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Professor Margaret D'Silva recently received the Outreach Award from the Southern States Communication Association. She was honored as the SSCA member who has done the most to involve underrepresented groups in communication, either through teaching, service or research.
One advantage of going to U of L is being in Louisville. The city provides a huge selection of internships, so check out the internship page to see the wide variety of opportunities available locally. Take a peek at a slide show of the Comm Dept and see some possible career paths you can pursue with a degree in Communication.
President James Ramsey wants U of L students to include an international experience in their education. Already this summer Comm Dept students have earned up to six hours in Panama! Get details at the Latin American Studies web site or give either Professor Margaret Dsilva or Professor Joy Hart a call at 852-6976.
The Delphi Center announces the first online UofL course to pass the Quality Matters rubric. Elizabeth Kimbell submitted her online Communication 111 course on public speaking for the QM process. Passing this quality rubric marks her course as a high-quality, well-designed online course and allows her to display the QM logo.
Almost a fifth of Distance Education enrollment at U of L is in the Comm Dept. This venue of learning offers great convenience and a wide variety of courses. In fact, a student can earn an entire Comm degree online. Consider the Distance Ed courses if your day to day schedule makes it difficult for you to take traditional courses.
Professor Lindsay Della was the 2008 recepient of the VICTOR A. OLORUNSOLA ENDOWED RESEARCH AWARD FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS. Lindsay is conducting several research projects on health communication issues.
Hottest thing in the Comm Dept is our new Masters Degree. Apply now because the program launched this past Fall semester 2007 and by Fall 2008 will have over 40 students in it!
Professor Bob St. Clair and Margaret D'Silva are organizing the IAICS Conference in Louisville in November 2008. In the mean time, Professor D'Silva has accepted an invitation from Oslo University College, Norway, to make a presentation on the Conference, the ICS journal and on her research on using folk theater in AIDS prevention in India.
Five Communication Department students presented their Advanced Public Relations projects at the 2007 Heritage Region conference of the International Association of Business Communicators. Nick Browning, Adam Eisenberg, Shannon Fischer, Katie Foster and Anne Murphy made presentations on media relations, communication technology and communication cost-effectiveness measures from their Advanced Public Relations case studies supervised by William Thompson. IABC's Heritage Region encompasses 17 states in the northeastern United States, ranging from Maine to Kentucky and Michigan to Virginia.
The 2008 recipient of the UofL Multicultural Teaching Award is Professor Ede Warner. This award recognizes excellence in practices that empower learning styles of all students from diverse global perspectives, language construction and disabilities styles; culturally pluralistic and socially constructed ideals; and course content and processes that incorporate multicultural and global perspectives.