Dr. Allison Prasch Wins Golden Monograph Award

The National Communication Association has honored Dr. Allison Prasch, assistant professor of Communication Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University, with the 2017 Golden Monograph Award for her 2016 article, “Toward a Rhetorical Theory of Deixis.”   Prasch will be formally presented the award on Saturday, November 18, at the 103rd Annual NCA Convention held in Dallas, Texas. The Golden Anniversary Monograph Award was created to mark NCA’s […]

A Wonderful CMST Community

Happy Friday! I hope week two has gone as well for you as it has for me. As always, I have a wide variety of good and interesting news for you. Scott has a new essay out. “Always, Blind, and Silenced: Disability Discourses in Contemporary South Korean Cinema,” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Vol. 11, no. 3 […]

Dr. Meara Faw: Saliva's Link to Better Communication

Cryogenic freezing. Wet lab protocols. Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate (DHEAS). You’re not likely to hear these words fall from the mouths of most communication studies faculty when discussing their research. But, if you’re Assistant Professor Dr. Meara Faw, these scientific terms are a clear path to advancing the realm of what we know about interpersonal communication. Faw […]

Wrapping up the first week– great undergraduates and Friday evening events

Our first school week of the academic year 17-18 is nearly in the books. It has been amazing. For a few minutes on Monday nearly everyone in our community was looking into the sky to watch the moon cover the sun. How amazing was that? Sure, it was amazing that we were so close to a total eclipse […]

Your Story Starts Here

Friday, August 18. Clark C142. 9:30 a.m. Communication Studies Ram Welcome. Dr. Elizabeth Williams and Dr. Greg Dickinson were ready and waiting. A bounty of swag – fresh out of the box CMST fidget spinners, CMST Euro stickers, College of Liberal Arts travel mugs, and CLA notebooks – was arranged on desks. Right on time, […]

A Visual Story of SPCM 347: Visual Communication

By Lindsay McNeish In spring semester 2017, Dr. Elinor Light taught SPCM 347: Visual Communication, an upper division course that teaches communication studies majors to become competent visual communicators.   “Understanding the influence of visual communication is important because we are so visually focused,” says Dr. Light. “Understanding how to decipher that communication and think […]

Dr. Chung receives Alumnus of the Year Award from UCLA Film, Television, and Digital Media Department

By Lindsay McNeish On Friday, March 24, Dr. Hye Seung Chung was awarded the Alumnus of the Year for UCLA’s Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at the 2017 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference held in Chicago. Established in 2012, the award has been presented to seven other scholars including world-renowned film […]