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Study of baseball helps honor student find a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame

In a class about baseball’s role in American culture, Ben Sullivan found a vehicle to write about his mother’s experience with Lou Gehrig’s disease, and inspiration for his other creative work. In fact, the paper accomplished more than he ever expected. It provided some catharsis from a tumultuous adolescence. And it sent two very different people, student and professor, on a journey through heartbreak and pain and will take them both to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Ben Sullivan
Ben Sullivan

No Business Like Show Business

Born to acting, producing and playwriting parents, Texas State’s new musical theatre director Kaitlin Hopkins was a show business baby. The art of acting, the songs of the stage and the business of Broadway run through her veins. And it’s that familial connection with the world of musical theatre that helped her give birth to one of the most innovative, challenging and relevant musical theatre programs in the country.
Kaitlin Hopkins
Kaitlin Hopkins

Texas State professor helps explain Peru’s ‘Nasca Lines’

Christina Conlee’s interest in the ancient people of the Nasca region of Peru wasn’t spurred by the series of huge lines and figures built in the desert. She wanted to understand the culture of the people who created them, their rituals and their motivations, and her work has been chronicled in a documentary for the National Geographic Channel and National Geographic magazine.
Christina Conlee
Christina Conlee

Surprise project becomes a good lesson for Mass Comm class

Few members of the class had any experience with recording or editing video, but Oskam managed to find enough experienced students to create several teams, who set out for Fort Hood and other sites around Central Texas, armed with cameras and microphones. The students, many of them with full-time jobs and some with families, made time on nights and weekends to get to know the families and shoot both video and still images. Oskam and the student teams attended everything from a parade in nearby Taylor to a layette party for dozens of young parents.
Judy Oskam
Judy Oskam

Viewing life through a colorful lens comes naturally to Jill Pankey

Her parents sent her to Texas State in the early 1970s to learn accounting. The closest she could come to studying accounting, though, was the studying part. She studied art instead, and she also found a way to indulge her passion for dancing. “I don’t tell many people this, but I was a Strutter,” she says. “When I got to school here, that dancer thing came out again, and besides, it was the only thing I could afford to do. I tried out for the Strutters and made it. Hey, the uniforms were free.
Jill Pankey
Jill Pankey

Theater Grad Student Earns National Recognition

In April 2009, John Boulanger, a recently graduated master’s student in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State, was catapulted into the spotlight by the success of his play, House of Several Stories, which earned him the Kennedy Center’s National Student Playwriting Award. His play was one of only four plays from across the country selected for presentation at the American College Theater Festival’s national showcase in Washington, D.C. The production was a resounding success, playing to a standing ovation.
John Boulanger
John Boulanger

Achieving a balance between baseball and books

Last spring, Goldschmidt broke school records for career home runs and runs batted in. He was named the Southland Conference hitter of the year for the second season in a row, and this year he was named the conference’s player of the year. He was among the conference and NCAA leaders in a number of categories, and he was the offensive catalyst on a team that won the regular-season conference title and earned the team’s first NCAA regional appearance since 2000. He’s also was scouted by virtually every organization in Major League Baseball and was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the eighth round MLB draft in June.
Paul Goldschmidt
Paul Goldschmidt

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Best Studying Advice

Use multiple sources of information; don’t rely only on textbooks and lectures. Students need to gather information from books, newspapers, magazines, TV, conferences and more. Also, I suggest joining professional organizations or student organizations for your major.
Dmitri Kabakov
Dmitri Kabakov

What I Like Most About Texas State

Texas State is not only growing in size; its reputation is growing, too, and it is becoming nationally recognized as a top school. It feels good to be a part of that progress. The community and the campus are awesome.
Ryan Karpel
Ryan Karpel

Why Texas State

The beautiful campus and the friendly people are what definitely convinced me to come here! I also wanted to stay close to home, but not live in San Antonio, so Texas State was perfect.
Alexis Ruiz
Alexis Ruiz

Why Texas State

I didn’t want to live far from home, and Texas State is perfect because it’s close to Austin and it provides the close-knit environment I was looking for. The people here are friendly and diverse.
Daniel Bernal
Daniel Bernal

What I Would Tell Someone Interested in Texas State

I would say go for it. Everyone here is so nice, and I have met some of my best friends because I happened to sit next to them in a class. It will be the best four years of your life and definitely worth your money. It’s not too big and not too small, and San Marcos is in the perfect location because you can easily drive to Austin or San Antonio.
Audrey Buchanan
Audrey Buchanan

How My Major Will Help Me Reach My Goal

The biology and biochemistry departments have provided me with great opportunities, from hands-on experience in a biology lab, to experiencing surgeries at a local hospital through a biology class internship.
Karina Gutierrez
Por que Texas StateEscogí esta Universidad por que esta localizada en una ciudad pequeña, por la amplia comunicación con los maestros y las oportunidades que la universidad ofrece.Leer más
Karina Gutierrez

My Most Valuable Learning Experience

During my freshman year, I learned the art of time management. Finals were coming up, and I hadn’t started to study. After a couple of all-night sessions, I realized that waiting until the last minute to study wasn’t something that a successful student should do. Since then, I have been very schedule-oriented, and I try to do most things in a very timely manner.
Marques Green
Marques Green

My Favorite Professor

Dr. Marian Houser, my communications teacher, is my favorite because she makes the class so interesting. She likes to relate what she is teaching to real-life situations. She wants you to understand what she is teaching, which I think is what every professor should do.
Elise Martinez
Elise Martinez

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