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Scott Althaus: Focus 580 Interview 12/12/2008 White House Alteration of Federal Records on the Iraq War
Scott Althaus and Young Mie Kim (assistant professor at the Ohio State University)
Won the 2006 Political Communication Article of the Year Award from ICA. The award honors their co-authored piece entitled "Priming Effects in Complex Information Environments: Reassessing the Impact of News Discourse on Presidential Approval," which was published in The Journal of Politics (2006, volume 68).
Received the 2008 Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional teaching. The award recognizes excellent performance in the classroom; excellence in supervision of graduate student research or professional practice; innovative approaches to teaching; and other contributions to improved graduate instruction, including influence on the curriculum.
John Caughlin, Dale Brashers, Mary Ramey, Kami Kosenko, Erin Donovan-Kicken, and Jennifer Bute are co-authors of a paper that won TWO awards at ICA: the Top Paper Award and the Top Applied Paper Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division.
Focus of TV news on black lawbreakers creates stereotypes for viewers
Travis Dixon and Kristin Drogos have just learned that they received a Top Paper Award from the Intergroup Communication Interest Group of ICA for their co-authored manuscript derived from the RAND project.
Cara Finnegan named Faculty Fellow for Teaching and Learning. The College of LAS Teaching Academy named Cara Finnegan one of five LAS Faculty Fellows.
Lincoln's Rhetorical Worlds
During 2008-2009, the Department of Communication hosted a speaker series called "Lincoln's Rhetorical Worlds." Funded by the Lincoln Bicentennial Committee and co-sponsored by the Offices of the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement, the speaker series explored Lincoln's communication and its importance to American public life.
We were honored to have five distinguished guests visit us to share their insights about Lincoln's rhetoric.
Lincoln's Rhetorical Worlds speaker series: Faculty members Cara Finnegan, Debra Hawhee, Ned O'Gorman, and John Murphy received a grant from the University of Illinois Bicentennial Committee to organize a speaker series on Lincoln's rhetoric.
Kris Harrison and Brad BondVideo gaming magazines' depictions of male strength influences boys
Debbie Hawhee
Received the 2007 New Investigator Award from the Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division of NCA
Leanne Knobloch, Brad Bond, Laura Miller, Sarah Mannone
Relational uncertainty sparks negativity in marital conversationsBob McChesney
Named one of "50 Visionaries Who are Changing the World" by the Utne Reader
Communication system at critical juncture, time for action is now
Communication revolution: Critical junctures and the future of media
John Murphy Keys to Obama speeches: Clarity, structure, and making sense of the world.
Minute article: "presidential rhetoric expert John Murphy".
John Murphy Radio Interview: Rhetoric and Presidential Politics with John Murphy, Martin Medhurst, Mary Stuckey and Co-Host: Fredrick Hicks
John Murphy and Jennifer Mercieca (Illinois PhD, 2003) are quoted in a story on Obama's Denver speech that appears in Rocky Mountain News. Published Aug 2008
Brian QuickTV news on organ donation says little about need, how to become a donor
Brian Quick is leading a multi-institution team that is collaborating with the Illinois Secretary of States office on the $580,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services.Inger Stole
Tracy SulkinWon this year's Bode Award for the best article published in 2007 in The Journal of American Culture. Her co-authored article is entitled "Consumer Activism, Commercialism, and Curriculum Choices: Advertising in Schools in the 1930s."
News flash: Candidates' ads actually match deeds in CongressBarbara Wilson
Quality, Quantity Lacking in Children's Educational TV
Top Student Papers NCA 2009
Top Student Paper in Family Communication:
Relational Uncertainty and Topic Avoidance within the In-Law Triad
Sylvia MikuckiTop Student Paper in Interpersonal Communication:
The Experience of Major Depressive Disorder and Relational Uncertainty within Intimate Relationships
Kristen SatterleeTop Paper in Health Communication:
Using Information to Manage Uncertainty during Transplantation
Anne Stone, Allison Scott, Summer Carnett, Dale Brashers
Laura Miller received the 2009 NCFR's Ruth Hathaway Jewson Award. This award is given to fund the best family studies dissertation proposal submitted by a doctoral candidate. Laura's dissertation research and proposal addresses an important topic in family health: Couples Coping with Cancer: Saving the Self, the Partner and the Relationship.
Two of our graduate students have received $5,000 grants form the Center on Healthy Minds, which is part of the Beckman Institute.
Summer Carnett received this award to support her project entitled, "Psychosocial Issues of Living with Parkinson's Disease."
Anne Stone received this award to support her project entitled, "Communication and Decisions About Genetic Testing: The Role of Uncertainty Management and Social Support on the Likelihood of Genetic Susceptibility Testing for Alzheimer's Disease."
Nicole Martins has been awarded the 2007-08 Fred Rogers Memorial Scholarship. The $10,000 award will support her dissertation research concerning television's influence on social aggression in children. The scholarship is one of only 2 such awards given nationally each year by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation.