Professor James F. Klumpp Receives AFA
Distinguished Service Award
 James
F. Klumpp, associate professor, was honored by the American Forensic
Association with its Distinguished Service Award at the annual convention
of the organization in Miami. Klumpp has served the organization as President
(1998-2000); as Vice-President (1996-1998; and as editor of its journal
Argumentation and Advocacy (1989-92). He served
on a number of key committees for the organization including its Task
Force on Constitutional Revision (1991-92) and he chaired the Task Force
on the National Debate Tournament Charter Revision (1977-78). He also
chaired the Research and Publications Committee of the organization. Klumpp
was Director of the Alta Summer Argumentation Conference, cosponsored
by AFA, in 1997, and edited a book of essays from the conference "Argument
in a Time of Change". He received the AFA's Daniel Rohrer Award for
the Outstanding Research Monograph in Argumentation in 1995 for his co-authored
essay "Democratizing the Lifeworld of the 21st Century: Evaluating
New Democratic Sites for Argument." He also authored a chapter of
the organization's history: "Organizing a Community and Responding
to its Needs: The First Fifty Years of the American Forensic Association."
Alum Cythina King Awarded ASHR Dissertation
Prize
 Cynthia
King, Ph.D. 2002, was honored as Recipient of the American Society for
the History of Rhetoric Dissertation Award, 2002-03 for "History
Writing as Social Resistance in the Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century African
Americans: Arguments and Depictions in the Historical Narratives of William
Wells Brown and George Washington Williams." Professor Robert Gaines
advised King's dissertation. King is now as assistant professor in the
School of Communication at American University.
Professors Cai and Fink
Receive Best Article Award
  Deborah
Cai, associate professor, and Edward
Fink, professor and chair,won the NCA Communication & Social Cognition
Division Article Award for their coauthored piece, "Conflict style
differences between individualists and collectivists," Communication
Monographs 69 (2002): 67-87. Cai & Fink's article investigated
fundamental beliefs regarding cross-cultural differences in conflict styles
and questions prevailing assumptions regarding the relationship of culture
to conflict style preferences. Their findings were based on a sample of
188 graduate students from 31 different countries residing in the United
States.
Professor Andrew Wolvin's UMTV Show Receives
"Communicator" and "Telly" Television Awards
 Professor
Andrew Wolvin hosts UMTV's
"Researching Maryland," a show featuring University of Maryland
researchers and their research. "Researching Maryland" has received
a 2002 "Communicator" award and a 2003 "Telly" award.
Ph.D. Alumnus James Kimble Receives 2003
Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award
 For
the first time in the history of the Ph.D. program at Maryland, a graduate
of the program, James Kimble, has received the prestigious Gerald R.
Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award from the National Communication
Association.
The Miller Award is presented to the "most
outstanding dissertations completed in the field during the previous academic
year."
Kimble's project, "Mobilizing the
Home Front: War Bonds, Morale, and the U.S. Treasury's Domestic Propaganda
Campaign, 1942-1945," examined the efforts by the U.S. government
to sell war bonds during World War II. The dissertation concludes that
the Treasury Department's campaign played a strategic role in both mobilizing
public morale during the war as well as in transforming the war's experiences
into a mythic triumph after the final victory. This campaign, Kimble concludes,
effective turned the American public into soldiers and their bonds into
weapons through its powerful use of militarized propaganda strategies.
Kimble's dissertation was directed by Professor
Shawn J. Parry-Giles. Kimble is currently on the faculty of George Mason
University.
Professor Edward L. Fink Receives B.
Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award
Professor
Edward L. Fink received
the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award at the 2003 annual conference
of the International Communication Association. For the Awards Committee,
Professor Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania, announced:
This year's mentorship award goes to
Edward L. Fink of the University of Maryland.
Nearly 30 letters of support characterize
Fink, presently chair of Maryland's department of communication, as
the embodiment of the word "mentor." Described as a demanding
and dedicated teacher who brings out the best in his students and a
tireless and approachable individual whose warmth, sense of humor and
generosity earned him as much respect as his high standards, Fink is
known as being able to turn what one former student called "the
difficult and sometimes dreaded material on research methods and theory
development into a mastery" for students of all kinds of research.
His willingness to listen and sage counsel are widely known, and in
over 20 years as a university professor, he has not only trained students
in communication, supervising some 30 theses and dissertations, but
graduate students from across campus fight to get into his methodology
courses. In one nominator's words, Fink is evidence of the fact that
"a truly gifted teacher can overcome the shortcomings of his or
her students. He has been responsible for sharpening the thinking of
legions of students, has served as a model of professionalism and achievement,
has been exceedingly generous with his time and talent, and has made
a difference.
Professor Shawn J. Parry-Giles' Book Named
"Outstanding Academic Title, 2002"
 Choice,
a leading reviewer of books and monographs for academic libraries, has
selected The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and
the Cold War, 1945-1955, by Professor Shawn
J. Parry-Giles, as one of its "Outstanding Academic Titles"
for 2002. Parry-Giles' book was one of only seven books in Communication
selected for this award.
To be selected as an "Outstanding
Academic Title," a book must display overall excellence in presentation
and scholarship, importance relative to other literature in the field,
and distinction as a treatment of a given subject.
In their review, Choice
concluded that "Rekindled enthusiasm for [propaganda] measures since
9/11 makes this fine book timely as well as relevant." More recently,
Nicholas Sarantakes, writing in Rhetoric & Public
Affairs, noted, "Shawn J. Parry-Giles has written an important
work that every serious student of rhetoric, the presidency, and the Cold
War should read."
Professor James Grunig Receives
James W. Schwartz Award
 Professor
James Grunig received
the James W. Schwartz Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and
Communication, the highest honor conferred by Iowa State University's
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication. He was presented the
award at the Greenlee school's
annual alumni homecoming reception, Saturday, Oct. 12.
James Schwartz, the retired Iowa State
journalism chairman, presented the award to Grunig. The Schwartz award
has been presented since 1977 to leaders in journalism and related fields.
They include four Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished broadcast journalists,
authors, advertising and public relations executives, newspaper and magazine
publishers, and leading writers in a variety of specialty areas.
Professor Trevor Parry-Giles Receives
GRB Award
Trevor Parry-Giles is the recipient of
a Fall 2001 Graduate Research Board grant from the University of Maryland.
The award supports Parry-Giles' research project entitled "The Rhetorical
Presidency of Bill Clinton." Parry-Giles will use the grant to begin
work on collecting videotaped versions of Clinton's presidential oratory
and for the purchase of content analysis software. The grant totals $2,250,
with an additional $250 provided by the Department of Communication in
support of the project.
Communication Major Diana Schenker Receives
2001 Codispoti Grant
Diana Schenker, a senior communication
major and president of Maryland's chapter of the Public Relations Student
Society of America (PRSSA), is a winner of the 2001 Codispoti Grant, awarded
by the Technology Section of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).
The award offers Diana complimentary registration
to the 2001 PRSSA National Conference, as well as a special invitation
to attend a PRSA National Conference session on high-tech public relations.
Diana's application package included her
original essay on the importance of high-tech public relations today,
as well as a letter of recommendation written by former PRSSA faculty
advisor, Ms. b j Altschul.
Professor Shawn J. Parry-Giles Receives
GRB Research Grant
 Professor
Shawn J. Parry-Giles has received a Graduate Research Board grant
in support of her project analyzing the media coverage of former First
Lady and current U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. The award, totaling
$12,000, provides release from summer teaching obligations and additional
resources for research materials and texts. This is the second GRB Award
that Parry-Giles has received in open competitions involving all units
at the University of Maryland.
Chun-ju
Flora Hung Receives Ketchum 2001 Walter Lindenmann
Scholarship
Chun-ju Flora Hung’s dissertation research,
"A qualitative research on the global theory of organization-public
relationships (OPR)," has won the Ketchum 2001 Walter Lindenmann
Scholarship. This is the first time a University of Maryland student has
won the scholarship.
The scholarship is awarded by the Institute
for Public Relations (IPR). Formerly known as the Walter Lindenmann "SMART"
Grant, it is considered one of the largest awards given to public relations
students in the US.
The IPR will award a $5,000 study grant
to Ms. Hung, a $2,500 grant to her faculty advisor, Dr. James E. Grunig,
and a $7,500 eight-week internship with Ketchum Public Relations in New
York city. Formal acknowledgement of the award will take place at the
IPR’s annual lecture and awards dinner in New York city next fall.
Professor Andrew D. Wolvin Receives NCA's
Teaching and Learning Award
Professor Andrew
D. Wolvin is one of seven recipients of the National Communication
Association's Scholarship of Teaching and Learning award. Dr. Wolvin and
his colleagues received plaques honoring their selection at the NCA's
national convention in Seattle.
Supported by a Carnegie grant,
the STL award is part of a broader NCA program designed to promote the
scholarship of teaching and learning in the discipline of communication.
"You represent the best of what our discipline has to offer,"
said NCA First Vice President James L. Applegate.
PRSA
Certifies Undergraduate Public Relations Program
The undergraduate public relations program
has been recognized as "Certified in Education for Public Relations"
(CEPR) by the Public Relations Society of America.
One of four tracks offered by the department,
the program seeks to prepare professional public relations practitioners
and to contribute to the professionalization of the practice. It is only
the eighth university in the country to receive the CEPR designation since
PRSA established the program in 1990.
"We believe we have developed a model
of professional education in public relations that compares favorably
with professional education in other fields such as medicine, law, business
and education," said Professor James E. Grunig. "We believe
that our graduates are prepared not only to fit into the public relations
profession as it is practiced today but to influence the way it will be
practiced in the future."
Professor
James E. Grunig Receives the Paul J. Deutschmann
Award
The
Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication (AEJMC), the largest U.S. association of journalism
and mass communication educators and researchers, awarded James
E. Grunig, professor of communication, its most prestigious lifetime
award, the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence
in Research, at its annual meeting held in Phoenix in August.
The award is not given annually and has
been awarded only 15 times since it was initiated in 1969. Grunig is the
youngest scholar, at the time of his selection, to receive the Deutschmann
award. He has taught public relations at the University of Maryland for
31 years. The Deutschmann award winner is selected by the AEJMC Elected
Committee on Research. It is named in honor of Paul J. Deutschmann, who
was the first chair of the Department of Communication at Michigan State
University and an early leader in the development of mass communication
research before he died at a young age.
Grunig is best known for his research on
alternative models of public relations practice, the contribution of public
relations to strategic management, the nature of publics, measurement
and evaluation of public relations, the nature of organization-public
relationships, and the practice of public relations in an ethical and
socially responsible way. In 1984, Grunig also was named the first winner
of the Pathfinder Award for excellence in academic research on public
relations by the Institute for Public Relations. In 1989, the Public Relations
Society of America gave him its Outstanding Educator Award. In 1992, the
PRSA Foundation awarded him the Jackson, Jackson & Wagner award for
outstanding behavioral science research on public relations.
In nominating Grunig, Shannon Bowen, an
assistant professor of communication at Auburn University and formerly
a doctoral student at Maryland, said of Grunig: "Dr. Grunig has done
nothing short of revolutionize public relations, thereby enriching and
diversifying the field of communications. Around the globe, Dr. Grunig
is recognized as the scholar responsible for legitimizing public relations
as a course of academic study, professionalizing the field, and introducing
a credible and ethical type of public relations to replace the formerly
less-than-credible model, publicity. This led to a rejuvenation of esteem
in the practice of public relations, and booming enrollment at Journalism
and Communication schools around the country."
Department Recognized for Excellence and
Innovation in Undergraduate Education
The department received the Departmental
Award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Education (along
with $5000) for COMM 107 (G. Boker, M. Chambers, S. Chung, L. Janusik,
T. Matava, and A. Wolvin).
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