Welcome to Friday! What a whirlwind of a week it has been and still will be! Monday we started with our first Brown Bag research presentation. Scott lead us through some rich conversation about his book on human rights cinema. A wonderful conversation. (Another Brown Bag research presentation comes this next Monday. Eric will be presenting on ethnography and his decades-long project on rural community in […]
We are pulling to a close yet another amazing week here in the department. I continue to be so proud of everything we are doing. For example, Hye Seung’s article “Hollywood Diplomacy and The Purple Heart (1944): Preserving Wartime Alliances through Film Regulation,” The Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television is available in e-print. Many of you saw what is really a […]
And now it is Friday. Again. Seems like Friday happens almost every week! Amazing how that works out. Hey some important and cool stuff to talk about this week. First, thanks to the hard work of Lindsey with support from Carol, Scott, me, and partners from across the college and the university we are finalizing a really important program responding to […]
Miguel Banuelos-Garcia was a bit nervous to tell his family he was going to college. A first generation student, Banuelos-Garcia didn’t tell his parents until the night of his high school graduation. He had applied, been accepted, and familiarized himself with the university system on his own with the help of friends and mentors. “I […]
And so it is Friday. Friday seems to come along with a certain inevitability and with it another week is nearly done. Congratulations! I trust that you are settling well into your fall semester routines whatever those are. I have spent yesterday and will spend this morning in Estes at the Fall Leadership Forum. Chairs, directors, heads, VPs […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
And so we begin. I am drafting this on Thursday, Aug. 17, the second day of move in. I rode through growing lines of cars and trucks loaded down with new students and their dorm essentials. I pedaled past the event tents topped with little green flags looking a little bit like a medieval fair […]
