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Scholar profiles

Accessible from this page are articles profiling scholars and their research. These articles illustrate the breadth of research that is being conducted in the communication discipline, as well as how the research was being funded.

These articles first appeared in Spectra, NCA’s monthly printed newsletter.

Index of articles included:

Assisted community living draws attention of communication researchers

Benson searches for relationships between rhetoric and film

Braithwaite learns about Navajo communication patterns, helps students adapt to education off the reservation

Branham’s multimedia take on ‘America’ wows Bates College students, communication colleagues

Dr. Buller's Laboratory

Cal State, Long Beach receives $1 million for center

Cantor’s work on how media frightens children to be featured in ‘Scholarship of Translation’ program

Carlin to evaluate DebateWatch ’96 with Ford Foundation funding

Cegala and Brashers lead Ohio State toward health communication with two NIH-funded projects

Edgar project aims to make better health campaigns

Center for Environmental Communication Studies reshapes Cincinnati department

Entman takes Harvard’s Lombard Professorship

Glasers team up on research and consulting

Guggenheim to support Gross’ ‘Up From Invisibility’

Hammer's work in discourse analysis, conflict aids in Unabomber case, Peru hostage negotiations

Hammerback and Jensen focus on Mexican- American rhetoric, publish book on César Chavez

For Hawkins, scholarship means collaboration

Jarmon completes the nation's first CD-ROM dissertation

Kaleidoscope project a unique blend of theory and application

Kentucky group receives fifth round of funding from NIH

O’Rourke’s public scholarship combines rhetorical knowledge with activism to produce op-ed pieces

Osborn retired, but not from scholarship

Parks' ideology article wins 1996 Woolbert Award

John Durham Peters wins NEH fellowship

Poole receives NSF funding to continue GDSS work

Pratt wins Newberry Library Fellowship

For Rawlins, ‘Friendship Matters’

Reitzel’s selection as outstanding professor honors both teaching and service learning

Scheerhorn and his research work to support hemophiliacs

Scholars redux: Catching up with previously-featured research

Spitzberg aims to identify communication behavior patterns that lead to stalking

Joseph Tuman serves as principal author of NCA Supreme Court Amicus Brief

Julia Wood wins CASE award for scholarly teaching

Funded research a key element of new doctoral program

‘Woz Way’ aims at expanding traditional definitions

Annenberg/CPB funds electronic multicultural communities project

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