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Dr. Jiyeon So
So Recipient of M.G. Michael Award

Dr. Jiyeon So, assistant professor of Communication Studies, is a recipient of this year’s M.G. Michael Award. The M.G. Michael Award was established in 1944 to reward research excellence and encourage creative initiatives in the University of Georgia's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. The award comes with $3,000 research support and will be honored in a recognition ceremony later this year.

Heather S. Cohen, MA
Cohen Receives International Research Fellowship

Heather S. Cohen (MA, University of Georgia) is a recipient of the 2018 UGA Franklin College-University of Liverpool Doctoral Student Short-Term International Research Fellowship. In the spring of 2018, she will be traveling to Liverpool (under the mentorship of Dr. Laura Soulsby) to conduct research and teach about the importance of communication following the death of a close other in childhood. Her presentation, entitled "Grief Communication…


Harris gives Lecture on Racial Microagressions

Dr. Tina M. Harris, Professor of Communication Studies and a recipient of UGA's esteemed Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, was recently invited to give a lecture at Texas A&M University on her recent work concerning student racial microgressions. The talk, entitled “‘I Wish I Had Said Something’!: A Qualitative Approach to Student Experiences with and Responses to Racial Microagressions in a College and Local Community,” was…


Condit to Give Keynote Address

Distinguished Research Professor Celeste Condit will be giving a keynote address at the Scandinavian Rhetoric Society conference on September 27, 2017. The address, entitled “Making Angry Public Rhetorics Work Better for Us,” builds upon Dr. Condit's earlier research on pathos and will take up the subject of her forthcoming book titled 9/11’s Angry Public Rhetorics. The conference, which will take place…


Kristi Schaller Honored at Online Learning Faculty Fellows Luncheon

Kristi Schaller, Senior Lecture in the Department of Communication Studies, was honored over the summer at a lunch held in appreciation of UGA's Online Learning Faculty Fellows. Schaller was granted an Online Learning Faculty Fellowship to develop an online version of COMM 1500: Introduction to Interpersonal Communication. She and several of the department's graduate students have taught multiple sections of and received positive feedback on the…

Dr. Jiaying Liu. Photo courtesy of UPenn's Annenberg School for Communication.
Dr. Jiaying Liu Publishes New Insights about Teen Smoking Risk

New Meta-Analysis Shows Peer Influence Doubles Smoking Risk for Adolescents Teens from collectivistic cultures also more swayed by peers than those in individualistic cultures. The way things stand now, tobacco use will kill one billion people in the 21st century. In the United States, 90% of smokers pick up the habit by age 18, making adolescence a critical time for smoking prevention efforts. Peer influence has long been known as a major risk…
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