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Publications,
presentations and awards
C&J
graduate students earn recognition for scholarship, research
Graduate students continue to receive awards in 2009. Iliana Rucker was selected by the UNM Alumni Association as the 2009-2010 recipient of the Albuquerque Branch AAUW Graduate Women Scholarship. At the Rocky Mountain Communication Association, Liesel Sharabi was awarded Top Graduate Student Paper honors for “The New Face of Dating: An Application of Social Penetration and Uncertainty Reduction Theories to Explain
Relational Development Online.”
Top NCA papers in 2008
The following C&J graduate students presented papers
that made the top panels at the 2008 NCA conference:
YEA WEN CHEN: Top Student Papers Panel in International &
Intercultural Communication Division For her individual-authored paper:
"The Influences of Culture on Self-disclosure as Relationally
Situated in Intercultural and
Interracial Friendships from a Social Penetration Perspective."
ELIZABETH A. DICKINSON: Top four papers in Environmental Communication
Panel for her individual-authored paper: "Nature and the Simulacrum:
Reconstruction, Commodification, and Contestation of Sacred Space
in The Petroglyphs."
COURTNEY V. FLETCHER: Top panel in Visual Communication Division for
her video autoethnographic documentary: "Zero Circle: An Auto-Ethnographic
Documentary about the Becoming of Graduate Student."
Other C&J
grad students who were invited to present their research at NCA this
in 2008 are: Zheng An, Santhosh Chandrashekar, Sasha Arjannikova,
Jiayun (Vonnie) Feng, Iliana Rucker and Tatjana Rosev,
TA of
the year
C&J graduate student Elizabeth
Dickinson was honored as a university-wide TA of the Year recipient
in May 2008.
C&J
graduate student news for 2007
Chris
Brown, a Ph.D. candidate in communication, won the department's 2007
teaching award, and he has received information he is a recipient
of one of the 2007's UNM outstanding graduate teaching associate awards
from the Department of Arts and Sciences. Earlier in 2007 he won the
Rocky Mountain Conference's outstanding graduate teaching associate
award.
C&J
doctoral student Lissa Knudsen, MPH, CHES, has been awarded the 2007
Trong D. Nguyen Memorial Award for Student Leadership by the Student
Assembly of the
American Public Health Association. Lissa's advocacy efforts through
the New Mexico Breast Feeding Task Force (NMBFTF) led to the Southwest
region’s first law on breast pump use in the workplace, providing
women with a clean, private space to breast pump at work and ensuring
that their employers provide flexible break times to accommodate their
needs. The award was presented at the 135th annual meeting of the
American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 5,
2007.
C&J doctoral student Holly Kawakami,
along with her colleagues, received the 2007 Ernest Bormann Research
Award (for Distinguished Scholarly Book) from the Group Communication
Division of the National Communication Association for their book
entitled: “Facilitating Group Communication in Context.”
C&J doctoral student Elizabeth
Dickinson received the Top Student Paper Award for her submission
to the Theory Division of the Western States Communication Association's
Conference, to be held in Denver/Boulder, Feb. 15-19, 2008. “New
Directions in Action Based Environmental Theorizing: Emerging Perspectives
on the Natural World, Communication, and Social Change”
Lynn Walter’s organization, Cooking
with Kids, Inc., received a national award from the US Dept of Health
and Human Services. The Hands-On Food and Nutrition Education Program
was honored by HHS for promoting healthy lifestyles. The award was
presented on Nov. 27, 2007 during the Innovation in Prevention Awards
Luncheon in Washington, D.C.
Four C & J graduate students presented their Top Papers at the
National Communication Association’s Annual Convention held
in Chicago Nov. 15-18, 2007:
- Dr. Elizabeth
M. Root,"The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," Top
Three Paper Panel
- Chie Torigoe
with YeaWen Chen, “Dominant Ideologies and Intersecting Identities
in the Discourse of Intercultural Heterosexual Romantic Relationships:
A Critical and Interpretive Perspective,” Top Student Papers
Panel in Intercultural Communication
- Melissa Curtin,
Top Student Papers Panel in Intercultural Communication.
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Some of the C&J graduate students gather at their Spring
Fling in May 2006
C&J
grad student recognized for teaching
Melissa L. Curtin has earned a 2006 award as Teaching Assistant of
the Year from UNM's Center for the Advancement of Scholarship in Teaching
and Language (CASTL). A
C&J graduate student, Curtin is to be honored at a ceremony on
May 3.
C&J
grad students win top RMCA honors
A group of UNM students
recently went to the Rocky Mountain Communication Association's (RMCA)
conference held in Greeley, Colo., hosted by the University of Northern
Colorado. UNM had several competitively selected undergraduate and
graduate papers in this year's program, but two UNM graduate students
won both top graduate paper awards. This is the second time in two
years UNM has swept this honor. The UNM papers
that won the top graduate awards are: Adolfo José Garcia, "Situational
influence on conflict communication: The relationship of third party
help and ingroup/outgroup membership on conflict style and face concern,"
and Melissa L. Curtin, "Expert reviewers and promising topics:
Strategic facework in academic journal editors—Letters to authors."
To see other UNM participants at RMCA, view the entire program here.
Grad
student helps coordinate Michael Lerner program
C&J graduate student Bhavana Upadhyaya was the program coordinator
for a presentation by Rabbi Michael Lerner in the Continuing Education
auditorium April 2, 2007. Lerner was on a national tour to promote
his book The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the
Religious Right. C&J broadcast engineer Sean Solowiej provided
a live Webcast.
Seven
grad students to present at Western
Seven C&J graduate students presented papers in Feburary 2006
at the Western States Communication Conference. Their abstracts can
be seen here.
Presenting were Melissa L. Curtin, Ashley Grisso, Kris Kirschbaum,
Benjamin Mabe, Chad Perry, Matthew D. Petrunia and Misato Yoshikawa.
Western
States Communication Conference 2004
Several faculty members and graduate students presented
papers at the Western States Communication Conference in March 2004.
A total of eight graduate students presented eight papers, with three
Top Paper Awards. Special congratulations to each of the following
graduate students:
- Jeff
Peterson (who also got a top paper award for a piece co-authored
with Krishna Kandath in communication theory)
- Kristin
Johnson
- Mary
Meares
- Annette
Torres
- Tamar
Ginossar
- Denise
Derkacs (Mary, Denise, Annette and Tamar received a top paper
award in organizational communication for a paper they co-authored)
- Christopher
Deal (who received the Top Debut paper award in intercultral communication)
- Holly
Andrews
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