{"id":36,"date":"2024-11-07T13:57:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T21:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2025-06-26T17:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:43:17","slug":"spotlight-on-students-and-faculty-oct-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/spotlight-on-students-and-faculty-oct-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Students and Faculty &#8211; Oct 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"wsu-article-header \">\r\n\t<h1 class=\"wsu-article-header__title\">\r\n\t\tSpotlight on Students and Faculty\t<\/h1>\r\n\t\t<\/header>\r\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left  wsu-font-size--small\">October 2024<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--sidebar-right\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ruth Gregory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Ruth Gregory is featured in WSU Insider for her screenplay,&nbsp;<em>Anne Bonny, Pirate<\/em>, recently making it to the second round of the Austin Film Festival screenwriting competition, a distinction achieved by only 20% of more than 10,000 submissions. It also won the Best of Competition award for Faculty Narrative Feature Scripting at the 2024 Broadcast Educator\u2019s Award in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wsu.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/07\/cross-dressing-female-pirate-inspires-award-winning-screenplay\/\">Read more about Ruth Gregory&#8217;s screenplay at the <em>WSU Insider<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are DTC Faculty and would like to be featured in the next faculty spotlight, please submit to: <a href=\"https:\/\/wsu.co1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_ddkN1f4LJpHWbUW\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wsu.co1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_ddkN1f4LJpHWbUW\">Application for the Faculty Spotlight<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3470\/2024\/11\/Faculty_Spotlight_Ruth_Gregory_Image-668x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ruth Gregory.\" class=\"wp-image-52\" width=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3470\/2024\/11\/Faculty_Spotlight_Ruth_Gregory_Image-668x1024.jpg 668w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3470\/2024\/11\/Faculty_Spotlight_Ruth_Gregory_Image-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3470\/2024\/11\/Faculty_Spotlight_Ruth_Gregory_Image.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-spacing-before--xxmedium wsu-color-background--gray-0 wsu-row--halves\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3470\/2024\/11\/Faculty_Spotlight_Terry_Buffington.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photograph of protestors marching down a street. The group of predominately African American men and women carry signs demanding equal rights, decent housing, and an end to bias.\" class=\"wp-image-53\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3470\/2024\/11\/Faculty_Spotlight_Terry_Buffington.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3470\/2024\/11\/Faculty_Spotlight_Terry_Buffington-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/3470\/2024\/11\/Faculty_Spotlight_Terry_Buffington-768x518.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image links to larger version. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Terry Buffington Foundation Fundraiser Gala<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, November 1, 2024, from 7:30 PM -11:00 PM<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenworthy.org\/\">Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be an evening of art, entertainment and history as professor&nbsp;Terry Buffington&nbsp;and Son,&nbsp;Kwasi Buffington&nbsp;perform a stage reading of the Eddie Brooks Tapes, from the Terry Buffington Papers 1952-2014&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/dc.lib.unc.edu\/cdm\/singleitem\/collection\/07ddd\/id\/73\/rec\/1\">Audiocassette 2: Eddie Brooks tape 2, 18 November 2010: Side 1<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/terrybuffingtonfoundation.org\/pullman-washington\/terry-buffington-foundation-2nd-birthday-fundraiser\/\">Terry Buffington Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-spacing-top--xxmedium wsu-row--sidebar-right\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Student Showcase<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in having your work published in our department monthly email, please <a href=\"https:\/\/wsu.co1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_9sM9i8KfCYdCqwK\">submit a short bio and high-quality images<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtc.wsu.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}