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The Department invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the area of Latina/o/x/e-centered communication research. We seeks to hire a scholar who conducts theory-driven, culturally-informed, applied research on communication processes centering Latina/o/x/e communities. See the full job ad here: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02580

Dr. Tammy Afifi wins the NCA Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication which recognizes career contributions to the study of interpersonal communication. See award site.

Rene Weber, Comm PhDs Frederic Hopp and Jacob Fisher, and colleagues have just had their article, Moral foundations elicit shared and dissociable cortical activation modulated by political ideology, published in Nature Human Behavior. The full press release is here.

Chris Otmar is first author on a top paper, with Andy Merolla, in the Interpersonal Communication division of NCA. The paper, titled Early relational exclusion and present-day minority stress, social anxiety, and coping responses among sexual minority men, is to be presented in November. Congratulations, Chris!

UCSB’s The Current has a great article on a project developed by Rene Weber and Musa Malik of the Media Neuroscience Lab

Tammy Afifi and her research team received the Maher Institute's 2023 Innovative Research on Aging Awards - the Gold Award