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Communication Professor Jake Harwood, who teaches COMM 402/502 Communication and Music, among other classes, was featured in a video about the 70th anniversary of the University of Arizona fight song, "Bear Down, Arizona." Dr. Harwood provides interesting details about music used as a tool to unify groups, to both internal parties as well as external ones, and speaks to the dynamic created by music in that context. View the video on youtube. 

This year's recipient of the Kory Floyd Fellowship in Interpersonal Communication is PhD candidate R. Amanda Cooper. The award, along with all other COMM graduate followships and awards, was announced at the Graduate Student Orientation on August 19, 2022. To learn more about the motivation behind the creation of this fellowship and about past winners, please go to https://sbs.arizona.edu/news/investing-relationships. 

The Communication graduate student awards were announced at the grad orientation on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Students who won awards this academic year are: Kawther Albader (Margaret Hickey Fellowship), Jules Barbati (Chris Segrin Dissertation Award), Amanda Cooper (Kory Floyd Graduate Fellowship in Interpersonal Relations), Eunjoo Choi (Teaching Award), Heather Gahler (Jose Sprigg Fellowship), Daniel Montez (Ed Donnerstein Media Research Scholarship, Cecilia Sada Garibay (Margaret Hickey Fellowship), Kun Yan (Research Award). 

Professor of Communication and author of The Loneliness Cure, Dr. Kory Floyd joins Professor of Psychology Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor at a fireside chat earlier this summer to talk about the need for contact and connection.