Assistant Professor Jan Lauren Boyles has been selected as a participant for Newsgeist, an invitation-only gathering on the future of news hosted by Google and the Knight Foundation. The conference is slated for December at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State. Boyles is also serving on an executive committee to review applications … Continue reading Boyles Selected as Newsgeist Participant
Lecturer Sherry Berghefer reports the following: On September 29 and October 6, I presented two portfolio sessions as part of Jump-Start Networking Event. You can tell it’s career fair season by the number of resume and portfolio critiques I’ve been doing, even beyond those sessions! On October 13, I’ll be visiting Cardinal and Gold to … Continue reading Berghefer Presents Sessions to Students
Assistant Professor Dara Wald will serve as a panelist at an upcoming ISU workshop on “Pluralities, Publics, and Citizen Science.” She will be exploring the use of effective communication in engaging the public about natural resource management. The panel, moderated by Janet Heesh, associate dean of faculty at California State University, is slated for Nov. … Continue reading Wald to Speak on Citizen Science
Assistant Professor Dara Wald’s first-authored manuscript comparing risk perceptions and tolerance for invasive species in Florida and Hawaii was accepted for publication in Conservation Biology, a top journal in the conservation field with a wide range of readers interested in sustainability challenges (4.16 Impact Factor). Another article, “Discovering News Frames: An Approach for Exploring Text, … Continue reading Wald Reports Manuscript, Article Publications
Associate Professor Jay Newell has had a busy summer: In teaching, he received the American Advertising Federation’s Distinguished Advertising Educator Award. He accepted the award at the AAF’s annual meeting in Anaheim and took advantage of the LA trip to visit ad alums such as Donavon Davenport (now doing product placement for Porsche and Carhart) … Continue reading Newell Receives Awards, Provides Teaching and Scholarship Updates
Lecturer Lisa Munger Oakes has been elected to serve on the Association for Women in Communications’ national professional development committee. She helped found the Greenlee School AWC chapter last year. For more about AWC, click here.
Assistant Professor Su Jung Kim’s reports the following: Awards / Honors She has been selected as one of the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center Fellows. She attended the pre-conference workshop on "Empowering Junior Faculty: Pathways to Success in the Academy" at AEJMC. Her first-authored paper, "Understanding the Role of Different Review Features in Purchase Probability," received … Continue reading Kim Receives Awards, Presents Research
Lecturer Catherine Huggins’s Advertising Campaigns class client this year is Tikly, a ticketing platform for entertainment and other events. She also has scheduled Pat Fultz, owner of Fultz Design, as a guest speaker Thursday, Sept. 15, in Advertising Account Management class.
Associate Professor Gang Han reports the following: His paper on author co-citation analysis of health communication scholarship (1989-2012) was presented at ICA annual conference this summer. He also chaired a research session—Online health literacy, information processing and seeking – for Health Communication Division at ICA annual conference. His first-authored article (coauthored with Prof. Dan Zhu … Continue reading Han Reports Research, Article Updates
Associate Professor Michael Dahlstrom served as a visiting professor at the University of Augsburg, Germany, this summer as part of their Center for Interdisciplinary Health Research’s first summer school program. The program, titled Social, cultural and communicative aspects of health research, brought in scholars from communication, sociology and anthropology to teach graduate classes and give … Continue reading Dahlstrom Teaches Summer Course at University of Augsburg