Student Achievements

Recent doctoral graduate Giorgia Aiello has received the NCA Critical and Cultural Studies Division's Outstanding Dissertation Award. Aiello is now an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. She received the award at the CCS Division's annual business meeting in November during the annual NCA convention in San Diego.

Anna Norman (BA, 2009 projected) is in New York working temporarily as a production assistant at ABC News on the show Primetime: What Would You Do? It premiered Jan.  6, 2009 and airs every Tuesday night at 6. She is having a great time and says the experience is invaluable. Norman will finish her degree after the Primetime series is over. She expects to be back on campus in spring 2009 (unless ABC offers her a full-time job).

The Washington Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa's Executive Board invited 88 students to join and eight are Communication majors. They are: Jane Elizabeth Austin; Emily Ann Fairbrook; Grace Betty MacMillan; Lara O'Neil-Dunne; Rika Kurose Reid; Brittni Reinersten; and Molly Ann Talbert.

CLASSROOM WEBZINES 
Media and Peace
Professor Nancy Rivenburgh’s Communications and International Relations class released a Webzine on media and peace. The Web magazine investigates complex relationships among the media, journalistic practice, and public understanding and pursuit of peace. Read the first issue.

The Puget Sound Environment webzine
Student reporters in Warren Cornwall’s Environmental Journalism class launched a Web magazine about the Puget Sound environment. (Cornwall is a visiting reporter from The Seattle Times.) Sound News includes original stories and links to other local environmental news sources carrying current stories about the Puget Sound area.