ARTS Committee Chair: Dr. Ken Little

Graduate Art Awards:

First Place - Carlos Donjuan

Fridas

Second Place - Roberta Buckles

Third Place – Soomin Jung

Undergraduate Art Awards:

First Place - Michael Stoltz

Second Place - Inga de Jamaer

Third Place – Linda Arredondo

MUSIC Committee Chair: Dr. Kasandra Keeling

Graduate Music Awards:

First Place - Jesus Gachupin

Programmatic Aspects of Leo Brouwer’s De Cameron Negro

Second Place - Aurelia Rocha

“The Tango”- History and Form as seen in Astor Piazolla’s  Oblivion

Third Place – Gilberta Turner

“La Jota” and the Feminine Segovian Folk Costume

Undergraduate Music Award:

First Place - Nicholas May

Early Vocal Music of Sergei Rachmaninov

Second Place - Bryan Silvia

Performance Options in Baroque Sonatas

Third Place – Johnny Mendoza

A Look Behind the Labyrinth

Creative Writing Committee Chair: Dr. Catherine Kasper

Graduate Creative Writing Awards:

First Place - Christina Misite

Familiar Intersections

Second Place - Joseph Conroy

Poems

Third Place – John P. Buentello

The Chrysalis Collective

Undergraduate Creative Writing Award:

First Place - Catherine Hauer

Collection of Poems

Research Posters Committee Chair: Dr. Stella Garcia-Lopez

Graduate Awards:

First Place - Josie Vasquez

Sexual Risk Behavior among Latinas

Second Place - Mike Matamoros

Influences of Romantic Relationships on Expectations for Opposite-Sex Friendships

Undergraduate Awards:

First Place - Kurt Attaway

Coaching Impact on Game Flow through Utilization of the Timeout

Second Place (T) - Shawna Mowrer

Self Ratings of Sexual Intent Behaviors in Mixed Sex Dyads

Second Place (T) - JoAnn Nocito

Self-Enrichment in Killer Whales, Belugas, and Pacific White-Sided Dolphins

Multimedia Committee Chair: Dr. Christopher Wickham

Undergraduate Award:

Rawan Arar

The Westernization of Women in Jordan

Research Paper Committee Chair: Dr. Bridget Drinka

Graduate Research Paper Awards:

First Place - Elaine Wong 

Promoting English as an International Language in the Composition Class

Second Place – Juan Martinez 

Beyond Absolute Closure: Applying Brubaker’s Notions to the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence

Third Place – Naomi Craven 

Behind the Gilded Frame: Women and Art in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Fourth Place – Mary Riedel: 

Is Busing the Answer?: Desegregation in Nashville, TN, in the 1970s

Fifth Place – Greg Bradley 

Choctaw Identity and Sovereignty: Forging a Future in 1970’s Oklahoma

Undergraduate Research Paper Awards:

First Place - Angela White

The Influence of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Assertiveness on Condom Negotiations

Second Place – Jessica Craig

Ritual Justification in the Order of the Alamo’s Coronation Ceremony

Third Place – Jessica Junquiera

Seeing, Knowing, and Loving: Neo-Platonism in Till We Have Faces

Fourth Place – Steven Thomas

The Role of Television in the Downfall of Senator McCarthy

Fifth Place – Jessica Campros

Words that Dance: Exploring the Cultural Complexities of Caribbean Literatures