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Dr. David Seibold has won the 2011 Career Achievement Award from the Group Communication Division of NCA.

Dr. Tammy Afifi has won the 2011 Bernard J. Brommel Award from the National Communication Association. This award recognizes the scholarship and academic leadership of a faculty member who has advanced family communication at the local, regional, and national level over a period of years.

Dr. Linda Putnam has won the 2011 Academy of Management Distinguished Service Award.

Dr. Linda L. Putnam will receive the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Conflict Management (IACM) at its annual conference in Istanbul, Turkey, July 3-6, 2011.

Several faculty and graduate students have won top paper awards at recent Communication conferences.

Stephanie Robbins won the Interpersonal Communication Division, 2011 Thesis of the Year Award, International Communication Association, for her M.A. thesis, "Gr8 Textpectations: An Examination of the Role of Need for Closure in Parental Anxiety."

Ronald E. Rice, the Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication and co-director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, has received an honorary doctorate from the Department of Communication at the University of Montreal.

Dr. Karen Kroman Myers received the 2010-2011 Harold J. Plous Award.

Professor Ron Rice, Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication and co-director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, and Professor Cynthia Stohl have been named Fellows of the International Communication Association.