Faculty: Howard E. Sypher
Professor
Department Head
Faculty Fellow, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering
phone: 765-494-8603
email: hsypher@purdue.edu
Blog: Read his Blog.
Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan
M.A., Western Kentucky University
B.A., University of South Florida
Research and Teaching
Howard Sypher conducts research in the area of communication and new technology. He has recently been involved in applied research focusing on software diffusion and E-health website usability. His currrent research on "digital identity" is funded by the National Science Foundation. He received the "Seed for Success" Award from Purdue in 2007.
In March 2001 Sypher gave the keynote address (Communication, Technology and Change) at the Finland Virtual University Seminar at the University of Jyväskylä in Jyväskylä, Finland. Recently, he has lectured extensively in China and has been a guest on CCTV's Dialogue program in Beijing on three occasions. He has also lectured in Japan, Mexico, Australia, Europe, and South America.
Howard Sypher's research has appeared in Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology among others. His publications also include Communication Research Measures: A Sourcebook. He was the founding editor (with Ted Glasser of Stanford) of the Guilford Communication Series. He received the "Golden Anniversary Award for Excellence in Research" from the National Communication Association.
Sypher regularly teaches Com 435, Communication and Emerging Technologies at Purdue. Dr. Sypher serves on the advisory boards of several profit and not-for-profit organizations including the internal Advisory Boards for CERIAS and the Homeland Security Institute at Purdue.