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After earning bachelor’s at 70, grandmother has eye on master’s
1/28/21
If fulfilling her lifelong ambition of earning a bachelor’s degree wasn’t proof enough that Edna Rawson won’t let age be a barrier to her success, consider this: The 70-year-old grandmother now has her sights set on a master’s degree in social work.
Phillips-Cunningham publishes 'Washington Post' op-ed
12/10/20
Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, PhD, Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies Program Director, recently published an op-ed in The Washington Post. "The long history of Black women organizing in Georgia might decide Senate control" chronicles the ways in which Black women in Georgia have shaped local and state politics for more than a century. Phillips-Cunningham's work is supported by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership and the OpEd Project's Public Voices of the South fellowship program.
Genevieve West's Zora Neale Hurston collection makes The Guardian's Best Books of 2020 list
12/8/20
"Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick," the critically acclaimed collection of Zora Neale Hurston works posthumously gathered, edited and published by TWU ESFL professor and chair Genevieve West, PhD, has been selected for The Guardian's best books of 2020 list. Naoise Dolan, author of "Exciting Times," chose the book for its "fluid, polymathic voice."
Music therapy graduate helps patients heal with hope and harmony
12/7/20
Kathleen Montes began her career as a music teacher, but when her father passed away from cancer, she realized music therapy was her true calling. While pursuing her Master of Music Therapy degree at TWU, Kathleen advocated for her own clinical training path in hospice care.
Paranormal frequencies: TWU graduate investigates spooky sounds in media
12/7/20
By merging her passion for music, writing, rhetoric and film, TWU graduate student Regan Dianne Campbell developed an extremely unique area of research: Sonic rhetoric and the use of sounds and music in horror movies and TV shows.