This time of year, there are many great accolades and accomplishments to celebrate.

 

Four exceptional CoLA faculty will receive university-wide awards this year:

 ▪  Stuart McDowell, Theatre, Dance, and Motion Pictures -- Frederick A. White Distinguished Professor of Professional Service

 ▪  Kirsten Halling, Modern Languages -- Robert J. Kegerreis Distinguished Professor of Teaching

 ▪  Lee Hannah, Political Science -- Early Career Achievement (won the same day his son Henry was born!)

 ▪  Thomas Fenton, English -- Faculty Excellence in Community Engagement

Congratulations to Jennie Buckwalter, Dean's Office, who was named one of the Top 25 Women to Watch by the Better Business Bureau's Women in Business Networking (WiBN) program. The Top 25 Women to Watch signature event embodies one of the mission tenets of WiBN to help women build careers and personal success through recognition for their work and service to their community. Nine Wright State graduates were also named to the 2018 class, and seven of them were CoLA alumnae:

 ▪  Kim Bramlage, Communication Studies
 ▪  Tina Koumoutsos, Urban Administration
 ▪  Alexis Larsen, Mass Communication
 ▪  Kate McEwen, Music
 ▪  Emily von Stuckrad Smolinski, Design and Technology
 ▪  Sarah Williams, Urban Affairs
 ▪  Laura Woeste, Mass Communication

 

Kudos to Phi Mu Alpha, Wright State's music fraternity. This year, for the first time, Phi Mu Alpha participated in the Student Government Association program called SOAR.  SOAR is a challenge for student organizations to encourage them to strive for excellence.  Student organizations are rated on a 5 Tier system based on achievements in different categories of criteria which include campus engagement, interactions with other student organizations, philanthropic endeavors, and service hours. Phi Mu Alpha was one of only nine student organizations to reach Tier 5 this year, placing it in the top 10% of student organizations on campus.

I hope you will join us for our 2018 Outstanding Graduating Students Awards Ceremony next Friday, April 27 at 2:00 p.m. in Schuster Hall. I always look forward to celebrating our best and brightest students at this event. Congratulations to this year's honorees: 

Outstanding Undergraduate Students

Kelly Bledsoe, Art and Art History

Joshua Chenault, Communication

Hanna Fortney, Crime and Justice Studies

Rachel Canter, English

Samantha Wood, History

Constantine Nicholas Tolias, International Studies

Michaela Kaiser, Liberal Studies

Francisco Marques-Vuelta, Modern Languages

Vicky Hei Man Tong, Music

Stephanie Patino-Garfias, Political Science

Anna Helmig, Religion, Philosophy, and Classics

Megan Barrett, Social Science Education

Maggie Beck, Social Work

Alyssa Stark, Sociology/Anthropology

Brittany Williams, Theatre, Dance, and Motion Pictures

Jordan Kingsley, Urban Affairs

Janice Sikon, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

 

Outstanding Graduate Students

Aerial Nies, Applied Behavioral Science

Dan Schack, English

Jennifer England, History

Katherine Peden, Humanities

Kathryn Chaney, International and Comparative Politics

Elizabeth Procopio, Music

Devonn Wood, Public Administration

Patrice Washington, Social Work

 

On Saturday, April 28, CELIA will host this year's Distinguished Visiting Artist capstone event, the Wright State Percussion Festival, in Schuster Hall at 7:00 p.m. Guest artists will include the U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corp Drumline, The Percussion Collective Robert Van Sice, percussionist Mike McIntosh, WSU's Jerry Noble, Wright State Percussion, and new student duo, Neutrals. Enjoy the performance of the hottest premier percussion group and experience the oldest military musical traditions that began in the U.S. Continental Army. This performance is free and open to the public. For more information visit the CELIA website.  

This will be the last CoLA Weekly until fall semester begins. You can see all past CoLA Weekly messages online here.

Please mark your calendars for our CoLA Retreat set for Wednesday, August 22, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m., location on campus TBD. At the conclusion of the retreat we will celebrate our CoLA Outstanding Award Recipients. Please RSVP to Dawn Banker if you can make it. 

 

Good luck with finals week and have a wonderful summer .