News
Spring 2008
Professor Ronald Zboray and Visiting Scholar Mary Zboray win a Joseph McKerns Research Grant Award from the American Journalism Historians Association
The McKerns Research Grant Award is designed to provide research assistance and to recognize and reward the winners. The AJHA was established in 1982 and has a membership of over 400 scholars.
The Pitt Chronicle acknowledges Communication Department Faculty and Graduate Students
On Page 8 of The Pitt Chronicle, Communication Department Faculty member Ronald Zboray was acknowledged along with some of our current and alumni graduate students for their Art of Teaching.
Fall 2008
Reid-Brinkley Wins National Research Award
Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of Debate Shanara Reid-Brinkley has been named winner of the 2008 Letitia Woods Brown award.
Ronald Zboray, Director of Graduate Studies, assists with a new project
Improving Undergraduate Education: Instructional Resources for Teaching Assistants.
Summer 2008
Visiting Lecturer, Beginning Fall 2008
This is a one-year non-tenure track position.
Appointee will oversee the Media and Professional Communications major in the College of General Studies, and teach undergraduate courses such as Mass Communication Process, History of Mass Media, TV & Society, Theories of Persuasion, and Media Criticism.Administrative duties tosupport the programwill be included in the responsibilities of the position.The appointment is in the School of Arts and Sciences Department of Communication.
Fall 2007
Christian Science Monitor Interviews Faculty Member on Global Warming Teach-in
Some 1,600 institutions nationwide are scheduled to participate in teach-in on January 31, designed to "Focus the Nation" on the issue of global warming. As part of its coverage of the event, the Christian Science Monitor interviewed Associate Professor Gordon Mitchell.
Gordon Mitchell Receives New Appointment
Gordon Mitchell has been appointed deputy director of the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
Mitchell's Article Wins National Award
Gordon Mitchell's article, "Team B Intelligence Coups", has been named outstanding article of the year by the National Communication Association's Political Communication Division.
Spring 2007
Ronald and Mary Zboray Awarded
Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray recently received an award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
New Faculty to Join the Department in Fall 2007
The Department welcomes Shanara R. Reid and Brenton J. Malin to the faculty.
John Lyne Speaks at the Warhol Museum
Lyne gave a lecture at the Warhol Museum on March 1 titled, "Better Than Well: Physical and Mental Health and the Moving Target of Perfection."
Ten Faculty Awarded CxC Fellowships
The fall 2006 Faculty Seminar of the Communication Across the Curriculum Program (CxC) is well under way. The program is sponsored by Dean for Undergraduate Studies Regina Schulte-Ladbeck, and faculty who attend are awarded a stipend of $1,000.
Fall 2006
Department Welcomes New Chair for Fall
Barbara Warnick, PhD (rhetorical theory, argument, new media criticism)
Two Lecturers Joining Department
Meredith Guthrie (media and women's studies) and Adam Roth (rhetoric and communication)
Spring 2006
Staff Member Wins Chancellor's Award for Staff
The effervescent, talented, and resourceful Margaret "Peg" Chalus has won a 2006 Chancellor's Award for Staff for Excellence in Service to the University.