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of brochures to increase the use of hearing loss protectionin farmers and landscape workers,” “Searching forSuper Diffusers: Refining a method for locating influentialswithin a social network,” and “Television and Gratification:The role of sex in predicting media uses andgratifications and television program preferences.”Virginia Kupritz presented two papers at the InternationalEnvironmental Design Research Association(EDRA) Conference. Kupritz co-presented “Quantitativeassessment of individual and group privacy needs”with Teresa Bellingar of Haworth Inc. Kupritz also presentedthe paper “Organizational culture” as part of apanel of communication faculty, business strategists,architects, and urban planners. She presented a coauthoredpaper “Productive management communication:Online and face-to-face” at the 2007 National CommunicationAssociation Convention.Ken Levine presented three papers at the 2007 NationalCommunication Association Convention. The first,“Multitasking in organizational meetings: A new componentof the process variable,” was coauthored withdoctoral student Alla Kushniryk and faculty membersSuzie Allard, and Carol Tenopir. Tenopir and Allardalso contributed to Levine’s second paper, “Communicatingin the 21st century workplace: A theory of communicationnexus.” Andy Tollison (BS/JEM ’03, MS/SIS ’05) served as lead author on the third paper, “Sarcasm,smiling and sincerity: Creation of the nonverbalpoliteness scale,” which Levine and Abby Brooks (PhD/CCI ’07) coauthored. At the annual meeting of the Associationof Internet Researchers, Levine presented thecompetitively selected paper, “Measuring Internet usagewithin organizations: The collection and sharing ofInternet research,” with Allard.Catherine Luther and coauthors Nathan Kirkham(BS/JEM ’95, MS/CCI ’05) and Robin Hardin (MS/CCI ’06, PhD/CCI ’00), an assistant professor in UTKnoxville’s Department of Exercise, Sport, and LeisureStudies, presented their paper, “Differential newscoverage of female and male athletes during the 2004Olympic Games,” at the 2007 Association for Educationin Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)Convention.Sally McMillan and Beth Avery presented their paper,“From have-nots to watchdogs: Understanding therealities of senior citizens’ use of the Internet for healthinformation,” at the 2007 Association for Educationin Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)Convention.Michael J. Palenchar presented his paper “Risk communicationand community right to know” at the 2007National Communication Association Convention.He also presented “Using real time cases” in a pre-conferenceworkshop called “Learning to thrive when youteach public relations courses: Public relations bootcamp.” Palenchar was a coauthor on the paper “Universityreputations and campus health education campaigns:Managing strategic stakeholder relationships”with doctoral student John Brummette, which was presentedat the 2007 Association for Education in Journalismand Mass Communication (AEJMC) Convention.Lu Tang presented “Openness vs. secrecy? The effects ofprofessional culture on academic-industry knowledgesharing” at the 2007 National Communication AssociationConvention.Carol Tenopir presented an invited talk, “Measure formeasure, or, much ado about nothing? Measuring thequality and value of online journals,” in June 2007 at theUnited Kingdom Serials Group program in London.Michelle Violanti presented her paper “Sex communicationbetween mothers and daughters” at the 2007National Communication Association Convention.Peiling Wang presented three coauthored papers at the2007 Meeting of the American Society for InformationScience and Technology: “Information-seeking behaviorsof academic researchers in the Internet Age: A userstudy in the United States, China and Greece,” “Miningweb search behaviors: Strategies and techniques for datamodeling and analysis,” and “Modeling web sessionbehavior using cluster analysis: A comparison of threesearch settings.”Honors and RecognitionsBen Bates presented a lecture, “Value, information, andintellectual property,” at the University of Sheffield inEngland.Dorothy Bowles was a guest on Knoxville’s WATE–TVto discuss the state Sunshine Law as it related to a trial inwhich the Knoxville News Sentinel sued the Knox CountyCommission.Lisa Fall and Erich Randall, U.S. Army National Guard,won first place for their scholar-to-scholar presentation,“Strengthening internal relations among the UnitedStates Army National Guard soldiers: Testing predictorsof employee satisfaction,” in the public relations divisionof the 2007 Association for Education in Journalism andMass Communication (AEJMC) Convention.Daniel Haygood won second place in the Most PromisingProfessors competition at the 2007 Association forEducation in Journalism and Mass Communication(AEJMC) Convention.Bonnie Hufford and doctoral student Jim Miller presentedtwo sessions each at the Tennessee High SchoolPress Association’s annual student media workshop heldin fall 2007 at Vanderbilt University.Catherine Luther received a Fulbright Scholar grant toperform research in Japan during the fall 2007 semester.She spent the semester doing research on the topic ofanti-terrorism surveillance measures in Japan and publicopinion on privacy issues.Michael Palenchar’s paper “Risk communicationand community right to know” was named a “TopThree Paper” in the public relations division of the2007 National Communication Association Convention.Palenchar also won the NCA public relations division’sPride Award for best published article in 2006–07.The article, “Disclosing special interests: Constitutionalrestrictions on front groups,” was coauthored with KathyFitzpatrick, professor at Quinipiac University. At the 2007Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication(AEJMC) Convention, doctoral student JohnBrummette and Palenchar won first place in the publicrelations division for their high-density research presentation,“University reputations and campus healtheducation campaigns: Managing strategic stakeholderrelationships.”Carol Tenopir has been awarded the Contributions toInformation Science and Technology Award by the LosAngeles Chapter of the American Society for InformationScience (LACASIS). Tenopir also received the 2007Whittier College Alumni Achievement Award at the college’sannual Poet Awards Gala. She earned her bachelor’sdegree from Whittier.Michelle Violanti was named Outstanding CommunicationEducator of the Year by the Tennessee CommunicationAssociation (TCA) at the TCA conference held infall 2007 in Nashville. Violanti received the award for herwork in both graduate and undergraduate education.Peiling Wang’s paper “Information-seeking behaviorsof academic researchers in the Internet Age: A user studyin the United States, China and Greece” was selectedas the runner-up for the 2007 ASIS&T Special InterestGroup-Information Needs Seeking and Use (SIG-USE)Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award.Wang garnered another award for her project, “ANGELPICKS ME: An approach to naturally gauged emotivelearning towards proficiency in information and computationalknowledge and skills—maximizing education,”won a 2007–08 UT Professional Development andResearch Award. She also served as an invited internationalscholar at the Nordic Research School in Libraryand Information Science (NORSLIS) in fall 2007. Wangdelivered three lectures at the NORSLIS PhD course onresearch methods at the Royal School of Library andInformation Science in Aalborg, Denmark: an introductorylecture on research methodologies in LIS, observingusers using experimental design, and web search loganalysis.Candace White and Greg Rumsey (PhD/CCI ’06),Southern Adventist University, won honorable mentionfor their scholar-to-scholar research presentation, “Strategiccorporate philanthropic relationships: Nonprofits’perceptions of benefits and corporate motives,” in thepublic relations division of the 2007 Association for Educationin Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)Convention.Mike Wirth, Ben Bates, and alumnus Todd Chambers(PhD/CCI ’00), an associate professor at Texas Tech University,were named to “Who’s Who of World’s LeadingExperts in IDTV, Media Management and Economics”in 2007.The Communication Institute for Online Scholarshipincluded several CCI faculty members and schools on itslist of leading scholars and leading research programs.The leading research programs, listed by topics, includethe following from CCI: Advertising and Public Relations—Computer;Communication Studies—Aging; andJournalism and Electronic Media—Asia, Economics, Language,Political-Elections, Radio. CCI faculty memberswere listed as leading scholars in the following areas:Ben Bates—Broadcasting and Media, Economics, Television;Barb Kaye—Computer, Language, Politics andGovernment, Technologies, Television; CatherineLuther—Print Journalism; Sally McMillan—Computer,Technologies; Michelle Violanti—Education; CandaceWhite—Computer; and Mike Wirth—Economics.research notes21