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Faculty and Staff Brags

Faculty and Staff Brags

This is not an exhaustive list of the many distinguished awards received recently by TCC faculty & staff. Please submit your awards to TCC.Brags@tccd.edu.


A’lisha Malone

Speech Instructor
Northeast Campus

Cindy O’Neil

Associate Professor of Dental Hygiene
Northeast Campus

Leigh-Anne Regenold

Assistant Professor of Government
Northeast Campus

Linda Braddy

Vice President for Academic Affairs
Northeast Campus

Raymond Nelson

Support Technician
Northeast Campus

Recipients of the 2017 John & Suanna Roueche Excellence Award.


Alison Hodges

Instructor of Culinary Arts
Southeast Campus

Regional semi-finalist for the American Culinary Federation’s 2018 Pastry Chef of the Year Award. Won Pastry Chef of the Year at the Texas Chefs Association June 2017 meeting in Dallas.


Alison Hodges

Instructor of Culinary Arts
Southeast Campus

Katrina Warner

Coordinator/Instructor of Culinary Arts
Southeast Campus

Demonstrated recipes for WFAA Channel 8’s Midday News and on the Celebrity Chef’s Stage at the State Fair of Texas.


Allison Gillies

Adjunct—Art
Northwest Campus

Created graphite drawing chosen for cover of science-fiction novel, Gallantry in Action, by John Spearman.


Amy Jennings

Associate Professor of Dance
Northwest Campus

Brandy Niccolai-Belfi

Associate Professor of Dance
Southeast Campus

Performed for the Fort Worth Fall Gallery Night at the dead WEST: GALLERY AND STUDIO.


Anne Boleyn Hampton

Administrative Assistant
Northwest Campus

Elected interim state director for the SkillsUSA Texas College Postsecondary Board.


Bill Coppola

President
Southeast Campus

Chosen to serve on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on Dual Credit Course Limitations.


Brian Johnson

Professor of Government and History
South Campus

Named chairperson of the Tarrant Regional Transportation Coalition.


Building Services Department & Student Activities Department

Southeast Campus

Campus won Mayor’s Award at the Arlington 4th of July Parade for designing a Texas-style float.


Cara Walker

Coordinator of Student Activities
Northeast Campus

Named officer-at-large for Clayton Youth Enrichment’s Board of Directors.


Communications, Public Relations & Marketing Department

District

Received Gold for What’s Stopping You? Bus Bench Ad from the Collegiate Advertising Awards; Gold for both Economic and Workforce Development Electronic Advertising and REACH Magazine (Digital Version) from the Educational Digital Marketing Awards; Gold for REACH Magazine (both Print and Digital Versions) from the MarCom Awards.


Cynthia Hurt

Professor of Art, Drawing and Painting
Northeast Campus

Invited to jury the 12th Annual Visual Arts Society of Texas 125-Mile Exhibition.


Cynthia Savage

Assistant Professor of Mental Health
Northeast Campus

Named Professional of the Year by the Fort Worth Chapter of the Texas Association of Addiction Professionals.


D. E. Staats

Academic Advisor
Northwest Campus

Brewer High School named their GRIT scholarship for Staats, who is a Brewer High School alumni.


Des Robinson

Associate Professor of Psychology/Behavioral and Social Sciences Department Chair
Southeast Campus

Selected to serve on National Committee for the American Psychological Association’s Division 2–Society for Teaching Psychology for re-envisioning “Introduction to Psychology”.


Eddie Brassart

Assistant Director for Student Development Services
Trinity River Campus

Selected to participate in the 2017 Walter G. Bumphus Leadership Institute, sponsored by the National Council on Student Development.


Fred Spaulding

Associate Professor of Art
Northwest Campus

Trish Igo

Associate Professor of Art
Northwest Campus

Exhibited with other artists in Barbara Koerble’s curatorial project, “Recombinant Abstraction,” at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center.


Janice Smith

Divisional Dean of Mathematics & Sciences
Northwest Campus

Elected as chair-elect for the Consortium Leadership and Renewal Academy Advisory Council.


Jo Klemm

Director of Library Services
Southeast Campus

Selected to participate in the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on Open Educational Resources.


John Hartley

Associate Professor of Art
Northwest Campus

Artwork featured in a number of exhibitions: “Once Upon a Time,” a solo exhibition featuring 17 paintings at Artspace 111; “Preservation is the Art of the City,” invitational exhibition with two of his paintings at The Community Arts Center; Faculty Show, faculty exhibition with one of his paintings and “Forged Paint,” curated paintings by Lee Hill shown at Gallery 14.


Jonathan Perez

Coordinator, Intercultural Student Engagement & Academic Success
South Campus

Received the 2018 Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education (TACHE) Distinguished Community College Staff Award.


Joshua Goode

Art Department Chairperson
Northwest Campus

Participated in group art exhibition titled, “Good Morning Tis of Thee.” The exhibit hosted more than 65 artists from around the United States at DEMO Gallery; work featured in a solo exhibition, “Pegasus Armor,” at Ro2 Art Gallery in Dallas.


Joshua Tarbay

Kinesiology Department Chairperson
Northwest Campus

Elected as Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance College Administrators Division Chair.


Julie Lantrip

Government Professor
Northwest Campus

Elected to the board of the Southwest Association of Pre-Law Advisors.


Karen Hutto

Child Center Administrator
Northeast Campus

Michelle Walsh

Child Center Teacher
Northeast Campus

Received Spirit Awards from TCC Trinity River for their work with students touring the Children’s Center.


Karmien Bowman

Associate Professor of Arts, Ceramics
Northeast Campus

Artwork included in the Lewisville Medical Center Grand Gallery “Fall 2018 Cross Timbers Artists Guild Exhibition” and the Texas Association of Schools of Art (TASA) “One Foot Exhibition.”


Kelly Ingleright-Telgenhoff

Adjunct—Art
Northwest Campus

Artwork in two shows at the Fort Worth Community Art Center: “Art in the Metroplex” and “Women Only Texas Artists Coalition.”


Laura Escamilla

Coordinator, Transfer Center
Trinity River Campus

Selected for the inaugural Texas Christian University Counselor of the Year Award after being nominated by the TCU Office of Admissions.


Mark Hicks

Computer Science Instructor
South Campus

Won first place at the Hackathon Competition sponsored by Cisco Academy.


Mary Cinatl

Instructor/Coordinator, ESOL Program
Southeast Campus

Nominated as a 2018 Piper Professor by Southeast Campus faculty.


Oscar Dressler

Music Professor
South Campus

Invited to perform as a soloist and collaborate with other musicians in a celebration of the 500 years of the Reformation.


Patricia Richards

Associate Professor of Photography
Northeast Campus

Work featured in “Culture/Nature” at the Amon Carter Museum of Art; “Urban,” Lastriko and Alchimia Club, Poland. Work to be published in Urban Unveils the City and Its Secrets, Vol. 3.


Roger Shewmake

Adjunct—Kinesiology,
Northwest Campus

A fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, he was honored by the Research Grant Awards Initiative Program peer reviewers for volunteering his time to support the grant review process at the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation. Featured in an article in The Educator’s Resource Fall 2017 issue, highlighting his work in the field of nutrition as a member of the Nutrition Education for Health Professionals and as an instructor at TCC.


Sean Madison

President
Trinity River Campus

Elected to the board of March of Dimes, Fort Worth. Selected to participate in Leadership North Texas, Class 9.


Sharron Crear

Director, TRIO Programs
South Campus

Invited to serve on the Education for Reach Texans Leadership Board.


Sin (Amy) Wan

Dietetic Learning Lab Manager
Southeast Campus

Demonstrated “Sweet Potato Hash” recipe on WFAA.


Steve Gomez

Adjunct—Law Enforcement
Northwest Campus

Performance as an instructor in the academy recognized by U.S. Peace Officer Academy Class 183 cadets with the Nick Fowler Award.


Suzanne Groves

Executive Director of Communications, Public Relations & Marketing
District

Won Platinum for “Everyday Heroes” video; Platinum for both the “Mouths of Babes” radio spots and the “Mouths of Babes–Debt” television spot and Gold for both the “Mouths of Babes–Expensive” and “Mouths of Babes–Bad Choices” television spots from the AVA Digital Awards. Won Gold for both the “Mouths of Babes–Bad Choices” television spot and “Mouths of Babes–Expensive” radio spot from the Educational Advertising Awards.


Trish Igo

Associate Professor of Art
Northwest Campus

Sculpture chosen for the juried exhibition, “eerie, creepy, scary, spooky,” in Las Laguna Gallery in Laguna Beach, Calif.


Vanessa Steinkamp

Adjunct—Government

One of only five people appointed by Governor Greg Abbott to the State of Texas Task Force for Academic Credit and Industry Recognition.


Wafeeq Sabir

Assistant to the President
Trinity River Campus

Elected president of the Tarrant County Chapter of Texas Association of Black Personnel in Higher Education.


Web Communications Department

District

Received Platinum for Tarrant County College Website Redesign from the MarCom Awards.


Chancellor’s Employee Excellence Awards

At the annual recognition event, faculty and staff were honored for their dedication and commitment to their students and to TCC’s institutional excellence.

Exemplary Teacher Awards

Receiving recognition for the Chancellor’s Employee Excellence Awards were:

Kihyoung Choi

Northeast Professor of Dance


Ramiro Thomas Sosa

Northwest Associate Professor of Biology


Yolanda Parker

South Professor of Mathematics


Christina Liew-Newville

Southeast Instructor of Dietetics


Janet Piedra Rodriguez

Trinity River Instructor of Spanish

Employee Excellence Awards

Receiving recognition for the Chancellor’s Employee Excellence Awards were:

Northwest’s Back2School Team

for Service to the Community


Southeast’s New Mathways Project Team

for Forward Thinking


TCC’s Human Resources Team

for Innovation & Creativity


Trinity River’s Student Accessibility Team

for Access & Diversity


Trinity River’s Veteran Week Team

for Student Success

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