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Cheryl Spainhour’s Journalism and Poverty class has created a website to showcase the important work they are pursuing concerning poverty in North Carolina. Find out more by visiting A Study in Homelessness.
Death, Dying, and Beyond: Understanding Ourselves at the End One-Day Colloquium at UNC-Charlotte Center City Friday, April 22, 2016 “If there was no end to life, life would have no value. It is the ever-present danger of losing it which helps to bring home the value of life” (Popper, 1977, p. 148). Death gives life […]
Have you ever been intimadated while giving an oral presentation in a class? Do you need some pointers for organization? Delivery? Content? Research? Or just want some extra aid in polishing up your speeches in order to take them to the next level? UNC Charlotte is pleased to annouce the formation of a Speaking Resouce […]
The department of Communication Studies is pleased to congratulate our graduate students and colleagues on the excellent job they did representing our department at the Organization for the study of Communication, Language and Gender (OSCLG) conference in held in Bowling Green Kentucky this October. Following are the presentations presented by our students and faculty. […]
Congratulations to Cris Davis’ for her feature in the Charlotte Observer on death and communications.
Congratulations to Loril Gossett for the publication of her article, “Concealing Communities Within the Crowd: Hiding Organizational Identities and Brokering Member Identifications of the Yelp Elite Squad” in Management Communication Quarterly. The article was co-authored with David Askay, a graduate of UNC Charlotte’s Organizational Science doctoral program who now teaches in the Department of Communication […]
UNC Charlotte journalism students won a 2014 Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists on March 29 at the SPJ Region 2 conference held at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. The award, “Best Independent Online Student Publication,” was given for the website created from student work for the […]
Dr. Ashli Stokes has been selected as a finalist for the Nat Fuller dinner banquet, an interracial feast orinially organized just weeks after the end of the Civil War. The dinner will be held in Charleston, SC. For more information about this event, you can read about it in the Post and Courier.
Cheryl Spainhour sat down with a traveling Shakespearian acting troupe as they prepare to leave Charlotte after a nine week stint. You can read the full interview on the Creative Loafing website.
Dr. Min Jiang has been elected to serve a three-year term (2016-2018) in NCA’s legislative assembly as an at-large representative. This is a great honor and Dr. Jiang will be an excellent addition to this assembly as she represents our department and our discipline at large.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Advising Center and the Department of Communication Studies are hosting two Communication Studies Concentration Exploration Sessions from 2-3 PM on Monday February 16th in Fretwell 100 and Tuesday February 17th in Denny 200. Pre-Communication students who are confused about what concentration they would like to pursue when they […]
Congratulations to Dr. Quinlan for her two recent publications. Vishnevsky, T. (graduate student), Quinlan, M. M., Kilmer, R., Danhauer, S., & Cann, A. (accepted). “The keepers of stories”: A grounded theory study of posttraumatic growth and wisdom in a sample of oncology nurses. Journal of Holistic Nursing. Quinlan, M. M., & Bates, B. R. (2015). […]
The UNC Charlotte Forensics team had a good showing at our first tournament of the semester and picked up the following wins. Hope Crawford: 3rd in SDI, 3rd in Declamation and 2nd in Communication Analysis. Joey Cody: 3rd in Impromptu, 6th in After Dinner Speaking Julie Congema: 5th in Prose, 5th in Informative UNC Charlotte: […]
ANNOUNCING THE INAUGURAL COMMUNICATION STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER AWARD COMPETITION Undergraduate students who have written papers in Communication Studies classes are invited to submit their papers for the Competition. Two paper awards are available: Communication Studies Research Paper Award, Senior (for students who have 90 or more earned credit hours at the time they submit the […]
Lecturer, Communication Studies Department of Communication Studies University of North Carolina, Charlotte The Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte invites applications for a non-tenure track position in Communication Studies at the rank of Lecturer. The initial appointment is for three-years with the possibility of renewal depending upon performance, departmental needs, […]
The UNC Charlotte Forensics team received numerous awards this weekend at the CFA Winter Tournament. Awards include: Hope Crawford – 4th place Communication Analysis Hope Crawford – 4th place Dramatic Duo Hope Crawford – 5th place Declamation Josiah Cody – 4th place Dramatic Duo Eleazar Jarman – 5th place Persuasive Speaking UNC Charlotte – 5th […]