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Spaniol Named NSCA FellowKinesiology Professor Frank Spaniol has beennamed a Fellow of the National Strength andConditioning Association (NSCA), an internationalnonprofit educational organization thatserves nearly 30,000 members in 52 countries.Selection as an NSCA Fellow recognizes professionalswhose frequent and sustained longtermcontributions to the profession have promotedthe goals and activities of the NSCA.In June 2009, Dr. Spaniol spoke at theNSCA Advanced Training Symposium inShanghai, China. While in Shanghai, Spaniol,who is chair of the NSCA Baseball SpecialInterest Group, worked with the ChineseNational BaseballTeam. During hiscareer, Spaniol has beenawarded more than 20grants for sport scienceand instructional technologyresearch. He iscurrently conductinginvestigations on a variety of sport performancetopics such as athletic testing, motionanalysis, and pioneering research in visualskills training.news & featuresThe UniversityCenter Turns ‘10’The campus community celebrated the 10thanniversary of the University Center in October2009 with a “Decade of Dedication” ceremonyin the University Center commons. Theceremony included a welcome by UniversityPresident Flavius Killebrew; and presentersDr. Eliot Chenaux, vice president for StudentAffairs, and Samantha Hernandez, presidentof the Student Government Association. RalphMcFarland, assistant director for DisabilityServices, sang “Happy Birthday.”Meyer NamedUniversity Vice ProvostDr. Paul R. Meyer has been named to the newlycreatedposition of vice provost at Texas A&MUniversity-Corpus Christi. For the past six years,Meyer, who works directly with University ProvostAnantha Babbili, has served as assistant provost atTexas A&M University in College Station.Meyer received his bachelor’s degree in physics andEnglish from Rice University and later earned amaster’s degree and a Ph.D. in English/Rhetoricfrom the University of Texas. He has served as anassistant professor of English at both Texas A&M University and NewMexico State University where his teaching and research areas includedrhetoric, professional writing, and literacy.Quintanilla Named Deanof College of Liberal ArtsDr. Kelly Quintanilla became the dean of the Collegeof Liberal Arts in December 2009. Quintanilla,a professor of communication in the Department ofCommunication and Theatre, joined the Universityfaculty in 1994 and, since 2000, has served as either adepartment chair or a program coordinator. She hadserved as interim dean since January 2009.Quintanilla received her Bachelor of Arts inCommunication from the University of Pittsburghin 1989. She earned her master’s degree in Speech Communication fromPenn State University in 1992 and, two years later, her Ph.D. She joinedthe Texas A&M-Corpus Christi faculty as an assistant professor andbecame an associate professor in 1999. She became a professor of communicationin 2004 and was named department chair for Communicationand Theatre. Since 2003, she has been coordinator for the University’scommunication program.S P R I N G 2 0 1 0 ■ T H E I S L A N D E R | 9