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Bob Blodgett
Bob Blodgett is a Professor of Geology in the Department of Physical Sciences at the Rio Grande Campus. He has been an ACC faculty member for 13 years and previously taught on the faculty of Ohio State University and Dickinson College. Bob’s passion for geoscience led him to earn three degrees in geology, culminating in a PhD. from UT Austin. He is also a Licensed Professional Geoscientist and has worked as an environmental geologist with the State of Texas Public Drinking Water Program and the Texas Bureau of Economic of Economic Geology. Bob is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Geological Sciences at UT-Austin and a Councilor on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. He is co-author of a freshman-level geology textbook on natural hazards. Bob established and manages ACC’s Edwards aquifer monitoring well on the Northridge Campus.
Patricia Dungan
Patricia Dungan is an Associate Professor in the Division of Communications. She has been teaching developmental writing at ACC since 1995. She also teaches college English. She holds a master's degree in curriculum and instruction and has 48 credit hours beyond her master's. She designed the Developmental Writing website and maintains it. In 2000 she became certified as a Developmental Education Specialist at the National Center for Developmental Education's Kellogg Institute at Appalachian State University. In 2002 she and Stacey Stover created a learning community combining Writing Skills II with English 1301. The needs of the students in this learning community drove the development of the 2007-2008 Course Redesign.
Candice Jackson
Candice Jackson was born and raised in Austin, TX. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor's Degree in Radio TV Film. She worked at KEYE 42 as a camera operator while attending UT, and later at 96.7 KISS FM where she served as a producer and on-air personality. Throughout this time, she also worked part-time at ACC in Admissions & Records and as an Advisor. In the fall of 2006 she joined the Student Recruitment Office full-time as a Recruiting/Advising Specialist where she helps to increase access to higher education for the ACC service area. As a recruiter, she works with High School students who will enter college for the first time as well as those wishing to further their education. Candice is also an active member of the Austin music scene, participating in several musical projects as a singer- songwriter. She was a finalist in the 2007 My Grammy Moment contest and one of her songs will be featured in the upcoming film Rock On.
Chef Brian McCormick
Chef Brian McCormick discovered a love of cooking while he was in high school. An after-school job as a parking attendant for a local New York restaurant gave him access to the behind-the-scenes workings of a commercial kitchen. Amidst the chaos, noise, sights, smells, and food, he found his life’s work. In the late 1970's, Brian earned an Associate of Applied Sciences in Culinary Arts from the Culinary Institute of America. After working in food industry management in the Northeast for several years, he found himself back in the kitchen when a resident chef failed to show up for his shift, and he has never looked back. Almost 20 years later Brian landed in Austin and continued his career as a chef at Scholz’s Beer garden, Wyndham South Park, Choices Deli and HEB, where he was one of the founders of the grocery chain’s “Cooking Connection” program. He has been teaching at ACC’s Culinary Arts program since 1999, and says he is constantly amazed at how much he learns from his students and can only hope they learn as much from him.
Chef Brian Hay
Chef Brian Hay has been working and learning in the food service industry since the late 1980’s. As a young child in Ontario, Canada, he was a faithful viewer of “The Galloping Gourmet,” one of television’s earliest cooking shows. He moved on to more formal studies in order to realize his dream of becoming a professional chef, earning multiple degrees and certificates in the field, including a Master's degree from Purdue University in Restaurant Management, a Sommelier diploma from the International Sommelier Guild and a Gastronomy Certificate from Adelaide University. Chef Hay was responsible for the development of the ACC’s Hospitality Management program, and has been the Program Coordinator for the college’s Culinary Arts program for over a decade. He has been teaching Culinary Arts classes at ACC since 1996.
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