Dr. Linda L. Putnam will receive the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Conflict Management (IACM) at its annual conference in Istanbul, Turkey, July 3-6, 2011.
Stephanie Robbins won the Interpersonal Communication Division, 2011 Thesis of the Year Award, International Communication Association, for her M.A. thesis, "Gr8 Textpectations: An Examination of the Role of Need for Closure in Parental Anxiety."
Ronald E. Rice, the Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication and co-director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, has received an honorary doctorate from the Department of Communication at the University of Montreal.
Dr. Michael Stohl received the 2011 Applied/Public Policy Research Award by the International Communication Association on May 28 at the Annual Conference in Boston, MA.
Professor Ron Rice, Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication and co-director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, and Professor Cynthia Stohl have been named Fellows of the International Communication Association.
Two department of Communication faculty received grants from the Marsden Fund of New Zealand in the Marsden Fund yearly competitive grants program announced October 7, 2009.