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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.
Kris Harrison and Brad Bond
Video gaming magazines' depictions of male strength influences boys
Received the 2007 New Investigator Award from the Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division of NCA
Leanne Knobloch, Brad Bond, Laura Miller, Sarah Mannone
Bob McChesneyRelational uncertainty sparks negativity in marital conversations
Communication system at critcial juncture, time for action is now
Communication revolution: Critical junctures and the future of media
Won 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."
Ryan Blum has been selected to receive the Campus TA Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.The Provost's office awards a maximum of 5 TA awards each year across the entire campus so this is quite an honor.
Ryan Blum received the 2007-08 LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for Graduate Teaching Assistants.
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.