Dr. Jay Hmielowski joins Communication Faculty in Fall 2012
Aug. 3, 2012
We are pleased to announce Dr. Jay Hmielowski (Ph. D. 2011, The Ohio State University) will be joining us this Fall as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Hmielowski’s major areas of interest are environmental communication, science communication and political communication. Specifically, he is interested in how different types of messages or the combination of conflicting messages affect the structure of people’s attitudes, and how the complexity of people’s attitudes influences a variety of outcome variables such as information seeking, information processing, and engaging in environmental or political behaviors. His second area of interest is how media influences...