News Archive

Rene Weber, Comm PhDs Frederic Hopp and Jacob Fisher, and colleagues have just had their article, Moral foundations elicit shared and dissociable cortical activation modulated by political ideology, published in Nature Human Behavior. The full press release is here.

Chris Otmar is first author on a top paper, with Andy Merolla, in the Interpersonal Communication division of NCA. The paper, titled Early relational exclusion and present-day minority stress, social anxiety, and coping responses among sexual minority men, is to be presented in November. Congratulations, Chris!

UCSB’s The Current has a great article on a project developed by Rene Weber and Musa Malik of the Media Neuroscience Lab

Tammy Afifi and her research team received the Maher Institute's 2023 Innovative Research on Aging Awards - the Gold Award

Kylie Woodman Receives a 2023 GSA Excellence in Teaching Award.

Kylie Woodman and Rene Weber won a Top Poster Award in the Communication Science and Biology Poster Session at the recent International Communication Association conference in Toronto

Ronald E. Rice was awarded a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS in Bochum, Germany; www.cais-research.de), from April 1 to June 30, 2024

Comm Ph.D. Jake Harwood will be inducted as an ICA Fellow ICA at the 2023 International Communication Association Conference in Toronto. 

Joe Walther will receive the Fredrick Williams Prize by the Communication and Technology Division at the 2023 International Communication Association Conference in Toronto.