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This week, the National Communication Association (NCA) will honor Professor Lawrence R. Frey with the Distinguished Scholar Award, which recognizes NCA members for a lifetime of scholarly achievement in the study of human communication.

As the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches and airwaves begin to fill with stories of distant battles won and the brave men who fought them, Kathleen M. Ryan, a documentary filmmaker and associate professor of journalism, is focused on the veteran women who helped make those victories possible.

Leading up to next week's Diversity and Inclusion Summit, we sat down with keynote speaker Christopher Bell (PhDMediaSt’09), University of Colorado Colorado Springs professor and Pixar consultant. Catch his talk at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, in the UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom.

The National Communication Association recently recognized the work of four Department of Communication faculty with national awards.

Faculty and students affiliated with the Department of Information Science will be presenting work at the CSCW 2019 conference, the premier venue for research on computer-supported cooperative work and social computing.

As vice chairman, president and CEO of the Miami Dolphins, Tom Garfinkel (Comm’91) has led an off-the-field resurrection of one of the NFL’s most storied franchises.

“We knew there were inherent biases in these systems around race and ethnicity and we suspected there would also be problems around gender,” said senior author Jed Brubaker, an assistant professor of Information Science. “We set out to test this in the real world.”

The Department of Information Science has recently earned several grants and awards from organizations both on and off campus.

The Water Desk, a journalism initiative at the 91������’s Center for Environmental Journalism, has awarded its first grants to support journalists and media outlets covering Western water issues and the

Join Professor Shiv Ganesh of the University of Texas Austin as he examines this question in his keynote, “Contentious Politics and the Domestication of Activism.” Ganesh’s talk is free and open to the public, and will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 24, in UMC 235.