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January 14, 2014 Kristen Okamoto, MA graduate 2013, recently presented a talk at Ohio University on ethnographic field research. Okamoto is a doctorial student at Ohio University. 

January 14, 2014 Congratulatios to Dr. Leeman and Dr. Jiang for winning the Top Paper, Rhetoric and Public Address Division at the upcoming Southern States Communication Association meeting in New Orleans. Leeman, R., Jiang, M., & Fu, K-W. (2014). The Obamas speak at the Democratic National Convention: The Sina Weibo response. 2014 Southern Communication Association […]

February 26, 2014 Congrats to Dr. Quinlan on her recently accepted manuscript: Mazer, J. P., McKenna, T., Quinlan, M. M., & Titsworth, S. (2014). The dark side of emotion in the classroom: Emotional processes as mediators of teacher communication behaviors and student negative emotions. Communication Education, To be in July 2014 issue.

April 7, 2014 Celia Karp, a communication studies student, has received a highly competitive and prestigious Fulbright award.  Celia received UNC Charlotte’s first Fulbright Study/Research grant since 1991.  Celia will spend her Fulbright year in Ecuador working on her project “Communication, Culture, and Health: Investigating Maternal Mortality in Ecuador.”  Celia is also one of the […]

April 8, 2014 Communication Studies Week: Spring Colloquium with Dr. Stacy Holman Jones Always Strange and Strangely Familiar: Changing Our Words and Worlds Using the Power of Theory and Storytelling The Communication Studie Graduate Student Association (CSGSA) and the Communication Studies Graduate Department of UNC-Charlotte are proud to announce Dr. Stacy Holman Jones as this […]

August 5, 2014 Dr. Quinlan received an Emmy for her work on the documentary series, The Courage of Creativity, that explored the role that creativity and artists can play in the well being of people in the health related context.  For more about the award and the documentarty, check out the full feature in Exchange Online. 

August 21, 2014 Communication Studies very own, Dr. Jon Crane has been nominated for the 2014 Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence. This is a very high honor and Dr. Crane, along with the four other nominees, will convene in Founders Hall on September 5 for the awards ceremony. You can read more about […]

August 25, 2014 Congratulations to Dr. Quinaln on her new co-authored publication. Carmack, H. J., DeGroot, J., & Quinlan, M. M. (in press). “Topping from the bottom”: Relational convergence of meaning in domestic discipline relationships. Sexuality & Culture, SECU-D-14-00007

September 12, 2014 Dr. Richard Leeman and Dr. Dan Grano along with their colleagues at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte will be hosting the Fall, 2014 meeting of SCoR (Southern Colloquium on Rhetoric), Friday, September 26th at the UNC Charlotte Center City Building (CCB) in downtown Charlotte. 

October 15, 2014