Rene Weber has received a has received a $65,000 (EUR) grant from the German Research Foundation, and Debra Lieberman has received a $730,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Dave Seibold has been awarded the 2013 Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award, International Communication Association for his exemplary role model as a scholar, teacher, and advisor
The Department of Communication has been awarded the 2013 William J. Villa Service to Student Award, which recognizes one university department that has demonstrated extraordinary service to students
This honor is jointly awarded from the journal "Communication Methods and Measures", the publisher "Taylor and Francis", and the Communication Theory and Methodology Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
He was one of a dozen international scholars invited to make a featured presentation at the First Congress on Children and the Media in Turkey in Fall 2013.
