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We are very proud of all our undergraduate and graduate students receiving degrees this spring and summer! Below are their names - thanks to all who allowed us to post their names here. The undergraduates are listed first, and graduate students below.  Despite a difficult and chaotic semester, you all rose to the occasion, and we couldn't be more excited to call you UGA Comm graduates! Go Dawgs!   UNDERGRADUATES Matthew Ahn…

Dr. Panetta has posted a letter thanking you, the students, and you, the members of the department, for sailing through what became an incredibly trying semester. Thank you, Dawgs! 

  The Department of Communication Studies would like to reassure students that it has their best interests at heart and will strive to continue to provide an effective learning environment for them when the University transitions to online teaching on March 30. Feel free to reach out to your instructors or course coordinators with any questions or concerns you may have. Please continue to practice recommended social distancing techniques…

Congratulations to the UGA Debate Union for being ranked number one nationally in all three national debate organizations! Following their most recent tournament at the University of Kentucky the team overtook Harvard, Wake Forest, Emory, Michigan, Northwestern, and hundreds of other institutions. Six debaters won individual awards. They’re well on their way to winning that national championship!   Good luck and Go Dawgs!   For more…

The Department of Communication Studies held its annual commencement exercises on Thursday, May 3, 2018 in the University of Georgia Chapel. The event featured two addresses, one from graduating senior Jonas Taylor and a second from program alum Hannah Kay Herdlinger. A member of Lambda Pi Eta and a graduate of UGA’s entrepreneurship program, Taylor encouraged his classmates to see their graduation day as a beginning to lives of service in…

UGA Communication Studies major Kendall Burton was featured in the May 7 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Titled “The Toughest Out” and written by senior ESPN staff writer Wayne Drehs, the story tells of Kendall’s rise to UGA softball fame, a rise all the more remarkable because of the odds Kendall first had to overcome. Born with a severe bilateral cleft lip and palate, Kendall has undergone 23 surgeries, suffered a stroke, and…

The Department of Communication Studies held its Spring 2018 Public Speaking Contest on Wednesday, April 18. The event, which was sponsored by Xanedu Publishing, was emceed by graduate student Steven Murray and showcased the following student speakers, listed alongside the names of their instructors: Taylor Bush, “UGA Policy on Pre-Health Student Shadowing” – Anna Walling Cassidy Fuller, “The Real P.T. Barnum Story” – John Banister Jake…

On February 18, 2018, at the District 6 Southeast Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) Regional Championship at the University of West Georgia, graduate student Becca Steiner was awarded The 2018 Matt Grindy Outstanding Graduate Student Coach. This annual award is intended to recognize both the pedagogical and competitive contributions to the growth and development of policy debate by graduate student coaches, who are…

Heather S. Cohen (MA, University of Georgia) is a recipient of the 2018 UGA Franklin College-University of Liverpool Doctoral Student Short-Term International Research Fellowship. In the spring of 2018, she will be traveling to Liverpool (under the mentorship of Dr. Laura Soulsby) to conduct research and teach about the importance of communication following the death of a close other in childhood. Her presentation, entitled "Grief Communication…

Advait Ramanan and Swapnil Agrawal, a team of Georgia Debate Union debaters, are gearing up for what promises to be one of their most challenging debates to date. On January 20-21, Ramanan and Agrawal will face off against six other teams in the Dartmouth Round Robin, one of the most presitigious intercollegiate policy debate tournaments of the year. Participation in the debates is by invitation only, and the teams that…