| Honors, Grant and Publications |
| Carin Kosmoski, Jennifer Hall and Emily Haas-Warren, Ph.D. students, along with alumna Katie Ourada and Associate Professor Marifran Mattson, were panel participants at the 2009 annual conference of the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations in New Orleans. The panel discussed three papers that various members of the group had co-authored: "Motorcyclists' Myths and Stereotypes of Motorcycle Safety Campaigns and Initiatives," "I Know What It's Like: Perceptions of Motorcycle Riding by Non-Riders," and "An Analysis of Online Comments in Response to Newspaper Coverage of a Fatal Motorcycle/Semi-truck Accident." |
Rebecca Dohrman and Brenda Berkelaar, Ph.D. students, are recipients of 2009-10 Bilsland Strategic Initiatives Fellowships (and also receive a full year of funding). Dohrman's proposal: "High-Tech Entrepreneurship for the Millennial Workforce: Empirical Analyses of Career Perceptions and Meaningfulness of Entrepreneurial Work"; Berkelaar's proposal: "Cyber-vetting and Workplace Decisions: How Evaluations of Online Information Influence Careers, Human Capital, and Social Boundaries."
Suchitra Shenoy, Ph.D. student, paper titled, "Standing on One's Own Feet and Other Meanings of Work among Indian Women: The New Narratives of 21st Century India" won the Top Paper Award from NCA's Organizational Communication Division. Also, her COM 320 class received funding ($270) from the Vice Provost for Engagement for their class project, "U-Purdue – CFRC Service Learning Projects." She also accepted a faculty position as Assistant Professor of Organizational Communication at DePaul University, Chicago.
Jerri Faris, Ph.D. student, is a contributing author for a book coming out in June titled "Measured Justice: Problem Solving Courts, Criminal Law, and Criminal Justice in the United States" published by Rowman and Littlefield. She provided case studies of some of the ex-prisoners who are in the re-entry program in Tippecanoe County and some analysis of the giving and receiving of social support in the context of this court program.
Vidhi Chaudhri, Ph.D. student, was named a 2009 Alan H. Monroe Graduate Scholar.
Jessica Smith and Colleen Arendt, Ph.D. students, co-authored "Science Writing and Presentation" with Melanie Morgan.
Jessica Smith, Ph.D. student, both of her COM491 classes applied for and received grant funding from the Office of Engagement for Service Learning. One of the classes was awarded $348.16 and will be holding a day of science activities for all ages after school on a Friday at the Boys and Girls Club. The other class was awarded $495.33 and will be going to Jefferson High School to "Stimulate the STEM discipline" by teaching high school students about the importance of science, science majors offered at Purdue, and demonstrating chemistry and physics experiments.
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Andy King, Ph.D. student, received an NIH Fellowship through Purdue's Interdisciplinary Cancer Prevention Research Internship Program that provides full funding for a year.
Pamela Morris, Ph.D. student, presented "Networks of Shared Information Through a Computer Hub: The Case of the NanoHUB" with Dr. Scott Feld of Sociology at the INSNA (International Network for Social Network Analysis) Conference on March 10-15 in San Diego, CA. The trip was part of a larger grant project she is a part of examining virtual organizations as socio-technical systems.
Lalatendu Acharya, Ph.D. student, co-authored a paper titled "Organizing change in participatory development: A culture-centered approach" presented at the 2009 ICA Conference.
Jennifer Dane McCullough, Ph.D. student, accepted a tenure track position at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan.
Suzy D'Enbeau, Ph.D. student, accepted a tenure track position at the University of Kansas.
Deborah Leiter, Ph.D. student, had a "Top 3" student paper in the Mass Communication Division of ICA's 2009 conference in Chicago. The title of the paper is "Howdunit?: Some Narrative Considerations for a Cross-Medial Understanding of the Mystery Genre."
Kristi Wilkum, Ph.D. student, with fellow graduate students Andy King, Jen Bernat, and Angelica Ruvarac and Associate Professor Hyunyi Cho co-authored "Fraternity drinking as edgework: An analysis of perspectives on risk and control" in Health Communication.
Jen Bernat, Ph.D. student, was awarded an NSF EAPSI Fellowship to conduct research in China this summer. She will be doing her work in Beijing in collaboration with colleagues at Tsinghua University. She also received a 2008-2009 travel grant from PGSG for her paper "Violence in movie sequels: Testing a prediction based on the principle of desensitization" that she presented at NCA.
Rebecca Dohrman, Ph.D. student, named a 2009 Alan H. Monroe Graduate Scholar.
Graduate students Lisa Hanasono, Jennifer McCullough and Jennifer Gill Rosier, along wth Professor Brant Burleson and alumni Graham Bodie, Amanda Holstrom and Jessica Rack, received a "Top Three Paper" designation from NCA's Communication and Social Cognition Division. The paper is titled "Explaining Sex Differences in the Perception of Support Availability: The Mediating Effects of Construct Availability and Accessibility."
Jasmine Tan, Ph.D. student, received a Top Three Paper Award from the Public Relations Division of CSCA for "Banking on Women: The Paradox in Balancing Self-Interest with Altruism."
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