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The 2018 edition of our departments Ezine is now available! Included in this year’s issue: Student Spotlight: Jacqueline Sanchez,Alumni Establishes Graduate Students Travel Scholarship,Student Spring Break in Ireland,Tim Horne Reflects on Tenure in Forensics,Jaime Bochantin is New Graduate Program Director, A Meeting of Four Department Chairs and much more!

A special journal section of the International Journal of Communication. has become available, “(Un)civil Society in Digital China.” The section, co-edited by Dr. Min Jiang, UNC Charlotte associate professor of Communication Studies, explores an authoritarian state uses the Chinese Internet to concentrate and solidify its power — in the name of civility, rationality, and order. […]

In with the old and with the new! A UNC Charlotte speech and debate team member qualified to attend the oldest and most prestigious public speaking competition in the United States, while the team has brought on a new director to begin in Fall 2018. Each year, the top two persuasive speakers in every state […]

The new Second Vice President for the Southern States Communication Association is UNC Charlotte’s own Dr. Shawn Long, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs within College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor and former Chair of the Department of Communication Studies. “I am humbled and grateful to be elected to this leadership position,” Long said. […]

Two students from the UNC Charlotte Forensics Team traveled to New York to compete at the Long Island Forensic Extravaganza on Saturday, Feb. 24, and the Southern and Northern Forensic Union Tournament on Sunday, Feb. 25. Results for Day 1: Michael Drew Coley, Theater and Accounting major from Concord, N.C.: 5th in Dramatic Interpretation Rebecca […]

Many fire departments try to minimize accidents and injuries through after action reviews. Associate Professor Cliff Scott helped study what makes for a good or bad after action review, what makes a review satisfying to attendees, and the review’s impact on group safety norms. His study also looked at the effects of good attendee behavior […]

“Empathize, but don’t project” is among the helpful advice two Communication Studies faculty members share in a pair of articles in “Vital,” a health humanities magazine, illuminating aspects of their infertility research. In a piece entitled “Race, Racism, and Infertility” for which they are interviewed, Associate Professor Margaret Quinlan and Research Faculty Associate Bethany Johnson […]

Three Department of Communication Studies associate professors were honored at the recent National Communication Association convention. Dr. Loril Gossett (pictured) shared in a book award for Best Edited Book of 2017-Applied Communication Division. She is a co-editor with two others for “Volunteering and Communication Volume 2: Studies in International and Intercultural Contexts.” Dr. Margaret Quinlan, […]