Departmental News
Graduate Students Receive Summer Research Fellowships
Two Department of Communication graduate students have received Graduate Summer Research Fellowships from the UM Graduate School. This is the inaugural year for this program, and the fellowships provide supports to doctoral students for a summer of focused work on their dissertation research.
Stephen Underhill and Ai Zhang each will receive a $5,000 stipend from the Graduate School to support their research. Underhill's research
examines J. Edgar Hoover and the rhetorical rise of the FBI. Specifically, he is attending to public campaigns carried out by Hoover and the FBI against crime, free speech, and communism.
Zhang's research examines public relations education practices in China, exploring how such practices negotiate tensions between Confucianism and western standards.
