Communication Studies PhD student Elle Johnson has been named as a recipient of a Graduate School Dean's Award for her dissertation project. Johnson's dissertation is entitled "Avoiding the Pandemic: Investigating Changes in Stress Following Supportive Conversations about COVID-19".

The UGA CURO Research Symposium recognizes excellence in papers developed from work presented at each year's symposium. The 2021 Top Paper award in Arts, Humanities and Media goes to Mary Beth Dicks for her paper entitled "Recurring Tragedy: Gun Violence and the Presidential Rhetoric of Eulogy".…

The Georgia Debate Union competed in the District 6/SESEC Championships, where graduate students Nicholas Lepp and Cecilia Cerja both received awards recognizing their hard work and achievement with the UGA debate team.

Each year the Southern States Communication Association awards a single professor with the John I. Sisco Excellence in Teaching Award, acknowledging the awardees dedication to their career in teaching communication. The 2021 awardee is UGA Department of Communication Studies' Dr.

Congratulations to Kesha James for being awarded the Jane Mulkey Green and Rufus King Green Graduate Fellowship in Arts and Humanities for 2020! The award is given each year to a graduate student in Classics, Drama, English, History, or Speech Communications, and selection is…