Tags: Department Award

🎉Congratulations to alumna Dr. Savannah Downing for her recent win of dissertation of the year award from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric at NCA. 

The Department would like to offer congratulations to Mik Davis-Bryant, PhD candidate, for being awarded the American Studies Division of the 2024 NCA Top Student Paper for their essay "'I Promise This Is Not a Prank on You': Sacha Baron Cohen and The Rhetorical Landscape of American Politics."

Congratulations to MA student Morgan Thoem for being awarded the NCA James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric Award for her essay titled "Quilting Brutality: Critical Textual Construction and the Ideographic American Flag."

Congratulations to Dr. Soroya McFarlane! Dr. McFarlane was awarded a Franklin College Multidisciplinary Seed Grant on the Rapid Interdisciplinary Proposal Track. She is the PI of The THRIVE Project: Development of a Community-Engaged Communication Curriculum to Reduce (Unnecessary) Black Birth Trauma. Her Co-PIs are Dr. Tamora Callands and Dr. Andrea Swatzendruber, both of the College of Public Health.

Congratulations Dr. Doris Acheme! Dr. Acheme was awarded the Franklin Multicultural Curriculum Grant to develop the "Intergroup Communication" course. The course examines how our communication can signal our social identity (e.g., racial, cultural, sexual, political, etc.), used to categorize and evaluate people and activate stereotypes as well as facilitate and/or complicate interactions between members of different social groups. #COMMDawgs

Congratulations to our department head, Dr. Peter O'Connell, on being a recipient of the 2022 Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award! These awards for excellence in teaching annually honor outstanding faculty in the Franklin College who have shown a sustained commitment to high-quality instruction.

Dr. Sachiko Terui's "An mHealth Communication Training Resource for (BSN) Nursing Students: The Comfort Communication App" paper is receiving a Top Paper award in Top Papers in Training, Development, and Learning Division. Congratulations on this award! Read below for an abstract on the paper. There is a critical demand for free educational resources and nursing faculty support for communication training in undergraduate nursing curriculum. the…

Communication Studies Ph.D. student Allison Worsdale has been awarded a seed grant by the center for Research and Engagement in Diversity (RED). This grant will support Allie's project, entitled "A Neuroimaging Approach to Advance Mechanistic Understanding of Tobacco Use Risk among Young Adult LGBTQ Vapers", which will use functional brain imaging techniques to better understand mechanisms of tobacco use trajectories and neurobehavioral…

Dr. Jiaying Liu has been awarded a Federal R21 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to support a neuroimaging project investigating tobacco use among young adults. The project seeks to identify neurobehavioral markers associated with tobacco use among young adult African American vapers, who are frequently targeted by advertisement from vaping companies. This targeting, as well as unique vaping-related features like adding…

Savannah Downing, a Rhetorical Studies PhD Candidate, received a Graduate Research Award of $1000 from the Willson Center for her dissertation research on the memory of the Radium Girls. She plans to visit Ottawa, Illinois, as a kind of "toxic tour" to understand how the memory of the Radium Girls manifests through the rhetoricity of radium and radiation, using feminist new materialist frameworks to explore the inseparability of capitalist labor…