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Please help us congratulate Dr. Kristi Schaller on becoming Principal Lecturer Emerita! Dr. Schaller joined our department in 2005 and has since played an important role in supporting our students and strengthening our community through her teaching and service. We are grateful for her many contributions and wish her all the best as she begins this new chapter. Congratulations, Dr. Schaller!
The Department of Communication Studies is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Michael F. Adams, University of Georgia president emeritus. A specialist in political communication, Dr. Adams was an affiliated faculty member in the department and previously taught some courses within the department.  We would like to express our sincerest condolences to his entire family.
Allegro Wang, a Ph.D. candidate, is up for the Top Student Paper in the NCA American Studies Division. The paper, "Time-Space Compression as Trope: Drone Surveillance on the US-Mexico Border" is about how Project Maven, a system being designed by Palantir to integrate drones with AI capabilities, is legitimized within a broader cultural narrative of a migration "crisis." Spatially, these tropes are used to narrow the audiences attention to the…
Dr. Panetta has posted a letter thanking you, the students, and you, the members of the department, for sailing through what became an incredibly trying semester. Thank you, Dawgs! 
Online Teaching Information for Instructors   Beginning March 30, all UGA courses will go online. The Department is committed to helping you transition your class to an online format as smoothly as possible in this stressful time. The online infrastructure at UGA is limited, so instructors are strongly encouraged to conduct courses asynchronously. The following are some resources for making the transition.   Getting Started with Remote…
Dr. Liu was recently featured on UGA's Office of Research for her work on youth vaping! See it here. 
Dr. Happe was honored this semester with the Creative Research Medal in the Humanities and Arts for her work on the implications of race and gender in genomic science.  Her work blends the insights of rhetorical research and feminist science studies to address genomic science. She makes a strong case that it is improbable for any science involved with race, gender, and genomics to avoid re-inscribing problematic historical ideas and social…
Congratulations to Dr. Belinda Stillion Southard on the publication of her second book, How to Belong: Women's Agency in a Transnational World from Penn State University Press! See the attached press release for more information.    Press release
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Dr. Jiyeon So and her collaborators in the Department of Geography, Dr. Andrew Grundstein (lead PI) and Castle Williams, recently received a research grant from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; $178,203).  The project is entitled “Implications of inconsistent visual displays on end user uncertainty, risk perception, and behavioral intentions” and will examine the effects of inconsistent information about severe weather…
The Department of Communication Studies extends its congratulations to Dr. Tina M. Harris, who has been named the faculty recipient of UGA’s 2017-2018 Excellence in Diversity Leadership Award. The Excellence in Diversity Leadership Awards are given annually by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Office of Inclusion and Diversity Leadership to one Franklin faculty member and one member of the Franklin staff in recognition of their efforts…