Jake Jensen, Assistant Professor, is an investigator on a R25 Training Grant of $1.55 million from the National Institutes of Health. The grant, titled "Interdisciplinary cancer prevention research internship program," is designed to develop and implement an interdisciplinary education program focused on cancer prevention. The award will fund graduate and undergraduate fellowships in cancer prevention.

Charles J. Stewart, Professor, published "Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor: A Leader Under Siege," in The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Reform, and "Rhetoric and Social Protest," in The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Vol. IX.

Cerise Glenn, Post Doctorate Fellow, received $10,000 research support from the AGEP program at Purdue for a project titled: "Newcomer: Organizational Assimilation of African-American Female Faculty in the STEM and Social Science Disciplines."

Jeong-Nam Kim, Assistant Professor, received a $5,000 research grant from the KPRA for his project on "Internet Flaming and Public Relations: Situational Factors of Becoming Flamers." He also co-authored a paper, "Classifying Publics: Communication Behaviors and Problem-Solving Characteristics in Controversial Issues," that has been selected as a Top 3 Paper in the Public Relations division of the National Communication Association.

Lorraine Kisselburgh, Assistant Professor, and Howard Sypher, Professor, traveled to South Africa during September of 2008 to visit with colleagues and explore potential collaborations at multiple universities in the Johannesburg area.  They visited the University of Johannesburg (UJ); the University of South Africa (UNISA), which enrolls over 200,000 students throughout the country primarily through distance learning; Northwest University; the very innovative Vega Brand School of Communication; and the University of Pretoria (UP). While there, Sypher and Kisselburgh also attended and presented papers at two academic conferences: the Southern Africa Institute for Management Scientists, and the South African Communication Association. Before departing, they visited the historic and important township of Soweto, home of Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu; took a mini-safari trip to a small game reserve, where they saw 4 of "the big five" animals — including lions, rhinoceroses, buffalos, and leopard; and tried but were denied entry into the Union Buildings of Pretoria, where the Executive Council was meeting on that day to vote to overthrow the current president, Thabo Mbeki. Kisselburgh also managed to slip in a weekend visiting the beautiful coast of South Africa, seeing Cape Town and the southernmost tip of Cape Good Hope and Cape Point and the Kirstenbosch Gardens.

Jake Jensen, Assistant Professor, with Daniel J. O'Keefe from Northwestern, has been selected to receive the "Distinguished Article/Chapter award" from NCA's Health Communication Division during the 2008 NCA meeting in San Diego. Jensen also received a "Dean's Teaching Incentive Grant" of $750 to purchase software for upper-level classes in PR and Advertising.

Beverly Davenport Sypher, Professor, and the rest of the Purdue "Serious Gaming Team" won "The 2008 TechPoint Mira Award" (Educational Group Category) for exceptional contributions to Indiana's technology-based economy.

Ralph Webb, Professor, has been elected to serve as Vice Chair of the CLA Senate for next year.

Erina MacGeorge, Associate Professor, received the first annual "ITAP Teaching and Learning Faculty Scholar Award" from ITAP. She also has been elected to serve a three-year term on the CLA curriculum committee.

Brant Burleson, Professor, was elected a "Fellow of the International Communication Association" at ICA in Montreal. He also received a courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychological Services.

Sorin Matei, Associate Professor, received a CLA Research Incentive Grant for "up to $1,000" to help pay wages for a computer programmer and to purchase software and web space relating his research titled "Visible Effort:  Studying Wikipedia and Collaborative Technologies Quantitatively."

Sam McCormick, Assistant Professor, had the essay "Mirrors for the Queen: A Letter from Christine de Pizan on the Eve of Civil War," published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. Another essay, "The Political Identity of the Philosopher: Resistance, Relative Power, and the Endurance of Potential," is forthcoming in Philosophy and Rhetoric. He also recently gave an invited lecture on "Minor Political Works, Major Western Thinkers" at the Rhetoric and Public Culture Spring Colloquium at Northwestern University, and has accepted an invitation to participate in an international Goffman symposium at the University of Iowa.

Patrice Buzzanell, Professor, assumed official duties as President of the International Communication Association at ICA's annual meeting in Montreal. She has also been elected President of the Council of Communication Associations, which includes ICA, NCA and others.

James Tyler   James Tyler, Assistant Professor, and Stacey Connaughton, Associate Professor, along with Jennifer Neville from Computer Science, received a 3-year, $410,000 National Science Foundation Grant for "Machine learning techniques to model the impact of relational communication on distributed team effectiveness."

James Tyler, Assistant Professor, published "In the eyes of others: Monitoring for relational value cues," in Human Communication Research and "After depletion: The replenishment of the self's regulatory resources," in Self and Identity,
"Suppressing emotions toward stereotyped targets: The impact on willingness to engage in contact" in Social Cognition. He also published an activity to teach students about schematic processing in Teaching of Psychology. He also has a Top 4 Paper, Communication and Social Cognition Division, at the 2008 NCA conference. Tyler also received a courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychological Sciences.

Stacey Connaughton, Assistant Professor, co-PI with Jay McCann and K. Nishikawa, is the recipient of a $35,0000 Russell Sage Foundation "Presidential Authority Award." The research is funded "to advance what is known about Mexican immigrant political inclusion and identification in the United States." Connaughton also will serve as the panel chair of the Sociology & Public Policy panel for the 2009 National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program Evaluation Meeting.

Bart Collins, Associate Professor, received a "Seed for Success Award" from the Provost. This award is given to faculty members who are PIs or Co-PIs on grants of $1 million or more.

Steve Wilson Steve Wilson, Professor; Felicia Roberts, Associate Professor; and graduate students Jessica Rack and Julie Delaney's work on "Verbal Aggressiveness" is featured online in Science Daily and by the Purdue news .

Robin Jensen, Assistant Professor, has been selected to receive the 2008 Cheris Kramarae Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender.

Steve Wilson, Professor, published "Seeking and resisting compliance" in the Handbook of Communication Science, and "Compliance gaining" in the The International Encyclopedia of Communication. He also was lead author on "Do physically abusive, neglectful, and non-maltreating parents display different levels of aversiveness, positivity, and involvement when interacting with their children? A meta-analysis of observational studies" in Child Abuse & Neglect. In addition, Wilson has been selected to receive the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship or Distinguished Service in Family Communication from NCA.

Susan Morgan, Associate Professor, and Mohan Dutta, Associate Professor, have been selected as a member of Purdue's 2008 Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy.  Susan and Mohan are the only CLA faculty included among the eleven faculty members chosen in a campus-wide process. Each faculty participant in this year's academy will receive a $5,000 award to be used for entrepreneurship projects or research. See story at: Purdue News Service.

Marifran Mattson, Associate Professor, is the recipient of a $2,500 award from the Liberal Arts Engagement Office to assist her in coordinating COM 676.

Lorraine Kisselburgh, Assistant Professor, received a $30,000 seed grant from the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering to explore the use of a Nano-Hub-like infrastructure for health communities of practice. The award will help facilitate population identification, as well as the development of analytic tools using social network approaches to understand how individuals connect, communicate, and collaborate in the pursuit of resources and information about assistive technologies for health. She also is the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts Service Learning Faculty Development Grant for 2008-09. The funds ($2,000), from the Provost's Office, support the expansion and institutionalization of Servicing Learning at Purdue University and will be used to incorporate service learning in COM 435 in Spring 2009.