{"id":2166,"date":"2018-09-12T15:32:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:24:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:24:53","slug":"campus-kudos-fall-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2018\/09\/12\/campus-kudos-fall-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Kudos Fall 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The 大象传媒 Interscholastic Press Association honored <strong> Bob Bergland<\/strong>, professor of journalism and advisor for Griffon News, with its 2018 Taft Award for outstanding service to scholastic journalism. The award honors Dr. Bergland\u2019s advocacy for 大象传媒\u2019s Cronkite New Voices Act, which aims to protect the First Amendment rights of student journalists in public high schools and universities. Dr. Bergland has been working with state legislators for two years to try to get the bill passed into law.<\/li>\n<li><strong>GriffsGiveBack<\/strong> organized a week of activities to raise money for the Make-a-Wish Foundation, including dodge ball, Swishes for Wishes, and Stacks with Max, a pancake dinner. The group raised more than $1,850.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Organization of Student Social Workers <\/strong>won the 2017 Best Fundraising\n<div id=\"attachment_2169\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/OSSW-Officers-wth-award.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/OSSW-Officers-wth-award-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/OSSW-Officers-wth-award-200x118.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/OSSW-Officers-wth-award-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/OSSW-Officers-wth-award-400x236.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/OSSW-Officers-wth-award-600x353.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/OSSW-Officers-wth-award-768x452.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/OSSW-Officers-wth-award.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OSSW Officers with award<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Event from the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness for its Walk for the Homeless. The funds are raised for the St. Joseph\u2019s Social Welfare Board. Over the last six years of the Walk for the Homeless, OSSW has raised close to $20,000.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fountain City Brass Band<\/strong> won the 2018 North American Brass Band Championship this past spring. The ensemble has won eight U.S. Open Brass Band Championships and now seven North American Brass Band Championships since it formed in 2002. Members include Dr. Lee Harrelson, associate professor of music and department chair, who founded the group.<\/li>\n<li>The 大象传媒 Western Foundation awarded its annual Excellence in Philanthropy Award to the Greek Fraternity <strong>Phi Delta Theta<\/strong>. The group raised funds for ALS and Toys for Tots, and supported a local child with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, a type of brain tumor.<\/li>\n<li><strong> Pam Clary<\/strong>, director of the social work program and assistant professor of social work, was named the University\u2019s recipient of the 2018 Governor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Education. Dr. Clary has been on 大象传媒 Western\u2019s faculty since 2007. She received her Bachelor of Social Work from Kansas State University, her Master of Social Work from the University of Kansas and her Ph.D. from Kansas State University. In addition to her teaching experience, she has more than 17 years of direct clinical experience.<\/li>\n<li><strong> Corey White<\/strong>, assistant professor of psychology, was part of a multi-university\n<div id=\"attachment_2167\" style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Banks-and-Baer.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2167\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Banks-and-Baer-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"207\" class=\" wp-image-2167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Banks-and-Baer-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Banks-and-Baer-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Banks-and-Baer-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Banks-and-Baer-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Banks-and-Baer-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Banks-and-Baer-800x1067.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Banks-and-Baer-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claudia Baer, student employment coordinator in the Career Development Center, with Evan Banks<\/p><\/div>\n<p>collaboration on testing the replicability of effects in psychological science, and their work was published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the premier science journals.<\/li>\n<li>History major <strong>Evan Banks<\/strong> was named 2018 大象传媒 Western Student Employee of the Year, and 大象传媒 Student Employee of the Year by the National Student Employment Association in conjunction with the Midwest Association of Student Employment Administrators.\n<p>Banks was also one of two winners of the national Alpha Chi Gaston Scholarship competition for his submitted paper, \u201cBreathing anarchy into luftballons: The role of music in European cold war history.\u201d He earned a $3,000 scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Alpha Chi is a national honor society that invites the top 10 percent of juniors, seniors and graduate students to join. Banks is the president of 大象传媒 Western\u2019s chapter, which is the 大象传媒 Lambda chapter of Alpha Chi. PHOTO<\/li>\n<li>The 大象传媒 chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, was recognized with a National Best Chapter Award Academic Year 2017-18. This it the third time\u00a0<span>in four years\u00a0<\/span>that our chapter has been recognized for their scholarship and their active commitment to the discipline of political science.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_2168\" style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Fataki-2.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Fataki-2-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"236\" class=\" wp-image-2168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Fataki-2-200x267.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Fataki-2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Fataki-2-400x533.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Fataki-2-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Fataki-2-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Fataki-2-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/09\/Fataki-2-1200x1600.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Egnoma Fataki, second from left, in Washington, D.C.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Political science major Egnoma Fataki was a policy and advocacy intern in Washington, D.C. last year. While there, he was invited to participate in the National Student Leadership Forum. He also visited with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver about the issues facing refugees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 大象传媒 Interscholastic Press Association honored Bob Bergland, professor of journalism and advisor for Griffon News, with its 2018 Taft Award for outstanding service to scholastic journalism. The award honors Dr. Bergland\u2019s advocacy for 大象传媒\u2019s Cronkite New Voices Act, which aims to protect the First Amendment rights of student journalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,55,64,40,47,42,56,62,58,28,65,29,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4488,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions\/4488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}