The medical school of RWTH Excellence University Aachen, one of Germany's Ivy League Universities, has awarded the academic degree "Doctor of Medicine" (Dr.rer.medic.; M.D.) to Dr. René Weber.
Dr. Charles Berger from the University of California, Davis, will be presenting a lecture titled "A Tale of Two Communication Modes: When Rational and Experiental Processing Systems Encounter Statistical and Anecdotal Depictions of Threat."
Andrew Flanagin, a professor in the Department of Communication, has assumed the position of Director of the Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) at UCSB.
Ranked by average citations per paper, among the top 100 federally funded U.S. universities that published at least 50 papers in Thomson Scientific-indexed communication journals between 1999 and 2003.
Michael Stohl spent the period July 23- August 25 as a Canterbury Fellow in the School of Political Science and Communication at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch New Zealand.
On January 29, 2010, Professor John Wiemann, retired Vice Chancellor of Institutional Advancement and Professor of the Department of Communication received the Innovator of the Year Award from the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce.
Communication Professor René Weber is part of a two-hour-long documentary on video games that aired on Discovery HD and on Discovery Channel. The title of the documentary is: "Gamer Generation – The World of Computer Games" and has been produced by Discovery Times & CBC.
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