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Dr. Margaret Quinlan was invited by Provost Jennifer Troyer to serve as a University Marshal at the Fall 2024 Commencement. The position of University Marshal is an honor bestowed on a distinguished senior professor. The University Marshal represents the faculty at Commencement by carrying the mace and serves as a symbol of faculty leadership and […]
Dr. Sayde Brais was invited by the Communication Support Services (CSS) Department of Mecklenburg County for a second time to present on “The Basics of Public Speaking” during a CSS Pathways Program Meeting. CSS Pathways is a mentorship program that aims to help staff further their professional goals. The talk took place on November 21, […]
Dr. Bibi Reisdorf was featured as a keynote speaker at the National Education Symposium: Connecting from Coast to Coast, Correction Service Canada. Dr. Reisdorf’s talk title: “Digital Barriers and Opportunities During Reentry.”
Shanice Cameron received the Ray Camp Award for the Top Faculty Paper at Carolina’s Communication Association Conference for her paper titled, “Mapping the User Trajectory: Black Women’s Digital Well-Being Networks and Social Support Affordances” on November 8, 2024.
Dr. Ashli Stokes’ recently co-authored book, Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia’s Search for Resilience, was chosen as one of five selections for NC Reads and will be featured in April 2025. Read more here: https://nchumanities.org/nc-reads-2025-books/
Dr. Camille Endacott was invited to be a keynote speaker at Baylor University’s Corporate Communication symposium on October 9, 2024. The title of Dr. Endacott’s title was “Agents of Change: How AI Communicates for Us and Shapes Our Work.”
Dr. Min Jiang was elected Vice Chair of the Communication Law & Policy Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) effective in 2025 during the upcoming ICA Conference in Denver, CO. The Vice Chair becomes Chair after 2 years, serving another 2-year term.
The Speech Team competed in two tournaments hosted by James Madison and George Mason Universities between October 5 and 6, 2024 in Virginia. The team placed 3rd at George Mason University. James Tawes placed 3rd in Individual Sweeps and 1st in Prose. Isaac Lainez placed 1st in POI and Poetry. Elise Bagley placed 1st in […]
The latest episodes written by Rodney Stringfellow for the PBS Kids preschool series, “Alma’s Way,” began airing on PBS stations in October 2024. He will have a total of four new episodes to premiere on the network.
Cliff Scott, with co-author Krista Engemann ’17 M.A., ’22 Ph.D., won the best paper award at the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Researchers conference for “In Pursuit of the ‘Magic Second’: An Action-Implicative Examination of Talk in Pit Crews’ Post-Competition Debriefs.” The conference was hosted at UNC Charlotte from July 18th-20th 2024.
Between April 29 and 30, 2024, Dr. Min Jiang participated as a member of the High-Level Executive Committee (HLEC), at the invitation of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, in the global multi-stakeholder meeting NETmundial+10, themed “Global Challenges for the Governance of the Digital World,” in São Paulo, Brazil.
Dr. Shanice Jones Cameron won the top paper award at the 2023 National Communication Association conference in the African American Communication and Culture division. Cameron received the award for her paper titled “Black People Don’t Do That”: Discursive Barriers and Black Women’s Digital Well-Being Networks” presented on Friday, November 17th during the recent annual conference.
Dr. Erin Basinger has been selected by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion to present in their Distinguished Scholar Series. This series provides a forum for three speakers each semester to present their “innovative research and scholarly activities related to diversity, equity and inclusion in society.” Dr. Basinger’s talk will take place on October 18, 2023 at 5:30Pm in The […]
Dr. Tiffany Gallicano was one of three panelists for AEJMC’s webinar, titled “AI in the JMC Classroom,” hosted by the association’s Standing Committee on Teaching on September 19, 2023. Approximately 50 participants attended, and more than 100 people registered for the recording.
Dr. Sayde Brais has been named Honorable Mention Finalist for the UNC Charlotte Award for Teaching Excellence. The UNC Charlotte Award for Teaching Excellence honors full- or part-time non-tenure track faculty members who have at least five years of teaching service at UNC Charlotte (lecturers and adjunct faculty). You can read more here about this year’s finalists. The finalists and […]
In August 2023, Dr. Tiffany Gallicano gave an invited lecture to our university’s subject librarians on ChatGPT titled “The use of ChatGPT for research and information seeking: What students need to know.“
Five member of the Charlotte Speech Team traveled to Rome, Georgia on Oct. 29th to compete in their first in-person tournament of the year, the Berry College Autumn in the Mountains tournament. They had an incredible showing earning three tournament championships and Third Place in overall Team Sweepstakes! Individual results: Rhetorical Criticism: Champion, AJ Siegel […]
Endacott Wins International and National Dissertation Awards Multiple Awards Presented for Organizational Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence and Work Charlotte, NC: In May, 2022, the International Communication Association named Camille Endacott, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at UNC Charlotte, winner of the W. Charles Redding Dissertation Award at their annual conference in […]