Friday, June 6, 2008

Inside CCI - The newsletter for College of Communication and Information faculty, staff, and students.

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COLLEGE NEWS

--College announces spring 2008 dean's list
More than 450 students in the College of Communication and Information earned a spot on the dean's list for their academic achievement during the spring 2008 semester. To qualify for the dean's list, an undergraduate student must earn a term grade point average of 3.80-4.00 (summa cum laude), 3.65-3.79 (magna cum laude), or 3.50-3.64 (cum laude).

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COMMUNICATION STUDIES

-- Journal of Health Communication will publish Kotowski's article
A paper by Mike Kotowski, "Types and Sources of Memorable Breast Cancer Messages and Their Impact on Prevention and Detection Behaviors," will be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Health Communication.

--New book by Haas goes to press
"The Communication of Hate" by John Haas and Mike Waltman (UNC-Chapel Hill) is being published by Peter Lange Publishing. The new book is part of the "Language as Social Action" series edited by Howard Giles.

--Jurczak accepts Valdosta State assistant professorship
Congratulations to doctoral program alumna and Communication Studies lecturer Linda Jurczak, who has accepted an assistant professor position with Valdosta State University. Jurczak will begin her new position this fall.

--New faculty member successfully defends dissertation
Congratulations to assistant professor Courtney Wright, who successfully defended her dissertation at Northwestern University. Wright will join the faculty of the School of Communication Studies this fall.

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INFORMATION SCIENCES

--Wang's study results to be published in ASIS&T journal
The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) will publish Peiling Wang's article, "Visualization of Health Subject Analysis Based on Query Term Co-Occurrences," in an upcoming issue. The article reports results of an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant. It is co-authored by Wang and her study collaborators at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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JOURNALISM AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA

--Harmon presents research at public opinion conference
Mark Harmon presented a research paper, "Public Opinion about Broadcasting's Public Interest Obligations: Diversity, Localism & Ownership," to the American Association for Public Opinion Research, May 16 in New Orleans. The paper was co-authored with CCI doctoral student Glenn Hubbard, JEM Professor Benjamin Bates, Todd Chambers of Texas Tech and Steve McClung, Florida State. Chambers and McClung received their doctoral degrees in communications from UT.

--UT Press publishes "Living On" book
Rob Heller's book, "Living On: Portraits of Tennessee Survivors and Liberators," is finally in print. The book, which is the result of five years' of work by Heller and the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, is published by UT Press. In addition, Heller has a creative project, "The Art of the Ampersand," included in the latest edition of Visual Communication Quarterly and his klezmer band, Tennessee Schmaltz, is performing next week at the Bonnaroo music festival.

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR

--First Summer Session Classes End, July 3.

--Independence Day Holiday, July 4. No classes; most offices closed.

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Inside CCI is the newsletter for faculty, staff and students of the College of Communication and Information.