native American Literature Symposium in Albuquerque, NM February 26-28, 2009.

Shawn Meek, Communication Design, has had four of his pieces, "The Market Foundation:Annual Report," "American Heart Association Seattle 2009 Heartball: Invitation," "Stanbio Laboratories Hospital: Direct Mailers," and "The Market Foundation Street Festival: Website" accepted into The Big Book of Layouts, May 2010 HarperCollins Publisher.

Xuelian Meng, Geographic Information Science, PhD, presented a paper entitled "Separating Residential Land Use through Element Attributes Associated with Buildings from LIDAR and Fine-Resolution Images" at the ASPRS conference in Baltimore, MD held March 9-13, 2009.
-- presented a poster entitled “The Possibility of GIS Event Mapping by Media Reports: A Case Study on Sandstorms in China” at the AAG Annual Conference in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.

Gwynne Middleton, Creative Writing, presented short fiction on a panel entitled "New Environmental Fiction: Engaging History and Society" at the Eighth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) In Victoria, British Columbia, held June 3-6, 2009.

Stacia Miller, Adult, Professional & Community Education PhD, presented a session entitled "Is Your University Physical Activity Program on the ‘Chopping Block’?" at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Convention in Tampa, FL held April 2009.

Babur Saeed Mirza, Aquatic Resources, PhD., presented ": Fate of Frankia Strains in soil and rhizosphere of non-actinorhizal plants" at the 15^th International Frankia and Actinorhizal plants meeting 2008 in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina held October 18-24, 2008.

Audrey Mohan, Geographic Education, presented "Investigating Geography Teacher Self-efficacy using Mixed Methods" at the National Council for Geographic Education Conference in Las Vegas, NV held October 8-12, 2008.
-- presented "Teaching Modern Africa" at the National Council for Social Studies in Houston, TX held November 14-16, 2008.
-- presented a paper entitled “Moving from Qualified to Effective: Measuring Teacher Efficacy in Geography” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.

Shubhankar Nath, Microbiology, presented a poster entitled "Real Time PCR detects eukaryotic virus within biofilms" at Texas Branch American Society of Microbiology Fall Meeting in Austin, TX held November 9-11, 2008.
--presented "Biofilms can act as a reservoir for Largemouth Bass Virus" at Texas Branch American Society of Microbiology Spring Meeting in New Braunfels, TX held March 5-7, 2009.  

Alice Navarro, Family & Child Studies, presented a poster entitled “Best Practices for Teaching Courses in Family and Child Development” at the National Council on Family Relations in Little Rock, AR held November 4-8, 2008.

Juan Niño, Adult, Professional, and Community Education PhD, co-presented a paper with Dr. Sarah Nelson, Israel Aguilar, Naomi Garcia, and Dessynie Edwards entitled "The Challenges of Novice Principlas: What it Means for Preparation Programs" at the British Educational Leadership in Management and Administration Society Annual International Conference in Sheffield, England, UK held July 3-5, 2009. 

Kelley Nixon, Communication Design, submitted a poster entitled "Skull & Crossbones" to the Good 50 x 70 International 2009 Poster Competition (The Project That Helps Social Communication) May 2009. She was one of the winners in the competition.

Mayuri Pankaj Patel, Biology, presented a poster entitled "Phosphorylation of GFAP and Lamin B is an Early Event in Reactive Astrocytes and May Be Stimulated By cAMP" at the Experimental Biology Meeting in New Orleans, LA held April 18-22, 2009.

Joshuah S. Perkin, Aquatic Resources, presented a paper entitled "Ichthyofaunal Responses to Hydrologic Variation in a Lotic System: A Long-term, Species and Assemblage Scale Approach" at the Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society Conference in New Orleans, LA held January 16-18, 2009.
-- presented a paper entitled "Movement and Microhabitat Associations of Guadalupe Bass in Two Texas Rivers" at the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society meeting in Ft. Worth, TX held January 29-31, 2009. He was awarded Outstanding Fisheries Student of the Year as well as the Master of Science Student Scholarship by the TCAFS.

Susan L. Peters, Environmental Geography, presented a poster entitled “Recovery Impacts of Hurricane Ike on Ghost Crab Habitat at Malaquite Beach, Padre Island National Seashore” at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.

Keo Pierron, Communication Design, has had a poster entitled "c. 2050" accepted in a large collage exhibition at Indiana University in Bloomington for the fall 2009 semester. This exhibition is part of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Canary Project.

Cassie Polasek, Literature, presented a paper entitled "Nothing Is as It Appears, Eveything Is as It Appears: An Examination of Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge" on theSouthwestern and Western Literature panel at the Rocky Mountain Mordern Language Association (RMMLA) conference in Reno, NV held October 9-11, 2008. She was selected as alternate chair for the Southwestern and Western Literature panel at next year's RMMLA conference in Snowbird, Utah.

Amy Marie Puett, Music, presented a paper entitled "The Perception of "Evilness" in East German Music in the US" in the "Bose.Macht.Musik" (or Evil.Power.Music) symposium in Oldenburg, Germany held October 10-13, 2008.

Bettina Ramon, Rhetoric and Composition, presented a paper entitled “Blogs and Sexualities: Blurring the Boundaries of Culture and Academe” at the Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Conference in Albuquerque, NM held in February 2009.
-- presented a paper entitled “Queering the Classroom: Blogs, Composition, and Queer Identities” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Francisco, CA held March 11-14, 2009. She received the Scholars for the Dream scholarship to attend the conference.
-- presented a paper entitled “Writing Center 2.0: The Pleasurable Elements of the Online Writing Center” at the South Central Writing Centers Association Conference in Georgetown, TX held in April 2009.

Waverly Ray, Geography, presented a paper entitled "Ways Ahead for International Teaching and Learning Collaborations in Post-secondary Geography" at the HERODOT Conference in Liverpool, U.K. held September 6, 2008. The paper was accepted for publication in the edited conference proceedings entitled Future Prospects in Geography(Karl Donert and Glenda Wall, eds.)
-- presented a paper entitled "Understanding the Impact of the Center for Global Geography Education Modules on Undergraduate Student Participants" at the National Council for Geographic Education Annual Meeting in Dearborn, Michigan held October 10, 2008.
-- presented a paper entitled "Lessons Learned from the Center for Global Geography Education Pisco Elqui Workshop" (with Kate Yow) at the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in San Marcos, TX held October 24, 2008.
-- presented a paper entitled "Undergraduate Student Experiences with the CGGE Modules: Pilot Study Results" at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27,2009.

Janice M. Ringersma,Technical Communication, presented a paper entitled "Seeing the Computers Through the Trees: Service Learning in Rural Communities" at the Computers in Writing conference in Davis, CA, held June 2009. She co-presented with Dr. Elizabeth A. Monske from Northern Michigan University and Dr. Christopher S. Harris from University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Renee Rodriguez, Music, presented a poster entitled "Using Band, Orchestra, and Choral Music to Enhance Music Theory and Aural Skills Courses for Music Education Students" at the College Music Society's South Central Chapter Conference in Norman, OK held March 2009. She received the "Best Student Poster" award and was elected to the Board as Newsletter Editor.
-- presented a paper entitled "Training Teachers - Music Education Students in the Music Theory and Aural Skills Classroom" at the second international conference The Changing Face of Music Education in Tallinn, Estonia held April 23-25, 2009.

Eric Samson, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Plataformas y Prácticas Medioambientales Zapatistas [Zapatista Environmental Platforms and Practices]" at the Conference of Latin American Geographers (CLAG) in Grenada, Nicaragua held January 7-9, 2009.
-- presented a paper entitled “Assessment of Beginning Post-Secondary Geography Students” at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009. 
-- presented a paper entitled “Invited Panel Chair: Regional Reconsideration: The Place of Regional Geography in the University Curriculum” at the GeoSummit 2009: An International Symposium on Teaching and Learning in Geography in San Marcos, TX, held May 2009.
-- presented a paper entitled “Paperless Classrooms: Practicing What We Preach in Environmental Education (Session Chair and Discussant)” at the GeoSummit 2009: An International Symposium on Teaching and Learning in Geography in San Marcos, TX, held May 2009.

Zach Shattuck, Aquatic Resources, presented "Seasonal Patterns of Population Structure, Reproductive Ecology, and Prey Selectivity of Texas Logperch in the Pedernales River, Texas" at the 2nd International Golden Alga Symposium and 2009 Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society in Ft. Worth, TX held January 29-31, 2009.

Johann Sawyer, Anthropology, presented “Identity and Meaning in Mississippian Female Regalia” at the 65th annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Charlotte, NC held November 13, 2008.

Kathleen Seal, Geography PhD, presented a poster entitled "An American Geography Family Tree: Academic Heritage of Geography in America" at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.
--presented a paper entitled "Influences on bicycle facilities planning in Urban vs Rural Settings" at the 15th Annual International Symposium on Society and Resource Management in Vienna, Austria held July 5-8, 2009.
--presented a paper entitled "Using Network Analyst to locate preferred road bicycling routes" at the ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, CA hld July 13-17, 2009.

Desserae Shepston, Environmental Geography, PhD, presented a poster entitled "The Implications of Forest Management in Oregon: Examining the Relationship Between Forest Cover Patterns on Public and Private Lands" at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.

Mamta Singh, Aquatic Biology, gave an oral presentation entitled “Demographic and Academic Factors Related to Student Performance and Success in Entry-Level Biology, Chemistry, and Physics Courses” at the Texas Academy of Science Conference (TAS) in Junction, TX held March 6-8, 2009. She received The Best Student Abstract in the Science Education Section; Oral Presentation.
-- presented “What Factors Affect Students’ Attrition in the Entry-level Biology Courses?” at the 2008 South-western Association of Science Teacher Educators (SASTE) Conference in Irving, TX held November 14-15, 2008.
--co-presented an oral presentation with S. West, L. Gloyna, and M. Duran entitled "Corelated Science and Math: A New Model for Training Teachers to Link Both Disciplines" at the 2009 National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST) International Annual Conference in Garden Grove, CA held April 17-21, 2009. She was a recipient of one of the 2009 the NARST Equity Scholars Awards honored by The Equity and Ethics Committee of NARST.

Alexandra Smith, Biology, presented a poster entitled "Mercury Concentrations of the Rio Grande Fish Community: Spatial Variation and Influence of Food Web Structure" at the SETAC North America 29th Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL held November 16-20, 2008

Sunni J. Taylor, Aquatic Resources, presented a poster entitled "The genetic architecture of reproductive isolation in Louisiana Iris: I.nelsonii x I. hexagona" at the Evolution Conference in Moscow, ID held June 12-17, 2009.
--presented a paper entitled "The genetic architecture of reproductive isolation in Louisiana Iris: hybrid fitness in nature" at the Botany and Mycology 2009 Conference in Snowbird, UT held July 25-30, 2009.

Akinola Adekunle Temitope, Industrial Technology, "Nano-modificaion of E-glass Polyurethane composite-Mechanical Properties" at the SAMPE 09 Conference in Baltimore, MD held May 18-21, 2009.

Nancy Tian, Geographic Information Science, presented a paper entitled "Socioeconomic and Racial Inequalities in Mortality of Female Breast Cancer in Texas" at the AAG Annual conference in Las Vegas, NV held on March 22-27, 2009.
-- presented a paper entitled "Racial Disparity Analysis of Breast Cancer by Socioeconomic Groups" at the URISA GIS and Public Health Conference in Providence, RI held in June 5-8, 2009.

Jeffery Troy, Aquatic Resources, presented a poster entitled "Reduction in the Breeding Range of Newell’s Shearwaters Puffinus newelli on Kauai, Hawaii: Evidence and Insights from Field Surveys and GIS Modeling” at the the 32nd Annual Waterbird Society Meeting in South Padre Island, TX held November 5-8, 2008. He one the Noteworthy Student Poster Award.

Stephen Tsikalas, Geography, PhD, presented a paper entitled "Edible San Marcos: Engaging Students in Food Geography" at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.

Michele Tucci, Geography, presented a paper entitled "Studying the Urban History of Milan through Historical Maps: A Spatial-Analytical Methodology" at the 33^rd Annual SSHA Meeting in Miami, FL held October 23-26, 2008.

Pamela Wadende, Adult, Professional, and Community Education, presented a paper entitled “Negotiating Space: International Adult Learners in U.S.A Universities” at the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) conference in Denver, Colorado held November 9-11, 2008.

Armando Vega, Criminal Justice, presented a poster entitled "Low Self-Control and Music Downloading among College Undergraduates" at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) Conference in Boston, MA held March 10-14, 2009.

Mary Anne Wallace, Aquatic Resources, PhD, presented a poster entitled "Phytoplankton Nutrient-Dependent Growth Responses and Seasonal Zooplankton Grazing Estimates of the Highland Lakes, Colorado River, Central Texas" at the Texas Academy of Science in Junction, TX held March 5-6, 2009.

Jared Walls, Creative Writing, presented a paper entitled "'Maculate Conceptions': Absurdist and Domestic Subversions of Fable, Primer, Nursery Rhyme and Comic Strip as Functions of Narrative in the Prose Poems of Russell Edson" at the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations Conference in Albuquerque, NM held February 25-28, 2009.

Neng Wan, Geographic Information Science, presented a paper entitled "Economic Development and Public Health: What Happened to the Austin-San Antonio Corridor Area During 2000-2006?" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.

Jiao Wang, Geography, presented a paper entitled “Monitor Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Water Use in El Paso County, Texas Based on GIS and Land Cover Data” at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009. He received a travel award from the Water Resources Specialty Group.
-- presented a paper entitled,"Estimating Water Use in El Paso County Texas Based on GIS and Remote Sensing Imagery for the Past 30 Years" at the AWRA 2009 Spring Speciality Conference in Anchorage, AK held on May 4-6, 2009.

Samantha Ware, Criminal Justice, presented a poster entitled "College Students' Perception of Sharing Music Files and Illegal Music Downloading" at the American Criminal Justice Sciences Conference in Boston, MA held March 10-14, 2009.

Amber Wheat, Anthropology, presented a paper entitled "Estimating Ancestry through Nonmetric Traits of the Skull: A Test of Education and Experience" at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Conference in Denver, CO held February, 2009. 

Clayton Wimberly, Communication Disorders, co-presented a poster with Cardin Coleman and Dr. Celeste Domsch entitled “Conversational Syntax of School-Age Children with Late Language Emergence” at the 2008 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention in Chicago, IL held November 20-22, 2008.

Clayton Whitesides, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "The influence of Olympic Marmots on Alpine Treeline" at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009. He received the Mountain Geography Chimborazo Student Research Grant Award Honorable Mention.

Suzi Wiseman, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled “The Role of Sound in the Captive Environment of Rhinoceri” at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Las Vegas, NV held March 22 -27, 2009.

Angela Wranic, Geography, co-presented a paper with Dr. Muniz entitled "Composite Learning Objects in Geographical Science Experience from On-line Collaboration" at the 3^rd Conference of Latin American Learning Objects at the Universidad Autonoma De Aguascalientes in Aguascalientes, Mexico held October 27-31, 2008. The paper was published along with the other paper presenters at the conference.

Charles Yorke, Geography, presented a poster entitled "A Three Components Model of Hazards of Place" at the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas, NV held March 22-27, 2009.

Mariam Zamila, Communication Studies, presented “Welcome to the Boys' Club Hillary: A Roundtable Discussion of Women in Leadership Roles” at the National Communication Association in San Diego, CA held November 24, 2008.

Naizhuo Zhao, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "The Influence of Loessial Dense Degree on Polarized Reflection" at the 2009 AAG Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV held March 22 -27, 2009. 

2007 - 2008

Alicia Adame, Sociology, presented a paper entitled “Parental Educational Expectations, Sense of School Belonging, and Academic Achievement: A Comparison of Native-born Latinos and Latino Immigrants.” at the Southwestern Social Science Association (SSSA) Eighty-eight Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV held March 13-15, 2008.

Jennifer Ainsworth, Geography, presented a paper entitled “Deep in the [Green] Heart of Texas: Native Landscaping in Austin” at the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG) Annual Meeting in Bryan, TX held November 2007.

Jason Alemán, Education-Adult,Professional & Community Education, presented at the UCEA conference in Washington, D.C. held November 2007.  The presentation was entitled “Community as Pedagogy”.

Bobby Baca, Sociology, presented “Sociology Outside the Classroom: A Case Study in Applied Research” at the Southwestern Social Science Association in Las Vegas, NV held March 13-15, 2008.

Paula Baldwin, Communication Studies, co-author with MM Villagran, PhD. and E. Wittenberg-Lyles , PhD, presented paper entitled “Communicating support: Ad hoc volunteerism in natural disasters” at the annual convention of the National Communication Association in Chicago, IL held November 15–18, 2007.
--  Co-author with E. Wittenberg-Lyles, PhD., D. Parker Oliver, PhD, and G. Demiris, PhD., presented a poster session of their paper “Communication dynamics in hospice teams: Understanding the role of the chaplain” at the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association in Tampa, FL held January 20 – February 1, 2008.  The AAHPM & HPNA published the abstract of the paper.
--presented a poster entitled, "The Emerging Generation: Has the Constructed Homosexual Identity Communicated in Media Changed Their Attitudes?," at the Eastern Communication Association Annual Convention in Pittsburg, PA held April 30 -May 4,2008.
--presented a paper entitled "Chocolat:Reinventing the Fairy Tale," at the University of North Texas New Voices, New Research Undergraduate and Graduate Conference in Denton, TX held March 28-30,2008.

Kristina Barnett, Sociology, presented a paper entitled “Rebel Without a Kid: Women Who Don't Want Kids and Efficacy-Based Self Esteem” at the SSSA 88th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV held March 12-15, 2008.

Megan G. Bean, Biology, gave an oral presentation entitled “Occurrence of the Asian Fish Tapeworm in the Rio Grande: Implications for Fishes of Conservation Concern” at the American Fisheries Society 137^th Annual Meeting (National Meeting) in San Francisco, CA held September 2-6, 2007.

Tammy Biegas, Geographic Information Systems, presented a poster entitled "Adolescent Overweight/Obesity Spatial Comparison: Dallas,TX and San Diego, CA," at the Association of American Geographers Conference (AAG) in Boston, MA held April 15-19,2008.

Haley Bishop, Applied Sociology, presented “Sociology Outside the Classroom: A Case Study in Applied Research” at the Southwestern Social Science Association in Las Vegas, NV held March 13-15, 2008.

 Ashley C Bourgeois, Literature, presented a paper entitled, “Mourning Hagar: Toni Morrison Addresses Mothering and ‘Childcenteredness’ in Song of Solomon” at the 2008 American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA held May 22-25, 2008.

Johnathon D. Boyd, Theatre, presented a poster entitled “New Perspective at the RSC: Nancy Meckler’s Directorial Vision” at the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference in Akron, Ohio in October 2007.

Marta Brain, Music, presented a paper entitled "The Compositional Work and Life Achievements of Johann Stamitz" at the European Studies Conference in Omaha, NE, held October 4-6, 2007.

Keith Bremer, Environmental Geography, presented a poster entitled "Socio-Economic Characteristics of Different Land Uses in Austin,TX," at the Association of American Geographers conference in Boston, MA held April15-19,2008.

Rebecca P. Brown, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled “Historical Climatology of Maximum Precipitation in Texas” at the Applied Geography Conference in Indianapolis, IN held October 2007.
-- presented a poster entitled "The Southern Extent of Tornado Alley," at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Boston, MA held April 15-20,2008.

Lara Marie Pope Bryant, Geography-Geographic Education, presented at the National Council for Geographic Education: 92^nd Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City, OK held October 2007.  The presentation was entitled “Teaching World Heritage”. This was a workshop designed for middle and high school curriculum.
--presented a paper entitled "Measuring Changes in Sudent Environmental Affect," at the AAG Annual Meeting: Advancing Geography in Partnership with You in Boston,MA held April 15-19,2008.
--Created a poster using GIS to create an Atlas of San Marcos to support a Community at Pedagogy," for the Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry and Couch Stone Symposium at the University of Illinois in Urbana -Champaign, IL held May 14-17,2008.

Elizabeth Capalbo, Biology, presented a poster entitled "Expression of Modd Muscarinix Acetylcholine Receptors in the Retinas of Bluegill and Zebrafish," at the Experimental Biology 2008 Conference in San Diego,CA held April 5-9,2008.

Lori Carter, Geography, presented a poster entitled, "Habitat Fragmentation of a Small Urbanizing Watershed in Hays County, Texas" at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Boston, MA held April 15-19, 2008.

Annie Castillo, Physical Therapy, presented a poster entitled “Hydrotherapy Practices in Wound Care Among Physical Therapists and Physical Therapists Assistants with Certified Wound Specialist (R) (CWS (R) Designation” at the Texas Physical Therapy Association National Student Conclave in Galveston, TX held October 2007.

Christine Coats, Geography Education, presented a paper entitled "National And International Online Interaction in Geography Education," at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Boston, MA held April 15-19,2008.

Katrina L. Cohen, Aquatic Biology, gave an oral presentation entitled “Dietary Preferenda of Exotic Suckermouth Catfish in the San Marcos River, Texas: Potential Impacts on Endemic Species” at the American Fisheries Society in San Francisco, CA held September 2007.

Mindy Conyers, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "The Spatial Variation of Bed Material Size and Shape in the Headwaters of the Animas River, Colorado,USA," at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers held April 15-19,2008.

Catherine Cooper, Geographic Education, gave a presentation entitled “A Real World Approach to Getting Your PhD” at the Annual Meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education in Oklahoma City, OK in October 2007.  Catherine also presented a paper entitled “Armenia, Its Caucasus Neighbors and U.S. Financial Aid” at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers” in Charleston, SC held November 2007.

Sandra L. Cook-Hildreth, Aquatic Biology, presented a poster entitled “Reproductive biology of Exotic Suckermouth Catfish in the San Marcos River” at the American Fisheries Society 137^th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. held September 2-6, 2007.

Melody W. Crenshaw, Geography, presented "Geography in U.S. National Parks," at The Geographical Association Annual Conference at the University of Surrey in Guildford Surrey, England held March 27-29,2008.

Sondra D’Aquisto, MS Applied Sociology,  presented a paper entitled “Sociology in Higher Education: An Evaluation of a Summer Bridge Program” at the Southwestern Social Sciences Association 88th Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV held March 12-15, 2008.
--  Presented “Sociology Outside the Classroom: A Case Study in Applied Research” at the Southwestern Social Science Association in Las Vegas, NV held March 13-15, 2008.

Jeffrey Davis, Communication Design, poster entitled "Our Aim is to End the Suffering," has won an award for a competition held by Good'08 50x70. The project that helps Social Communication in the Category of War Victims.

Christopher Andrew Day, Geography, presented a paper entitled “Groundwater Contaminant Concentrations of Land Use Categories for the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer, Texas” at the Applied Geography Conference in Indianapolis, IN held October 2007.

Julia Decker, Political Science, presented a paper entitled "Brazilian Homosexuality: Political Groups, Prostitution, Violence and Political Success," at the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies Conference in Flagstaff, AZ held April 9-12,2008.

Onnalita Maniccia, Health Education, presented posters entitled "Physcial Activity and Nutrition Behaviors of Pre-Service Health Teachers" and "Pre-Service Teachers' Health Behaviors and Perceptions of Future Behavior Change" at the 2008 American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Convention in Fort Worth Texas, held April 8-12,2008.

Sukyi Douglas-McMahon, Literature, presented a paper entitled “The War Between Crown and Crozier: The Political Side of Guillaume de Deguileville in The Pilgrimage of Human Life” at the Texas Medieval Association’s Seventeenth Annual Conference in College Station, TX held October 2007.

Brian D. Earle, Environmental Geography, presented at the 92^nd Annual Meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education in Oklahoma City, OK held October 2007.  The presentation was entitled “Revealing the Diversity of Geography Learning”.

Michelle Edwards, Sociology, presented a paper entitled "Gendered Experiences in Alcoholics Anonymous" at the Southwestern Social Science Association Conference in Las Vegas, NV held March 12-15, 2008.

Kristen Epp, Aquatic Resources, presented a paper entitled, “The effect of predator diet on avoidance responses of predator-naive Eurycea nana” at the Evolution Conference in Minneapolis, MN held June 20-24, 2008.

Celeste M. Espinedo, Biology, presented a paper entitled, “Symmetrical Reproductive Isolation: A Tale of Two Species” at the Evolution Conference in Minneapolis, MN held June 20-24, 2008.

Dawn Estrada, Communication Studies, presented a paper entitled "The Cyber Factor: Are There Sex Differences Online? An Analysis of Relational Maintenance through the Use of Computer-Mediated Communication," at the 99th Annual Convention of the Eastern Communication Association in Pittsburg,PA held May 1-4,2008. The paper won Top Paper for the Graduate Poster Session.

Tianfang Fang, Geographic Information Science, presented "An Analysis of the Driving Factors for Land Use Change in Hulin County, China," at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Boston, MA held April 15-19,2008.

Demetrea Farris, Sociology, presented a paper entitled “Reconnecting with my Roots”: A Qualitative Study of Previously Launched Adults at the Southwestern Social Science Association Conference in Las Vegas held March 12-15, 2008.

Jeff Felderhoff, Communication Disorders, presented a poster entitled “Assessment Methods Used in Texas Elementary Schools for Diagnosing Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDDs)” at the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX held February 21 – 23, 2008.

Christina Fleuriet, Communication Studies, presented a paper entitled "The Cyber Factor: Are There Sex Differences Online? An Analysis of Relational Maintenance through the Use of Computer-Mediated Communication," at the 99th Annual Convention of the Eastern Communication Association in Pittsburg,PA held May 1-4,2008. The paper won Top Paper for the Graduate Poster Session.

Adrienne Foreman, Literature, presented “Hard-Boiled Gender – Hard to Break but Bendy” at the SCMLA, South Central Modern Language Association in Memphis, TN held November 2007.  Adrienne also presented “Hawthorne and Magical Realism: Fantasy in Canonical Works” and co-chaired a panel discussion on “Fantasy’s relationship with canonical literature” at the Fantasy Matters Conference in Minneapolis, MN held November 2007.

James P. Gaertner, Aquatic Resources, presented a poster entitled “Detection of Batracochytrium Dendrobatidis in Four Endemic Central Texas Amphibians” at the Amphibian Declines & Chytridiomycosis: Translating Science into Urgent Action Conference in Tempe, AZ held November 2007.

James Michael Gividen, Education - Adult,Professional & Community Education, presented at the UCEA conference in Washington, D.C. held November 2007.  The presentation was entitled “Community as Pedagogy”.

Sophia L. Gonzales, Geography-Resource & Environmental Studies, presented a poster entitled “The Environmental Effects of Coal Power Plants on Texas Reservoirs” at the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers in Bryan, TX held November 2007.

Gina Guzman, Literature, presented a paper entitled “White Cultural Sustainability through the Silence of the Ethnic Voice” at the Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference “Sustainability” in Tempe, AZ held October 2007.
-- presented a paper entitled "Minority Students on the Periphery:Domesticating Canagarajah's Geopolitics" at the CCCC Conevention 2008: Writing Realities, Changing Realities in New Orleans, LA held April 2-5,2008.
--presented a paper entitled "Minority Students on the Periphery:Domesticating Canagarajah's Geopolitics in Writing Centers" at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano (NACCS) XXXV Poesia, Baile y Cancion:The Politics, Implications and Future of Chicana/o's Cultural Production in Austin, TX held March 19-22,2008.

Melissa Harbin, English Literature, presented a paper entitled, "Clothed in Muslin and Virtue: The Lady's Newspaper as a Social and Moral Influence" at the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) Conference in Roehampton, England held July 4-5, 2008.

Xueqin He, Geography-Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled “International Students Vulnerability to Emergency Event: Does Tenure of Residence Make a Difference?” at the Applied Geography Conference (AGC) in Indianapolis, IN held October 2007.  Xueqin also presented a paper entitled “Is Emergency Communication Biased? Comparing Newspaper Coverage of Bridge Collapses in the US and China” at the Southwestern Division of the AAG (SWAGG) in Bryan, TX held November 2007.
-- presented a paper entitled "What Makes Floodpain Residents Satisfied with Their Home Location?," at the 2008 AAG Annual Meeting in Boston, MA held April 14-20,2008.

Tom C. Heard, Aquatic Biology, gave a presentation entitled “Habitat Associations of the Fish Assemblage in the Big Bend Reach of the Rio Grande” at the American Fisheries Society: Annual Meeting 2007 in San Francisco, CA held September 2007.

Sheila Henk, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled “Comparing Press Responses to Wild Boars/Feral Pigs (Sus scrofa) in Great Britain and the United States at the Applied Geography Conference in Indianapolis, IN held October 2007.

Brenda Genise Henry, Education-School Improvement, made an oral presentation entitled “Community as Pedagogy” at the UCEA conference in Washington, D.C. held November 15-19, 2007.

Juan Jacinto Hernandez, Education-School Improvement, made a presentation entitled “Community as Pedagogy” at the UCEA - University Council for Educational Administration in Washington D.C. held November 15-19, 2007.

Cory Holland, Biochemistry, presented a paper entitled "The Analysis of the Mechanism by which Telomerase impacts Chromosome Stability and Cell Viability in Ku mutants," under the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) category at the Experimental Biology Conference held April 4-9,2008.

Delbert Humberson, Geographic Information Science, presented a poster entitled “Applying the Cellular Automaton Evolutionary Slope and River (CAESAR) Model to a Highly Erosive Reach of the Colorado River, Austin, Texas” at the Complexity in Geomorphology, the 38^th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium in Durham, NC held October 2007.

Dorothy Ibes, Geography, presented a paper entitled “Geography of Chile, Pointers for Teachers” at the National Council for Geographic Education conference in Oklahoma City, OK held October 2007.

Jon Kedrowski, Environmental Geography, presented a poster entitled "Evaluation and Interactive Mapping of an Isolated Section of the Continental Divide Trail in Colorado's South San Juan Mountains," at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Boston, MA held April 15-19,2008.
-- presented a paper and poster entitled "Perceptions on Mount Everest: Measuring Crowding Issues,Challenges,Success, and Environmental Concerns," at the International Cryosphere and Hazards Workshop of the Hindu kush, Himalayan and Tibetan Plateau in Kathmandu, Nepal held March 30 - April 2,2008.

Amanda Keen-Zebert, Environmental Geography, August 2007, accepted a two-year NSF post-doctoral fellowship beginning in May in their International Research Fellowship Program.  Her project title is “Determining Bedrock Incision Rates Using Cosmogenic Isotop\3He\Analysis to Chronologically Constrain the Wetland Development Cycle in the Highveld of South Africa.”  She will be working with Dr. Stephen Tooth at the University of Aberystwyth in Wales.

Shannon Kelly, Geography, presented a poster entitled "The Effects of Mountain Goat Trampling within the Western Mountain Ridges of Glacier National Park, Montana," at the Association of American Geographers in Boston, MA held April 14-19,2008.

Ju-Sun Kim, Music, presented a paper entitled "Impressionism: Debussy¹s Piano Music L¹isle joyeuse (1904)" at the European Studies Conference in Omaha, NE, held October 4-6, 2007.
--  Presented paper entitled “Maria Szymanowska: An Examination of Selected Dances in Historical and Analytical Perspectives," at the College Music Society- South / Southcentral SuperRegional Chapter conference held at Lousinana State University in Baton Rouge, LA  held February 28 – March 1, 2008.
--  Presented “On Selected Dances by Maria Szymanowska," at the 2008 National Association of Composers U.S.A. (NACUSA) Texas Conference in San Marcos, TX held February 22-23, 2008.
--  Published article entitled “Composer Portrait: From Gypsy Music to Post-Minimalist Deconstruction: A Portrait of, and Interview with, Composer Charles Ditto (b. 1954),”  in the South Central Music Bulletin Spring 2007 issue.
--  Received Honorable Mention in Concerto Competition, School of Music at Texas State University, on November 5th, 2007.
--  Performed her music composition at the National Association of Composers U.S.A. (NACUSA) Texas Conference, Texas State University, held on February 23rd, 2008.

Russell Kirkscey, Communication Studies, publicized "Accommodating Traditional African Values and Globalization: Narrative as Argument in Wangari Maathai's Nobel Prize Lecture" Women and Language 30(2), 12-17 in December 2007.
- - refereed conference paper entitled, "A Unifying Vision: Argumentation, Values, and Audience Adaptation." Argumentation and Forensics Division. National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL held November 2007.
- - co-refereed conference paper with Cynthia Shipman, Marsha Catron, and Sandra Gomez entitled, "Perceived Credibility and the Effects of Rhetorical Strategies in Political Email Messages" at the Political Communication Division: National Communication Association Convention in Chicago, IL held November 2007.
- - refereed conference paper entitled, "The Cycle of Omission: Oppressive and Oppressed Gender Roles in Recent Children's Literature" at the Texas Speech Communication Association Convention in San Antonio, TX held October 2007.

Jen Korn, Wildlife Ecology, presented "Evaluating Avian Communities of the Blanco River Valley using Occupancy Modeling and Landowner conducted surveys," at the Southeastern Natural Resources Graduate Student Symposium in Starkville, MS held March 26-27,2008.

Kasey Korth, Theatre History, presented a paper entitled "The Women in William Inge's "Bus Stop,":Giving a Voice to Women in the 1950's," at the William Inge Theatre Festival in Independence, KS held April 26,2008.

Yazmin Lazcano,Literature, presented a paper entitled, "Building Civic Agency by Teaching Chicana/o Students with Multi-genre Materials" at the NACCS 2008 Tejas Regional Conference, “Mi Educación es la Causa”: Chicana and Chicano Pedagogy in the 21^st Century held in McAllen, TX held February 28-March 1, 2008.
-- Presented a paper entitled, "Writing Assessment in 'The Borderlands of Culture': Negotiating Cultural Bias and Rhetorical Flexibility"  at the Fifty-Ninth Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication: Writing Realities, Changing Realities held in New Orleans, LA held April 2-5, 2008.

Elizabeth Lee, Music, presented a paper entitled "Baroque vs. Classical Characteristics in the Work of Johann Stamitz" at the European Studies Conference in Omaha, NE, held October 4-6, 2007.
--  Gave a presentation entitled “Cognitive Domains in the Teaching and Learning of Music-Theoretical Concepts in Music Theory” at the Society for Education, Psychology, and Music Research (SEMPRE) Graduate Student Day Conference in Sheffield, England held October 2007.  Elizabeth also presented a paper entitled “Active versus Passive Learning: On the Effectiveness of Student Tasks in the Online Teaching of Music Fundamentals” at the College Music Society and Association for Technology in Music Instruction National Conference in Salt Lake City, UT held November 2007.

Xuelian Meng, Geographic Information Science, paper entitled “Morphology-based Building Detection form Airborne Lidar Data” will receive the 2008 BAE Systems Award for best student paper presented by the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at the ASPRS 2008 Annual Conference in Portland, OR held in May.  The paper will also be published in the Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing (PE&RS), the official journal of ASPRS.  Her advisor is Dr. Nate Currit.  Co-authors of the paper are Dr. Currit and former college, Dr. Le Wang.

Rachel Marks, Communication disorders, presented "Identifying Morphological Impairment in Young African American Speakers - Phase 1 ,"at the National Black Association os Speech-Language Hearing(NBASLH), in Washington D.C. held April 17-19,2008.

Carlton Mathis, Applied Sociology, presented “Sociology Outside the Classroom: A Case Study in Applied Research” at the Southwestern Social Science Association in Las Vegas, NV held March 13-15, 2008.

Erin McAuley, Geography, presented a poster entitled "Environmental Effects of Coal Power Plants on Texas Reservoirs," at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference in Boston, MA held April 14-18,2008.

Shawn McCracken, Aquatic Resources, gave an oral presentation entitled,"Does the canopy hold a missing piece of the Amazon rainforest amphibian diversity? New species from a new frontier in Yasuní National Park, Amazonian Ecuador" at the 2008 Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Annual Meeting in Paramaribo, Suriname held June 2008. He received a 2008 ATBC Travel Award in the amount of $500.

Sarah E. McNeely, Technical Communication, presented a paper entitled “To Carry on a Conversation: Reading the Reader in The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine” at the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference (RSVP) in Richmond, VA held September 14-15, 2007.
--  Presented a paper entitled “So Peculiarly a Feminine Pursuit: Intersections of Science and Domesticity in The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine” at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference (NAVSA) in Victoria, BC held October, 2007.

Stacia C. Miller, Adult, Professional & Community Education, presented at the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance 84^th Annual Convention in Galveston, TX held November 28-December 1, 2007.  The title of her presentation was “Evaluating Student Teachers with the Use of Heart Rate Monitors” (presented with Dr. Paul Paese).

Audrey M. Mohan, Geography-Geographic Education, gave a presentation entitled “Measuring Geography Teacher Efficacy” at the National Council for Geographic Education in Oklahoma City, OK held October 2007.  Audrey also presented a poster entitled “Factors Influencing Geography Teacher Efficacy” at the National Council for Social Studies in San Diego, CA held November 2007.                       
-- Presented "Survey Development and Measurement of Geography Teacher Self-efficacy," at the Association of American Geographers conference in Boston, MA held April 14-19, 2008.
--Presented "Geography Teacher Self-Efficacy: Directions for New Research in Geography Teacher Preparartion" at the International Geographical Congress Conference in Tunis, Tunisia held August 12-15, 2008. She received the Association of American Geographers/National Science Foundation (AAG-NSF) Junior Schoalr Travel Grant to pay for her attendance/presentation at the conference.

Heidi L.N. Moltz, Aquatic Resources, presented a paper entitled "Integrated Assessment of Nonpoint Source Pollution in Large Watersheds" at the 12^th International Conference on Integrated Diffuse Pollution Management in Khon Kaen, Thailand held August 25-29, 2008.

Edris J. Montalvo, Geographic Education, presented a paper entitled “Diversity in Geography Undergraduate Programs” co-authored with Lawrence E. Estaville of Texas State University-San Marcos and Fenda A. Akiwumi of the University of South Florida.  The presentation was made at the National Council for Geographic Education 92^nd Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City, OK held October 2007.

Zach Moore, Geographic Education, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Geography at Rowan University in New Jersey effective Fall 2008.  He will also be involved in trying to re-start the New Jersey state geographic alliance.

Lauren Morgan, Music, presented a paper entitled “Under-Represented Musician in the University Music Environment” at the NACUSA (National Association of Composers, USA) at Texas State University held February 23, 2008.
--  Presented a paper entitled "Integration of the Blind and Visually Impaired in the Music Theory Classroom" for the CMS (College Music Society) at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA held February 29, 2008.  She was also elected as the student board member for the south-central region of the College Music Society at this conference, and will be representing Texas State within that organization until she graduates in May 2009.

Rebecca O'Donovan, Music, presented a poster entitled "An Ethnographic Study of Individual Evaluations in Sight-reading" at the Texas Music Educators Association in San Antonio, TX held February13-16, 2008.

Elizabeth A. Pearce, Literature, presented a paper entitled “Juxtapositions in Adolescent Literature: The Magical and/or Realistic Spaces of Diana Wynne Jones’ Fire and Hemlock” at the SCMLA (South Central Modern Language Association) Annual Conference in Memphis, TN held November 2007.

Joshuah S. Perkin, Aquatic Biology, gave an oral presentation entitled “Life History of the Chub Shiner in the Lower Brazos River with Comments on Conservation Status and Native Distribution” at the American Fisheries Society National Meeting in San Francisco, CA held September 2007.

Clovis C. Perry, Geography Education, presented a paper entitled “A Real World Approach to Getting Your Ph.D.” at the National Council for Geographic Education in Oklahoma City, OK held October 2007.

Susan L. Peters, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled “Trends in Extreme Winter Weather events in Texas” at the Applied Geography Conference in Indianapolis, IN held October 2007.

Jason R Plyler, Biochemistry, presented a poster entitled "Monitoring SV40 Large T-antigen Activity and Inhibitor in Real Time Using Surface Plasmon Resonance" at the 236^th Annual ACS Conference in Philadelphia, PA held August 17-21, 2008.

Megan Pope, Communication Studies , made a presentation entitled “The Benefits of Taking Training and Development Courses: A Student’s Perspective” at the National Communication Association 93^rd Annual Convention in Chicago, IL held November 2007.
--  Was a part of a panel entitled "Applying Training and Development Course Content: A Student and Industry Perspective” and presented "The Benefits of Taking Training and Development Courses: A Student's Perspective." at the National Communication Association Convention in Chicago held November 15-18, 2007.

Amy Puett, Music, presented a paper entitled "Political Influences on the Life and Music of Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)" at the "The College Music Society SuperRegional (South Central and Southern Chapters) Conference in Baton Rouge, LA held February 28 –March 1, 2008. She won the award for "South Central Chapter Most Outstanding Student Paper".
-- presented a paper entitled "On the Reception of East German Music in the US," at the American Musicological Society Rocky Mountain Chapter Conference in Logan, UT held MArch 28-29,2008.

Robin Ramirez, Education -School Improvement, made a presentation entitled “She’s learning to learn what she wants to know…” at the ChildSpirit Conference: Sending our Love into the Future in Chattanooga, TN held November 2007.

Waverly Ray, Geography, presented a paper entitled "Designing and Evaluating Learning Collaborations in Postsecondary Geography" at the International Geographical Union 31^st International Congress in Tunis, Tunisia held August 14, 2008.

Megan Rios, Communication Studies, presented a poster entitled "Communication Satisfaction in the Termination of Same-Sex Friendships," at the Eastern Communication Association Conference held May 1-4,2008.

Heather K. Robinson, Creative Writing, presented a poetry collection entitled “Nature’s Swell” at the 2008 Sigma Tau Delta Conference in Louisville, KY held March 5–8, 2008.

Renee Rodriguez, Music, presented a poster entitled "Improving Music Theory Instruction in Middle School Band Programs in Texas" at the College Music Society South Central - Southern SuperRegional Conference in Baton Rouge, LA held February 28 – March 1, 2008.  She received the Best Student Poster award from the South Central chapter of the College Music Society.

Dennis T. Runyan, Aquatic Biology, gave a presentation entitled “Fish Assemblages Changes in Three Western Gulf Slope Drainages: An Historical Perspective” at the National Meeting of the American Fisheries Society in San Francisco, CA held September 2007.

Michael Saenz, Communication Studies, presented a poster entitled "The Effects of Conflict on Small Group Cohesion: An Empirical Analysis" at the Eastern Communication Association Conference in Pittsburg, PA held AMy 1-4,2008.

Marta Salazar, Anthropology, presented a paper entitled "The Life and  Death of Mexican American Grave Decorations," at The Society for Applied Anthropology 68th Annual Meeting: The Public Sphere and Engaged Scholarship-Opportunities and Challenges for Applied Anthropology in Memphis, TN held March 25-29,2008.
-- Recently received the 2008 Preservation Fellows Award from the Texas Historical Commission.

Eric Samson, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Environmental Parity of Official and Autonomous Municipios in Zapatista Chiapas, Mexico," in the Mexico: Economical and Political Geography Session at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Boston, MA held April19,2008.

Steve Schermerhorn, Geographic Education, presented at the National Council for Geographic Education in Oklahoma City, OK held October 2007.  The presentation was entitled “A Real-World Geography Ph.D.”

Shobhit Sharma, Biology, presented a poster entitled  "Exploration of Gene changes in Circadian rhythm in Zebrafish eyes using Microarray Technology," at the Experimental Biology 2008 Conference in San Diego, CA held April 5-9,2008.

Cynthia N. Shipman, Communication Studies, presented two papers entitled “Perceived Credibility and the Effects of Rhetorical Strategies in Political Email Messages” and “Building a War Agenda: George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union Address” at the National Communication Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL held November 2007.

José L. Silvan-Cardenas, Geography-Geographic Information Science, presented at the SWAAG/ASPRS conference in Bryan, TX held November 2007.  His presentation was entitled “Assessing Linear and Non-linear Unmixing of Landsat Measurements for the Sub-pixel Saltcedar Abundance Mapping”.

Mamta Singh, Aquatic Resources, presented a paper entitled “Evaluation of the Freshman Biology Program” at the Southwestern Association of Science Teacher Educators Conference in Ft. Worth, TX held October 2007.
--  Gave an oral presentation entitled “Two Entry-Level Biology Courses Assessment for Biology Majors’ At Texas State University- Preliminary Results” at the Texas Academy of Science (TAS) conference in Corpus Christi, TX held March 7-9 2008.

April Stephens, Music, presented a paper entitled "Form and Compositional Techniques in Johann Stamitz¹ Symphony in Eb Major, No. 4, Op. 4" at the European Studies Conference in Omaha, NE, held October 4-6, 2007.
--  Presented a paper entitled "Stephen Lias (Born 1966): A Look at a Modern American Composer" at the Super-Regional College Music Society Conference in Baton Rouge, LA held February 28 – March 1, 2008.

Julie Strickland, Social Work, presented "Psychosocial Recovery from the Tsunami in Tamil Nadu, India: A Social Development Response," at the Social Welfare Action Alliance Conference held April 4-6,2008.

Debbie Swann, Theatre, presented a paper "The Touch Tour: Bringing Theatre to the Visually Impaired” at the Mid America Theatre Conference in Kansas City, MO held  February 28 – March 1, 2008. An earlier version of this paper won the Writing Center contest last year.

Queenby Wing Sze Tang,  Music, presented “Composers Concert II--"Wind in the Bamboo Grove", Marimba, Composer: Abe, Keiko” at the South Central – Southern SuperRegional Conference, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA held February 28 – March 1, 2008.  She received the "Best Student Award" and a prize.

Emariana Taylor, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled “A Tale of Two Roost: Landscape Structure and Habitat Use” and won second place in the student paper contest at the Applied Geography Conference in Indianapolis, IN held October 2007.
--presented a paper entitled "Spatially Explicit, Individual-based Model of Mexican Free-Tailed Bat Urban Habitat Use in Austin, TX," at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Boston, MA held April 15-19,2008.

Sunni Taylor, Biology, presented a poster entitled, "the genetic architecture of hybrid fitness in the Louisiana Iris species complex" at the Botanical Society of America Conference in Vancouver, BC. 2008.

Nancy Tian, Geographic Information Science, gave a presentation entitled "Regional Cluster Analysis of Female Breast Cancer at the County level," at the American Association of Geography 2008 Conference in Boston, MA held April 15-20,2008.

Rex W. Tyrone, Aquatic Biology, presented a poster entitled “Effects of Clear Cut Timber Harvesting, Road Building and Stream Crossing Construction on Indigenous Fish Species in Central Western Louisiana, specifically, Peason Ridge located on the US Army’s Fort Polk training area.  This presentation was made at the American Fisheries Society in San Francisco in September 2007.

Monica Valadez, Educational Admisnitration, presented "Biography as Pedagogy:Implications for Transformational Learning" at the International Society of Educational Biography in Chicago, IL held April 24-26,2008.
-- presented "Community as Pedagogy" at the 4th International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry Conference in Urbana -Champaign, IL held May 14-17,2008.

Bricio E. Vasquez, Sociology, presented a paper entitled "Living Arrangements, Household Size, And Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms In Elderly Latinos" at the Southwest Social Sciences Association's Annual Meeting in Las Vegas held March 12-15, 2008.

Pamela Wadende, Adult, Professional and Community Education, presented a paper entitled "Women and War in Africa: A Kenyan Experience," at the War and Conflicts in Africa Conference in Austin,TX held March 28-30,2008.

Jiao Wang, Geographic Information System, presented a paper entitled "Detecting Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Texas-Mexico Border Twin Cities with Remote Sensing Data Beginning in 1980's," at the AAG conference in Boston, MA held April 15-19,2008.

Melody Warren, Geographic Education, presented a paper entitled “Education for Sustainability: More Views” at the National Council for Geographic Education Conference in Oklahoma City, OK held October 2007.

A. Case Watkins, Geography, presented a paper entitled "Through the Lens of Katrina: A Historical Geography of the Social Patterns of Flood Exposure in New Orleans, 1970-2005," at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Boston, MA held April 18,2008.

Anne Weaver, Music, presented a paper entitled "Johann Stamitz  ­ Mannheim Composer and Concert Master" at the European Studies Conference in Omaha, NE, held October 4-6, 2007.

Phil Wheeler, Chemistry, presented a poster entitled, " Anti-Biofouling Polymeric Windows: Addititve Effects on Mechanical and Optical Properties," at the American Chemical Society Spring National Meeting in New Orleans held April 5-8,2008.

Suzi Wiseman, Environmental Geography, presented a poster entitled “Enrichment for Captive Rhinoceri” at the SWAAG (Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Bryan, Texas held November 2007.

2006 - 2007
Deidra Ann Aery, Anthropology, presented a poster entitled “Texas State University Field School, Aquarena Springs, San Marcos, Texas” at the Texas Archaeological Society Annual Meeting in San Angelo, Texas October 2006. Her article published in the Texas Archaeological Society newsletter was entitled “Uncovering Ancient Hunter-Gatherers at San Marcos Springs”.

Bharati Ayyalasomayajula, Geographic Information Science, presented a poster entitled “Mumbai Monsoon Floods-2005” at the SWAAG-2006 in Norman, OK October 2006.
--  Presented a poster entitled "Modeling Monsoon Rainfall" at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.

Joshua L. Bailey, Geography, presented a poster entitled "Rock Glacier Inventory and Analysis in the Douglas Mountain Area of Montana" at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.

Megan Bean, Biology, presented a paper entitled “Occurrence of the Asian Fish Tapeworm in the Rio Grande: Implications for Fishes of Conservation Concern” at the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society in Lake Jackson, TX    March 2007.

Anne E. Bolick, Aquatic Biology, presented "The Effects of Spring Flow on the Abundance of Heterophyid Cercariae in the Comal River, New Braunfels, TX" at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Association of Parasitologists (SWAP) in Kingston, OK and received the Graduate Student Presentation - Honorable Mention Award  April 2007.

Mikki J. Boswell, Biochemistry, presented a poster entitled "The Isolation of Native Glutaminyl Cyclase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae" at the conference for the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Washington, DC  April 2007.  She received the ASBMB Travel Award.

Marta Brain, Music, presented a paper on “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words” at the Race, Ethnicity, Place Conference at Texas State University in November 2006.

Rebecca P. Brown, Environmental Geography , presented a published paper entitled “A Dome Over Home: Does San Antonio Need a Domed Baseball Stadium?” at the Applied Geography Conference in Tampa, FL October 2006.
--  Presented a poster entitled "Distribution of Strong and Violent Tornadoes in Texas" at the Association of American Geographers conference in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.

Lara Bryant, Geographic Education , attended a workshop and made a presentation entitled “Educational Travel Made Simple for Teachers” at the National Council for Geographic Education 91st Annual Meeting in Lake Tahoe, NV October 2006.

Collette R. Caton, Rhetoric and Composition, made a presentation entitled “Writing Centers as Historical Spaces: Oral History Research and Institutional Identity” at the International Writing Centers Association Conference, A Space for Writing: Writing Centers and Place in Houston, TX   April 2007.

Mindy M. Conyers, Environmental Geography , presented a poster entitled “Multivariate Mining Effects on Alpine Fluvial Forms and Processes near Silverton, CO USA at the Bingham International Geomorphology Symposium: Columbia, SC October 2006.

Elizabeth L. Crittenden, Biology, presented a poster entitled "Snake Venom containing M5 Muscarinin Receptor Activity Inhibits Carbachol-induced Pigment Granule Dispersion in RPE Isolated from Bluegill Sunfish" at the Experimental Biology 2007 conference in Washington, DC  April 2007.

Lorelei Davis, Music, published the CD review “Contemporary Polish Music” in the Fall 2006 issue of the refereed journal South Central Music Bulletin.

Mariah Deonarian, Music , published a scholarly book review of “Alfred’s Essentials of Music Theory” in the Fall 2006 issue of the refereed journal South Central Music Bulletin.

James T. Dietrich, Geography, presented a poster entitled "360 Degree Panoramic Photography System for Landscape Change Detection in Glacier National Park" at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.

Frank Engel, Geography, presented a poster entitled “Effects of Flood Management Practices on Channel Morphology in the San Marcos River, Texas” at the 2006 International Binghamtom Geomorphology Symposium in Columbia, SC, October 2006.
--  Presented a poster entitled “Aggradation in response to extreme flooding and watershed management” at the 2006 American Geophysical Union Fall Conference in San Francisco, CA December 2006.

Elena L. Esparza, Education - Adult,Professional & Community Education, attended the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference in Chicago, IL.  The World of Educational Quality was the theme of the conference.  Elena was the Session Chair of the session entitled "The Lives of Teachers, Spirituality, and the Whole Person".  She was also nominated as Holistic Education Newsletter Editor for 2007-2008  April 2007.

Jeffrey W. Felderhoff, Communication Disorders, attended the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Annual conference and was awarded a research grant from the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation at their annual awards luncheon in Houston, TX March 2007. The grant is intended to fund the research for his master's thesis, which is a survey of the assessment methods used in public schools for the diagnosis of pervasive developmental disorders in children.

Jeffrey W. Felderhoff, Communication Disorders, attended the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Annual conference and was awarded a research grant from the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation at their annual awards luncheon in Houston, TX March 2007. The grant is intended to fund the research for his master's thesis, which is a survey of the assessment methods used in public schools for the diagnosis of pervasive developmental disorders in children.

Ryan D. Foster, Professional Counseling, presented a poster entitled “Male Perceptions of Intimacy: Implications for Professional Counselor Practice” at the American Counseling Association Conference in Detroit, Michigan   March 2007.  He received Chi Sigma Iota Excellence in Counseling Research Grant for Research in Professional Counselor Identity ($250).

Karen Gibbs, Adult,Professional & Community Education, made a presentation entitled “How the Integumentary System is Being Addressed in the Entry Level Physical Therapy Educational Programs” at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting in Boston, MA   February 2007.

Melissa D. Gray, Geography, presented a paper entitled “To stay or go: Can Game Theory be used to provide quick estimations of potential remainder populations given an impending hurricane?” at the Texas A & M Disaster Recovery, and Redevelopment Student Research symposium in Bryan/College Station, Texas, October 2006.

Kelvin Gregory, Music, presented a paper on “‘World Music’ vs. ‘Multi-Cultural Music’ – On Terminological Problems of Music Research and Teaching” at the Race, Ethnicity, Place Conference at Texas State University in November 2006.

David Hadbawnik, Creative Writing, presented a paper entitled, “Indirect Deposit: Keats and Capitalism in Some of His Major Poems” at the PAMLA Conference at UC-Riverside, CA November, 2006.

Xueqin He, Geography, presented a paper entitled “The Socioeconomic vulnerability of Rural to Urban Temporary Migrants in China” at the AAG Southwest Division Meeting (SWAAG) in Norman, OK October, 2006.
--  Presented "Environmental Perceptions Hurricane Evacuations, and Vulnerability of International Students" at the Annual Meeting of the American Geographers in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.

Tess Ladd-Hill, Spanish, presented on a neoclassical poet from the late 18th century Margarita Hickey y Pellizoni.  Her argument was how she criticized Baroque "Cortesano" Amorous Poetry from a Female Perspective.  This presentation was made at the “Gender and Enlightenment” Symposium at Texas State on April 10, 2007.

Cory L. Holland, Biochemistry, presented a poster entitled "The Analysis of the Mechanism by which Telomerase Impacts Chromosomal Stability and Cell Viability in Ku Mutants" at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Washington, DC  April 2007.

Jacob T. Jackson, Aquatic Resources , presented a paper entitled “The Status of Trachemys gaigeae (Reptilia:Emydidae) in the Rio Bravo basin” at the 9th Reunion Nacional de Herpetologia Mexico, held on the campus of Universidad Autonomas de Nuevo Leon in Monterre, Nuevo Leon, Mexico November 2006.

Victor X. Jaramillo, Mass Communication, presented a poster entitled “Killing the Messenger: Aggression and Violence against Journalists in Mexico” at the AEJMC 2007 Midwest Conference in Reno, Nevada in February 2007. Maria R. Gonzalez contributed to the project for the poster presented by Victor. She was unable to attend the conference.

Jennifer Johnson, Technical Communication, presented a paper entitled “Hot Tamales: Exploring the Latina Body in Film” as part of the panel discussion: Expanding the Picture of Chicano/a Studies: Teaching Writing with images of Immigrants at the Regional Conference of NACCS:Tejas Foco in Denton, Texas  March 2007.

Jack Kaulfus, Creative Writing, presented a paper entitled “Fag, Monkey, and Boy Next Door: Alternative Family Structures in the Curious George Series” at the AESA Conference in Spokane, WA November 2006.

Brandon Kelly, Music, was a finalist in the 2007 National Trumpet Competition.

Ju-Sun Kim, Music  presented a poster entitled “Isang Yun: A Major Composer? – Reception and Musical Contribution” at the College Music Society – South Central Chapter Conference at the Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas   March 2007.
--  Presented a paper on “Isang Yun: A Major Composer?” at the College Music Society South Central Chapter Conference at Arkansas State University, March 15-17, 2007.
--  Presented a paper on “Western vs. Traditional Korean Music in Korean Music Education” at the Race, Ethnicity, Place Conference at Texas State University in November 2006. In the Fall 2006 issue of the refereed journal South Central Music Bulletin, she published the scholarly book review “Bridging the Gap: Popular Music and Music Education.”

Jason Carmine LaCorte, Mathematics, presented a paper entitled "Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem in R^ⁿ: A combinatorial proof" at the (MAA) Mathematical Association of America (Texas section) annual meeting at the University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX April 2007.

Evelyn Lauer, Creative Writing, made a presentation entitled “When MySpace becomes OurSpace: Discussion Boards, Chat Rooms and Identification Theory in FYC” at The Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York, NY   March 2007.

Yazmin Lazcano, Literature, served as chair of a graduate student panel presenting “Broadening the Definition of Chicanismo: Immigrants Beyond Aztlán” at the NACCS-Tejas Foco in Denton, Texas  March 2007.

Elizabeth Lee, Music, presented a paper at the European Studies Conference in Omaha, Nebraska October 2006 entitled “Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat, Opus 44” as part of a session called: The Composer Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) – A Tribute to his Works.
--  Presented a paper entitled “Music in Slovenia presented in World Musics in Intra and Interdisciplinary Music Teaching and Research session” at Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference, Texas State University-San Marcos campus November 2006.
--  Presented the paper “Romantic Elements in Selected Compositions by Robert Schumann” at the European Studies Conference in Omaha, Nebraska, in October 2007, and the paper “National Identity in Slovenian Folk Music” at the Race, Ethnicity, Place Conference at Texas State University in November 2006.
--  Published an article on “Dimitar Ninov: A Contemporary Bulgarian – American Composer” in the Spring 2007 issue of the refereed journal South Central Music Bulletin and the scholarly book review “»The Refinement of Rhythm« by Bengt-Olov Palmqvist” in the Fall 2006 issue of the refereed journal South Central Music Bulletin.
--  Presented a paper entitled “Constructing versus Identification in Music Theory” at the College Music Society – South Central Chapter Conference in Jonesboro, Arkansas March 2007.

Emiko M. Linville, Spanish, presented a paper entitled “Perspectives culturales: el retorno del Nikkei latinoamericano.u” at the Cefiro: Enlance Hispano Cultural y literario Eighth annual Conference at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas March 2007.

Jacob A. Maas, Environmental Geography , presented a poster entitled "Spatial Analysis of Nitrate Contamination of Groundwater in the Niagara Escarpment Region of Dodge County, Wisconsin" at the Annual Meeting of the American Geographers in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.

Tara Mayorga, Music, published a scholarly book review “On Methodology of Musical Source Research” in the Fall 2006 issue of the refereed journal South Central Music Bulletin.

Sarah McNeely, Technical Communication, presented a paper entitled “With All Her Strong Religious Faith: Gender and Unbelief as Reflected in Ward’s Robert Elsmere” at the Victorians Institute Conference in Spartanburg, SC October 2006.

Xuelian Meng, Geographic Information Science, presented a paper entitled "3-D Building Detection based on airborne LIDAR data" at the Annual Meeting of the Assoication of American Geographers (AAG) Conference in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.

Audrey M. Mohan, Geography Education , presented a paper entitled “Education Travel for Geography Teachers” during a workshop at the National Council for Geographic Education Conference in Lake Tahoe, NV October 2006.
--  Presented a paper entitled “Defining a Core Curriculum in Applied Geography” at the Applied Geography Conference in Tampa, FL October 2006.
--  Presented a paper entitled “Educational Travel for Social Studies Teachers” during a workshop at the National Council for Social Studies Conference in Washington, DC December 2006.

Zachary A. Moore, Geographic Education, presented a paper entitled “The Health of Geographic Education: Status of the Subdiscipline in Higher Education, at the National Council for Geographic Education Annual Meeting in Lake Tahoe, NV October, 2006.
--  Presented a paper entitled "Issues Affection Geographic Education in America's K-12 Public Education System: An Historical Perspective" at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Conference in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.

Kaci Myrick, Wildlife Ecology, presented "The Effectiveness of a Vegetation Based Approach to Estimating Vertebrate Biodiversity" at the George Wright Society conference in St. Paul, MN  April 2007.

James D. Neece, Biology, presented a poster entitled “Optimal Treatment Period for Forskolin Induction of a Reactive-like Condition in F98 Glioma Cells” at the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in San Diego, CA December 2006.

Brett Nelson, Music, was a finalist in the 2007 National Trumpet Competition.

Matthew R. Norman, Mass Communication, presented a poster entitled “Media Coverage of Latinos and Latino Political Issues During the 2006 Mid-term Election” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2007 Midwest Conference in Reno, Nevada in February 2007.

Erin Marie O’Docharty, Biology, presented a paper entitled “Use of Infection Challenges to Study the Life Cycle of Huffmanela huffmani (Nematoda: Trichosomoididae)” and a poster entitled “Extraction and Induced Hatching of Trichosomoidid Eggs using In Vivo and In Vitro Techniques” at the annual Southwestern Association of Parasitologists in Kingston, OK   April 2007.

Timothy A. Peoples, Literature, presented a paper entitled "Saussurian Theory in 'The Garden of Forking Paths' by Jorge Luis Borges."  The presentation was made at the College of English Association Conference in New Orleans, LA  April 2007.
--  Presented a paper entitled “The Debate over Steven Spielberg’s Munich” at the Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico   February 2007.

Joshuah Perkin, Aquatic Biology, made a presentation entitled “Conservation Status and Life History of the Chub Shiner in the Lower Brazos River” at the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society – 2007 Annual Conference in Lake Jackson, TX March 2007.

Stephanie Phillips, Music, presented a workshop on improvisation entitled “The Piano Game” at the Spontaneous Inventions conference, organized by Bobby McFerrin and members of Voicestra at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, June 11-16, 2007.

Bobby Polak, Wildlife Ecology, presented a poster entitled “Influence of Human Recreational Activities and Vegetative Characteristics on Wading Bird Abundance” at the Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society in Beaumont, Texas in February 2007. Bobby was awarded 3rd place in the Graduate Student poster competition at the event.

Anjea Ray, Communication Disorders, presented  a poster entitled “A Case Study in Tongue-Thrust Remediation Using an Orthodontic Appliance” at the 2007  51^st annual Texas Speech-Language Hearing Association Convention in Houston, TX   March 2007.  The presentation was also made at the College of Health Professions research symposium on April 20, 2007.

Renée Rodriguez, Music, published the CD review “Contemporary Polish Chamber and Organ Music” in the Fall 2006 issue of the refereed journal South Central Music Bulletin.

Dennis Runyan, Aquatic Biology, made a presentation entitled “Fish Assemblage Change in Three Western Gulf Slope Rivers: an Historical Perspective” at the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society annual meeting in Lake Jackson, TX   March 2007.

Eric L. Samson, Environmental Geography PhD, presented a paper entitled "Geopolitical Subdivisions in Chiapas Mexico" in the Geographies of Resistance in Latin America session of the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in San Francisco, CA.  Eric also coauthored a paper with Xuequin He and Dr. John Tiefenbacher titled "International Student Risk Perception and Avoidance," in the Environmental Health Hazards: Perception, Response, and Education session  April 2007.

Katherine Saul, Biology, presented a poster entitled “Monoclonal Antibody G3.5 and Cytoplasmic Alpha-Actinin Antibody Label the Same Antigen in Rat Brain” at the American Society for Cell Biology in San Diego, CA December 2006.

Carol Frances Sawyer, Environmental Geography , presented a poster entitled “Soil Disturbances and Infiltration Rates in Glacier National Park, Montana at the 37th International Binghamtom Geomorphology Symposium in Columbia, SC October 2006.
-- Presented a paper entitled "Patterns of Seasonal Frost Heaving and Surface Clast Movement in Turf-banked Terraces, easter Glacier National Park, Montana" at the Annual Meeting of the American Geographers in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.

Steven R. Schooler, Anthropology, presented a paper entitled “Supply, Trade and Conflict on the Colonial Frontier: A Lead Isotope Analysis of Colonial-Era Musket Balls from Texas and Adjacent Regions” as part of a symposium titled “The Spanish Colonial Era in Texas” at the Texas Archeological Society Conference in San Angelo, TX October 2006.

Desserae K. Shepston, Anthropology, presented a poster entitled “The Return of Alouatta pigra to the Forests around Naha, Chiapas, Mexico” at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists 76^th annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA   March 2007.

Tracy Sibole, Aquatic Resources, presented a poster entitled “Some influences of parasitism on black-capped vireo nesting success: Investigation into late-season nesting and nest vegetation characteristics” at the IV North American Ornithological Conference in Veracruz, Mexico October 2006.

Jose L. Silvan, Geographic Information Science, PhD, presented a paper entitled “Multiscale modeling of fuzzy spatial objects by means of neural networks” at the Geoinformatics 2006 conference in Wuhan, China, October 2006. He was awarded a travel grant and Best Paper award of the CPGIS student paper competition.

Terrie L. Simmons, Anthropology, presented a poster entitled “Analysis of Commingled Skeletal Remains from Bee Cave Rockshelter (41VV546), Val Verde County, Texas” at the Seventy-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania March 2007.

Jose Silvan-Cardenas, Geography - Geographic Information Science, presented a paper entitled "Subpixel Confusion-uncertainty Matrix for Assessing Soft Classifications" at the AAG-RSSG Student Honor Competition III during the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.

Mamta Kumari Singh, Aquatic Resources , gave an oral presentation entitled "Mix It Up: Correlated Science and Math Professional Development Program: Preliminary Results" at the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST) Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA  April 2007.  She also presented "Correlated Science and Math: I Wonder Where We'll Wander:" at the 18th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning in Ponte Verde Beach, FL  April 2007.  She was awarded providing grants to higher education institutions and non-profit organizations to promote improved instruction in mathematics and science and the 2007 FIPSE Travel Grant - a Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, office of Post secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov/fipse).

Steven L. Stevenson, Music, published the article “Band Music of Art and Craft:A Portrait of, and Interview with, Composer and Conductor Fred J. Allen” in the Fall 2006 issue of the refereed journal South Central Music Bulletin.

Jonathon Subia, Music, was the New Young Artist for the 2007 Victoria Bach Festival and was featured in a recital.

Emariana S. Taylor, Environmental Geography , presented a poster entitled “The Use of Doppler Radar to Establish an Urban to Rural Gradient of Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) Roost Habitat in Central Texas” and was awarded Third Place Poster Competition at the 29th Annual Applied Geography Conference in Tampa, FL October 2006.
-- Presented "Perceptions, Risks, and Opportunities for Human/Wildlife Interactions in Urban Environments: An Examination of Bats and Rabies in Texas" at the Annual Meeting of the American Geographers in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.

Kelly Thurmond, Music , presented a paper entitled "A Comparative Study of African Tribal Music and Africa-American Spirituals Associated with Death and Dying" at the 2007 Joint Conference of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Associations in Boston, MA  April 2007.
-- Presented a paper on “The Philosophical and Sociological Implications of Mahler’s Kin­der­to­ten­lie­der” at the College Music Society South Central Chapter Conference at Arkansas State University, March 15-17, 2007.
-- Published a research article in the Spring 2007 issue of the refereed journal South Central Music Bulletin on “The Philosophical Implications of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder.” In the Fall 2006 issue of the refereed journal South Central Music Bulletin, she published a scholarly book review of “Constructing Musicology.”

Matthew E. Townley, Geography, presented a poster entitled "Votes and Values: Ohio in the 2004 Presidential Election at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.

Aniekeme S. Udoetok, Mass Communication, presented a poster entitled “Media Coverage of Latinos and Latino Political Issues During the 2006 Mid-term Election” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2007 Midwest Conference in Reno, Nevada in February 2007.

David Viertel, Geography, attended the Association of American Geographers conference in San Francisco, CA and gave a presentation in the “Regional Identities-Western Cultures” session entitled “Remember the Alamo: Reproduction of Regional Identity Through Iconographic Form”   April 2007.

Kacie D. Waiters, Biochemistry, presented a poster entitled "Purification of Individual Subunits of the Epithelial Sodium Channel (ENaC)" at the Experimental Biology Annual Meeting in Washington, DC and received the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)/Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) travel award for the conference  April 2007.

Sarah Walker, Music, was honored as the “Outstanding Female Lead” at Opera in the Ozarks in July 2007, where she performed the role of Susanna in Le Nozze Di Figaro.

Jiao Wang, Geographic Information Science, presented a poster entitled “Monitoring Temporal and Spatial Built-up Urban Expansion by Remote Sensing in Shenyang City, China” at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG) in Norman, OK October 2006.
-- Presented "Research for Geometric Correction Method of Beijing-1 Remote Sensing Image" at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.

Melody A. Warren, Geography, made a presentation entitled "Texas State Accelerated PhD Program in Geography Education" at the National Council for Geographic Education Conference in Birmingham, AL October 2005.

Anne Weaver, Music , presented a paper entitled “Robert Schumann’s Album for the Young, a Pedagogical Study” at the European Studies Convention in Omaha, NE October 2006.
-- Presented the paper “World Musics in the Study of Western Music History” at the Race, Ethnicity, Place Conference at Texas State University in November 2006.
-- Presented a paper on “Theoretical and Pedagogical Aspects of Robert Schumann’s Album for the Youth,” at the European Studies Conference in Omaha, Nebraska, in October 2007.

Courtney L. Werner, Rhetoric and Composition, presented an oral history of Writing Centers entitled "Writing Centers as Historical Spaces: Oral History Research and Institutional Identity" at the International Writing Centers Association Conference in Houston, TX  April 2007.

Cassandra White, Music, published the CD review “Masterworks for Guitar by Latin American Composers” in the Fall 2006 issue of the refereed journal South Central Music Bulletin.

Richard Wilcox, Theatre, made a presentation entitled “The Lieutenant of Inishmore: Aggressively Enforcing Violence in Masculinity” at the Grian Conference in New York, NY  March 2007.

Suzi Wiseman, Environmental Geography , made a presentation entitled “The Motivation for a Global Hydrogen Fuel Economy” at the SWAAG conference in Norman, OK in October 2006.
--presented a paper entitled “An Evaluation of the Spatial Relationship between Stray Pets, Community Ethnicity and Other Socio-Economic Factors” at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference in San Francisco, CA  April 2007.
--presented a paper entitled “The Need for and Promise of a Hydrogen Fuel Economy” and was Round Table Discussion Coordinator at the Geography in the Americas Conference in La Serena, Chile   May 2007.

Zhijun Yao, Geographic Information Science, presented a poster entitled "2D linecluster detection" at the Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco, CA April 2007.

2005 - 2006
Sandra Becerra, Biochemistry, presented a poster entitled "Molecular Characterization of G-Proteins in Bluegill" at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Conference in San Francisco, CA April 2006.
Anne Bolick, Aquatic Biology, presented a poster entitled "Cercarial Dispersal of Centrocestus formosanus in the Comal River, Comal Co., TX" at the Southwestern Association of Parasitologists Conference in Lake Texoma, OK April 2006.
Rebecca P. Brown, Environmental Geography , presented a poster entitled "Climatology of Severe and Violent Tornadoes in Southern Texas" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.
Dawna L. Cerney, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "The Environmental Viability of Harvesting Native Prairie Community Seed from Three Donor Sites" at the Applied Geography Conference in Washington, DC November 2005. Was awarded third place in the student paper competition.
-- Presented a paper entitled "Assessment of Landscape Change in the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park Through Repeat Photography" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.
Tamara T. Clunis, Education - Adult, Professional & Community Education, presented research entitled "Access by Race/Ethnic Groups to Learning and Advancement in US Work Organizations: An Analytical Review of the Literature Through the Lens of Critical Race Theory" at the International Research on Work and Learning Conference in Sydney, Australia December 2005.
Mindy M. Conyers, Environmental Geography, presented a poster entitled "A Sensitivity Analysis of the Hydraulically-Assisted Bathymetry (HAB-2) Model" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.
Robert (Mitch) Crader, Geography, presented a poster entitled "Migrant Flows of Women Working as Prostitutes Along the Mexico-US Border" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.
-- Made a presentation entitled "Assessing the Migration Behaviour of Women Working as Prostitutes Along the Mexico-US Border" at the Lineae Terrarum Conference in El Paso, TX March 2006.
James D. Cudd, Mass Communication, made a presentation entitled "Assessing the Migration Behaviour of Women Working as Prostitutes Along the Mexico-US Border" at the Lineae Terrarum Conference in El Paso, TX March 2006.
Eric Dedden, Aquatic Biology, presented a poster entitled "Parasite Records for the Texas Shiner, Notropis amabilis, Near Wimberley, TX" at the Southwestern Association of Parasitologists Conference in Lake Texoma, OK April 2006.
Elizabeth A. Garcia, Education - School Improvement PhD, gave a presentation entitled "Administracion, Educativa, Gestion y Liderazgo: Hallazgos de la Investigacion Transcultural Entre los Estados Unidos y Mexico" at the COMIE Conference in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico October 2005.

Zachariah Gompert, Biology, recipient of the 2005 - 2006 National Science Foundation Fellowship Award.
-- Presented a paper entitled "Contribution of Hybridization to Biodiversity in Lycaenid Butterflies" at the Southwestern Association of Naturalists Conference in Colima, Col. Mexico April 2006.

Cristina Gonzales, Biochemistry, presented a poster entitled "Interactions Between Aza-Enediynes and Proteins" at the Mexican American Engineers and Scientists International Symposium in San Jose, CA November 2005. Was awarded second place in the graduate research poster competition.

James K. Graham, Geography, presented a paper entitled "Deportees from France, 1942-1944 - Spatial and Temporal Patterns in the Holocaust, Part II" in Chicago, IL March 2006.

Kelvin V. Gregory, Music, presented a paper entitled "Debacle in Barcelona: Anton Webern and the Premiere of Alban Berg's Violin Concerto" at the 30th Annual European Studies Conference at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, NE October 2005.

Leticia R. Grimaldo, School Improvement, gave a presentation entitled "Administracion, Educativa, Gestion y Liderazgo: Hallazgos de la Investigacion Transcultural Entre los Estados Unidos y Mexico" at the COMIE Conference in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico October 2005.

David Hadbawnik, Creative Writing, participated in an exchange program with the Creative Writing Department at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX October 2005.

Xueqin He, Geography, presented a paper entitled "Regional Resistance to Weather Disasters in the United States" at the Applied Geography Conference in Washington, DC November 2005.
-- Presented a paper entitled "The Development of Floodplain in the Metropolitan Area of Austin, Texas" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.

Arlene Kalmbach, Wildlife Ecology, gave a presentation entitled "The Effects of Exotic Invasive Plants on Bird Populations in Periurban Habitats" at the Texas Academy of Science Conference in Beaumont, TX March 2006.

Amanda Keen-Zebert, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Spatial Variation in Standard Transport Capacity in Guadalupe River" at the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers Conference in Fayetteville, AR November 2005.
-- Presented a paper entitled "Spatial Distribution of Channel Type in the Guadalupe River in Central Texas" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.

Tiffany Kuhlman, Biology, presented a poster entitled "The Avian Definitive Hosts of Centrocestus formosanus in the Comal River, Comal Co., TX" at the Southwestern Association of Parasitologists conference in Lake Texoma, OK April 2006.

Shing-Tzong Lin, Geography - Geography Information Science PhD, presented a poster entitled "GIS Study on Environmental and Health Disparity in the Houston-Galveston Area" at the Applied Geography Conference in Washington, DC November 2005. Poster received second place award.
-- Gave a lecture entitled "A Non-Stationary Study on the Ozone and Asthma Spatial-Temporal Distribution in Houston-Galveston Area" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.

Bradley M. Littrell, Aquatic Biology, gave an oral presentation entitled "Status of an Introgressed Guadalupe Bass Population in a Central Texas Stream" at the American Fisheries Society-Southern Division Conference in San Antonio, TX February 2006.

Lauren K. Lucas, Aquatic Resources, presented a paper entitled "The Phylogeography of Texas Hill Country Salamanders: Implications for Conservation and Population Persistence" at the Southwestern Association of Naturalists Conference in Colima, Col. Mexico April 2006.

Katie MacInnis, Mathematics, presented research entitled "Future Demographic Trends in Higher Education" at the Association for the Tutoring Profession Conference in San Antonio, TX March 2006.

Jaimie Maher, Aquatic Biology, gave a presentation entitled "Trophic Structure of West Texas Spring Aquatic Macroinvertebrates + the Effects of Diminished Spring Flow" at the Rio Grande Basin Initiatives Annual Conference in Ruidoso, NM March 2006.

Lynda Manning-Schwartz, Geography, presented a talk on a paper entitled "Spatial Analysis of Geographic and Nongeographic Signs in Mixtec Codices" at the Social Science History Association Conference in Portland, OR November 2005.

Vanessa J. Martinez, Geography, presented a paper entitled "Spatial and Temporal Patterns in the Holocaust" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.

Carolyn Meredith, Biology, gave a presentation entitled "Recovery of Abronia macrocarpa, an Endangered Texas Endemic, Following Habitat Disturbance" at the Southwestern Association of Naturalists Conference in Colima, Col. Mexico April 2006.

Monica J. Milburn, Geography, was a panel member at the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers Conference in Fayetteville, AR November 2005.

Jeffrey Mitchell, Aquatic Biology, gave a presentation entitled "Aquatic Diversity in the Springs of West Texas + the Effects of Diminished Spring Flow" at the Rio Grande Basin Initiatives Annual Conference in Ruidoso, NM March 2006.

Audrey M. Mohan, Geographic Education, gave a presentation entitled "Texas State Accelerated PhD Program in Geography Education" at the National Council for Geographic Education Conference in Birmingham, AL October 2005.
-- Presented a paper entitled "Curricular Analysis in Applied Geography: Implications for the Discipline" at the North American Regional Science Council in Las Vegas, NV November 2005.
-- Gave a presentation entitled "Accelerated Doctoral Program in Geographic Education" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.

Zachary A. Moore, Geographic Education, presented a paper entitled "Status of Geography Curriculum in the Texas 6th Grade Contemporary World Societies Class" at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Chicago, IL March 2006.

Christopher D. Murr, Geographic Education, presented a paper entitled "Disabled Students and Standards - With Special Emphasis on Geography Standards" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.

Darlene J. Occeña-Gutierrez, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Tropical Cyclone Preparedness in Northern Philippines" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.

Erin O’Docharty, Aquatic Biology, presented a poster entitled " Studies on the Life Cycle Strategy of Huffmanela huffmani (Nematoda: Trichosomoididae)" at the Southwestern Association of Parasitologists Conference in Lake Texoma, OK April 2006.

Tobias E. Peterson, Creative Writing, participated in an exchange program with the Creative Writing Department at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX October 2005.
-- Presented poems at the Graduate Poets’ Circle at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference in Atlanta, GA November 2005.

Grace D. Rico, Education - School Improvement, gave a presentation entitled "Administracion, Educativa, Gestion y Liderazgo: Hallazgos de la Investigacion Transcultural Entre los Estados Unidos y Mexico" at the COMIE Conference in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico October 2005.

Mark A. Rockeymoore, Geographic Education, gave a presentation entitled "The Diffusion of Religious Structures from West Africa to the Americas: a Study in Africanisms" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.

Sonia A. Rodriguez, Education - School Improvement, gave a presentation entitled "Administracion, Educativa, Gestion y Liderazgo: Hallazgos de la Investigacion Transcultural Entre los Estados Unidos y Mexico" at the COMIE Conference in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico October 2005.

Carol Frances Sawyer, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Comparison of a Tree-Ring Chronology of Snow Avalanche Occurrence With a Historically Based Avalanche Record, Glacier National Park, Montana" at the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers Conference in Fayetteville, AR November 2005.
-- Presented a paper entitled "Observations of Seasonal Movement of Surface Clasts in Turf-Based Terraces, Eastern Glacier National Park, Montana" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.

Jose L. Silvan, Geography, gave a presentation entitled "Neural Network Models for Fuzzy Spatial Objects" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006. Paper was one of five finalists in the 2006 AAG-SG Student Paper Competition.
-- Presented a paper entitled “Multiscale-based filtering of LiDAR altimetry data” at the MAPPs/ASPRS Fall Conference in San Antonio, Texas June 2006.

Dana H. Stiffler, Literature, presented a paper entitled "Why Yes Does Not Mean Yes: Some Observations on the Language of Penelope" at the Conference of College Teachers of English in Corpus Christi, TX March 2006.

Lindsey Stoker, Anthropology, presented a paper entitled "Investigations into Formative Occupation at La Tiza, Nasca, Peru" at the Society for American Archaeology Conference in San Juan, PR April 2006.

Emariana S. Taylor, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Environmental Perception Among Geography Students" at the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers meeting in Fayetteville, AR November 2005.
-- Presented a paper entitled "Ecological Modeling of Potential Redistribution of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats in Central Texas Built Environments" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.

James W. Vaughan, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Selling Sprawl - Inside and Out" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.

Paul A. Velazquez, Literature, presented a paper entitled "Integrating Chicano Poet Raul Salinas: A Rhetorical Appraisal for a Composition Studies Pedagogy" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago, IL March 2006. Received a Scholar for the Dream travel award.

Adrian Vogl, Aquatic Resources, gave an oral presentation entitled "An Historical Narrative Approach to Landscape Change in the Western Gulf Slope Region of Texas" at the US-International Association for Landscape Ecology 2006 Annual Symposium in San Diego, CA March 2006.

Melody A. Warren, Geography, made a presentation entitled "Texas State Accelerated PhD Program in Geography Education" at the National Council for Geographic Education Conference in Birmingham, AL October 2005.

Jacqueline M. Watson, Aquatic Biology, gave an oral presentation entitled "Changes in Fish Assemblage and Habitat Associations Following a Large Flood Event in a Pecos River Tributary" at the American Fisheries Society Meeting in Anchorage, AK September 2005.

Rachel A. Winkenwerder, Mathematics, presented research entitled "Future Demographic Trends in Higher Education" at the Association for the Tutoring Profession Conference in San Antonio, TX March 2006.

Guangyu Wu, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Climate Change and Water Resource Vulnerability in Texas" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.

Damaris Womack, Education - Adult, Professional & Community Education, gave a co-authored presentation entitled "Immigrant Women and the Struggle to House and Educate Their Children" at the International Conference on Women and Migration in Miami, FL December 2005.

Zhijun Yao, Geography, presented a paper entitled "Using a Neighbor-Expanding Approach to Improve Scan Test for Detecting Arbitrary-Shape Clusters" at the Association of American Geographers Conference in Chicago, IL March 2006.

2004 - 2005

Karen H. Bartell, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Proposed Method of Analysis to Evaluate the Vulnerability of the Upper San Marcos River to Increased Urban Development: A Discussion" at the Southwestern Association of American Geographers Conference in Nacogdoches, TX November 2004.

Alecia M. Brettschneider, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Marketing, Advertising, and Local Community Relationships in Wal-Mart's Experience" at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver, CO April 2005.

Brian R. Brettschneider, Environmental Geography PhD, presented a paper entitled "Spatial Patterns in Weather Forecast Techniques" at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver, CO April 2005.

Rebecca P. Brown, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Impact of Interannual Climate Variability on Texas Tornado Occurrence" at the Applied Geography Conference in St. Louis, MO October 2004.

Anna Bustamante, Education - Adult, Professional & Community Education PhD, presented “Education & Exercise Adherence Approaches: Are They Innovative Enough for the Sedentary Adult with Diabetes?" to the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education Conference in Louisville, KY November 2004.

Dawna L. Cerney, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Examining Montane Ecotone Change with Repeat Photography" at the Applied Geography Conference in St. Louis, MO October 2004.
-- Presented a paper entitled "The Nature of Montane Ecotone Change in Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada" at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver, CO April 2005.

Mindy M. Conyers, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "A Regional Evaluation of Channel Roughness Estimates in Streams of the Southern Sangre de Cristo Range, New Mexico" at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver, CO April 2005.

Elizabeth L. Crittenden, Biology, co-presented a poster entitled "Activation of Muscarinic Receptors On Fish RPE Induces Pigment Granule Dispersion" at the American Society for Cell Biology Conference in Washington, DC December 2004.

Kristen J. Epp, Aquatic Resources, presented a poster entitled "Behavioral Responses to Native and Non-Native Predators in the San Marcos Salamander" at the Animal Behavior Society Conference in Snowbird, Utah August 2005.

Elena L. Esparza, Education - Adult, Professional & Community Education, conducted a workshop entitled "Leadership in Higher Education" at the Iberoamericana Conference in Tijuana, Mexico September 2004. She also carried out research and planned a grant application with UABC.

Zachariah Gompert, Biology, presented a paper entitled "Ecological and Genetic Variation in Lycaeides" at the Evolution '05 Conference in Fairbanks, AK June 2005.

Rosalinda Gonzalez, Biology, presented "Differential Sperm Transfer Based on Size and Sex in Sailfin Mollies" at the Animal Behavior Conference in Snowbird, UT August 2005.

Andrew S. Griffith, Environmental Geography, presented a paper at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver, CO April 2005.

Jane B. Heath, Geography, presented a poster entitled "Evaluation of Two Satellite Imagery Classification Methods for Determining Total Suspended Solids Within a Watershed" at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver, CO April 2005.

Amanda Keen-Zebert, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "The Spatial Distribution of Erosional and Depositional Bars in a Bedrock/Alluvial Transitional Channel" at the American Association of Geographers Conference in Denver, CO April 2005.
-- Presented a paper entitled "The Spatial Distribution of Channel Transitions in the Guadalupe River" at the American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly in New Orleans, LA May 2005.

Shing-Tzong Lin, Geographic Information Science, presented a paper entitled "Evaluating Local Non-Stationarity when Considering the Spatial Variation of Large-Scale Autocorrelation" in the HI Science Session at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver, CO April 2005.

Lauren K. Lucas, Aquatic Resources, presented a paper entitled "Population Genetics of Eurycea nana" at the Evolution '05 Conference in Fairbanks, AK June 2005.

Bernadette M. Marion, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Redistricting: A Geographic Perspective" at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver, CO April 2005.

Vanessa J. Martinez, Geography, presented a paper entitled "A Comparison of Three Simple 3D Techniques for Displaying Terrain Data" at the Applied Geography Conference in St. Louis, MO October 2004.

Wade J. Martyn, Jr., Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Correlation of Population and NDVI Values in Texas Counties" at the International Symposium Remote Sensing of Urban Areas in Temple, AZ March 2005.

Linda Muñoz, Education - Adult, Professional & Community Education, presented a paper entitled "An Analysis of Workplace Learning Literature Focusing on Race and Ethnicity" to the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education Conference in Louisville, KY November 2004.

Christopher D. Murr, Geography Education, presented a paper entitled "Labeling Theory: A Potential Barrier to the Transmission of Geographic Knowledge to the Visually Impaired" at the Applied Geography Conference in St. Louis, MO October 2004.

Beverly C. Newman, Education - Adult , Professional & Community Education, presented "Education & Exercise Adherence Approaches: Are They Innovative Enough for the Sedentary Adult with Diabetes?" to the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education Conference in Louisville, KY November 2004.

Darlene J. Occeña-Gutierrez, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Indigenous Knowledge of Local Severe Weather in Northern Philippines" at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver, CO April 2005.

Eric R. Oksanen, Anthropology, presented a paper entitled "Archaeological Investigations at 41HY161 - The Ice House Site, San Marcos, TX" at the Texas Archaeological Society Annual Meeting in College Station, TX October 2004.

Jae Young Park, Mass Communication, presented a paper entitled "An Examination of the Interrelationships Between the Motives for Channel Change and Program Type Preference, Depending on Network and Cable/Satellite Channel Preference" at the Global Fusion Conference, St. Louis, MO October 2004.

Jay A. Parsons, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Benefits and Limitations of Watershed Modeling Using Cellular Automata Theory" at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver, CO April 2005.

Rosa M. Peña, Education, presented a paper entitled "Crossing Borders To Go Beyond Limits in Educational Administration Preparation" at the International Congress on School Effectiveness and Improvement in Barcelona, Spain January 2005.

Donelle M. Robinson, Biology, presented a poster entitled "Differential Sperm Transfer Between Species in Sailfin Mollies" at the Animal Behavior Society Conference in Snowbird, Utah August 2005.

Rebecca A. Sandifer, Education - Adult, Professional Community Education, presented "Issues with Training and Development in the Workplace: Innovative Reflections from Human Resource Professionals" to the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education Conference in Louisville, KY November 2004.

Carol Frances Sawyer, Environmental Geography, presented a co-authored publication entitled "Landslide Aspect: A Methodological Approach to Circular Data for Hazard Analysis" at the Applied Geography Conference in St. Louis, MO October 2004.
-- Presented a paper entitled "Spatial Patterns of Vegetation Recovery on Landslide Scars" at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver, CO April 2005.

Emariana S. Taylor, Environmental Geography, presented a poster entitled "A Conceptual Model for In Roost Mexican Free-Tailed Bat Emergence" at the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver, CO April 2005.

Rodrigo Treviño, Education PhD, conducted a workshop "Leadership in Higher Education" at the Iberoamericana Conference in Tijuana, Mexico, September 2004. He also carried out research and planned a grant application with UABC.

James W. Vaughan, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "Home is Where the Heart Is" to the Association of American Geographers meeting in Denver, CO April 2005.

Rachel A. Winkenwerder, Mathematics, made a presentation entitled "Providing Learning Methods and Study Strategies into Current Curriculum" at the Faculty Development Workshop at Lamar State College-Orange August 2005.

Jamie M. Zech, Environmental Geography, presented a paper entitled "What Makes a Person an Environmental Activist?" at the International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu, HI January 2005.