'COMMplishments鈥擜pril 2016
Karen Ashcraft, Professor,听did a keynote at SIGSCE 听(Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) in Memphis (Mar 2-5), and it was entitled 鈥淟ean In听to the Evidence: Breaking the Glass Slipper of Technical Professions.鈥 听There were about 1,000 computer science educators from K through graduate programs in the audience.
Karen also led the effort to have a gender-inclusive restroom designated in Hellems. Her compassionate efforts have recently resulted in official approval to have HLMS RR240 re-designated as a gender-inclusive restroom. She sparked a renewed commitment to gender-inclusive facilities moving forward at听the university.
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Emma Collins and Rebecca Rice, graduate students, have received a grant to study social science aspects of drones. The grant is called Project Society: Navigating the Politics and Ethics of Drones. The grant is worth $3000.听
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Elizabeth K. Eger, PhD Student, presented a paper with a colleague at Villanova University at the Organizational Communication: Traditions, Transitions, and Transformations conference in February in Austin, Texas. Their paper was entitled, "Imagining qualitative organizational communication research beyond the quantitative specter: Introducing a comparative constructed focus group method."听听
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Danielle Hodge, PhD Student, will be presenting a paper, titled 鈥淓xploring Kendrick Lamar鈥檚 Lived Experience with Systematic Racism in听To Pimp a Butterfly鈥 at the American Studies Association Convention (November 2016 in Denver, Colorado).
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Meghann McGuire, PhD Student, 听presented a paper, 鈥淪cripting the Precarious Identity: Moving Beyond the Victim/Survivor Continuum,鈥 at WSCA and 听this paper earned a Top 3 paper award for the Organization for Research on Women and Communication. 听She also has a book review forthcoming in the next issue of听Rhetoric Society Quarterly听on Sara Ahmed鈥檚 (2014)听Willful Subjects, Durham NC: Duke University Press.
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Eric Netterlund, PhD Student, was awarded a 2016 CU-抖阴传媒在线 Graduate Summer Fellowship from the Graduate School.
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Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Associate Professor, was featured on a听podcast with the first African American Sierra Club President on:听鈥淭oday鈥檚 Fight for Environmental Justice.鈥澨齋even Scribes.听(Published: March 9, 2016). Available
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Leah Sprain, Assistant Professor, had two papers accepted; (1) Sprain, L. Framing science for democratic engagement. In S. Priest, J. Goodwin, and Dahlstrom, M. (Eds.)听Ethical issues in science communication: A theory-based approach. Oxford University Press. (2) McGreavy, B., Druschke, C. G., Sprain, L., Thompson, J. L., and Lindenfeld, L. Environmental communication pedagogy for sustainability: Developing core capacities to engage with complex problems.听Applied Environmental Education and Communication.
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Ted Striphas, Associate Professor, was featured on the NPR/Marketplace podcast,听Actuality. The episode aired March 23rd and is archived online ; it was called "Robot Tastemakers.鈥
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Ted Striphas, Associate Professor, and听Blake Hallinan, PhD Student, published the article: 鈥淩ecommended for You: The Netflix Prize and the Production of Algorithmic Culture,鈥澨齆ew Media & Society听18(1) (January 2016): 117-137.