Departmental News
Maryland@NCA, 2007
Faculty members and graduate students from the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland presented research, attended meetings, held offices, and received awards at the annual convention of the National Communication Association, November 14-18, 2007, in Chicago, IL.
Over thirty members of the department participated in scores of panels and meetings at the convention.
Graduate students, faculty, guests, and department alumni at the Maryland reception.
Graduate student Katie Place was among the top student papers in public relations and presented her work entitled "Public Relations Practitioners and Power-Control: How They Make Meaning of Power in an Organization" at the convention. Graduate student Terri Donofrio received the James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay Award for her essay entitled "Spatial Authority and Agentic Loss: 9/11 Families' Claim to Ground Zero through 'Take Back the Memorial.'" Ph.D. student Tim Barney was a laureate in the Golden competition for the second year in a row. And professor Edward Fink was co-author of a paper (with Michigan State University's Stan Kaplowitz and UM alum Sungeun Chung) entitled "The Cognitive Dynamics of Beliefs from Discrepant Messages" that was one of the Top Four Papers chosen by the Communication and Social Cognition Division.
Faculty members and graduate students enjoying the festivities at the Maryland reception.
Associate professor Dale Hample received the Gerald R. Miller Award from NCA's Interpersonal Communication Division for his book Arguing: Exchanging Reasons Face to Face and associate professor Trevor Parry-Giles received the Diamond Anniversay Book Award, the Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism, and the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for his book The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, & Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process.
The department hosted it's annual NCA reception on Friday, November 16, from 7:30-9:30 in the Waldorf Room at the Chicago Hilton.
UM Research Professor Kathy Kendall welcomes guests to the Maryland reception.
Faculty members and graduate students discuss Maryland's program with prospective students at the Graduate Student Open House.
For a listing of departmental participation at NCA, click here.
