Graduate Student Receives Top Paper Award at National Communication Association Meeting

April 9, 2010

Paul Wright, a PhD student in our department, received a top paper award from the GLBTQ division of the national communication association, during their recent convention.  The research on which the paper was based has been accepted for publication in a special issue of the “Journal of Homosexuality.”   The study content analyzed a randomly selected sample college counseling center websites to assess the degree to which such sites feature information and reference services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) collegians. Results revealed that LGBT targeted communications were infrequent. Given the well known challenges and difficulties...