School News - College of Communication and Information

Elizabeth Webb, recently
defended her qualifying
exams. Jennifer Gray
successfully defended her
dissertation and graduated.
Jason Martin is beginning
his second year in the
doctoral program.
In
addition
to the college
graduate
faculty, there
are six additional
graduate faculty
who have a secondary
appointment in our college.
Four of the six are
Full Secondary Graduate
Faculty members and the
remaining two are Associate
Secondary Graduate Faculty
Members. We also have six
emeriti graduate faculty
members (Dr. Applegate, Dr.
Baseheart, Dr. Bostrom, Dr.
Donohew, Dr. Moore, and
Dr. Rush) that together
helped to create the graduate
program we enjoy today.
Staff
Louise Menifee is the
program’s staff assistant.
She has been with the program
for fifteen years.
Program Events
The fall semester began with
a new student orientation
and the annual Graduate
Student Association picnic.
In place of a retreat, graduate
students met in October to
discuss strategies for improving
the process of graduate
comprehensive and qualifying
exams.
The Graduate
Student
Colloquium was
held in November.
Dr. Joe Walther
from Michigan
State University
presented a program
titled, “The
Past, Present, and
Future of
Computer
Mediated
Communication
Research.
The 12th annual
Graduate Student
Association Symposium was
held at the Crowne Plaza/
Campbell House in Lexington
on Saturday, March 1, 2008.
The theme of the symposium
was “Communication in
Context” and the keynote
address was delivered by Dr.
Laura Stafford (The Ohio
State University). We are also
pleased to announce that Dr.
Stafford will be joining our
faculty in the fall as a full
professor with tenure!
We celebrated the end of
another successful year with a
lovely Saturday afternoon picnic
hosted by Caitlin Dixon
who is a master’s student in
our program and is chair of
the social committee.
Kelly Cowden and Laura Coleman
both master’s students are at work
in the Graduate Seminar Room.
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