Linda Putnam established a fund to build an endowment for the Putnam Interdisciplinary Scholar Award, a $500 annual honorarium to support communication graduate students involved in interdisciplinary research, including conference presentations and publications in journals outside the field. See full story at https://news.ucsb.edu/in-focus/academy-management-inductee-linda-putnam-establishes-award-organizational-research

Kyungin Kim and Kylie Woodman are both featured in the following post for their 2024 Graduate Division Carol Genetti Mentoring Awards: https://gradpost.ucsb.edu/blog/top-stories/2024/2024-07/2024-mentoring-award-winners

Kyungin Kim, Jennifer Kam, and D. Munguia win a Top Paper Award from the Family Communication Division of the National Communication Association at the 2024 conference for Kim, K., Kam, J. A., & Munguia, D. (2024). Undocumented college students' career-related communication with their parents and the vocational anticipatory socialization model of structural limitations. 

Chloe Gonzales, Tammy Afifi, and Andy Merolla win a Top Paper Award from the Family Communication Division of the National Communication Association at the 2024 conference for Gonzales, C. E., Afifi, T., & Merolla, A. (2024). The theory of rhythmic synergy in caregiving for older adults living with dementia. 

Musa Malik and Rene Weber received the Top Student Paper Award from the Communication and Social Cognition division at the 2024 National Communication Association for the following paper: “Seeing what we measure or measuring what we see? The content-analytic deconstruction of visual moral exemplification via unidimensional and multidimensional codebooks.”

Sovannie Len received a 2024 Top Student Paper Award from the Family Communication division of National Communication Association, for "Diverse Entertainment Media for Ethnic-Racial Socialization: An Initial Guide for Families"

This paper won both the Top Student Paper Award and Top Paper Award from the 2024 (Australia) ICA Computational Methods Division: Malik, M., Youk, S., Hopp, F. R., Curry, O. S., Cheong, M., Alfano, M., & Weber, R. (2024). The Extended Morality as Cooperation Dictionary: A Crowd-Sourced Approach via the Moral Narrative Analyzer Platform. International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.

Howie Giles and co-author were given the 2024 JLSP Biennial Outstanding Paper Award for Maguire, E. R., & Giles, H. (2022). Public expressions of empathy and sympathy by US criminal justice officials after controversial police killings of African-Americans. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 41(1), 49-75.

Linda Putnam has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a huge honor, extremely difficult to achieve. The Academy of Management is a 19,000 member organization from 110 countries. The Fellows Group recognizes and honors members of AoM who have made significant contributions to the science and practice of management. They have a screening committee that vets nominations before they send it out to all the Fellows (250 active Fellows). Nominees have to receive a 60% confirmation vote from the 250 Fellows.

Seven of the Department of Communication members win Top Paper Award from the Mass Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia. Utom, C., Lundstedt, J. L., Woodman, K., Belinfante, J., Nelson, M., Youk, S., & Weber, R. (2024). Unraveling the ties between problematic social media use, emotion regulation, and psychological well-being. The four undergraduate Comm students worked on this paper as RAs in the Media Neuroscience Lab.