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Congratulations Morgan Thoem
Congratulations Morgan Thoem!

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."

Congratulation Dr. Soroya MCFarlane
Dr. Soroya McFarlane Awarded Franklin College Multidisciplinary Seed Grant

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.

Dr. Doris Acheme
Dr. Doris Acheme Awarded Franklin Multicultural Curriculum Grant

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

Dr. Peter O'Connell
Dr. Peter O'Connell Receives 2022 Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award

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
Dr. Sachiko Terui to Receive Top Paper Award at 2022 NCA Convention

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…


Faculty Excellence Award 2021

The Communication Studies Graduate Forum has named Dr. Celeste Condit as the recipient of the 2021 Faculty Excellence Award. This award acknowledges the work that Dr. Condit has put into ensuring that graduate students have the necessary support to progress with their studies, as well as providing clarifiying information about the university response to this pandemic. Dr. Condit used her position as the incoming department head to facilitate…


Congratulations Willson Center Graduate Research Award Recipients!

The department of Communication Studies is proud to recognize graduate students Nathan Rothenbaum and Alex Morales for being granted Graduate Research Awards by the Willson Center. The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts provides support toward research‐related expenses for arts and humanities projects that are essential components of a graduate degree program. Both Mr. Rothenbaum and Mr. Morales have designed impressive projects to…


Dr. Bjørn Stillion Southard Wins Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award

The National Communication Association (NCA) Public Address Division has given their 2020 award to Dr. Bjørn Stillion Southard, for his book,  Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement (University Press of Mississippi, 2019). Each year, the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award honors one of the most prominent leaders in public address research. The award criteria include the importance of the…


Alex Morales Awarded 2020 Jerold L. Hale Award

The Communication Studies department is proud to recognize Alex Morales for his hard work and service to the department with the Jerold L. Hale Award. Dr. Hale served as the 5th head of the Communication Department and has exemplified the value of service to the discipline and to the universities where he has served.  The Department created the award in his honor in 2009.  Alex went above and beyond during the recruitment of…


Grant Award: Jiyeon So

Dr. Jiyeon So and her collaborators in the Department of Geography, Dr. Andrew Grundstein (lead PI) and Castle Williams, recently received a research grant from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; $178,203).  The project is entitled “Implications of inconsistent visual displays on end user uncertainty, risk perception, and behavioral intentions” and will examine the effects of inconsistent information about severe weather…
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