News and Announcements

The legendary ESPN reporter and Comm Alumni, Holly Rowe will give the 2024 Parry D. Sorensen Distinguished Lecture and host a workshop from 4 to 5 p.m. on Friday, April 19, at the Comm Institute for students interested in learning from her multifaceted career.

Saturday, April 13, 2024 07:07 PM

PRSSA is hosting their board position info session on April 18th at 6 pm. This is a great opportunity to learn more about what PRSSA is and get involved.

Friday, April 12, 2024 08:00 PM

Dr. Logan Rae Gomez will be hosting a colloquium talk on April 18th from 3:30-5 pm in the Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute titled: Performing Her Name: Counterstorytelling Possibilities of the Future–Now.

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 07:40 PM

The Communication Department is excited to announce four new courses offered in the Fall 2024 semester. Read on for course descriptions!

Monday, March 25, 2024 08:18 PM

Join us at Weber State University this Saturday at 11:30 am for guest speakers, networking, and more!

Saturday, March 23, 2024 12:35 AM

The six students who competed at the tournament appeared in nine elimination rounds, winning two events, and placing 3rd overall.

Monday, March 18, 2024 07:37 PM

Kim Kaphingst, Professor and Associate Chair of the Communication Department, received the Distinguished Research Award due to the impact and significance of her research and scholarly work in the health communication field.

Thursday, March 14, 2024 01:03 AM

Jacob Nelson, an Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Utah published an article about the growing disconnect between how journalists see themselves and how people see journalists, read it here.

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 05:00 PM

Dr. Kent Ono, Distinguished Professor, was awarded this recognition at the 109th annual National Communication Association Conference in National Harbor, MD last November.

Thursday, February 29, 2024 01:06 AM

Jacob Nelson, an Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Utah who studies the relationship between journalism and the public, agrees that contentious times—including election years—draw people to the profession.

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 04:00 PM

Dr. Leandra. H. Hernández, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, was selected as one of the twelve American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education 2024 Faculty Fellows.

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 12:00 AM

The University of Utah is excited to announce the launch of a new Master of Communication program at its U Asia Campus in Incheon, South Korea. Applications are now open for the professional program, and the first cohort of students is scheduled to begin studying at the extended campus in fall 2024.

Thursday, January 18, 2024 09:46 PM

Debating is one of the oldest traditions at the University of Utah, older even than football, dating back to the 1860s. For decades, the university’s John R. Park Debate Society has nurtured generations of young debaters as they squared off in contests of rhetorical skill and verbal jousting. Now the society is providing a forensics venue for Salt Lake City’s massive refugee community as a way to support some of Utah’s most vulnerable populations and help them integrate into a new country.

Tuesday, December 19, 2023 06:16 PM

The University of Utah’s College of Humanities and the Department of Communication are partnering with the award-winning Great Salt Lake Collaborative to give students hands-on, community-engaged journalism experience working with professional media organizations across northern Utah. The groundbreaking collaborative includes a dozen local news organizations as well as science and education institutions. Founded in 2022, the GSLC has helped local news organizations to undertake more solutions-focused journalism about the crisis at the Great Salt Lake and then elevate that work to all Utahns via shared multi-platform publication.

Monday, November 13, 2023 08:25 PM

Dr. Robin E. Jensen has been recognized with the 2023 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award for the article, “Re-envisioning Fertility Science: From J. Marion Sims’s Invasive Gynecology to Sophia Kleegman’s 'Conservative Surgery' Hermeneutic,” published in Quarterly Journal of Speech in 2022. The Golden Anniversary Monograph Award is presented by the National Communication Association to the most outstanding scholarly monograph published during the previous calendar year.

Friday, September 29, 2023 07:52 PM

Leandra Hernandez, assistant professor in the Department of Communication, was awarded the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender Feminist Teacher-Mentor Award and the Anita Taylor Award for Outstanding Published Article or Book Chapter.

Monday, September 18, 2023 10:28 PM

The University of Utah Graduate School announced Monday that Dr. Helene A. Shugart has accepted the position of Associate Dean for the Graduate School, effective July 1, 2023. Dr. Shugart will provide leadership and direction for the Graduate School in her new role.

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 08:15 PM

A huge congratulations to June-Young Lee, who has accepted our offer to join the University of Utah Asia Campus Communication Department as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer). We’re very excited for June-Young’s appointment and for all of the experience and industry connections he brings. Many thanks to Kent Ono for chairing a successful search, which as you can imagine, comes with many nuances. We had a wonderful and strong pool of candidates thanks to the work of Kent and the rest of the committee, including Paul Rose and Sejin Kim. Many thanks to them for their hard work and coordination, and to Greg Hill and Randy McCrillis for their support.

Wednesday, July 05, 2023 10:44 PM

Two faculty members in the College of Humanities have been appointed with the University of Utah’s prestigious designation of Distinguished Professor. MaryAnn Christison, professor of linguistics, and Kent A. Ono, professor of communication, were recommended by the Distinguished Professor Advisory Committee and approved by the U’s board of trustees, Mitzi Montoya, senior vice president for academic affairs, and President Taylor Randall. Ono and Christison will be recognized for this honor at the college’s convocation, Friday, May 5.

Tuesday, May 02, 2023 03:45 PM

Professor Kent Ono has received the 2023 Distinguished Mentor Award from the University of Utah Graduate School. This year’s awardees demonstrate exceptional commitment to the mentorship of graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and others across campus and beyond. The awardees go above and beyond to foster an inclusive and welcoming community and to instill a culture of outstanding mentorship in their units. Fellow recipients include Katharine Ullman from the Department of Oncological Sciences and Dennis Parker from the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences.

Friday, April 14, 2023 07:30 PM

Danielle Endres has been named the next Director of Environmental Humanities. The Environmental Humanities Program, the first environmental humanities master’s program in the nation, is housed in the College of Humanities. The program offers an interdisciplinary master’s program for students focused on the complexities of environmental crisis and change and the relationships between humans and the environment.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 04:32 PM

The John R. Park Debate Society competed in the International Forensics Association's 33rd Annual Tournament & Conference on March 13-14, 2023 in Tokyo, Japan. The six students competing at the tournament appeared in 11 elimination rounds, winning four events and placing 3rd overall at the tournament, outperforming Vanderbilt University, Oregon State University, the United States Air Force Academy, the University of Alabama, and Point Loma Nazarene University, among the 29 programs in attendance. The team will conclude its spring season at the National Forensics Association National Championship Tournament held in Peoria, IL. on April 13-17, 2023.

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 05:18 PM

Professor Danielle Endres and Graduate Student Jessie Chaplain received a $18,800 grant from the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy at the University of Utah. This grant will support research about how climate policy is developed through United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) negotiations. Endres and Chaplain will conduct fieldwork at the 2023 Conference of Parties 28 (COP 28) in Dubai, UAE and the intersession meeting in Bonn, Germany to better understand the role of climate justice advocacy. This collaborative project will support Chaplain’s doctoral dissertation research on climate justice advocacy and Endres’ ongoing research on energy democracy.

Thursday, March 16, 2023 09:43 PM

Associate Professor Mark Bergstrom was recently awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Western States Communication Association. The WSCA Distinguished Service Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Western States Communication Association. The award recognizes a deserving member who has made significant and long-standing contributions to WSCA and the communication field. The identity of the award winner is a closely guarded secret of the association and the winner is announced at the luncheon, to the surprise of members and the winner.

Thursday, March 02, 2023 10:09 PM

The College of Humanities and Department of Communication are proud to announce a partnership with Utah Hockey to offer internships in Sports Media Production, Broadcast, and Creation.

Thursday, January 26, 2023 10:03 PM

Cameron Vakilian has accepted the position of director of advising, outreach, and experiential learning for the University of Utah’s College of Humanities and will begin January 1. Vakilian will work in conjunction with the college’s new director for student success and engagement, Karen Marsh Schaeffer.

Tuesday, December 20, 2022 12:07 AM

The Department of Communication is pleased to announce that Dr. Suhi Choi has been selected as a 2022-2023 Mellon funded Utah Presidential Leadership Fellow. The UPL Fellowship seeks to transform the expectations that surround leaders, leadership, and leadership development across higher education with a specific focus on the challenges associated with leading for equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Wednesday, November 30, 2022 07:42 PM

The Department of Communication is pleased to announce that Kent A. Ono, professor of communication, has been named a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association.

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 09:18 PM

The John R. Park Debate Society hosted 31 high schools and 680 students and staff from four states on October 7-8, 2022 for the Beehive Bonanza. This marked first in-person Bonanza tournament since 2019. For many competing students, this was their first in-person tournament and their first tournament on a college campus.

Tuesday, October 18, 2022 09:28 PM

The University of Utah’s College of Humanities and Department of Communication are partnering with Tunisha Brown, founder and editor-in-chief of IMPACT Magazine to provide internship opportunities to students and to work toward digitally archiving the magazine’s 15-year history of empowering Black women and men.

Tuesday, September 13, 2022 10:17 PM

Moderated by Communication professor Kent Ono Academic Freedom has long been an expectation of college and university classrooms. Higher education institutions are expected to be a place where people can exercise and submit their thoughts and ideas. Professors challenge student assumptions to push them to grow, which promotes diverse opinions and critical thinking. Across the country, people have contrasting views on how individuals can express themselves in public based on the rules of free expression.

Tuesday, September 13, 2022 08:59 PM

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - The College of Humanities recently announced the appointment of Dr. Mike Middleton to the role of Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. Dr. Middleton will concurrently serve as the Department of Communication’s Director of Graduate Studies—a role he assumed in 2021—through the remainder of 2022.

Tuesday, August 23, 2022 07:01 PM

This week our Department learned of the passing of one our undergraduate students, Maggie Bringhurst. Maggie was traveling between Utah and California when she was involved in a fatal car crash. We grieve for and with Maggie’s family, she will be missed and her absence will be felt among her peers and those who taught her.

Thursday, August 11, 2022 05:34 PM

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - Ph.D. candidate Daniel Chavez-Yenter was recently awarded the Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award for a Diverse Genomics Workforce (F99/K00) by the National Human Genomic Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Wednesday, July 27, 2022 04:38 PM

The Department of Communication is excited to announce the hire of Justin Nistler into the role of academic advisor. Nistler's appointment is shared with the College of Humanities, so in addition to advising students in the Department of Communication, he will continue working as the Bridge Advisor for the college where he is the liaison to the Academic Advising Center.

Thursday, June 30, 2022 05:18 PM

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - The Department of Communication at the University of Utah is excited to announce the hire of new accountant Marla Chinbold. Chinbold comes to the department after studying accounting in Mongolia and finance at BYU-Hawaii.

Monday, June 27, 2022 08:20 PM

The Office of Undergraduate Studies recently announced the appointment of Dr. Natasha Seegert to the role of assistant dean for The Utah Experience. In 2022, Dr. Seegert received the University Early Career Teaching Award. Seegert's research and teaching focus on visual rhetoric with an emphasis on environmental communication.

Thursday, June 23, 2022 07:55 PM

Current graduate student Oreoluwa Olaniyan and former graduate student Taylor Johnson were part of this year's honors. Graduate student Oreoluwa Olaniyan was recently recognized with the 2022 Gerald A. Hauser Award for their paperOlaniyan poses with their award with fellow honorees. "Autopoietic Critical Rhetoric" by the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA).

Wednesday, June 22, 2022 07:46 PM

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - Dr. Suhi Choi has been promoted to the rank of Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. Dr. Choi currently serves as the Associate Chair of the department, focusing her efforts on refugee engagement and creating a stronger connection between the University Asia Campus and main campus.

Friday, June 03, 2022 07:01 PM

Department of Communication undergraduate student Vivian Lee has been selected to give this year's speech at the College of Humanities Convocation. Lee is finishing a degree in Communication Studies with plans to attend the University of Utah in the fall as a Master's student in the College of Education to study education, culture, and society.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 09:55 PM

Dr. Sara Yeo, associate professor in the Department of Communication, has been appointed to Director of the University of Utah's STEM Ambassador Program (STEMAP). She will be taking over in this role from Dr. Nalini Nadkarni (Professor Emerita, Biology, University of Utah) as Faculty Director and will be listed as the PI on the program's National Science Foundation Award.

Thursday, April 21, 2022 06:37 PM

April 12, 2022 – The Communication Institute, housed in the College of Humanities’ Department of Communication at the University of Utah, received a generous donation of $1 million – the largest in the history of the department – from alumna Edna Anderson-Taylor (class of 1959) and her husband, Jerry Taylor, to secure the institute’s long-term impact and success. Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, the institute will be renamed in tribute to her legacy.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 06:35 PM

Dr. Helene Shugart was recently awarded The Graduate School’s Distinguished Mentor Award. Established in 2006, The Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Distinguished Mentor Award honors and encourages the considerable efforts and accomplishments of faculty who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to the mentorship of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022 10:15 PM

Dr. Natasha Seegert has been awarded the University Teaching Committee's 2022 Early Career Teaching Award. The Early Teaching Award is given to outstanding young faculty members who have made significant contributions to teaching at the University of Utah.

Tuesday, February 22, 2022 10:43 PM

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - Professor Jakob D. Jensen has been appointed Interim Associate Vice President of Research (AVPR), effective January 24, 2022.

Thursday, February 03, 2022 05:20 PM

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The Department of Communication is pleased to announce that Dr. Amela Delić, a Fulbright scholar from Bosnia and Herzegovina, will visit the Department of Communication at the University of Utah this year from mid-February to June.

Wednesday, January 26, 2022 11:46 PM

The Department of Communication is pleased to announce that Dr. Kent Ono has been awarded a Tanner Humanities Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Thursday, December 23, 2021 07:00 AM

At the National Communication Association (NCA) convention (November 18th-November 21st, 2021) in Seattle, WA, Dr. Rachel Alicia Griffin will be honored with a NCA Presidential Citation for her 2019-2021 term as Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Council Chair.

Thursday, November 11, 2021 07:00 AM

We learned this week that a former member of the Department of Communication, Jim Fisher, passed away from complications due to Covid-19. Jim may have preceded some of us, so we share here a few words from two of his former colleagues so that we may remember him, his work and his life.

Wednesday, November 03, 2021 07:00 AM

On Monday, I met with Donna Lowe-Stern, the mother of Aaron Lowe, a remarkable student, deep thinker, and celebrated athlete who was killed in an act of gun violence early Sunday morning.

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 07:00 AM

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - Professor Jakob D. Jensen has been appointed Chair of the University Research Committee (URC). The URC is a university-level committee that develops and administers programs to support faculty research.

Thursday, September 16, 2021 07:23 PM

Professor Kent Ono was recently selected for a NEH Incentive Fellowship through the University of Utah, which encourages faculty to apply for NEH funding. One of the core programs of NEH is the prestigious NEH Fellowship which provides researchers with 6-12 months of research leave to work on a major scholarly or creative project.

Monday, September 13, 2021 08:56 PM

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - The Department of Communication is pleased to announce that our own Dr. Danielle Endres is the recipient of a collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation to research practices of energy democracy in Puerto Rico.

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 09:42 PM

Sara Yeo, associate professor in communication, will conduct research with a focus on women and black and Hispanic communities

Monday, August 23, 2021 05:40 PM

The Department of Communication at the University of Utah last week received a substantial gift from Edna Anderson-Taylor, lifting the endowed scholarship in her name to nearly $500,000.

Thursday, August 05, 2021 07:49 PM

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The Department of Communication has appointed Dr. Avery Holton (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) to serve as Department Chair, beginning July 1, 2021.

Monday, July 19, 2021 03:44 PM

Kent A. Ono, professor of communication, has been named 1 of 18 2021 Fellows of the International Communication Association. Fellows are chosen by the strength of their distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication.

Monday, July 12, 2021 08:39 PM

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The Department of Communication has appointed Dr. Rachel Alicia Griffin and Dr. Suhi Choi to serve as Associate Chairs beginning July 1, 2021.

Thursday, July 01, 2021 04:59 PM

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The Communication Institute, hosted by the Department of Communication, has selected Dr. Sean Lawson to serve as its new director.

Wednesday, June 30, 2021 05:08 PM

Communication student Andrea Jimenez-Flores is this year's recipient of the College of Humanities Outstanding Senior Award, which acknowledges accomplishments in the areas of scholarship, research, campus and civic engagement, and leadership.

Friday, May 07, 2021 05:52 PM

Watch our slideshow featuring this year's undergraduate scholarship recipients and the scholarships they received!

Thursday, May 06, 2021 07:25 PM

As spring semester concludes, the Department of Communication commends students for navigating this unusual and difficult academic year.

Thursday, April 29, 2021 07:17 PM

Ashley Cordes, Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Utah, has been selected for a 2021 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 06:22 PM

Jacob Rueda, a senior studying Journalism, has been named Kappa Tau Alpha Top Scholar. This award is presented annually in conjunction with the Department of Communication to a graduating senior who has excelled in their studies.

Monday, April 26, 2021 07:56 PM

The University of Utah's John R. Park Debate Society recently competed in the 31st International Speech & Debate Tournament hosted by the International Forensics Association.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 10:32 PM

Please join us next week for our colloquium on “Using Humor to Reduce Online Toxicity: An Experimental and Computational Methods Study.”

Tuesday, February 16, 2021 09:18 PM

Communication alum Melissa Parks was awarded this year's National Communication Association Dissertation Award in Environmental Communication.

Friday, October 16, 2020 08:06 PM

The University of Utah has both historical and contemporary relationships with Indigenous peoples. Given that the Salt Lake Valley has always been a gathering place for Indigenous peoples, we acknowledge that this land, which is named for the Ute Tribe, is the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute, and Ute Tribes and is a crossroad of the Indigenous peoples of Utah.

Monday, October 12, 2020 04:01 PM

Communication alum Manusheela Pokharel has won this year's Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Thursday, September 10, 2020 11:33 PM

Dr. Rachel Alicia Griffin and her co-editor from Gonzaga University, Dr. Jonathan P. Rossing, recently published a themed issue on Marvel’s Black Panther in the National Communication Association’s (NCA) Review of Communication that is currently free to access.

Monday, August 03, 2020 06:18 PM

Communication Professor Jakob Jensen has created a new course on how brands respond to a pandemic—COMM 3580: Strategic Communication & Pandemics.

Tuesday, July 14, 2020 09:41 PM

We write to affirm that the Department’s leadership—consistent with the leadership of the College and University—stands in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and an end to anti-Black racism.

Thursday, June 11, 2020 10:22 PM

The Department of Communication is excited to announce title changes for the members of its advising team and congratulates Travis, Cameron and Stephanie on these new titles.

Tuesday, May 19, 2020 07:30 PM

Congratulations to all undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members for their hard-earned awards this year!

Friday, May 01, 2020 10:00 PM

Communication graduate student Taylor Johnson was awarded the 2020-2021 Tanner Humanities Center fellowship for her dissertation, titled The fight for Bears Ears: Toward a decolonial rhetoric of public participation in environmental decision-making.

Thursday, April 16, 2020 08:43 PM

Communication Graduate Student Madison Krall was selected as this year's recipient of the Steffensen Cannon Scholarship.

Friday, April 10, 2020 08:41 PM

Robert Kent Tiemens (Ph.D., University of Iowa) passed away from complications associated with COVID-19 on March 30, 2020 in a Colorado Springs Hospital at the age of 84.

Thursday, April 02, 2020 07:58 PM

Each year, the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) recognizes the outstanding contributions of members who are transforming higher education.

Wednesday, March 04, 2020 09:09 PM

The Department of Communication's 65th annual Awards Banquet will be held at the Little America Hotel on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 6 p.m. The reception and ceremony will honor distinguished community award winners as well as student scholarship recipients.

Monday, February 24, 2020 05:53 PM

Dr. Kimberely Mangun will speak on her ten years of research studying the Birmingham World editor Emory Jackson at the Seventeenth Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture.

Friday, January 17, 2020 11:20 PM

Professor Danielle Endres was selected to attend the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) COP 25 meeting in Madrid, Spain.

Monday, December 16, 2019 09:44 PM

Professor Kent Ono is set to speak at the University of Iowa this weekend on "'Witnessing' and 'Pledging:' Activist Imagining Sanctuary."

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:02 PM

Dr. Avery Holton spoke with Pioneer Theatre's Matthew Ivvan Bennett on fact, truth, and authenticity as the company prepares for their production of "The Lifespan of a Fact."

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 07:39 PM

Graduate student Melissa Parks won the Benson-Campbell Dissertation Award from NCA's Public Address Division.

Tuesday, October 08, 2019 09:22 PM

Graduate student Benjamin Mann was selected to participate in this summer's NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar.

Tuesday, October 08, 2019 09:00 PM

Graduate student Eunice Kim was awarded the National Communication Association James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric Award for the essay “‘An Impression of Asian People:’ Stereotype & Identity in Ali Wong’s Standup Comedy.”

Tuesday, September 24, 2019 08:07 PM

Two Department of Communication faculty have been recognized for outstanding teaching by two national communication associations.

Wednesday, August 21, 2019 03:45 PM

Avery Holton earned a Top Research Paper award for his work on the deployment of drones at universities during the most recent meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Tuesday, August 20, 2019 10:00 PM

Scientists and their institutions are increasingly engaging with public audiences through social media. In the quest for effective communication, the use of humor has often been recommended for scientists interacting with publics.

Wednesday, July 03, 2019 06:35 PM

Robert W. Gehl, associate professor of communication at the University of Utah, has received a Fulbright fellowship to serve as Canada research chair in communication, media and film at the University of Calgary in spring 2020.

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 06:53 PM

“I never imagined my life would consist of playing a superhero, dodging explosions, traveling through time, casting spells and zip-lining out of buildings—let alone saving the world from armies of the dead as stunt double for Arya Stark in the world’s most popular television show, ‘Game of Thrones.’

Monday, May 13, 2019 06:30 PM

Ashley Baker and Gabe Moreno were featured on @theU as graduating seniors this year.

Thursday, May 02, 2019 05:17 PM

University of Utah President Ruth V. Watkins and the Board of Trustees announced Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, that renowned civil rights activist, religious leader and University of Utah alum and former faculty member Rev. France A. Davis will deliver the commencement address at the university’s 150th campus-wide convocation.

Wednesday, May 01, 2019 08:22 PM

Travis James Ciaramella, an academic advising coordinator from the Department of Communication at the University of Utah’s Salt Lake City campus, visited the University of Utah Asia Campus (UAC) on April 1

Thursday, April 25, 2019 08:37 PM

The Department of Communication's 63rd annual Awards Banquet was held at the Little America Hotel on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The reception and ceremony honored distinguished community award winners as well as student scholarship recipients.

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 09:10 PM

Department Chair Danielle Endres recently wrote for the National Communication Association's magazine Spectra. Her article, "Engaging the Nexus of Environmental Rhetoric and Indigenous Rights," illustrates this nexus with Utah's Bears Ears National Monument.

Tuesday, April 23, 2019 09:12 PM

Undergraduate student Kellie Mathieu attended the Big XII Conference on Black Student Government at the University of Missouri during the week of February 21-24, 2019.

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 05:00 PM

Two faculty members in the College of Humanities have been appointed with the University of Utah’s prestigious designation of Distinguished Professor.

Thursday, April 11, 2019 08:13 PM

Emeritus faculty member, Boyer Jarvis, died last Thursday at the age of 95. In addition to spending his career as a faculty member in our Department, he also held many administrative positions at the University, including the AVP for Academic Affairs.

Thursday, April 04, 2019 06:06 PM

The Career and Professional Development Center (CPDC) recognized Kathryn Calderon, Meredith Searight, and Angelina Termunde with the Internship of the Year Award and cash prize of $100.

Tuesday, April 02, 2019 06:45 PM

Maya Kobe-Rundio has received the 2019 College of Humanities Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award. Studying communication, Kobe-Rundio’s research trajectory combines her passion for environmental communication with her commitment to gender studies and feminist activism.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 09:15 PM

The Department of Communication Advising Team, Travis Ciaramella, Stephanie Krusell, and Cameron Vakilian presented in Honolulu, Hawaii last week in collaboration with advisors from the International Studies Program, Ashley Glenn and Christy Hoffman for the 2019 Region 9 and 10 NACADA (National Academic Advisor’s Association) Conference.

Thursday, March 21, 2019 09:00 PM

The Department of Communication's 64th annual Awards Banquet will be held at the Little America Hotel on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 6 p.m. The reception and ceremony will honor distinguished community award winners as well as student scholarship recipients.

Monday, March 11, 2019 07:41 PM

On March 1, Professor Robert W. Gehl gave a keynote at the University of Calgary's School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures & Cultures, titled "A Deep Dive into the Marianas Web: Surveillance, Information, and Mythologies of the Dark Web."

Friday, March 08, 2019 06:08 PM

Debra “Dee” NaQuin Shafer earned a bachelor of science degree in mass communication at the University of Utah in 1989, where she worked for the Daily Utah Chronicle as a staff writer and editorial editor. After she passed away in January 2019, her friends and family decided to commemorate her life through fundraising for a scholarship in her honor -- the Debra “Dee” NaQuin Shafer Scholarship.

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 07:57 PM

At the Western States Communication Association Conference in Seattle, Department of Communication Emeritus Professor Malcolm O. Sillars will be honored with a panel discussion.

Thursday, February 07, 2019 10:30 PM

On November 30, 2918, Communication professor Rachel Griffin presented on her book, "Adventures in Shondaland: Identity Politics and the Power of Representation."

Monday, January 07, 2019 10:10 PM

On September 26, 2018, NCA presented a public program titled "The Art of Science Communication," featuring Communication professor Robin Jensen. The program focused on the textual dynamics and social consequences of rhetoric on discussions and understandings of science.

Wednesday, December 05, 2018 08:45 PM

A small collaborative team assembled by Communication professor Avery Holton has been chosen as a finalist for the AI and the News Open Challenge. Of 520 applicants, the university's team is one of 66 now remaining for part of a $750,000 grant.

Tuesday, December 04, 2018 09:19 PM

Awards given to faculty and graduate students and publications by faculty and graduate students in November.

Monday, December 03, 2018 07:24 PM

Please join us for the Department of Communication's annual Town & Gown lecture by 2018-2019 Parry D. Sorensen Distinguished Lecturer Amy Van Prooyen Follet, Esq., Founder and Managing Partner of Van Prooyen Greenfield LLP, a law firm that specialized in litigation and crisis communications.

Tuesday, November 20, 2018 10:50 PM

Malcolm O. Sillars, longtime University of Utah faculty member and administrator, passed away in Salt Lake City on Nov.12, 2018 at the age of 90. Malcolm was a special man with an extraordinary career, loved for his kindness, humility and dry humor.

Friday, November 16, 2018 07:17 PM

Last weekend, Salt Lake City was host to the National Communication Association’s 104th Annual Convention: Communication at Play. University faculty members and graduate students attended the four-day convention and many presented their research to the Communication community.

Friday, November 16, 2018 06:11 PM

Huntsman Cancer Institute Researchers Receive Grant to Discover Best Way to Deliver Genetic Services to Primary Care Patients.

Friday, November 09, 2018 04:59 PM

Lauren was a senior majoring in communication, an accomplished athlete and an outstanding scholar. Her presence in our college will be greatly missed.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 08:20 PM

The most recent onslaught of anti-immigration rhetoric and politics has put undocumented immigrants in an even more precarious position. One response by undocumented people has been to take up sanctuary in such places as churches and sanctuary cities—places where U.S. immigration law enforcement may have more limited authority. This talk thinks through the idea of sanctuary and its potential usefulness.

Friday, October 19, 2018 05:32 PM

On Wednesday, Oct. 3, Stuart Culver, dean of the College of Humanities, announced the recipients of the college’s 2018 Distinguished Scholar and Rising Star awards.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 09:42 PM

Stay connected with Communication internship opportunities by following these action steps.

Thursday, October 04, 2018 10:47 PM

The Department of Communication, College of Humanities, and Tanner Humanities Center are co-sponsors of the American Journalism Historians Association 37th annual conference in Salt Lake City.

Tuesday, October 02, 2018 07:28 PM

The University of Utah Department of Communication Presents: 2019 B. Aubrey Fisher Memorial Lecture.

Friday, September 28, 2018 07:56 PM

U student group hosts workshops, presentations and a dinner to promote civil dialogue

Thursday, September 20, 2018 07:53 PM

Dr. Avery Holton has been selected from a competitive pool of international scholars as a Digital Journalism Research Fellow by Oslo Metropolitan University, where he will share and advance his work examining the changing identity of journalists.

Tuesday, September 11, 2018 04:06 PM

Kent Alan Ono, Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Utah and Second Vice President of the National Communication Association (NCA), recently received NCA’s 2018 Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award.

Friday, September 07, 2018 09:30 PM

Faculty members Kevin Deluca and Rachel Griffin have been awarded this year's Virgil C. Aldrich Faculty Fellowship and undergraduate student Maya Kobe-Rundio was awarded the Honors College Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the Tanner Humanities Center.

Tuesday, September 04, 2018 05:52 PM

"Adventures in Shondaland" serves as a means to theorize Rhimes’s contributions and influence by inspiring provocative conversations about television as a deeply politicized institution and exploring how Rhimes fits into the implications of twenty-first century television.

Monday, August 27, 2018 08:42 PM

The University of Utah recently had a successful showing at one of the largest national communication conference, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, which was held in Washington, DC.

Wednesday, August 15, 2018 09:43 PM

Associate Professor Robert Gehl explores the Dark Web—websites accessible only with special routing software— in a book that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P.

Wednesday, August 08, 2018 09:44 PM

Tammy Mabey, class of 2018 and director of operations for the U Academic Advising Center, was recently featured in Humans of the U.

Tuesday, July 03, 2018 02:19 PM

The Department of Communication's 63rd annual Awards Banquet was held at the Little America Hotel on Wednesday, April 4, 2018. The reception and ceremony honored distinguished community award winners as well as student scholarship recipients.

Friday, June 22, 2018 07:50 PM

Manu Pokharel, Ashley Elrick, and Robb Bruce, three Communication Ph.D. students, are among the participants chosen to attend the esteemed 2018 National Communication Association (NCA) Doctoral Honors Seminar.

Friday, June 15, 2018 04:04 PM

Doctoral alum José Ángel Maldonado’s dissertation, "Diana’s Confession: Precarious Rhetoric in Post-NAFTA Mexico," has been named the recipient of the Rhetoric Society of America’s Dissertation Award for 2018.

Monday, June 04, 2018 07:29 PM

Avery Holton, Noel Voltz, and Jeremy Rosen have all been selected for a 2018 National Humanities Center (NHC) Summer Fellowship.

Thursday, May 31, 2018 10:14 PM

Thanks to a generous gift from 1963 Communication alum Andrew F. Wahlquist, the Department of Communication is proud to offer an annual scholarship to a standout member of the John R. Park Debate Society.

Thursday, May 31, 2018 10:12 PM

Learn the skills that professional mediators and negotiators use to resolve the toughest conflicts. Conflict resolution skills are a highly valued asset in all fields and types of organizations.

Thursday, May 31, 2018 10:11 PM

U study reveals bias is created based on who shares news and not just who creates news

Monday, April 02, 2018 06:28 PM

A dramatic increase in solar power adoption has occurred in the last decade, due to growing consumer interest in green energy, coupled with significant decreases in associated costs.

Friday, March 16, 2018 04:57 PM

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 06:13 PM

The Department of Communication's 63nd annual Awards Banquet will be held at the Little America Hotel on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 6 p.m. The reception and ceremony will honor distinguished community award winners as well as student scholarship recipients.

Thursday, February 08, 2018 08:24 PM

The University of Utah’s John R. Park Debate Society was recognized, Friday, Feb. 2, with a resolution by the Utah State Legislature.

Monday, February 05, 2018 08:46 PM

The University of Utah’s partnership with Olympic Broadcasting Services, which started with the Salt Lake Winter Olympics in 2002, continues with the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in 2018.

Monday, February 05, 2018 08:43 PM

The John R. Park Debate Society traveled to both Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas and, in the first international competition in its history, Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

Monday, February 05, 2018 08:40 PM

Voices of Utah is an award-winning community-engaged learning project run by journalism students in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah.

Thursday, January 25, 2018 08:01 PM

Shireen Ghorbani, who holds a master’s degree from the U’s Communication Department (2016), is on the Jan. 29 cover of TIME Magazine along with 47 other women who are running for office.

Friday, January 19, 2018 11:35 PM

The exhibit is entitled "In the Spirit of Itzpapalotl, Venceremos" and will begin on January 17, 2018 and run through February 15, 2018.

Tuesday, January 09, 2018 06:36 PM

Thursday, January 04, 2018 11:14 PM

The McIntyre Classroom was established thanks to the generosity of Jerilyn S. McIntyre and her husband, W. David Smith, in honor of her late parents, Maxine and Frank McIntyre.

Monday, December 18, 2017 05:25 PM

As director of the new UAC board, Sather’s main goal is to assist the students in Asia to increase awareness and opportunities for educational and social pursuits at the Utah Asia Campus.

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 06:25 PM

The Department of Communication is thrilled for Diana as she takes on this new venture in the coming year.

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 06:10 PM

Next week The Department of Communication will proudly celebrate the 10th anniversary of Voices of Utah and their work throughout the semester.

Monday, December 04, 2017 07:03 PM

Dr. Holton will join the sixth class of VPCAT scholars and is the first faculty member from the College of Humanities to be selected to the program.

Wednesday, November 15, 2017 09:11 PM

The John R. Park Debate Society traveled to Stockton, CA for its third tournament of the competitive season at the Pat Kennedy Round Robin, Mustang Invitational, and Paul Winters Invitational.

Thursday, November 09, 2017 08:06 PM

A recent study published in the Journal of Communication, authored by Kevin Coe, associate professor of communication at the University of Utah, and two graduate students, Robert Bruce and Chelsea Ratcliff, focused specifically on presidential communication about the LGBT community throughout history.

Thursday, November 09, 2017 04:26 PM

Tuesday, November 07, 2017 11:32 PM

Department of Communication professor David Vergobbi completed his term as president of the American Journalism Historians Association by leading their national convention.

Friday, October 27, 2017 11:23 PM

An article by Associate Professor Kevin Coe and his coauthor Joshua Scacco of Purdue University was named the 2017 Michael Pfau Outstanding Article by the National Communication Association’s Political Communication Division.

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 08:52 PM

David Vergobbi, Associate Professor of Communication, was recently interviewed by abc National News about freedom of expression.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017 07:31 PM

he Project for Deeper Understanding partnered with public radio station KPCW to host “’Fake News’ and the Demise of Civil Discourse,” in Park City last week.

Friday, October 20, 2017 03:30 PM

Please join us for a talk by 2017-'18 Parry D. Sorensen Distinguished Lecturer Michael Babcock, Senior Regional Director of Public Relations and Communications at Shriner's Hospitals for Children.

Tuesday, October 10, 2017 10:17 PM

Thursday, October 05, 2017 10:16 PM

The University of Utah’s Department of Communication alumna Sarah Bell (PhD 2015) has been awarded a Digital Studies Fellowship from the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

Monday, October 02, 2017 08:24 PM

The team traveled to Colorado Springs to open its competitive season at the Al Johnson Memorial Invitational hosted by Colorado College.

Friday, September 29, 2017 05:25 PM

The symposium was held Sept. 14-15, 2017 at the University of Cincinnati. Her talk was titled "Accounting for Scientific Attribution."

Monday, September 25, 2017 05:01 PM

Thursday, September 21, 2017 09:35 PM

The 31st annual lecture will be held Thursday, Oct. 19, in LNCO 2110 at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, September 21, 2017 06:41 PM

Over the weekend of September 15, communication, media studies, political science and philosophy scholars gathered at the Tanner Humanities Center for the annual Critical Genealogies Workshop.

Thursday, September 21, 2017 04:22 PM

The Department of Communication endorses President David Pershing and Dean Dianne Harris’ statements on President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive order.

Wednesday, September 06, 2017 06:55 PM

First-year doctoral student Madison Krall spoke at TEDxMileHigh this summer on her health communication research.

Friday, September 01, 2017 06:49 PM

Friday, September 01, 2017 05:33 PM

Lindsay Kite, who earned her master's (2009) and Ph.D. (2013) in the Communication Department, has been invited to speak at TEDxSaltLakeCity.

Tuesday, August 29, 2017 04:09 PM

With Dr. Gary Kreps, George Mason University, Distinguished Scholar in Health and Risk Communication.

Monday, August 28, 2017 09:05 PM

Professor Robin Jensen's latest book, "Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term," was named the Outstanding Book of 2017 by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG).

Monday, August 07, 2017 09:09 PM

New research shows public health messages about preventing suicides involving firearms are more likely to be successful if they acknowledge the values and beliefs of gun owners.

Wednesday, August 02, 2017 10:03 PM

Dr. Mangun's forthcoming book, "Fighting with Words: Editor Emory O. Jackson's Crusade for Freedom, Justice and Fairness in Alabama, 1940-1975," will be published as part of the AEJMC-Peter Lang Scholarsourcing Series.

Wednesday, July 12, 2017 07:32 PM

The national champion John R. Park Debate Society is hosting its annual summer camps for high school students from across the country starting July 9.

Friday, July 07, 2017 06:46 PM

The Department of Communication is excited to host the 2017 NCA/AFA Summer Conference, also known as the Alta Argumentation Conference, at the Snowbird Resort Cliff Lodge from July 20-23, 2017.

Thursday, June 29, 2017 05:12 PM

Shauna Edson, an MA student in Communication and Writing & Rhetoric Studies, has been working with the Salt Lake City Public Library to help make our local communities more digitally inclusive.

Wednesday, June 28, 2017 10:30 PM

Rob Layne and Karl Haase are among the doctoral student participants chosen to attend the esteemed seminar to be held at Bowling Green State University July 27-30.

Monday, June 12, 2017 05:32 PM

On May 17, 2017, Professor Sean Lawson of the Communication Department delivered a lecture at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Center for Global Security Research.

Thursday, June 01, 2017 09:58 PM

Their presentation, titled Internship Advising Strategies, will provide advisors with evidence and theory-based strategies to help students find and secure quality internships.

Thursday, May 11, 2017 08:26 PM

She delivered a talk titled "Privilege, Oppression, and Complexity: Our Institutions are of the World We Live In” to more than 600 student services professionals in Washington state.

Tuesday, May 09, 2017 06:14 PM

He presented on his recent work "The Posthuman, New Materialism, and the Gendered/Racial Future in 'Advantageous.'"

Tuesday, April 25, 2017 08:23 PM

The 2017 Communication Awards Banquet was held on April 12, 2017 at the Little America Hotel Ballroom.

Friday, April 21, 2017 09:39 PM

Chelsea Ratcliff, a master’s student in the Department of Communication, recently won the Overall Top Paper award at the D.C. Health Communication Conference.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 08:53 PM

Communication Colloquium with Dr. Christine Harold.

Thursday, April 06, 2017 09:34 PM

Dr. Joshua Ewalt, assistant professor in the Department of Communication in the College of Humanities, has been selected as a participant in Northeastern University’s National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Space, Place, and the Humanities.

Monday, April 03, 2017 05:13 PM

The oldest student organization at the U takes the top spot.

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 04:30 PM

Our 62nd annual Awards Banquet will be held at the Little America Hotel with a reception and ceremony honoring six distinguished community award winners as well as student scholarship recipients.

Friday, March 24, 2017 05:34 PM

Thursday, March 23, 2017 08:23 PM

Dr. Daniel Canary, Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of Communication, received the most prestigious career award from the Western States Communication Association (WSCA).

Monday, March 06, 2017 06:03 PM

Sarah Patterson, an undergraduate student in the Department of Communication, was selected as one of four Dee Foundation UROP Scholars for 2017.

Wednesday, March 01, 2017 07:29 PM

With the help of this award, she'll be directing the symposium, hosted by the U's Communication Institute, in July 2017.

Monday, February 27, 2017 08:24 PM

A Communication Colloquium with Dr. Karma R. Chavez.

Thursday, February 23, 2017 10:25 PM

Join us for our colloquium on February 23, 2017 when Dr. Stephens will share the data stories that help her explain the tensions and opportunities for contemporary mobile communication.

Thursday, February 23, 2017 10:11 PM

Dr. Ono will assume office on January 1, 2018, plan the 2019 NCA annual convention, and serve as NCA president in 2020.

Thursday, February 09, 2017 10:15 PM

The American Society of Clinical Oncology’s report features her recently published research on communicating genetic information to patients.

Monday, February 06, 2017 08:43 PM

Utah students interested in a close-up look at work in local ad agencies and connect with employers have a chance to do so on Feb. 15. Enrollments are still open.

Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:17 PM

Christine L. Brady, Weston Wood, and Sarah Patterson will be presenting papers at the USRC before WSCA on Feb. 18 in Salt Lake City.

Monday, January 09, 2017 11:18 PM

Department of Communication Associate Professor Robert W. Gehl has published a new edited collection, co-edited with Maria Bakardjieva of the University of Calgary.

Friday, December 16, 2016 07:13 PM

The IMC Certificate is a one-semester course taught every spring semester by Communication Professor Tim Larson and Professor Ken Foster, both leaders in the field.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016 11:57 PM

Dr. Rose won the award for his course COMM 3505 "Intro to Media Business Ethics," where he engages students in ethics exercises that use innovative methods to teach key ethical concepts.

Monday, November 28, 2016 09:32 PM

The program is a partnership between Google and the Nonprofit Technology Network that focuses on increasing digital inclusion in cities where Google Fiber is providing Internet infrastructure.

Monday, November 21, 2016 10:28 PM

The annual convention was held Nov. 10-13 and welcomed thousands of scholars from across the country. See here for a list of the incredible awards presented to our faculty and students.

Monday, November 14, 2016 07:40 PM

Heather J. Stone receives the Communication Institute Graduate Student Research Grant for her research project titled “Young Mormon Women as Insiders/Outsiders: Exploring Tensions of Organizational Membership in Tight-Knit Communities, 1974-2002.”

Monday, November 07, 2016 05:52 PM

The co-authored 2015 critical rhetorical studies book was announced as winner of NCA's Critical/Cultural Studies Division top book award.

Thursday, October 27, 2016 10:34 PM

The award was for the essay “Out of the Woods,” which is a chapter in her upcoming book "A Regular Day for the Moon: Culture and Everyday Nature."

Friday, October 21, 2016 07:01 PM

"Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term" explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in modern history.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 08:36 PM

The emeritus professor from Syracuse University will present a lecture titled "That's Just the Clothes Talking: What You Wear Communicates More than You Think."

Wednesday, October 12, 2016 06:21 PM

The two finalists will be voted on in January by all members of NCA, will assume office on Jan. 1, 2018 and serve as president in 2020.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016 05:17 PM

University of Utah Asia Campus (UAC) Communication student Dahee Yun spoke at the Utah building dedication in Songdo, South Korea on Sept. 1, 2016.

Monday, September 26, 2016 05:03 PM

His Oct. 21 keynote is titled, "Representation Today, Tomorrow, and Forever?: The Vexed Ontology of an Iconic Media Concept."

Friday, September 23, 2016 08:39 PM

A Q&A with Katheryn Christy, a post-doctoral fellow in Professor Jakob Jensen’s Health Communication & Technology (HCAT) lab in the Department of Communication.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 05:56 PM

Please join us for this important event! Dr. Buzzanell's talk is titled "Shaping a Resilient Future: Inclusionary Career Cultivation Through a Design Lens."

Friday, September 16, 2016 09:56 PM

Her award-winning dissertation is titled "From Childless by Choice to Mother: Performative and Subversive Negotiations of Face in Relational Communication about (Never) Having Children."

Friday, September 16, 2016 07:12 PM

Dr. Ono co-authored the winning article with 2016 PhD Graduate Antonio Tomas De La Garza.

Monday, September 12, 2016 09:02 PM

The John R. Park Debate Society announced today it is again joining with the ABU Education Fund, an affiliate of Alliance for a Better Utah, to host Utah’s only legislative debates of the 2016 election cycle.

Tuesday, August 30, 2016 05:48 PM

The award is presented to the most outstanding scholarly article published the previous year. Jensen is the first back-to-back winner of NCA's highest honor since 1980.

Monday, August 29, 2016 05:23 PM

Through the award, Dr. Endres is able to hire undergraduate students to participate in her energy communication research project.

Thursday, August 25, 2016 05:28 PM

In "Heavy," Shugart discusses why obesity campaigns have failed and are failing, argues there is a disconnect between official campaigns and cultural understandings of obesity, and places the instability regarding what obesity is (and why it is) in political economic context.

Monday, August 01, 2016 06:30 PM

Patrick Hutchings, a Communication Studies major, spent 10 weeks this summer working in the Lectures and Seminars Department of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Thursday, July 28, 2016 08:23 PM

Anastasia conducted research for her honors thesis at the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights in England and Northern Ireland in June and July 2016.

Thursday, July 28, 2016 07:30 PM

Communication is flourishing as a discipline nationally and here at the U, which is visually illustrated in our new infographic.

Tuesday, July 05, 2016 07:33 PM

A new infographic helps to visually depict the White House's latest cancer funding initiative in relation to the entire federal budget.

Tuesday, July 05, 2016 06:55 PM

The Debate Society will be recognized as one of six recipients of the Beacons of Excellence Award for its work empowering and transforming undergraduate students.

Friday, June 24, 2016 08:14 PM

Three Department of Communication graduate students – Joshua Trey Barnett, Jessica Houf and Ian Summers – have been awarded competitive university fellowships for their outstanding research.

Tuesday, June 21, 2016 04:14 PM

While many disciplines are experiencing a tight job market, faculty job openings in communication are increasing, according to a new analysis from NCA.

Tuesday, May 10, 2016 10:43 PM

The Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship program at the U of Michigan has awarded Communication alum Amy Maestas one of its prestigious fellowships.

Thursday, April 28, 2016 09:53 PM

The 2016 Communication Awards Banquet was held on April 5th, 2016, and honored students who have won awards or scholarships, and new members of Kappa Tau Alpha, the national honor society for students in journalism and mass communication

Wednesday, April 27, 2016 09:31 PM

Griffin was awarded one of three scholarships for $5,000 from Sports Illustrated’s Campus Rush and Finish Line for outstanding journalism in his role as Campus Correspondent for Campus Rush.

Monday, April 25, 2016 07:11 PM

The Department of Communication is proud to announce the hiring of five new tenure-line faculty starting July 2016

Friday, April 08, 2016 04:21 PM

Assistant Prof. Sara K. Yeo's co-authored research on the persistence of the knowledge deficit model in science communication won an essay competition and is featured in Public Understanding of Science.

Monday, March 28, 2016 08:40 PM

For her paper titled "Media Coverage and Public Opinion of Energy Efficiency," Graduate Research Assistant Meaghan McKasy is being recognized for her outstanding energy research.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 06:45 PM

This coveted award recognizes her excellence and dedication as an instructor at the U, and comes with a $1,000 cash prize and engraved medal.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 06:27 PM

The Department of Communication Presents: China’s Environmental Tipping Point and Eco Warriors with Jennifer Turner

Friday, March 18, 2016 05:26 PM

The reception and ceremony will honor six distinguished community award winners as well as student scholarship recipients.

Monday, March 07, 2016 11:20 PM

A team of students from the U's S.J. Quinney College of Law, including U Communication alum Sara Parker, earned impressive marks at the National Moot Court Competition in New York.

Monday, March 07, 2016 10:15 PM

Dr. Choi was selected for a Fulbright Specialist grant in Communications and Journalism at University of Haifa, Israel.

Friday, February 19, 2016 09:38 PM

Harvard's Journalists Resource and NiemanLab featured Professor Holton's research on reporters' personal identities and news consumers' feelings of information overload.

Wednesday, February 03, 2016 06:33 PM

The 2016 colloquium series kicks off Thursday, Feb. 4 at 3 p.m. in LNCO 2120, featuring three top scholars in organizational communication.

Thursday, January 28, 2016 07:28 PM

The strange billboards showing 9th U.S. President William Harrison are the work of Adjunct Prof. Ken Foster, who is conducting a survey showing the effectiveness of billboards.

Monday, January 25, 2016 05:20 PM

The new honor was created in an effort to recognize faculty members who are contributing to students’ career development and exploration.

Wednesday, January 20, 2016 09:42 PM

A new book by Assistant Professor Michael Middleton and Associate Professor Danielle Endres has been published by Lexington Books.

Monday, January 11, 2016 06:33 PM

Dr. Endres accepts appointment as director of the Communication Institute, which supports research on communication, communication education, and communication and community.

Friday, January 08, 2016 06:26 PM

Communication doctoral candidate Rich Stowell was recently recognized with the U’s Student Veteran of the Year award for his efforts to promote a greater level of understanding of veterans on campus.

Monday, December 21, 2015 05:06 PM

Winners of the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Leadership in Ethics Education Awards include Stacey Overholt and Margaret (Mardie) Clayton.

Friday, December 18, 2015 08:42 PM

The National Communication Association (NCA) awarded Professor Jakob Jensen and recent PhD graduate Melinda Krakow the 2015 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award.

Saturday, December 05, 2015 12:24 AM

Our amazing faculty and graduate students left the annual NCA convention with some of the highest honors awarded for the year, including Distinguished Scholar, Outstanding Dissertation, Distinguished Book, and 6 Top Paper awards, among others.

Wednesday, December 02, 2015 09:00 PM

Professor Julia Corbett has been invited to present the keynote at an international conference hosted by the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador on the future profile of journalists and journalism.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 09:11 PM

The U's team is pleased to host the English Speaking Union’s British National Debate Team during their US tour. The tour will include a public debate that will focus on the evolving relationship between the US and Cuba.

Wednesday, November 04, 2015 07:35 PM

A Forbes story examining the impact of ads on parents prominently featured Prof. Avery Holton, who researches health communication and media influence.

Monday, November 02, 2015 05:52 PM

Two of the biggest NCA awards in the CCS division are being presented to our scholars. Kent A. Ono, chair of the Communication Department, has been named the 2015 Distinguished Scholar and Associate Instructor Megan McFarlane has been awarded the Outstanding Dissertation award.

Monday, October 26, 2015 07:48 PM

Parkin's lectureship, celebrating the important role professional communicators play in the education of U of U students, includes speaking at the annual Town & Gown Forum on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Thursday, October 15, 2015 04:41 PM

Five U of U Asia Campus students are researching stories about the Korean War after each of the Communication students was awarded funding from UROP.

Friday, October 09, 2015 04:56 PM

Communication Associate Professor Kim Mangun has been announced as winner of the 2015 Eugene Asher Award for Distinguished Teaching from the American Historical Association for her outstanding postsecondary history teaching.

Wednesday, October 07, 2015 07:56 PM

Communication Professor Jakob (Jake) D. Jensen was awarded a highly coveted 2015 New Innovator Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his research program in skin cancer control

Tuesday, October 06, 2015 09:06 PM

Two Department of Communication faculty, Associate Professor Sean Lawson and Professor Avery Holton, were awarded an H2 Professorship to teach an innovative series of courses about drones throughout 2014, and now the successful courses are featured on MediaShift.

Monday, September 21, 2015 08:47 PM

The department's colloquium series continues Thursday, Oct. 1, at 3:30 p.m. in LNCO 2120 with a talk from Dr. Brian Moench, founder and president of the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment (UPHE).

Monday, September 21, 2015 05:43 PM

The symposium is presented jointly by the Departments of Communication and History at the University of Utah and is free and open to the public. It will take place on Thursday, September 24, 2015.

Friday, September 18, 2015 07:25 PM

The Department of Communication's 29th annual B. Aubrey Fisher Memorial Lecture will feature a talk by Dr. Sharon Jarvis, associate professor of communication studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 10:35 PM

The Department of Communication's colloquium series commenced for Fall 2015 with Dr. Colin Koopman, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon.

Friday, September 11, 2015 07:00 AM

Dr. Robin Jensen has been awarded the New Investigator Award by the Rhetoric and Communication Theory (RCT) Division of the National Communication Association.

Thursday, August 27, 2015 09:05 PM

The award, "honors a current member of the division for significant contributions to scholarship in rhetorical and/or communication theory during the past ten years."

Thursday, August 27, 2015 09:00 PM

Department of Communication Associate Instructor and recent U of U graduate Megan McFarlane has won the Cheris Kramarae Outstanding Dissertation Award for the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG).

Monday, August 24, 2015 11:35 PM

Dr. Robin Jensen has been awarded the NCA Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award. The award is “given to foster and promote philosophical, historical, or critical scholarship in rhetoric and public discourse.”

Monday, August 24, 2015 11:23 PM

Dr. Jensen received this top award in the field for his research in communication strategies and their influence on whether participants were more likely to get colonoscopies.

Monday, August 24, 2015 11:19 PM

Congratulations to Department of Communication Professor Marouf Hasian, Jr., Associate Professor Sean Lawson, and Associate Instructor Megan McFarlane on the release of their book, The Rhetorical Invention of America’s National Security State, published by Lexington Books.

Friday, August 14, 2015 08:20 PM

Student who launched UIT social media presence now studies communication.

Monday, August 10, 2015 06:26 PM

Department of Communication Associate Professor Robert W. Gehl has received the 2015 Association of Internet Researchers Nancy Baym Book Award.

Friday, July 31, 2015 09:32 PM

Robin Jensen's book, Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924, was published by University of Illinois Press in 2010 and details the approaches and outcomes of sex-education initiatives in the Progressive Era.

Friday, July 31, 2015 09:24 PM

Two Department of Communication grad students represented the U at the 2015 National Communication Association Doctoral Honors Seminar.

Thursday, July 23, 2015 07:38 PM

The BFI offers instruction in policy debate, Lincoln-Douglas debate, public forum debate, student congress, extemporaneous speaking, and interpretive events.

Thursday, July 09, 2015 10:41 PM

Communication Chair Kent Ono has been selected to be honored at the 2015 National Communication Association for his pedagogy and teaching style.

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 05:22 PM

Assistant Professor Avery Holton won Top Faculty Paper at the 2015 International Communication Association Conference in Puerto Rico with his paper titled "Identity Lost? The personal impact of brand journalism."

Friday, May 29, 2015 07:09 PM

Communication Associate Professor Kimberley Mangun has accepted a joint appointment with the Lowell Bennion Community Service Center.

Friday, May 29, 2015 06:23 PM

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 13, 2015, at the Foothill 7th Ward, 2215 East Roosevelt Avenue (1460 South).

Monday, May 11, 2015 10:39 PM

The Communication Graduate Student and Faculty Awards Ceremony & Faculty Retirement Celebration took place on April 17 at the University Park Marriott Hotel.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015 07:03 PM

The 2015 Communication Awards Banquet was held on 1 April, 2015, and honored students who have won awards or scholarships, and new members of Kappa Tau Alpha, the national honor society for students in journalism and mass communication.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 12:17 AM

Jerilyn McIntyre, professor emeritus of Communication, and her husband, David Smith, will be participating in the Local Author Showcase at the King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City on April 14 at 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 09, 2015 09:22 PM

Their essay proposes the concept of “passé media” as a contribution to scholarship that combines communication and geography.

Tuesday, April 07, 2015 08:26 PM

Communication Assistant Professor and award-winning designer, Yvette Shen uses color to show that Salt Lake City's air quality has actually improved over the last 35 years.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015 10:06 PM

Congratulations to Communication Assistant Professor Joy Pierce on the debut of her new book, Digital Fusion: A Society Beyond Blind Inclusion, published by Peter Lang Publishing.

Tuesday, March 17, 2015 11:05 PM

Please join us in congratulating the inaugural winners of the Alta Sustainability Leadership Awards. They will be honored at a ceremony on Friday, March 6th from 2 – 3:30 pm in the Hinckley Caucus Room (255 OSH).

Tuesday, March 03, 2015 11:41 PM

The presentation explored Gehl's recent work on dark web social networking and alternative social media.

Tuesday, March 03, 2015 11:33 PM

Kathleen Hunt, doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication, was selected to receive the Southern Communication Journal’s Rose B. Johnson Best Article of 2014 Award.

Thursday, February 26, 2015 09:10 PM

Listen to the audio from her address.

Monday, February 23, 2015 09:45 PM

Communication Chair Kent Ono was invited to give a talk Friday, February 13, at the University of Memphis Department of Communication.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 11:23 PM

Research from several members of the Department of Communication’s Health Communication and Technology (HCAT) lab has been accepted for publication in the journal Women’s Health Issues.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 10:56 PM

Communication Chair Kent Ono added his voice to the conversation regarding racist stereotypes in the Nutcracker, one of the world's most popular ballets.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:55 PM

Tracy McMillan will be returning to the U to present a lecture titled BE MORE YOU: How to Get Everything You Want By Being Exactly Who You Are on February 12, 2014, at 12:30 pm in LNCO 1110. The event will include a book signing, light lunch, and will be free and open to the public.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015 08:30 PM

Now it’s time for a round-up of the best of the year. Our own Assistant Professor Avery Holton made the list!

Tuesday, December 23, 2014 05:29 PM

The recently published book, The Organic Globalizer Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement Culture (Bloomsbury Press)features the work of the Department’s own Dr. Paul Kuttner.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 08:24 PM

Avery Holton, assistant professor in Communication at the U, was recently featured on ABC4 news discussing the latest trends in social media use.

Tuesday, December 09, 2014 03:50 PM

This week, Dr. Paul Kuttner was named as a Cabinet member for the US Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC), a national, grassroots effort to catalyze artistic and cultural development in the public interest.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014 08:03 PM

Danielle Endres, Associate Professor of Communication at the U, will have her research published in Argumentation and Advocacy’s Winter 2014 issue.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 09:48 PM

The Department of Communication honored Alan (Skip) Branch as this year’s Parry D. Sorensen Distinguished Lecturer at the Town and Gown Forum.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 05:38 PM

Check out the Rhetoric Unit's new music video and promotional materials.

Monday, November 10, 2014 10:09 PM

Cathy Sandeen, who graduated from the U in 1992 with a Ph.D. in Communication, was named the new chancellor of University of Wisconsin Colleges and UW-Extension.

Friday, November 07, 2014 06:27 PM

The Department of Communication’s Chair, Professor Kent A. Ono, was invited to speak at University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema Studies program last month.

Monday, October 27, 2014 10:28 PM

Communication Assistant Professor Robert W. Gehl's latest article, "Power/Freedom on the Dark Web: A Digital Ethnography of the Dark We Social Network," is now available Online First at New Media and Society.

Friday, October 24, 2014 09:21 PM

The Department of Communication has chosen Alan (Skip) Branch as this year’s Parry D. Sorensen Distinguished Lecturer.

Friday, October 24, 2014 09:01 PM

The Department of Communication is delighted to announce that Professor David Vergobbi was elected second vice-president of the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA) during the annual convention last week in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Friday, October 24, 2014 05:09 PM

The 28th Annual B. Aubrey Fisher Memorial Lecture with Dr. Angela G. Ray was held Thursday, October 2, 2014.

Tuesday, October 07, 2014 04:11 PM

University of Utah Post Doctoral Fellow Paul J. Kuttner is contributing to the Beautiful Solutions Project. The Project is a companion to the book Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution. The book is a collaborative effort and illustrates new and creative solutions to create a more just and sustainable world.

Thursday, October 02, 2014 09:56 PM

The London School of Economics posted a blog based on a paper co-written by the University of Utah’s own Assistant Professor Sara K. Yeo.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014 10:01 PM

Department of Communication associate professor Suhi Choi has published a book, "Embattled Memories: Contested meanings in Korean War Memorials."

Thursday, August 14, 2014 06:45 PM

Department of Communication assistant professor Robert Gehl has published a new book, "Reverse Engineering Social Media: Software, Culture and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism," which explores the mix of socializing and surveillance.

Friday, August 08, 2014 05:34 PM

Katie Hunt, doctoral student with the Department of Communication, recently received the Green Champion Student Award for her work with the U's Dining Services.

Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:31 PM

The Conflict Resolution Graduate Certificate Program is still accepting applications for the 2014-2015 school year, set to begin in the last week of August.

Thursday, July 17, 2014 09:22 PM

Professor emerita Jerilyn McIntire has published a fiction novella, entitled "Paws in the Piazza."

Tuesday, July 08, 2014 07:44 AM

Department of Communication Chair Kent Ono spoke at Tongji University in China earlier this month.

Monday, June 23, 2014 07:00 PM

Five doctoral students from the Department of Communication have been selected to participate in this year's National Communication Association's Doctoral Honors Seminar.

Thursday, June 12, 2014 05:12 PM

Department of Communication assistant professor Jakob Jensen has been named a Presidential Scholar at the University of Utah.

Friday, May 30, 2014 08:00 PM

Department of Communication professor Julia Corbett was featured in an article in The Salt Lake Tribune, which looks at the inspiration behind her memoir, "Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West."

Tuesday, May 27, 2014 06:29 PM

Department of Communication assistant professor Sean Lawson was quoted in a Wired article about the U.S. indictment of Chinese hackers and its implications on the National Security Agency.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 06:02 PM

Communication major Janine Henry served as the student speaker at this year's Commencement Ceremony.

Friday, May 02, 2014 06:34 PM

This semester's Social Media Journalism course, offered in conjunction with a course at the University of Texas at Austin, has proven to be a successful example of the potential of the massive open online course, or MOOC.

Thursday, April 24, 2014 06:53 PM

Department of Communication Chair and professor Kent Ono was the keynote speaker at this year's Communication Day at the University of South Florida.

Thursday, April 17, 2014 07:45 PM

Communication assistant professor Robert Gehl was a guest on a recent episode of KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny speaking about the use of new technology and how it will change our day-to-day lives and ethics.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014 06:37 PM

The U's John R. Park Debate Society came out on top among all Pac-12 teams at the National Parliamentary Debate Association National Championships, finishing in ninth place overall.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014 06:26 PM

Michael Aaron, the Service to Journalism award winner at this year's Communication Awards Banquet, was profiled in The Salt Lake Tribune this week.

Wednesday, April 09, 2014 06:18 PM

Translation essays from University of Utah Department of Communication faculty and graduate students are published in the April 2014 issue of Communication Currents.

Friday, April 04, 2014 06:22 PM

Department of Communication faculty member Avery Holton has co-authored an article about increasing collaboration in massive open online courses, or MOOCs.

Wednesday, April 02, 2014 06:04 PM

The Conflict Resolution Graduate Certificate Program is now accepting applicants for next fall.

Wednesday, April 02, 2014 05:52 PM

On April 1, five students from the Department of Communication will present their Honors thesis research at the university-wide Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 06:47 PM

Dr. Heather Canary will be presenting her research on "Roles of the Scientist in Society" this Wednesday, March 26, from 2-4 pm as part of the Research Administration Training Series (RATS).

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 06:05 PM

Reverend France Davis, an alum of the University of Utah's Communication Department, is celebrating 40 years of service as the pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church here in Salt Lake City.

Friday, March 21, 2014 06:15 PM

A University of Utah Asia Campus, located in Incheon, South Korea, will start offering classes in September 2014.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 07:47 PM

Congratulations to the University of Utah scholars who produced Top Papers at the 2014 meeting of the Western States Communication Association.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 07:37 PM

Graduate student Betsy Brunner appeared on KUED's Contact to talk about the Beijing-SLC Connect project and The Living Gallery.

Friday, February 07, 2014 08:38 PM

Teaching & Learning Technologies has awarded a Hybrid Course Development Grant to Professors Heather Canary and Lee Ellington to develop the new graduate course, Interdisciplinary Research Immersion: Health Communication.

Friday, February 07, 2014 08:23 PM

The Parry D. Sorensen Public Relations Society is an ASUU affiliated, on-campus student club. Created by students, for students, the PR Society will hold monthly meetings, seminars and workshops for prospective Public Relations, or Strategic Communication professionals. Enroll now!

Friday, January 17, 2014 11:10 PM

Please join the department in congratulating Mark Bergstrom on his election to the position of First Vice President of the Western States Communication Association (WSCA), effective at the end of the 2014 WSCA convention in Anaheim. Dr. Bergstrom will assume the position of President-Elect in 2015, plan the 2016 convention in San Diego, and be WSCA President in 2017.

Tuesday, December 31, 2013 03:03 PM

University of Utah Communication Professor Jake Jensen was featured in the Salt Tribune Today in an article entitled "Is your mole cancerous? Ask the crowd".

Thursday, December 19, 2013 11:25 PM

Dr. Jakob Jensen and Dr. Mark Bergstrom - along with colleagues in the Department of Pediatrics - recently received a grant from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation. The grant will support the development of a series of videos to help parents decide whether their child should have a permanent tracheostomy for mechanical ventilation.

Friday, December 13, 2013 07:38 PM

Assistant Professor Canary has been awarded the School of Business Daniels Fund Leadership Ethics Education Award for her course titled "Do You See What I'm Saying? Leadership as Communicative Performance."

Friday, December 13, 2013 07:29 PM

Assistant Professor Kevin Coe, along with his coauthor Anthony Schmidt, has been awarded the 2013 Michael Pfau Outstanding Article Award. The award is given annually by the Political Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 07:35 PM

The John R. Park Debate Society attended the James "Al" Johnson Memorial Tournament at Colorado College on October 25-26, 2013. Over the course of the weekend, the team bested 15 schools to win 1st place as a University. In addition, the team earned a first-round bid to the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence for the first time since 2002.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013 05:08 PM

Professor Bryan Taylor, a renowned communication scholar with a specialty in studying the nuclear and (post-) Cold War rhetoric and culture, will present the Department of Communication's 27th annual B. Aubrey Fisher Memorial Lecture, titled War Voice: Exploring Communication's Intrinsic Resources for the Study of Security on Thursday, October 24th at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, October 10, 2013 03:03 PM

The John R. Park Debate Society attended the 51st Annual USAFA Classic Forensics Tournament on September 27-29, 2013 at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Over the course of the weekend, the team won 18 awards and placed second among the universities in attendance.

Thursday, October 03, 2013 08:40 PM

Sonya M. Aleman, a University of Utah assistant professor in communication and ethnic studies, has recently been featured in Alumni Connection for receiving the University Neighborhood Partners Community Scholar in Residence award for 2013-15.

Tuesday, October 01, 2013 08:25 PM

A new study appearing in Psychological Science suggests the avoidance effect people experience when reading warning labels on potentially harmful foods and drugs such as cigarettes and artificial sweeteners may be more ephemeral than previously thought. In fact, such labels may drive people to consume more of those harmful foods and drugs over time. Avery Holton provided some thoughts on the study, offering insights into exactly why this might occur.

Monday, September 30, 2013 09:10 PM

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 07:47 PM

Danielle Endres and Tarla Rai Peterson (Texas A&M) were awarded a $499,541.00 collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation. The award supports research to investigate how low-carbon energy scientists and engineers talk about the social, cultural, and political implications of their technologies and how they try to influence policymaking.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 03:51 PM

Assistant Professor Heather Canary and her team of graduate research assistants are coordinating a DVD study funded by the National Cancer Institute. Department of Communication Alumnus, Dr. Wayne Beach of San Diego State University, is the Principal Investigator for the study.

Tuesday, September 03, 2013 07:48 PM

Marouf Hasian, Jr. (Professor) and Megan McFarlane (Ph.D. Student) of the Communication Department have recently published "Cultural Rhetorics of American Exceptionalism and the Bin Laden Raid."

Monday, August 26, 2013 04:47 PM

Read Communication Professor Robert Gehl's Op-Ed published in the Salt Lake Tribune.

Monday, August 26, 2013 04:06 PM

Several Communication faculty and students are hard at work planning the CSA conference, to be held May 29-31 at the U.

Thursday, August 22, 2013 03:03 PM

Assistant Professor Sonya M. Aleman was selected as the recipient of the University Neighborhood Partner Community Scholar in Residence award for 2013-2015

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 09:59 PM

Congratulations to Professor Yvette Shen for winning 2nd prize in the category of Creative Projects at this year's meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Professor Shen won for her work on a web project entitled "Multimedia News Storytelling - A Visual Learning Tool."

Tuesday, August 13, 2013 03:44 PM

Stephanie Bor received the University of Utah Alumni Association's Marvin J. Ashton Scholarship in 2012 and graduated from the U this past May with a doctorate in communication. Click here for full story.

Friday, August 02, 2013 03:46 PM

Dr. Heather Canary and two of her former doctoral students have published an article in Management Communication Quarterly. The article, "The Policy Communication Index: A Theoretically Based Measure of Organizational Policy Communication Practices," presents a new survey measure of policy communication for use by organizational practitioners and researchers.

Thursday, July 25, 2013 03:44 PM

Heather Canary (Assistant Professor) and Dan Canary (Adjunct Professor) of Communication have recently published "Family Conflict: Managing the Unexpected".

Monday, July 15, 2013 03:12 PM

Click here for the full story from the Chronicle of Higher Education

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 03:20 PM

Lexie and Lindsay Kite help girls and women reject damaging media messages about beauty

Thursday, May 30, 2013 04:11 PM

Dr. Suhi Choi has been awarded competitive research funding from the Academy of Korean Studies as well as a teaching grant from the University of Utah.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 03:36 PM

On May 23, 2013, Professor Tim Larson was inducted into the Utah Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 03:30 PM

Congratulations to Professor Kevin DeLuca and Graduate student Betsy Brunner on receiving a $10,000 Waterhouse Family Institute Research Grant. They will receive $10,000 to fund their research in China on environmental activism and social media.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 03:34 PM

Brooke Johnson to Join Cohn & Wolfe's New York City Office in June

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 09:53 PM

Haley Burns-Hodges recently joined the Department of Communication, having moved from the U's Office of Admissions.

Thursday, May 16, 2013 07:01 PM

Andrea Thomas was named a 2013 Distinguished Alumni by the College of Humanities on May 2, 2013 for her work merging public health and environmental sustainability into global corporate practices. Thomas was also awarded an honorary degree from the University of Utah.

Tuesday, May 07, 2013 02:54 PM

Graduate student Betsy Brunner and Professor Kevin DeLuca were recently awarded a Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund (SCIF) grant for their project "Imaging the Effects of Air Pollution."

Friday, April 26, 2013 04:05 PM

Congratulations to graduate student Natasha Seegert!

Friday, April 26, 2013 03:57 PM

Ph.D. Candidates Sarah Bell, Maria Blevins, Brian Cozen, and Aaron Philips have been accepted to participate in the NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar this July in Maine.

Friday, April 26, 2013 03:46 PM

Assistant Professor Jakob D. Jensen will receive the Young Scholar Award from the International Communication Association (ICA).

Friday, April 26, 2013 03:25 PM

Absolute Communication students recently traveled to New York City to present to the Global Communication Agency, Cohn & Wolfe.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 09:20 PM

In individual competition Jesus Munoz earned the Dan Henning Award, which is given to the top 1st year competitor in the nation. This is the first time the U has won this first place award at nationals. Rebecca Isbell and Nicholas Jensen advanced to triple octofinals at the national tournament. Congratulations!

Thursday, April 04, 2013 03:26 PM

The Debate Society recently competed at the National Parliamentary Debate Association National Championship Tournament held at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA.

Thursday, April 04, 2013 03:23 PM

Professor of Communication Robert Avery will be awarded the Broadcast Education Association's Distinguished Education Service Award at their annual convention on April 7th in Las Vegas.

Thursday, March 28, 2013 03:57 PM

Congratulations to Communication Ph.D. candidate Shireen Ghorbani, who has received the Ramona Cannon Graduate Teaching Award from the College of Humanities.

Thursday, March 28, 2013 03:32 PM

The Organization for Research on Women and Communication held a celebration for the life, work, and example of Dr. Edna Rogers at the 2013 Annual meeting of the Western States Communication Association.

Thursday, March 28, 2013 03:28 PM

Congratulations to Professor Craig Wirth who was recently awarded an ASUU Student Choice Award. This award is intended to honor outstanding and inspiring professors and graduate instructors.

Monday, February 25, 2013 11:12 PM

Congratulations to graduate student Paul Parkin who was recently awarded an ASUU Student Choice Award.

Monday, February 25, 2013 11:09 PM

Click here to view the list of University of Utah scholars who produced Top Papers at the 2013 meeting of the Western States Communication Association held in Reno, NV.

Monday, February 25, 2013 11:07 PM

Professor Anderson recently appeared on KSL for a story titled "Does Utah have a double standard for violent and sexual content?" Dr. Anderson spoke on how liberals and conservatives object to different content, "Liberals are concerned about violence. Conservatives are concerned about sex."

Monday, February 25, 2013 11:03 PM

Associate Professor Kevin DeLuca has been chosen as the Environmental Humanities Research Professor for the academic year 2013-14.

Monday, February 25, 2013 10:59 PM

Dr. Gehl recently wrote up a description of his writing group for RedThread, the official blog of the University of Utah. In the post, Dr. Gehl encourages faculty and graduate students to participate in writing groups and offers suggestions to make those groups productive.

Monday, February 25, 2013 10:57 PM

The 18th Biennial Alta Conference will occur August 1 - 4. The Department of Communication is pleased to continue our affiliation with the conference. The theme for the conference is Disturbing Argument. The deadline to submit papers is March 1.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 06:23 PM

Professor and Communication Department Chair Kent Ono has been awarded the 2013 Paul Boase Prize for Scholarship. Click here for more information on the award.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 06:12 PM

Dr. Jensen has been awarded a University Research Committee Faculty Fellowship, which will allow her to work on her book exclusively for the Spring 2014 semester. The book is tentatively entitled Expectant Voices: Articulating Fertility in the Twentieth Century.

Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:33 PM

Members of the Faculty Senate Committee for Technology Enhanced Curriculum (CTEC) have voted to award Dr. Pierce a Hybrid Course Development grant. The grant is offered through the Technology Assisted Curriculum and Instructional Media Service Center.

Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:18 PM

Dr. Lindsay Calhoun, a Ph.D. alumnus of the Department of Communication, recently published a book entitled Public Memory of the Sand Creek Massacre with Cambria Press. More information about her book can be found here: http://www.cambriapress.com/cambriapress.cfm?template=4&bid=520

Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:14 PM

The Department of Communication is pleased to welcome Laneta Fitisemanu as our new academic advisor. Laneta attended the University of Utah and graduated in 2007 with her Bachelor of Science degree in the field of Psychology.

Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:10 PM

Suhi Choi, Assistant Professor of Communication, recently published an essay, "Standing between intransient history and transient memories: The statue of MacArthur in South Korea," in Memory Studies Online First on September 7, 2012, and will appear in print in a forthcoming issue of the journal.

Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:56 PM

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Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:51 PM

Assistant Professor Rob Gehl and PhD student Sarah Bell have published an article in Computational Culture, a journal dedicated to software studies.

Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:42 PM

Kent A. Ono has published three new essays. His book chapter, "Borders that Travel: Matters of the Figural Border," was recently published in D. Robert DeChaine's edited book, Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press).

Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:35 PM

Associate Professor Danielle Endres has organized a free webinar on public outreach and education efforts related to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology.

Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:32 PM

In an effort to create a nation presence for Absolute Communication (our student-run advertising agency in the Department of Communication), Assistant Professor Kevin Bischoff and student Miguel Mendoza, visited with three iconic NYC advertising agencies over fall break.

Wednesday, January 02, 2013 09:07 PM

Effective Fall 2012, the Department of Communication is offering a combined major (B.A./B.S. in Communication) with new courses, three of which are available this Fall 2012.

Friday, December 28, 2012 11:36 PM