Dr. Tammy Afifi has won the 2011 Bernard J. Brommel Award from the National Communication Association. This award recognizes the scholarship and academic leadership of a faculty member who has advanced family communication at the local, regional, and national level over a period of years.
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.
