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Spring picnic

CGSA

Spring

Picnic

At left: Graduate students (from left) Raven Pfister, David Butts, Kari Wilson and Rebekah Fox.
Spring picnic Spring picnic
Above: Watching the grill are Graham Bodie, Alda Norris, Iccha Basnyat, and Professor Steve Wilson

At left: Ph.D. students Christopher Roberts and Kristine Clancy arrive
 
Beijing Gathering
Summer camp
Department graduate students Scott Sanders (fifth from left) and Jen Bernat (third from right) taught in the English summer camp program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. They are shown here at dinner with program coordinators. Also present are Purdue professors Steve Wilson and Howard Sypher (back row) and Purdue graduate students Xiran Du (fourth from left) and Yi Liang (second from right)
 
Kendall Award

Congratulations to Ph.D. students Matt Gill and Amanda Holmstrom, winners of the 2006 Bruce Kendall Award for Excellence in Teaching by a graduate student.

Honorable mention honors went to Ph.D. students Graham Bodie and Wendy Zeitz.

Publications, Grants and Awards

Sally Mannion, M.A. student, top student paper notice, National Communication Association, Organizational Communication division.

Joshua Frye, Ph.D. student, had two refereed journal article publications. The first, "Burke, Socioecology, and the Cuban Example," appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of the KB journal (an online journal accessible at www.kbjournal.org). The second piece, titled "Embracing Spiritual Followership" and co-authored with fellow Ph.D. students Lorraine Kisselburgh and David Butts, will be forthcoming in Communication Studies.

Graham Bodie, Ph.D. student, co-authored "Chunking, priming and active learning: Toward an innovative and blended approach to teaching communication related skills" in Interactive Learning Environments and "Health orientation as a predictor of exercising: A psychographic approach" in Social Marketing Quarterly.

Lorraine Kisselburgh, Ph.D. student, named the department's Alan H. Monroe Graduate Scholar in recognition of outstanding research activity. Kisselburgh also was awarded a $500 travel grant to the New York University Graduate Student Symposium on Identity and Identification in a Networked World.

Beth Gill, Ph.D. student, had Top Student Paper for the Health Communication Interest Group for the Central States Communication Association convention.

 

Mahuya Pal, Ph.D. student, paper titled, "Emerging issues in Public Relations Action: Connecting the Modern and Postmodern" got a top student paper award in the PR division at NCA.

Claudia I. Janssen, Ph.D., received a Graduate Fellowship Award from the Graduate School for fall 2006 and spring 2007 and a Fulbright scholarship from the German Fulbright Commission.

Lisa Hanasono, Ph.D. student, presented papers "Beyond Black and White: A Collective Construction of Civil Rights," "Another Day of Infamy: A Pentadic Analysis of FDR's Pearl Harbor Address" and "An American Sunset: The Cultural Genocide of Japanese Americans" at the Central States Communication Association in Indianapolis. Hanasono also presented "Graduate Teaching Assistants and Sites of Agency: Connecting and acting in the basic course" at the 2006 NCA convention in San Antonio, and chaired a panel on "Apologia in the War on Terror." Hanasano also was the Master of Ceremonies at the Asian American Council of Ohio in August.

Mandy Holmstrom, Ph.D. student, received the Top Student Paper award from the NCA Interpersonal Communication division for her paper "Influence of Biological Sex and Psychological Gender on Evaluations of Communication Skills for Same-Sex and Cross-Sex Friends."

Raven Pfister, Ph.D. student, among a group of authors who received a top paper award in the Nonverbal Communication Division at NCA for "Synchrony and Reciprocity of Nonverbal Behaviors between Romantic Partners during Conflicts."