Please join us in congratulating Yejin Shin who successfully passed the oral defense of her dissertation, The institutionalization of online education before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An analysis of universities' Discourse use.

Yejin will be joining the faculty at Northeastern Illinois University this fall as an Assistant Professor of Organizational Communication. We wish her the best in her future endeavors!

To learn more about Dr. Shin, visit: https://comm.arizona.edu/user/yejin-shin.

The Department of Communication proudly congratulates Dr. Dam Hee Kim for receiving two top paper awards and graduate student Josh von Herrmann, who co-authored on one of these, from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication at the 2021 annual conference..

Best Faculty Paper Award

Predicting Twitter Engagement with the Oscar-Winning Parasite: Through the Theoretical Lens of Country-of-Origin

We are proud to announce the recipients of this coming academic year's scholarships and awards. Congratulations to all and we wish them a successful year ahead!

Communication Graduate Director Jennifer Stevens Aubrey presented graduate student awards at the department's Fall Zoom Orientation. The awardees were chosen by the Graduate Admissions Committee based on their performance during the 2019-2020 academic year. Congratulations to the following:

Eunjoo Choi (top left photo) - Ed Donnerstein Media Research Scholarship

Amanda R. Cooper (top middle-left photo) - Margaret Hickey Award