Dallas Digest 5-2-18

05/01/18
  • The 2018 Service Awards & Retirement Recognition Program was held for the Dallas campus on Monday, April 30. Chancellor Carine M. Feyten joined faculty and staff in honoring the recipients. A full list of recipients is available online.
  • More than 400 families, children and guests gathered on Saturday, April 28 at the Dallas Museum of Art for its Autism Awareness Family Celebration, “Once Upon a Time.” Tina Fletcher (occupational therapy), TWU staff and occupational therapy students from Denton served as escorts, helpers and play facilitators for the children, teaching them games that were associated with what they would see on their visit.
  • Martin Rosario (physical therapy) recently presented three posters at the 2018 Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego: “Orthostatic Hypotension in People with Human Immunodeficiency Virus” with co-author Maryvi Gonzalez Sola (biology); “Human Cadaver Observational Anatomy Outreach Activity for TWU Undergraduates” (as co-author for Gonzalez Sola); "Anatomical Variations of the Axillary Artery of Human Cadavers” (with presenter Monica Mathis and first-year physical therapy graduate students from the Dallas campus).
  • The Houston J. and Florence A. Doswell Teaching Excellence Conference, presented by the College of Nursing, hosted nearly 150 guests on Friday, April 20 on the Dallas campus. The conference, “Developing and Sustaining Nursing Competencies,” featured plenary speakers Juliann Sebastian, RN, Ph.D. (Dean, University of Nebraska Medical Center) and Kathryn Shaffer, RN, Ed.D. (Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Innovation, Thomas Jefferson University). Presentations were made by TWU nursing faculty including Susan Shariff, Kristine Morris, Stephanie Woods and Sharon Denham, and posters were presented by Grace Yousef, Cory Church, Christina Villaneuva, Aleatha Rossler, Laurie Gallatas, Kristine Morris, Shopha Tserotas and Gayle Night. The Center for Faculty Excellence has recorded the presentations and will make them available soon.
  • Leon Washington (occupational therapy) and a group of Denton occupational therapy students worked at an area shelter over the weekend to provide play activities for children and a variety of individual and group activities for women (caregivers) at the shelter. The shelter name/location remains confidential for the women and childen’s safety.
  • Suh-Jen Lin (physical therapy) has been invited to serve as a reviewer for the Small Projects in Rehabilitation Research (SPiREs) for the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development’s Rehabilitation Research and Development Service (RR&D) for Spring 2018.
  • Mandie Mims, a health sciences librarian from the Dallas campus, recently earned an award for Outstanding Contribution to the TWU Libraries.