Musa Malik, Rene Weber, and Team Win Top Student Paper Award and Top Paper Award at ICA

2024-07-03

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 Wins Biennial Outstanding Paper Award

2024-07-01

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 Elected Academy of Management Fellow

2024-08-11

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.

Sungbin Youk, Kylie Woodman, Rene Weber and Four Comm Undergrads Win a 2024 ICA Mass Communication Division Top Paper Award

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.

Neena Grewal

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Neena Grewal
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Neena is an upcoming Senior Communication student. Her pronouns are she/her. Neena entered UCSB as a transfer student in her Junior year and quickly fell in love with the Communication program. In addition to being a peer advisor, Neena is co-president of Writer's Room and Social Media and Marketing Chair for Reality. In between classes, you can find her at the beach, collaging in the library, or studying at a café.

Ruth Molina Berber

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Ruth Molina Berber
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Ruth is an upcoming 3rd-year Communication and Sociology major. Her pronouns are she/her. In communication, she is interested in interpersonal/intergroup and organizational communication. After UCSB, she hopes to continue her education and obtain her Master’s in Social Work. In her free time, Ruth likes reading (mostly fiction), spending time with friends, and enjoying the beautiful beaches. She’s passionate about connecting with people and would love to talk about double majors, being first generation, navigating the major/pre-major, or any other questions!

Kendra Martinez

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Kendra Martinez
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Kendra Martinez is a second-year Communication and Statistics and Data Science double-major from Los Angeles, California, expecting to graduate in 2027. In addition to being a Peer Advisor for the Department of Communication, Kendra is the assistant editor for the arts and culture section of UCSB's independent, student-run newspaper, The Daily Nexus. In her free time, Kendra enjoys going to concerts, taking long walks along the beach, and climbing with her friends.

Veronica Wilson Wins Two Service Awards

2024-05-23

Veronica Wilson is the recipient of the 2024 Dixon-Levy Graduate Student Association Service Award.  “This prestigious award will be given to outstanding members of the university community who have unselfishly devoted themselves to the improvement of graduate student life. Contributions to graduate life should extend beyond what is deemed appropriate to everyday work or civic service responsibilities.” https://gsa.ucsb.edu/awards/dixon-levy-gsa-service-award

Also, Veronica’s Mental Health First Aid team won the 2024 William J. Villa Service to Students Award this year, co-sponsored by Housing and Residential Services, and Student Affairs. This year she personally hosted a total of 4 trainings for the team and certified 88 students (undergrad and grad), staff and faculty on campus in Mental Heath First Aid. “The Villa Award is intended to recognize a department/unit that consistently strives for excellence in its support for students and displays approachability, flexibility, availability, openness to innovation, and teamwork.” https://www.sa.ucsb.edu/getman/VillaApplication.aspx 

Watch Jennifer Kam’s Video from the UCSB Division of Social Science's Pahl Initiative for the Study of Critical Issues Research Grant

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2024-05-28

In Academic Year 2022-2023, Dr. Jennifer Kam’s project, "Communication in Support of Separated Latina/o/x Families: From Research to Policy and Practical Implications" was awarded the UCSB Division of Social Science's Pahl Initiative for the Study of Critical Issues Research Grant. As part of that, two of the "Pahl Scholars" were selected to do a follow-up set of public-facing short videos. Jennifer was one of those two and the videos are now available for distribution. The videos can be viewed here:

Chapter 1: The Idea

 
Chapter 2: The Campaign
 
Chapter 3: The Impact