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Recipients of 2019-2020 Brenna Ilana Berger Scholarship This year’s undergraduate student recipients of the Brenna Ilana Berger Memorial Scholarship are Jade Salmon and Ryan Bravin. Jade is a senior who in addition to majoring in Communication, is also majoring in Psychology and French and is involved in communication research as a member of Professor Jennifer Stevens Aubrey's research team studying media. Jade's name frequently appears on the Dean's List for academic achievement at the end of each semester. Ryan is a senior majoring in... Read more Thu, 12/19/2019 - 5:38pm |
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Meet the new Public Relations faculty! UArizona Communication's launch of the Public Relations minor has been long awaited by students of all areas who wish to bridge communication and the business world. To support that minor a number of new Public Relations courses had to be developed. With a new curriculum comes the need for new faculty members with a high level of experience and expertise in the area of Public Relations. In August of 2019, we welcomed four such faculty into our growing Communication Department here at UArizona.... Read more Thu, 12/19/2019 - 5:01pm |
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Ben's Bells Founder Researching Kind Communication University of Arizona alumna Jeannette Maré founded Ben's Bells in 2003. This fall, she returned to school to study kindness in the Department of Communication with Professor Kory Floyd. She plans to research how best to equip people with the skills they need to practice kindness during difficult conversations. She was featured on UA News and KGUN 9. UA News: https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/bens-bells-founder-researching-kind-communication. KGUN 9 News: https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/... Read more Thu, 12/19/2019 - 3:07pm |
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TRELLIS ADVISE | Student Advising Platform Starting November 27, 2019, Wise Advising will no longer be used to schedule advising appointments. Students will soon be able to use a simple and modern interface to book appointments with their advisors through a new advising platform. With Trellis Advise, students will now be able to see their assigned advisors upon logging in. Additionally, this new platform is user-friendly and will allow current and former undergraduate students to conveniently manage and schedule an appointment or view... Read more Fri, 11/22/2019 - 10:05am |
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Kory Floyd an ICA Fellow Kory Floyd was inducted as an ICA Fellow at the organization’s annual conference in May. Fellow status in the International Communication Association is primarily a recognition of distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication. This is among the most prestigious honors given by organization, representing excellence across a career of research. It is reserved for elite scholars who have made significant and enduring contributions to the field. Only 3% of ICA members... Read more Fri, 09/20/2019 - 12:29pm |
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Doctoral candidate Alice Fanari selected for award by The Center for Compassion Studies Doctoral candidate Alice Fanari has been selected for the 2019-2020 Contemplative Research and Social Transformation Award. Alice, originally from Italy, is interested in intercultural communication and instructional communication. Her current areas of study focus on the phenomenon of reverse culture shock and the communication process associated with students' (re)adjustment after studying abroad, and on the unique experience of International Teaching Assistants (ITAs) in the U.S. classroom,... Read more Fri, 09/20/2019 - 9:42am |
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Graduate Students Give Course on Intro to Communication for UA Prison Education Project A group of ten of our Communication graduate students are involved in presenting communication course to inmates at the Whetstone Unit, in the Arizona State prison system. This five-week introduction to communication course covers topics as diverse as intercultural communication, public speaking, organizational communication, and media. The photo to the right features graduate students Alice Fanari, Amanda Cooper, and Rose Kelly, who taught a couple of weeks ago. Other Communication graduate... Read more Thu, 03/14/2019 - 4:32pm |
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New book by Dr. Kory Floyd Cambridge University Press has published a new book by Dr. Kory Floyd called Affectionate Communication in Close Relationships. This book details 25 years' worth of Dr. Floyd's research on affectionate communication, as well as the research of others in communication, social psychology, medicine, nursing, family studies, and related fields. This text explores the scientific research on affection exchange that has emerged from the disciplines of communication, social and clinical psychology,... Read more Mon, 02/11/2019 - 3:32pm |
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SUCCESS! 2018 Blood Drive The graduate students of the Department of Communication hosted the second annual memorial blood drive in honor of Amanda Kundrat this past Friday, September 7th, and it was a success! This blood drive joins the long-running drive hosted by Pennsylvania State University’s Communication Arts and Sciences Department. Penn State held the first blood drive in honor of Amanda Kundrat in 2003. Amanda was a Ph.D. student at Penn State studying health communication and invisible illnesses when she died... Read more Mon, 09/10/2018 - 2:32pm |
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The Chris Segrin Dissertation Award The Department of Communication has proudly named the Communication dissertation fellowship after Professor Chris Segrin. Over his career, Dr. Segrin has served as graduate director for our department for a number of years and has served as department head for well over a decade. He has directed 12 MAs and 24 PhDs in his career, and has served on an immense amount of graduate committees in Communication and in other departments on campus. He also was the prime collaborator in establishing... Read more Wed, 08/15/2018 - 8:03am |
