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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
By Lindsay McNeish I had the chance to sit down recently with Aaliyah Pete, an incredibly humble athlete and Communication Studies major. Pete’s had a successful track career during her time at CSU. Her main event is shotput, but also throws discus and indoor weight. In fact, Pete is one of the most winningest female […]
Communication Studies special faculty Dr. Abby Veliquette was recently honored with a 2017 CSU Alumni Association Best Teacher Award. Veliquette is one of six recipients from across the university.
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 […]
The second edition of the ACT Human Rights Film Festival opens Friday, April 14, at CSU’s Lory Student Center Theater. The weeklong festival features the most critically acclaimed and recently released international documentary films that explore a range of human rights themes, including art as resistance, women’s rights, war and genocide, immigration and exile, LGBTQ […]
