Departmental News
Department Faculty & Students Excel at AEJMC
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) annual convention was held August 8-11, 2007, in Washington, DC. Department of Communication faculty and graduate students presented papers and received awards at the convention.
A paper entitled "From Baby Boomers to Generation X: What Has Changed and What Hasn't for Women in Public Relations," co-authored by Bey-Ling Sha, David Dozier, Elizabeth L. Toth & Linda Aldoory received the 2nd place faculty paper in Public Relations Division competition.
A paper entitled "Toward an Ideal Master's Curriculum in the 21st Century" was the First Place Teaching Paper in the Public Relations Division. The essay was co-authored by Hongmei Shen & Elizabeth L. Toth
Graduate students Ai Zhang, Hongmei Shen and Hua Jiang received a first place award for their presentation "Culture and Chinese Public Relations: A Multi-Method 'Inside Out' Approach."
Graduate student Ai Zhang won the competitively selected Susan Roschwalb Award of $250 to advance her graduate research.
Other papers that featured UMD faculty and graduate students included: "Work-Family Discourse in Public Relations: Development of a Work-Personal Continuum for Gender Theory" by Linda Aldoory, Hua Jiang, Elizabeth Toth, and Bey-Ling Sha; "Are Two Heads Better than One? The Dynamics and Efficacy of Coalition Building" by Andrew Miller; "How Women Make Meaning of Shared Involvement in News and Bioterrorism" by Jennifer Vardeman and Linda Aldoory; and "The Effects of Shared Experience on Problem Recognition and Involvement: An Elaboration of the Situational Theory of Publics for Risk Communication" by Linda Aldoory, Jeong-Nam Kim, and Natalie Tindall.
