Sixth Annual |
College of Liberal & Fine Arts |
Spring Research Conference 2006 |
| Art | Committee Chair: Dr. Ken Little |
| Judging for the Art Exhibition |
| Exhibition Juror |
| Rene Paul Barilleaux, Chief/Curator of Art after 1945 |
| McNay Museum of Art |
| Graduate Art Awards: |
| First Place – Joseph Cohen: | “Excavation” pigmented epoxy & resin on panel. |
| Second Place – Soomin Jung: | “Past” (36 ceramic chairs) |
| Third Place – Steve Carter: | “This is a Very Serious Occasion,” Lithography. | |
| Undergraduate Art Awards: |
| First Place – Kent Wilson: | Ceramic |
| Second Place – Joe Sanchez: | Mixed Media Sculpture |
| Third Place – Albert Cisneros: | Leather | |
| Music | Committee Chair: Dr. Kasandra Keeling |
| Graduate Music Award: |
| First Place – Anna Kiefer: | “Muzio Clementi and His Contributions to Piano Pedagogy” |
| Undergraduate Music Award: |
| First Place – Nathan Campbell (T): | “The March Quartet” |
| First Place – Amber Moon (T): | “Wagner and Wesendonck” A Love Paralleled in Music” |
| Creative Writing | Committee Chair: Dr. Catherine Kasper |
| Graduate Creative Writing Awards: |
| First Place – Christina Misite: | “Everything Else that Everything Else is : A Collection of Poems” |
| Second Place – Christina L. Garza: | “Quietus” |
| Third Place – Linda Winterbottom: | “Excerpts from the Junk Drawer (novel in progress) |
| Undergraduate Creative Writing Awards |
| First Place – Adolph Suarez: | “A Collection of Short Stories Dealing with the Evil of Gangs” |
| Research Posters | Committee Chair: Dr. Ken Little |
| Graduate Awards: |
| First Place – Cheryl Blalock: | “Science Attitude Instruments: A Systematic Review 1935-2005” |
| Second Place – Laura Flores: | “Media’s Influence on Body Image and Attractiveness in Men” |
| Third Place – Valerie Broderick: | “Towards a Working Theory of Self-Deception” |
| Undergraduate Awards: |
| First Place – Charles D. Valadez, Jr: | “Attachment Style and Expectations about the Behaviors of |
| Relationships Partners.” |
| Second Place – Benjamin Craddock: | “Cutoff Points & Counterfactual Thinking” |
| Multimedia | Committee Chair: Dr. Kent Wilkinson |
| Graduate Awards: |
| First Place – Valerie Broderick: | “Semiotics and Heraldry: Intersecting Communication” |
| Undergraduate Awards: |
| First Place – Laura Grace Robles: | “In the Green” |
| Second Place – James D. Moreno: | “Everywhere We Go” |
| Research Paper | Committee Chair: Dr. Bridget Drinka |
| Graduate Research Paper Awards: |
| First Place – Rachel Carrales: | “The Depiction of Jewish Bodies in the “Prioress’s Tale” |
| Second Place – Joseph Conroy: | “The Practice of Signifying in “Their Eyes Were Watching God” |
| Third Place – Kristy Masten: | “Issues of Public Identity in the Work of Luis Jimenez” |
| Fourth Place – Donna Edmondson: | “WW II Propaganda: Selling an Image of Sacrifice” |
| Fifth Place – Pat B. Clayton: | “My Sister’s Keeper: Female Relationships in Alias Grace” |
| Undergraduate Research Paper Awards: |
| First Place – Catherine Hauer: | “Alias Grace: Orality and Literary and their Gender Supporting Implications” |
| Second Place – Jerri A. Rhodes: | “Holocaust Denial Comes to Texas” |
| Third Place – Steven Wilson: | “Predictors of Life Satisfaction” |
| Fourth Place – Erika N. Morgan: | “The Birthmark and Frankenstein: Probing and Perfecting Nature |
| Through Science” |
| Fifth Place – Jessica L. Craig: | “Social Stratification Among Students and Workers in a University Setting” |
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