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Trinity singers reunite and delight at Carnegie Hall in long-anticipated performance

words by Jeremy Gerlach

Singing in New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall is as prestigious as it gets for any vocal performer. But making a debut conducting an entire performance? That’s a career changer, and that’s what Gary Seighman, D.M.A., Trinity University’s director of choral activities, experienced this past summer as part of a cathartic and memorable sold-out Trinity performance at the venue.

“Our choirs really provide a sense of family for many of our students, a home away from home,” Seighman says. “I vividly recall being in my [Carnegie Hall] dressing room resting my eyes and sitting on the couch directly underneath a framed picture of Leonard Bernstein, an enormous figure in our profession who performed regularly on that stage. I reflected back on the journey the past couple of years and how this sure beat our various makeshift rehearsal spaces. Yet at the same time, it was those challenging experiences that strengthened our group over the past couple of years to create a tighter bond musically and socially, two aspects so intertwined.”

The past couple of years have been tough for vocal performers at Trinity, with a global pandemic restricting practice and performance opportunities. But Seighman says his students have banded together and persevered through such challenges as having to sing through masks, spaced outdoors in a parking lot.

Olivia Wehrung ’22, one such student, also made her conducting debut during the Carnegie Hall trip. Wehrung is a music education major and a teaching minor who is pursuing a career in music as an instructor and conductor in Trinity’s Master of Arts in Teaching program.

“Singing at Carnegie is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Wehrung says. “Being shoulder to shoulder in Carnegie Hall, barely a year after we had to constantly measure 6 feet between each other just to practice in the parking garage under Northrup [Hall], is a testament to how much things have changed for us.”

This trip saw Seighman lead a group comprised of both current and former students into Carnegie Hall, staging an individual performance and also serving as the core ensemble for the large festival chorus performing Mozart’s Requiem with the Chamber Orchestra of New York. Both performances were met with standing ovations.

You might think this group, known as Trinity’s Chamber Singers, are all on course for professions in music. But many of them—as is the case with most students in musical ensembles at Trinity—aren’t even music majors.

That’s music at Trinity—where amazing experiences happen in harmony thanks to an inclusive, versatile liberal arts approach; a commitment to musical excellence spurred by dedicated, acclaimed faculty; and a strong community of social and financial alumni support.

Stronger in Sync

Perhaps one of the most vital of these opportunities for the Tigers on the trip was the chance to reconnect with a closeknit Trinity community of classmates and alumni.

In addition to nearly 20 Trinity alumni from earlier decades, many recently-graduated singers joined the students on this trip, thrilled to be seeing their friends again after many never got to come back to campus in spring 2020, or had trips postponed and classes held over Zoom or distanced over the course of 2021.

“It was tough for many to simply part ways mid-year back in March 2020 without any sense of closure— especially while we were in the middle of two big projects, one of which was preparing to perform at Carnegie Hall that summer,” Seighman says.

“It was a wonderful sense of closure, especially for the 2020 grads, because their time at Trinity ended so abruptly,” Wehrung says. “And then the ’20, ’21 grads…didn’t go on tour, and we didn’t have any in person concerts. I was speaking with a lot of them, and they all expressed similar sentiments of how it was the closure they all needed from a really tumultuous end to their college experience. “

That’s not to say the trip was all about the performance. In addition to seeing the usual sights of New York City, the the Carnegie Hall performance, along with fellow alumna Erika Zetty ’77, who recently established an endowment for the choir program to honor her late father and former Trinity choir director, Claude Zetty.

Crescendo of Accolades

In addition to the generosity and musical warmth of the Dickes and Zetty, Seighman also notes the integral role of the Dickson-Allen foundation in the success of the trip.

Carnegie Hall isn’t a one-time deal, thanks to this foundation. In the past few years alone, Trinity singers have group also attended a Broadway show as part of their stay and even got the chance to connect with the Dicke family, a longtime source of inspiration, energy, and support for music and so many other aspects of Trinity, Seighman says.

Trinity’s music department, knowing that the Dickes had a residence in New York City, invited the Dickes to attend visited Austria and China as well, among other opportunities. These types of “once-in-a-lifetime” trips that define music at Trinity keep happening multiple times in students’ lives thanks to this powerful level of financial support, Seighman says.

“Our singers and myself are thankful for the generosity of the Dickson-Allen Foundation, which has supported so many of our initiatives over the years. These experiences really have enabled Trinity students to share their musical talent with the world, putting us on the map and being a destination for young, aspiring musicians,” Seighman says. most comprehensive series of contests in the classical arts. This prize evaluates, recognizes, and rewards the best performers, ensembles, composers, directors, and administrators in the United States. “What’s even more remarkable is that Trinity was the smallest school among the cohort of 12 national finalists,” Seighman says.

These types of prestigious opportunities feed into strong recruitment for the program, which Seighman in turn says produces an engaged and excited alumni base. And these opportunities also put Trinity on a national stage where rankings and industry accolades are concerned.

And upcoming in 2023, the Trinity University Chamber Singers have been invited to perform for the 2023 Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) convention, one of only two collegiate choirs in Texas selected. Here, Trinity also represents the smallest school to have ever performed at TMEA, which is one of the largest music educator conventions in the world, hosting more than 26,000 people annually.

Siezing the Moment

As important as alumni support and connections are to these experiences, opportunities, and accolades, the students have each pointed to Seighman himself as an equally vital source of energy for their ensemble.

In 2022, even after the Carnegie Hall trip, Seighman says that Trinity’s banner year has continued. Trinity’s choir was recently awarded third place for The American Prize, the nation’s

Wehrung says she struggled with a sense of imposter syndrome on the Carnegie Hall trip. But when Seighman surprised her with the chance to conduct a segment of the Chamber Singers’ performance, Wehrung says she felt like she belonged on that stage.

“One of the pieces that Dr. Seighman chose was one that I actually conducted in our spring concert. He gave me the opportunity to conduct that at Carnegie Hall as well, which was absolutely incredible,” she says. “At Trinity, there are so many opportunities in every department, regardless of your major—and you just have to take them. You don’t let the imposter syndrome scare you away, because these are often once-ina-lifetime opportunities.”

Usually, Seighman says that when he’s conducting a performance, there is rarely anything else drawing his focus away from the music and the musicians in front of him. But as monumental as a musical moment like Cargegie Hall was, Seighman says he allowed himself one brief moment to enjoy the moment on his own terms.

“I tend to let myself go to the music and don’t remember how I might ‘look’ to the singers or the audience during the actual music making,” he says. “The experience of standing on that podium in front of a sold-out Carnegie Hall was absolutely surreal. While conducting the “Lacrimosa” movement (of the Mozart piece), one of the most recognizable parts in the entire work, I slightly glanced over my right shoulder to catch a glimpse of the hall and audience just to take in the moment for myself. I wanted a snapshot memory of that experience!”

Experiential Encores

Each member of the trip says they wanted to take similar mental snapshots of this performance, to replay this memory over and over again.

As Wehrung soaks in the Carnegie Hall experience, she says she’s starting to feel less like an imposter, and more like someone who belongs on the big stage.

“This is the world’s most famous stage, and having the opportunity to sing there was already cool enough, but getting to conduct was a once-ina-lifetime opportunity that some people don’t even get to have once. And I got to have it at the age of 22,” Wehrung says.

And if you stop to think about the fact that a 22-year old musician has already had multiple lifechanging musical moments at Trinity, you might realize that Trinity’s version of “once in a lifetime” may not mean “only once in a lifetime.”

“I’m thinking about pursuing a doctorate in conducting because I want to conduct college choirs,” Wehrung says. “Dr. Seighman tells me that this won’t be my only time conducting in Carnegie Hall, so this trip felt, for me, like a little sneak peek into what my future holds.”

Finance and Decision Sciences professor Shage Zhang co-authored “Female directors: Why are some less informed than others?” in the Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021, Vol. 68.

BUSINESS and SOCIAL SCIENCES

The University’s business and social science education is distinctively grounded in a balanced blend of liberal arts and applied professional programs, where faculty engage and prepare students for meaningful lives of leadership and service around the world. At Trinity, this area incorporates the Michael Neidorff School of Business (Accounting, Business Administration, and Finance and Decision Sciences) as well as Communication, Economics, Education, Health Care Administration, Political Science, and Sociology and Anthropology.

ENRIQUE ALEMÁN JR. / Education co-authored “‘Two schools within a school’: Elitism, divisiveness, and intra-racial gentrification in a dual language strand” for Bilingual Research , 2021, Vol. 44, Issue 2. Alemán also co-contributed “Confronting Our Own Complicity: Complexities and Tensions of a Critical Race Feminista Praxis in Higher Education During the Movement for Black Lives” for the Handbook of Critical Race Theory in with Routledge in 2021.

ROBERT M. BARNETT / Business Administration co-authored “Qualifying for USMCA Preferential Treatment” and “Qualifying for USMCA Preferential Treatment Checklist” in Thomson-Reuters Practical Law in 2021.

JOHN FRANCIS BURKE / Politipublished “‘Rev.’ Donald Trump and the Christian Right – A Secular Transformation of the Great Awakening Heritage” in the 2021 Annual Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion. Burke contributed “Eucharistic Bread & Wine: A Concrete Sacramentality That Liberates” for Sustenance for the Body and “Recasting Catholicism in the Face of Death: Las Casas, Zavala, and Romero” for Death & Dying in Hispanic Worlds The Nexus of Religions, Cultural Traditions, and the Arts, both with Sussex Academic Press in

2021. Burke reviewed Medina, Néstor, Christianity, Empire, and the Spirit: Reconfiguring Faith and Culture for the Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology, Vol. 23, Issue 1; Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992 for Catholic Southwest, Vol. 32; and The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Christian Nationalism for Journal of Church and State, Vol. 63, Issue 4, all in 2021.

YEN-HSIN CHEN / Political Science co-authored “Who Protests and Why: Hierarchical Government Trust and Protest Participation in China” in the Journal of East Asian Studies, 2021, Vol. 21, Issue 3.

SEONGWON CHOI / Health Care Administration co-authored “The effect of gastrointestinal patients’ health literacy levels on gastrointestinal patients’ health outcomes” in the Journal of Hospital Management and Health Policy, 2021, Vol. 5 and “Antecedents of geographical expansion: The case of federally qualified health centers” in the Health Care Management Review, 2022, Vol. 47, Issue 2.

JORGE COLAZO / Finance and Decision Sciences published “Problem-solving by total productive maintenance swift teams: communication network structure, media choice and team effectiveness” in the International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 2021, Vol. 39, Issue 9.

DAVID A. CROCKETT / Political Science contributed “Understand Your Moment in Time” for Fixing American Politics with Routledge in 2021.

JESSE M. CROSSON / Political Science published “Extreme districts, moderate winners: Same-party challenges, and deterrence in top-two primaries” in Political Science Research and Methods, 2021, Vol. 9, Issue 3. Crosson co-authored “Partisan Competition and the Decline in Legislative Capacity among Congressional Offices” in the Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2021, Vol. 46, Issue 3.

J. CHARLENE DAVIS / Business Administration, Mario González-Fuentes / Business Administration, Kim R. Robertson / Business Administration, and a colleague published “In These Unprecedented Times: A Critical Incidents Technique Examination of Students Perceptions’ of Satisfying and Dissatisfying Learning Experiences” in the Marketing Education Review, 2021, Vol. 31, Issue 3.

ROCÍO DELGADO / Education, Ellen Barnett / Education, and K. M. Pérez ’19 published “¿Qué es un código?: Supporting Emerging Mul-

Making National Strides

Juan Sepúlveda extends his work at White House to Latinx students nationwide

Juan Sepúlveda, J.D., works for two presidents: Vanessa B. Beasley, Ph.D., Trinity University president; and Joe Biden, J.D., United States president. At Trinity, Sepúlveda is the President’s Special Advisor for Inclusive Excellence and the Ron Calgaard Distinguished Professor of Practice in the Department of Political Science. For the White House, Sepúlveda now serves on the Commission on Presidential Scholars, which recognizes the nation’s most distinguished graduating seniors.

“I am humbled and honored to have been appointed to the Commission on Presidential Scholars by President Biden and look forward to selecting the next cohort of U.S. Presidential Scholars,” Sepúlveda says. “I’ve had the privilege to serve on the selection committees for global leadership scholarships before, and every time, I finish the process re-energized— knowing that the tremendous talent and leadership of our youth will take care of us as we face ever more complicated issues as a country and a planet.”

This is not Sepúlveda’s first time working at the White House. He served on the Biden-Harris Transition Team as a member of the Arts and Humanities Agency Review Team, and he was the executive director of the White House Initiative on Education Excellence for Hispanics during the Obama-Biden Administration. In this role, he designed and led the first-ever White House Hispanic Police Conference and a series of White House Hispanic Community Action Summits. tilingual Learners in digital literacy” in Science and Children, 2021, Vol. 58, Issue 5. Delgado, R. Montes-Bazaldúa M’14, B. Sparks ’04 and a colleague contributed “The Perfect Marriage: How a PDS Partnership Strengthened a Nascent Community School” in PDS and Community Schools: The Nexus of Practice with Information Age Publishing in 2022. Delgado and a colleague published “This Fall, Prioritize Opportunities for Students to Socialize” for www.ascd.org in 2021.

Sepúlveda most recently applied his national connections to support Latinx college students from Trinity and across the country. In collaboration with the Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF), Sepúlveda created a two-day event this past September in Washington, D.C., that focused on leadership development, community building, and professional networking.

This event concluded Trinity’s summer 2022 LOFT (Latinos On the Fast Track) Leadership Institute. Eight Trinity students were among the top 80 Latinx college students nationwide who participated in the trip. These students had the opportunity to attend a work session with Biden Administration White House and Domestic Policy Council staff, host an Open Space Action Summit, and attend HHF’s celebration at the Kennedy Center.

“It is critical for these young leaders from all over our nation to be connected to each other through their journeys in education, the workforce, and in the community in building social and professional capital,” Sepúlveda says.

REBECCA L. DENSLEY / Communication co-authored “Influencer Marketing Between Mothers: The Impact of Disclosure and Visual Brand Promotion” in the Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising, 2021, Vol. 42, Issue 3 and “Sharenting and the extended self: self-representation in parents’ Instagram presentations of their children” in Popular Communication, 2022, Vol. 20, Issue 1.

TIANXI DONG / Finance and Decision Sciences co-authored “Identifying Incident Causal Factors to Improve Aviation Transportation Safety: Proposing a Deep Learning Approach” in the Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2021, Vol. 2021. Dong, T. Peña ’22, and a colleague virtually presented “Effects of COVID‐19 on Critics’ Rating Behavior” at the Workshop on e-Business in December 2021. Dong and Peña also presented “Are critics really unbiased? The impact of social ties on critics’ rating behavior” at the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California, in October 2021.

ASHLEY DOUGLASS / Accounting, Amy Foshee Holmes / Accounting, and a colleague published “Bringing COSO to life: Engaging students with real world examples of internal controls using digital storytelling” in the Journal of Accounting Education, 2022, Vol. 58.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP led the successful application for Trinity University receiving a $346,079 “Build to Scale” Program grant by the U.S. Economic Development Administration in 2021. The program also received the 2021 Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Nasdaq Center for Excellence Award for schools with 5,000 students or fewer.

Read more about the entrepreneurship program’s grant and award at gotu.us/buildtoscale

MARIO GONZÁLEZ-FUENTES / Business Administration co-presented “Global and National Identities as Drivers of Young Consumers’ Choices for Foreign vs. Domestic Stories: A cross-country analysis” and served as the chair for the Consumer Choice & Sustainability in a Global World session at the Society for Marketing Advances Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, in November 2021.

AHREUM HAN / Health Care Administration co-authored “Disparate Impacts of Two Public Reporting Initiatives on Clinical and Perceived Quality in Healthcare” in Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, Vol. 14; “The Dynamics of Cross-Sector Collaboration in Centralized Disaster Governance: A Network Study of Interorganizational Collaborations during the MERS Epidemic in South Korea” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol. 19, Issue 1; “The Impact of Public Reporting Schemes and Market Competition on Hospital Efficiency” in Healthcare, Vol. 9, Issue 8; and “The World Bank Education Sector: From Internal and External Perspectives” in the Journal of International Development Cooperation, Vol. 16, Issue 1, all in 2021. Han virtually co-presented “The Landscape of Hospital Competition for Technology Adoption: A New Medical Arms Race” at the Academy of Management Proceedings in 2021 and also presented it virtually at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in June 2021. Han co-presented “Strategic Emergency Management and Organizational Learning: Does South Korea Capitalize on Previous Experiences for the COVID-19?” at the Korean Association for Public Administration Annual International Conference in Busan, South Korea, in June 2021. Han also co-authored three presentations for the American Society for Public Administration Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, in March 2022: “Cross-Boundary Coordination and Collaboration in Centralized Governance: The Case of South Korea’s Response to an Epidemic;” “Distributive Justice and Organizational Sustainability: Environmental Justice and Access to Health Care;” and “Intracrisis Learning: An Examination across Five Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea.” At this conference, Han also co-presented “Incorporating Social Responsibilities into Hospital Strategic Management and Managerial Factors Affecting Financial Distress among U.S. Hospitals.” Han hybridly presented “Examining the Intersection of Disaster and Public Health Policy Subsystems in Times of Crisis” for the Midwest Political Science Association Conference in Chicago in April 2022. Lastly, Han co-presented “Adding A Social Dimension to Strategy for Price Transparency in Healthcare” at the Public Management Research Conference in Phoenix in May 2022.

AMY FOSHEE HOLMES / Accounting co-published “Connecting students to community: Engaging students through course embedded service-learning activities” for The International Journal of Management Education, Vol. 20, Issue 1 and “Strengthening the accounting pipeline through diversity: preference for Big 4 employment and intentions to change” for Accounting Education, Vol.

31, Issue 4, both in 2022. Holmes was a panelist for the “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Courageous Conversations Forum Sponsored by the AAA-TLC Section” at the 2022 Western Region Annual Meeting of the American Accounting Association in Long Beach, California, in April 2022.

SAMMYE JOHNSON / Communication published “Omnibus” in the Journal of Magazine Media, 2021, Vol. 22, Issue 1-2.

AMER KAISSI / Health Care Administration published Humbitious: The Power of Low-Ego, High-Drive Leadership with Page Two Press in 2022. Since its publication, Kaissi has been invited to speak about the book for dozens of organizations and professional associations in the United States and Canada.

PATRICK KEATING / Communication published “Light and Time in the Narrative Fiction Film” in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 2022, Vol. 61, Issue 3. Keating also published two video essays: “The Moment of Recognition: Phantom Lady and Sorry, Wrong Number” in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 2021, Vol. 8, Issue 3 and “Figueroa’s Lines” in Caligari, 2022, Vol. 4. Keating presented “Cinematography and the Screenplay in Studio-Era France” at the International Film-Photography Colloquium in Rennes, France, in 2021.

JARED KOREFF / Accounting published “Are Auditors’ Reliance on Conclusions from Data Analytics Impacted by Different Data Analytic Inputs?” in the Journal of Information Systems, 2022, Vol. 36, Issue 1. Koreff co-authored “Data analytics (ab) use in healthcare fraud audits” in the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, 2021, Vol. 42.

JARED D. LARSON / Political Science was interviewed by the Spanish television news program Bos Días about the fallout from the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the politics of gun control, and the place of firearms in U.S. political culture in May 2022.

ZHAOXI LIU / Communication presented “A Fan Culture that Went Awry: Chinese Youth Caught in Between Capital and Politics,” served as the chair for “Virtual High-Density: When Storms Hit Social Media - Between Misinformation” as part of the Environmental Communication division, and presented with R. Li ’22 “Media Discourse on the Paraxylene (PX) Controversy in Kunming: A Comparison between Local Newspapers and Weibo,” all at the International Communication Association Annual Convention in Paris, France, in May 2022. Liu won the Trinity Tomorrow Award in May 2022, which recognizes Trinity University faculty who have made significant contributions to the mission and strategic priorities of the University.

JENNIFER MATHEWS / Sociology and Anthropology and colleagues received a $38,530 Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) grant for revising introduction to archaeology courses for diversity, equity, and inclusion in August 2021. As part of the ACS grant project, “At the Trowel’s Edge: Reimagining Inclusivity and Diversity Within Our Archaeological Future,” Mathews co-published “Contested Monuments, Contested Histories: Mission San Antonio de Valero,” a decolonizing curricular video module developed in a collaboration between the Texas Heritage Project, American Indians of Texas of the Spanish Colonial Missions, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University in 2021. Mathews also received an Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Grant of $21,200. With the funding of this grant, she wrote “Building Transparency and Equity into Faculty Evaluation and Development at Trinity University” as the chair of the ED CLIC (Empowering Department Chairs to Lead and Implement Change) Working Group.

SHANA M. MCDERMOTT / Economics co-authored “Infant Health Outcomes in Mega-Fire Affected Communities” for Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 29, Issue 14; “The economic costs of biological invasions around the world” for NeoBiota, Vol. 67; “The Local Labor Market Impacts of US Megafires” for Sustainability, Vol. 13, Issue 16; and “When does natural science uncertainty translate into economic uncertainty?” for Ecological Economics, Vol. 184, all in 2021. McDermott presented “Infant Health Outcomes in Mega-Fire Affected Communities” at the Northeast Agriculture and Resource Economics Association Annual Meeting in June 2021.

KATSUO NISHIKAWA CHÁVEZ / Political Science co-authored “Summer study abroad in Japan: Maximizing intercultural competency development through self-guided cultural exploration and reflection tasks” in the Foreign Language Annals, 2021, Vol. 54, Issue 3.

PETER O’BRIEN / Political Science served as the panel chair for “Social Capital and Social Movements in Europe, Past & Present” at the Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference in San Antonio in January 2022.

MAURO OLIVEIRA / Finance and Decision Sciences and Shage Zhang / Finance and Decision Sciences published “The trends and determinants of board gender and age diversities” in the Finance Research Letters, 2022, Vol. 46, Part A. Oliveira co-authored “Effects of customer horizontal merger on supplier capital structure decisions”

Transformative Research

Amy Stone receives $300,000 NSF grant, studies complex LGBTQ+ issues

by Jeremy Gerlach

In 2022, Trinity sociology and anthropology professor Amy Stone, Ph.D., conducted research into issues that deeply affect the LGBTQ+ community, namely identity and housing instability.

This past summer, Stone was part of a team of faculty and undergraduate researchers that included communication professor Althea Delwiche, Ph.D., library liaison and associate professor Alexandra Gallin-Parisi, MSLS, and students Cutter Canada ’24, Gwen McCrary ’23, Megan McGuire ’23, and Lauren Stevens ’24 to examine the effects of shelter-in-place orders on trans and non-binary individuals making discoveries about their gender. This project was conducted under Trinity’s unique Mellon Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities, known as the SURF program.

Stone’s team made good use of the SURF’s 10-week summer period (which comes with stipends for both faculty and students, as well as a travel and supplies budget to present their research at national conferences), and the group continued their work into the fall semester.

In fall 2022, Stone also ramped up work on a separate $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Stone, in partnership with gender and sexuality studies professor Brandon Robinson, Ph.D., at University of California, Riverside, is using this grant to examine the effect of non-parental family members (grandparents, aunts, uncles, and the like) on housing instability among LGBTQ+ youth. This project, “Family Housing and Me,” will continue for two more years.

Stone says that for both researchers, this question started out as a personal one.

“When Brandon and I looked at our own lives, and we looked at how the people around us that we knew got kicked out for being LGBTQ, everyone lived with their grandparents. They had a relative who was so supportive, and they went and moved in with them,” Stone says. “I’ve been really struck by how little we know about the impact extended family members, especially grandparents or siblings, have on alleviating housing insecurity.”

Stone, along with their lab of five full-time Trinity undergraduate researchers, has recruited 83 LGBTQ+ youth into a longitudinal study, has already conducted interviews with them, and plans to follow them for the next three years.

About half are based in South Texas and half from the inland empire of Southern California—“very close to where I grew up,” Stone adds.

Stone says they want this study to inform the adoption of active strategies and policies aimed at helping curb housing instability in LGBTQ+ youth.

“We’re hoping to see that there are some practices that these relatives engage in that can help protect LGBTQ youth from bad outcomes,” Stone says. “Because then we can do something with that: We can develop programs that can encourage relatives to know that they’re an important part [of protecting LGBTQ+ youth], and we can know which practices may be most important.”

For Stone, this study also serves as a crucial opportunity for Trinity to help make an impact on its immediate community.

“Almost one in five LGBTQ people in San Antonio have experienced homelessness either now or in the past. One in four transgender youth have experienced it before their 25th birthday. Those are really high rates of housing insecurity,” Stone says. “I think those numbers make San Antonio a really important place to study that issue.”

A hands-on anthropology lab excavates Trinity’s campus history

Trinity University’s rich history as , municipal dump, and liberal arts college has left traces both below and on the surface of campus, and an anthropology lab led by professor Jennifer Mathews, Ph.D., seeks to recover it through hands-on excavation. Mathews began this lab after anthropology major Claire Sammons ’24 discovered ceramic pieces in the

Because of COVID-19, anthropology students have had fewer hands-on experiences since digs and excavations shifted online to virtual field schools and online internships. “So, when Claire walked into my lab with pictures of artifacts and said, ‘I have to know what these are!,’ I thought, ‘If she’s really interested in this, right here on campus, then let’s go for it,’” Mathews says. Mathews, chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Z.T. Scott Faculty Fellow, and Piper Professor, studies ancient and historical Maya archaeology and has conducted fieldwork and archival research in Mexico since 1993. But with this project, Mathews was happy to dive into fieldwork a little closer to home.

While Mathews and Claire continue to gather artifacts through their excavations, they also turn to Trinity’s Special Collections and Archives for materials that might help connect their artifacts with the land. University archivist Abra Schnur showed the pair a faded copy of a tract map from 1917 for more information about Trinity’s history as a dump site and uncovered several other useful resources for the project’s timeline.

“This project is going to help the University have a broader understanding of Trinity’s place within the city,” Schnur says. “It’s been exciting to go back through newspaper archives to understand what the land was used for at the turn of the century.”

“It’s been such a great experience,” says Sammons, who has plans to turn her ongoing work of surface collection into her senior capstone project. “We’re uncovering a past, even if it’s just through a broken piece of glass. There’s history here with the battle of the Alamo, the Spanish missions, and before all that, Native American lands. This project makes these connections, so we can acknowledge the site that we are on.” for the International Review of Finance, Vol. 21, Issue 4 and “Binding ties in the supply chain and supplier capital structure” for the Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 130, both in 2021.

Sammons and Mathews will again enlist the help of Schnur and others in Coates Library to create a searchable set of sources, including 3D scans of diagnostic artifacts, photographs, and research reports, as well as make the physical artifact collection itself available for public study.

Explore the history of the land Trinity University’s campus is built on, and read more about this story.

O. VOLKAN ÖZBEK / Business Administration was invited to virtually present “The Effect of Institutional and Managerial Ownerships on the Market Performance of U.S. Corporate Spin-offs” at the KHAS Finance Webinars, sponsored by the International Trade and Finance Department at Kadir Has University, in Istanbul, Turkey, in November 2021. At the 51st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Decision Sciences Institute in Jacksonville, Florida, in February 2022, Özbek served as the chair of the “Internet Research” session and presented “Explaining Corporate Competitiveness via Cognitive Conflict and Environmental Munificence,” “Increased Importance of Global Virtual Teams Following the COVID-19 Pandemic,” and “The Influence of CEO Origin on the Market Valuation of Spun-off Subsidiaries: The Moderating Effect of Firm Capital Intensity.” At the 22nd annual conference of the National Business & Economics Society in Maui, Hawaii, in March 2022, Özbek presented “Market Performance of Spun-Off Subsidiaries: Effects of Board Independence and Directors’ Industry Experience” at the “Competitive Behaviors” session, which he also chaired at the conference.

MARIA PIA PAGANELLI / Economics published “Population as a GDP Proxy in Adam Smith” in the Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 2021, Vol. 19, Issue 2 and “Adam Smith’s Digression on Silver: the centrepiece of the Wealth of Nations” in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2022, Vol. 46, Issue 3. Paganelli also published “Adam Smith and Economic Development in Theory and Practice: a Rejection of the Stadial Model?” and “Crime and Punishment: Adam Smith’s Theory of Sentimental Law and Economics” in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2022, Vol. 44, Issue 1 and 2, respectively. Paganelli contributed “Adam Smith and Dying Peacefully” for Political Theory on Death and Dying with Routledge in 2021.

EVA POHLER ’89 / Entrepreneurship published A Holiday Haunting at the Biltmore: The Mystery House Series, Book 8 with Eva Pohler Books in 2022, for which she was awarded “Best Mystery Book of the Year” at Utopia Con 2022.

GUY POITRAS / Political Science contributed “Mexico’s Problematic Transition to Democracy” for Accessing Democracy in Latin America with Routledge in 2021.

CAMILLE REYES / Communication published “Spinning at the Border: Employee Activism in ‘Big PR’” in Media and Communication, 2021, Vol. 9, Issue 3.

RICARDO SANTOS / Economics presented “The Champions League, Bosman Rule, and Competitive Balance in Domestic European Football Leagues” at the Institute for Global Business Research International Conference in New Orleans in April 2022 and at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting in San Antonio in April 2022, where he also chaired the “Potpourri of Topics 1” session.

ROBERT F. SCHERER / Business Administration and colleagues received a civic grant from the San Antonio Foundation to understand the state of the nonprofit sector in the San Antonio region. This grant supported their research for “How a Nonprofitness Orientation Influences Collective Civic Action: The Effects of Civic Engagement and Political Participation,” which was published in VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations in 2022.

PATRICK D. SHAY ’03, M’05 / Health Care Administration co-published “Do Organizational Char- acteristics of Lung Procurement Operations Matter: The Association Between Transplant Center Centrality and Volume With Total Ischemic Time” in Transplantation, 2022, Vol. 106, Issue 3. Shay co-contributed “Healthcare Professionals” for Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success, Fifth Edition with Health Administration Press in 2021. Shay, Edward J. Schumacher / Health Care Administration, and a colleague contributed “Leadership for the Future Health Sector: Transformation, Innovation, and Change for Population Health Managers” for Population Health Management for Health Professionals: Strategies, Tools, Applications, and Outcomes with Springer Publishing in 2021. Shay, Schumacher, and colleagues also contributed the case study “Coproduction Leadership for the Future Health Sector” for Population Health Management for Health Professionals. At the 2021 AUPHA Annual Meeting in June 2021, Shay, Schumacher, and colleagues virtually presented “The innovation journey: Three programs’ experiences promoting entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial thinking” and the poster “Why wait to innovate? Finding a different view of the prism,” which won recognition for Best Poster.

HEATHER HAYNES SMITH ’97, M’98 / Education co-published GET feedback: Giving, exhibiting, and teaching feedback in special education teacher preparation with SLACK Incorporated and contributed “Service-learning field experience with students with exceptionalities: A commitment to inclusion in general education teacher preparation” for Research Anthology on Instilling Social Justice in the Classroom with IGI Global, both in 2021. Smith co-presented “Building Bionic Powers in Explicit Lesson Plans: How to Give,

Exhibit, & Teach Feedback”; “Reflecting on Reflection: Scaffolding Practices Across Programs”; and “Feedback – backward design with the adult in mind” at the Teacher Education Division of The Council for Exceptional Children Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, in November 2021. Smith also co-presented “Integrating Evidence-Based Research on Tiered Intervention in Teacher Preparation Coursework” at The Consortium of State Organization for Texas Teacher Education Conference in San Marcos, Texas, in October 2021. Smith, Rocío Delgado / Education, Ellen Barnett / Education, Laura Allen / Education, Courtney Crim ’93, M’94 / Education, and Gabriel Garcia / Education virtually presented “Cultivating global teaching competencies: Exploring one local school and university partnership” at the Global Conference on Education and Research in June 2021.

BENJAMIN SOSNAUD / Sociology and Anthropology published “CrossState Differences in the Processes Generating Black–White Disparities in Neonatal Mortality” in Demography, 2021, Vol. 58, Issue 6 and “Reconceptualizing Measures of Black–White Disparity in Infant Mortality in U.S. Counties” in the Population Research and Policy Review, 2022, Vol. 41, Issue 4.

AMY L. STONE / Sociology and Anthropology was awarded a $300,000 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Extended Family Support and the Housing Stability of Youth” in May 2022. Stone published Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South with NYU Press and “Making an inclusive collective party or building LGBTQ+ community? Tensions in LGBTQ festival events in American Mardi Gras” in the Journal of Policy Research in

Tourism, Leisure and Events, both in 2022. Stone also co-authored two articles in 2022: “The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Utilization of Different HIV Testing Strategies Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Texas” in AIDS and Behavior, Vol. 26, Issue 11 and “Development and psychometric properties of the sexual and gender minority adverse childhood experiences (SGM-ACEs): Effect on sexual and gender minority adult mental health” in Child Abuse and Neglect, Vol. 127.

JACOB K. TINGLE ’95 / Business Administration co-published “Female Sports Officials and Mental Health: The Overlooked Problem” in the Journal of Sport Management, 2021, Vol. 36, Issue 4. Tingle co-contributed “Transcending ball and ballin’: Connecting the Jordan Brand and college football fans” for Sport Governance and Operations: Global Perspectives with Routledge in 2021. He also contributed both “Learning abroad in action: A case study of sport in England’’ and “Study abroad opportunities: The impact upon learning” for Sport Management Education with Routledge in 2021. In June 2021, Tingle remotely co-presented “‘It was my story to tell and I wasn’t ready to tell it. I wanted to just continue and referee’: Stigma management amongst LGBTQ+ sport officials” and “Shrouded by stigma: Mental health among female basketball officials” at the North American Society for Sport Management Conference as well as “The Experiences of LGBTQ+ Sport Officials: Exploring Stigma Management” at the University of Kansas’s LGBTQ Research Symposium. In 2021, Tingle was selected to serve as one of the three new associate editors for Recreational Sports Journal, a scholarly, peer-reviewed publication of the NIRSA Foundation, published with Sage. Tingle also won the Trinity Tomorrow Award in May 2022, which recognizes Trinity University faculty who have made significant contributions to the mission and strategic priorities of the University. Tingle and Paul McGinlay / Athletics received the Center for International Engagement Award for their contributions to enhancing the international programs and footprint at Trinity University through “Sport in England,” their co-taught course.

MARCIA WEIDENMIER WATSON / Accounting co-published “Act or Be Acted Upon: Revolutionizing Accounting Curriculums with Data Analytics” in Accounting Horizons, 2021, Vol. 35, Issue 2, which won Accounting Horizons’ Best Paper Award from the American Accounting Association in 2022. Watson also co-authored “A Framework and Resources to Create a Data Analytics-Infused Accounting Curriculum” in Issues in Accounting Education, 2021,Vol. 36, Issue 4.

DIANA K. YOUNG / Finance and Decision Sciences co-authored “How Social Media Analytics Can Inform Content Strategies” in the Journal of Computer Information Systems, 2022, Vol. 62, Issue 1. In May 2022, Young received the Trinity University Distinguished Early Career Faculty Award for Teaching and Scholarship.

SHAGE ZHANG / Finance and Decision Sciences co-authored “Female directors: Why are some less informed than others?” in the Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021, Vol. 68.

SUNING ZHU / Finance and Decision Sciences co-authored “Train Your Frontline Personnel from Newbie to Master IT Users: A Three-Phase Longitudinal

Experiment Focusing on Technology Compatibility” in the Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2021, Vol. 13, Issue 3. Zhu, Tianxi Dong / Finance and Decision Sciences, and a colleague co-wrote “A longitudinal study of the actual value of big data and analytics: The role of industry environment” for the International Journal of Information Management, 2021, Vol. 60.

Head women’s basketball coach Cameron Hill was named the Regional Women’s Basketball Coach of the Year by D3hoops.com for the 2021-22 season.

Staff

Staff at Trinity University are lifelong learners whose talents grow the University as an exceptional place to study and work. They contribute diverse backgrounds and perspectives to the culture of the University, serving as leaders, mentors, and role models for the campus community. Staff create new and innovative advances in higher education, propelling the education of the whole student forward.

LESLIE F. BLEAMASTER ’98 / Center for Sciences & Innovation co-published “Geologic Map of the Guinevere Planitia Quadrangle of Venus” for the U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Series Map in 2022.

ANDREW COHN / Athletics was named the Women’s Tennis Coach of the Year by the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference for the 2021-22 season.

CRAIG CROW / Investments was named to the San Antonio Business Journal 40 Under 40 list in February 2022.

SHELBY DEVORE ’18 / Athletics was named the Women’s Golf Coach of the Year by the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference for the 2021-22 season.

CAMERON HILL / Athletics was named the Regional Women’s Basketball Coach of the Year by D3hoops.com for the 2021-22 season.

KINDEL HOLLIS ’07 / Admissions completed the Enrollment Leadership Academy with College Board, a yearlong program focused on leadership skills, strategic enrollment management, and the deveolopment of the next generation of enrollment leaders.

LISA JASINSKI / Academic Affairs co-authored “Reflecting on the value of vignettes in higher education research: toward a preliminary typology to guide future usage” in the European Journal of Higher Education, 2021, Vol. 11, Issue S1.

JULIE JENKINS / Athletics was named the Women’s Volleyball Coach of the Year by the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference and the Region 10 Women’s Volleyball Coach of the Year by the American Volleyball Coaches Association for the 2021-22 season.

RUSSELL MCMINDES / Athletics was named the Men’s Tennis Coach of the Year by the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference and the West Region Men’s Tennis Coach of the Year by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association for the 2021-22 season.

PAUL MICHALAK / Athletics was named the Division III Assistant Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association in 2021.

MARC POWELL / Athletics received the Trinity University Distinguished Award for University, Community, and Professional Service in May 2022.

CATHLEEN PRUDEN / Athletics and her staff were named the Men’s Swimming and Diving Staff of the Year by the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference for the 2021-22 season.

GEORGE RIVERS / Athletics was named the National Men’s Tennis Assistant Coach of the Year and the West Region Men’s Assistant Tennis Coach of the Year by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association for the 2021-22 season.

LORENZO D. SANCHEZ / Trinity University Police Department was selected by the National Weather Service (NWS) to serve and represent higher education on the NWS Integrated Warning Team (IWT) for south-central Texas. The IWT aims to find the best ways to communicate a consistent warning message during a regional and significant weather event.

TIM SCANNELL / Athletics was named the regional Men’s Baseball Coach of the Year by the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference and the Region 10 Men’s Baseball Coach of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association and D3baseball.com for the 2021-22 season.

VALERIE SCHWEERS / Admissions won the Trinity University President’s Award for Excellence in Student Advocacy in May 2022, which recognizes Trinity employees who have been significant partners in supporting student success both inside and outside the classroom.

Marcus Coleman Awarded Bill Walsh Fellowship

Trinity coach works with NFL for a diversity coaching fellowship

by Emma Utzinger ’24

Marcus Coleman is no stranger to the world of the National Football League (NFL). After playing for the New York Jets, Houston Texans, and Dallas Cowboys for more than 11 seasons, he brought his knowledge of professional football into his coaching career at Trinity University as the assistant football coach and special teams coordinator.

the league is a great experience,” Coleman says. “A lot of the coaches, especially on the staff in Jacksonville, have been coaching a long time. Some of them have won Super Bowls and divisional championships.”

Coleman and the other fellows experienced the logistics of the NFL during the Jaguar’s training camp. Here, the fellows were given an intimate

This summer, Coleman was selected to participate in the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship, which gave eight minority coaches the opportunity to work with the Jacksonville Jaguars coaching staff and other NFL coaches to gain the experience and skills necessary to eventually be hired by the NFL. This fellowship was hosted in Jacksonville, Florida, from late July to early August.

“To be in front of coaches that you’ve been coached by and recognizable coaches throughout look into the workings of the NFL, from the administrative aspects to relationship building.

Coleman felt right at home among the experienced coaches and successful players. “I was very comfortable there. As a former player, I understood the environment and what it was like. So, I jumped right in and got to work—it was a blast,” he says.

Coleman isn’t the only Trinity coach who has received this fellowship. Former assistant coach Adam McGuire held the same fellowship in 2019, learning under the Minnesota Vikings.

Coleman has been applying the knowledge he gained from the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship to game day with the Trinity Tigers. Trinity’s football team capped off its 2022 season as Southern Athletic Association conference champions, with its first playoff win in 20 years.

“The more that I learn as a coach, the more that I can pass on to my players, the better it is for them,” Coleman says. “You’re always trying to absorb something. The things that I learned there I can bring back here.”

SPENCER SCRUGGS / Academic Support co-authored the contribution “’Nothing About Us Without Us’: Challenging Ableist Leadership Education” for Shifting the Mindset: Socially Just Leadership Education with Information Age Publishing in 2021.

SHAWNE STEWART-ZAKARIA / Alumni Relations & Development won the inaugural Dr. Deneese L. Jones Award for Inclusive Excellence in May 2022, which recognizes Trinity employees who provide outstanding support of inclusive excellence.

Strategic Communications

AND MARKETING won a gold MarCom award in the Educational Institutions: Magazines category for its Spring 2021 issue of Trinity magazine, “Tunnel, Meet Light.”

KATHERINE TROYER / Collaborative for Learning and Teaching was named a 2021-22 Public Humanities Faculty Fellow by Trinity University’s Humanities Collective. Her project centered on Monster MAYhem, a tournament that offered the horror community an opportunity to think more deeply about the monsters we create and the horror narratives we tell.

LUKE TUNSTALL / Quantitative Reasoning and Skills Center won the Trinity Tomorrow Award in May 2022, which recognizes Trinity employees who have made significant contributions to the mission and strategic priorities of the University.

JERHEME URBAN / Athletics was named the Football Coach of the Year by the Southern Athletic Association, the Regional Coach of the Year by D3football.com, and the Regional Football Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association in 2021.

MARCUS WHITEHEAD / Athletics and his coaching staff were named the Track and Field Coaching Staff of the Year by the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference for both men’s and women’s competition in the 2021-22 season.

Making Waves

Kasey Gonzalez spreads awareness about the dangers of underwater breath-holding drills

by Kennice Leisk ’22

Kasey Gonzalez has been in pools her whole life. She began swimming competitively at age 5 and has worked at waterparks as well as municipal, HOA, and public and private campus recreation pools throughout her career. Now, as Trinity’s director of aquatics, Gonzalez draws on her experiences to help ensure the health and safety of the University’s swimming and diving student-athletes.

One of Gonzalez’s main concerns is providing safety and educational trainings for Trinity coaches and student-athletes about the dangers of underwater breath-holding drills. Swimmers participate in these drills to ‘train’ their lungs to become stronger and hold more air—their logic being “the less you breathe, the faster you go,” she says.

But the dangers of these drills far outweigh any advantages. While holding their breath, swimmers can suffer hypoxic (low oxygen) blackouts, which can lead to long-term heart, brain, and lung deficits, bouts of unconsciousness, and even death.

Gonzalez presented on hypoxic blackouts, which she terms “The Modern Day Swimming Controversy,” at the NIRSA Region IV Conference in Olathe, Kansas, this past October.

“I wanted to bring more information to the public about the risks of these activities since they have been the status quo for so long,” Gonzalez says. “Becoming knowledgeable [and educating others] in the aquatics industry shows people the real-life consequences [of these drills] and hopefully breaks the barrier with older or more experienced coaches. The number of drownings per 100 has gone down since awareness about [hypoxic] blackouts has spread in the news, society, and the swimming world overall.”

CRAIG CROW NAMED TO SABJ 40 UNDER 40 Trinity’s chief investment officer honored for management of the University’s $1.725 billion endowment

by Matilda Krell ’23

The San Antonio Business Journal honored Trinity University’s chief investment officer, Craig Crow, on 2021’s 40 Under 40 list, which recognizes young business and community leaders.

Crow leads Trinity’s Office of Investments, which is composed of a team of six professionals responsible for managing and investing the University’s endowment, which in the 2021 fiscal year increased by $446 million to a total value of $1.725 billion. During the 2021 fiscal year, the endowment covered 37% of Trinity’s operating budget, nearly twice the percentage of other private universities’ operating budgets. This funding goes toward a wide array of uses, including scholarships, professorships, curriculum development, and building and ground maintenance.

Crow is particularly passionate about the use of endowment funds for scholarships. “The idea that we’re supporting Trinity’s educational mission in such a meaningful way is exciting and fulfilling,” he says.

Endowment investing has a long-term horizon, which allows Trinity to develop long-term relationships and a long-term investment view.

“The University has unique access to invest in world-class investment partners across a diversified set of strategies and industries. From early-stage venture capital to multi-family real estate and beyond—the relationships and subject matter are incredibly exciting and rewarding,” Crow says. “Trinity’s partners are at the forefront of innovation and thought leadership across their respective industries.”

Engineering An Identity

Trinity alum, professor works to understand experiences of engineering students

by Jeremy Gerlach

Trinity University graduateturned-engineering science professor Emma Treadway wants to know what makes an engineer an engineer.

What emotions and experiences play a role in creating this sense of identity? And how might this process be unique for women and minorities?

Treadway, in partnership with University at Buffalo professor Jessica Swenson, has secured a National Science Foundation grant of $178,171 to delve deeper into these issues. Here, we ask her about her project, which focuses around the interactions between affect and identity in first- and second-year engineering students.

WHAT’S UNIQUE ABOUT YOUR RESEARCH?

This is an engineering project that’s a little different from my previous research. We’re asking these big-picture questions of, “How does affect influence the development of engineering identity? How does identity influence affect?” We’re going to represent the diversity of our students by looking at the development of engineering identity and its ties to the emotions and the values that students have within the lenses of their other identities, such as race and gender.

“Affect” is a psychological term describing an individual’s underlying experience related to feelings or moods. You have your emotions, but then you can also have an overall sense that engineering is “cool” or “useful.” You might also have values, like, “Being an engineer is socially important.” So, having your engineering major be really closely tied to a profession–that also contributes to your sense of identity.

HOW WILL THIS STUDY BE TIED TO TRINITY ENGINEERS SPECIFICALLY?

This project will follow two groups of about 16 students toand-through the engineering science major at Trinity. We’re really interested in tracking both the students who stay in engineering and the ones who switch to other majors.

This is not a research project where subjects are numbers in a spreadsheet. Our student subjects are real people, with real experiences, and those experiences matter to me.

I’ve had students who are emotional in my office hours, apologizing for being upset that they didn’t do as well as they wanted to do [on a test or in class]. So, if a student is sitting in front of me tearing up because they’re frustrated with how something went, I don’t want them to feel like they have to apologize; I don’t want them to feel that their experience is somehow a “non-engineering thing.”

HOW DOES THIS PROJECT DELVE INTO ISSUES OF REPRESENTATION AND EQUITY?

I’m a graduate of Trinity’s engineering science program, so I can relate to being a young engineering student here. And I do have these experiences of being a woman in a largely masculine engineering space. That comes with things like feeling that you, maybe, can’t show that you’re really frustrated, or you can’t show that you’re upset because that might be perceived as “not looking like an engineer.” Those are definitely experiences that I remember happening.

I imagine that we’re going to find additional things with students who have intersecting identities or other identities (apart from) being women in engineering. For this project at least, it was very exciting to have that recognition that, if the NSF is funding it, this is work that people care about.