Teacher Feature
Karen Marx (BA, Kinesiology) was named 2011–2012 Teacher of the Year by the Dallas Independent School District.
Bold Woman
Mia Hall (MEd, Educational Administration) received the Bold Award from Girls Inc., which recognizes women in the community for being exceptional role models.
Poetic Reward
Ken Hada (PhD, English) won the 2011 Western Heritage Award for Poetry from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City for his book Spare Parts.
Art of Landscaping
Lara Moffat (MLA) is director of marketing and recruitment for Lambert Landscape Co. in Dallas. She is publishing a guidebook developed from her master’s thesis, Art and the Built Landscape in the Central Business District of Dallas: Influences from an Identifiable Era in the Late Twentieth Century.
8
Julie Gould (’10 BFA, Art) co-directed the short film 8, which was the short winner at the SXSW festival in Austin this March. The film’s name comes from the jersey number of her late husband, Clay Gould, who played and coached baseball at UTA.
