School News - College of Communication and Information

Dr. Beth Barnes presents a
certificate recognizing James
D. Davidson, Jr. as a 2006-07
recipient of the Carol Sutton
Scholarship. This is the second
time Davidson has
received the award.
Professor John Clark
was appointed internship
director and sequence
coordinator for the
Telecommunications major.
He serves as faculty advisor
for WRFL, UK’s student-run
radio station, the Society of
Telecommunications Scholars
(STS) and the Grehan
Recording Group (GRG).
Professor Al Cross was
re-elected a director of the
Sigma Delta Chi Foundation
of the Society of Professional
Journalists and remains secretary
and intern supervisor
of the Kentucky Judicial
Campaign Conduct
Committee, a private group
that monitors campaigns
for judgeships.
Dr. Alyssa Eckman serves as
the sequence coordinator for
ISC. She was the newspaper
designer for UK’s Dow Jones
Summer High School
Journalism Workshop.
Eckman wrote two special
sections which focus on the
energy industry for the
Lexington Herald-Leader’s
Newspapers in Education
program for use in
elementary and secondary
school classrooms.
Dr. Mike Farrell
moderated a panel of First
Amendment scholars discussing
their latest research
projects at the Association for
Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication
national convention. He
was named to the ethics
committee of the Society of
Professional Journalists. He
also served as a judge for the
Scripps Howard National
Journalism Awards.
Dr. Jim Hertog presented
his co-authored paper
“Candidate Campaign
Experience and Willingness
to Run Again,” in the
Political Division at
the International
Communication Association
conference. The paper was
co-authored by doctoral
student J Human. Hertog
is a member of the College’s
graduate faculty.
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Dr. Philip Hutchison will
have his article, “Journalism
and the Perfect Heat Wave:
Assessing the Reportage of
North America’s Worst Heat
Wave, July-August 1936,”
appear in the winter edition
(Volume 25(1) 31-54) of
American Journalism. He is
an associate member of the
College’s graduate faculty.
Dr. Richard Labunski’s
book, James Madison and
the Struggle for the Bill of
Rights was published in
paperback by Oxford
University Press in June 2008.
The hardcover and audio
versions have been available
since 2006. Labunski has
begun writing his sixth book.
Labunski is a member of the
College’s graduate faculty.
Dr. Tom Lindlof will have
his book, Hollywood Under
Siege: Martin Scorsese, the
Religious Right, and the
Culture Wars, published by
the University Press of
Kentucky, August 2008. This
year marks the 20 th anniversary
of the original release of
the Scorsese film The Last
Temptation of Christ, which
is the focus of Lindlof’s book.
Lindlof is a member of the
College’s graduate faculty.
John McGary spent 2007-08
with the school as a visiting
instructor, teaching broadcast
journalism and other
journalism courses.
Professor Buck Ryan spent
the spring semester on
sabbatical, updating and
expanding his book, The
Editor’s Toolbox: A
Reference Guide for
Beginners and
Professionals. The planned
revision will split the book
into three texts, one focused
on grammar and usage,
one on editing, and a
third updating the Maestro
Concept to apply
to multimedia.
Professor Scoobie Ryan is
the sequence coordinator for
the journalism major and
the school’s graduate teaching
assistant supervisor.
Dr. Mark Stuhlfaut led the
UK National Student
Advertising Competition
Team in the development of
a campaign for ADL, as part
of this year’s national program.
Stuhlfaut chairs the
school’s Diversity Committee
and coordinated the program
for an April event. He is an
associate member of the
College’s graduate faculty.
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Dr. Zixue Tai has been
selected to receive a Summer
Faculty Research Fellowship
from the University of
Kentucky. The fellowship will
provide support to complete
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