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The UNC Charlotte Forensics team had a great showing this past weekend at the CFA Fall Invitational. The team recorded the following results. Matthew Morales – 1st place Prose 3rd place Informative Nicole Palacios – 3rd place After Dinner Speaking 3rd place Impromptu 3rd place Poetry Hope Crawford – 1st place Persuasion UNC Charlotte – […]

Congraulations to Dr. Quinlan for her accepted publication Hurdle, C. E., (nursing graduate student) & Quinlan, M. M. (2014). A transpersonal approach to care: A qualitative study of performers’ experiences with DooR to DooR, a hospital-based arts program. Journal of Holistic Nursing, She co-authored this article with a nursing graduate student at UNC Charlotte.

Dr. Dean Kruckeberg, is to be awarded an extraordinarily significant honor. The Public Relations Society of America has announced that Dr. Kruckeberg is to receive the Atlas Award during PRSA’s international convention in Philadelphia in late October. The Atlas Award is given for “lifetime achievement in international public relations,” and the list of recipients is […]

Health Comm Club will have its first meeting of the semester on Monday, September 16th at 3:30 p.m. in the Student Union room 266. For more information contact club president Allie Barbera at abarbera@uncc.edu. The purposes of this organization is to provide an environment that supports the creative ideas of Health Communication majors and minors. […]

Dr. Richard Leeman, full professor and former chair of the Communication Studies department, was recently honored at the UNC Charlotte convocation for 25 years of service at UNC Charlotte. Congratulations to Dr. Leeman for his many years of outstanding service, education and reseach to the department, the colege and the university.

Cheryl Spainhour is featured in the latest issue of Peace Magazine (Jully/September 2013) for her article, “Operation Dolphin 2012: Underwater Humanitarian Mission.”

Dr. Christine Davis was recently invited and has accepted an Associate Editorship position for the sub-disciplinary Encyclopedia of Communication on Qualitative Research Methods published by Wiley-Blackwell. The SD-IEC on methods will cover data collection and data analysis, both qualitative and quantitative. It will likely consist of 2 volumes with about 150 entries in total.

Dr. Clifton Scott is featured in an article from Firefighter Nation for his reseach in the AAR (After action review) process.

Staci Kuntzman, internship coordinator for the Communciation Studies department, appeared on Charlotte Talks on WFAE (90.7) this morning to discuss the state of internships with Mike Collins. You can listen to the interview here.

Dr. Quinlan’s co-authored article (noted below) has been selected for this year’s Anita Taylor Outstanding Published Article or Book Chapter Award presented by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. Ellingson, L. E., & Quinlan, M. M. (2012). Beyond the research/service dichotomy: Claiming ALL research products for hiring, evaluation, tenure, and promotion. […]