{"id":5926,"date":"2011-05-03T08:51:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=5926"},"modified":"2011-05-03T08:51:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T13:51:28","slug":"black-gospel-music-restoration-project-prof-recognized-for-teaching-research-and-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2011\/05\/black-gospel-music-restoration-project-prof-recognized-for-teaching-research-and-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Gospel Music Restoration Project prof recognized for teaching, research and service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"darden-apr11\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/darden-apr11.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Darden\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>As students vote on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2011\/04\/students-select-collins-outstanding-professor-from-biology-department-for-third-straight-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">Collins  Outstanding Professor<\/a>, a faculty committee each spring also selects the recipient of the  Cornelia Marschall Smith Award. Based on teaching, research and service, <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorlariat.com\/2011\/04\/15\/5821\/\" target=\"_blank\">this year&#8217;s recipient is Robert Darden<\/a>, BSED &#8217;76, the associate professor  of journalism and media arts in the College of Arts and Sciences who has  become known for his work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2010\/02\/baylors-black-gospel-music-restoration-project-featured-on-itunes-u-front-page\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Gospel Music Restoration  Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His teaching in introductory classes, as well as  specialized upper-level courses, is routinely praised by students,&#8221; said  Dr. James Bennighof, representing the provost&#8217;s office. &#8220;His research  and writing have ranged widely from scholarly publications to a variety  of other books, essays, articles and film projects, and all of this work  has been reflected as well in multiple instances of service, most  notably his initiative in establishing the massive and vital Black  Gospel Music Restoration Project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For someone who attended Baylor, few awards could mean as much as one named for one of the university&#8217;s great heroes, Dr. Cornelia Marschall Smith,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=92387\" target=\"_blank\">Darden said<\/a> from Scotland, where he was giving a lecture at the University of Edinburgh while on a semester-long sabbatical. &#8220;I&#8217;m greatly touched, and I promise to continue to strive towards the level of excellence in teaching and research that Dr. Cornelia attained throughout her long and brilliant career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Darden joins Dr. Tom  Hanks, Dr. Kevin Pinney, Dr. Wallace Daniel and  others among recent recipients of the Cornelia  Marschall Smith Award.  The honor brings with it a $20,000 award and the  opportunity to give a  special public lecture this fall.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to note that <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2011\/04\/students-select-collins-outstanding-professor-from-biology-department-for-third-straight-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">this year&#8217;s Collins Outstanding Professor<\/a> (Dr. Marcie Moehnke, MS \u201903, PhD \u201905) and this year&#8217;s Cornelia Marschall Smith Award winner (Darden) are both Baylor graduates as well as Baylor professors &#8212; proof that BU not only values great teachers, but produces them as well!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Prof. Darden!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As students vote on the Collins Outstanding Professor, a faculty committee each spring also selects the recipient of the Cornelia Marschall Smith Award. Based on teaching, research and service, this year&#8217;s recipient is Robert Darden, BSED &#8217;76, the associate professor of journalism and media arts in the College of Arts and Sciences who has become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}