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Dick Nelson retired this past semester from the School of Journalism after more than 14 years of service. The Kansas City Press Club recently honored him with the 2010 Member of the Year award and, in recognition of his retirement and more than a decade of service on the Press Club's board of directors and other service, named the award "The Dick Nelson Member of the Year Award.” (6/14/10)

Sethi has been named a contributing editor of Mother Earth News for her series “Greening House and Home.” (6/14/10)

Teresa Trumbly Lamsam, a visiting professor at the J-School this year, has received the 2010 Gutenberg Award for her work in Native journalism. The Gutenberg Award recognizes distinguished professional achievements of alumni from Abilene Christian University’s Journalism and Mass Communication Department. (7/26/10)

Mike Williams completed a month-long teaching assignment in Cagli, Italy in June. This was his third year teaching multimedia reporting in the small community in the eastern mountains of Italy. This year, like last, the study abroad program was offered by Marquette University. It was previously a program of Loyola-Baltimore. For more information, visit: http://caglimarquette.com/ (8/16/10)

Simran Sethi was named a peer reviewer at the Journal of Sustainability Education. JSE is a peer-reviewed, open access trans- and interdisciplinary e-journal that serves as a forum for academics and practitioners to share, critique, and promote research, practices, and initiatives that foster the integration of economic, ecological, and social-cultural dimensions of sustainability within formal and non-formal educational contexts. (8/16/10)

Barnett is listed as the top productive researcher in AEJMC's Commission on the Status of Women in an article in Journalism and Mass Communication Educator. The ranking is based on submissions to AEJMC's annual conference. Barnett also was listed as the 11th most productive researcher at AEJMC. The University of Kansas was listed as the 26th most productive institution for paper acceptance at AEJMC. (8/23/10)

Scott Reinardy was unanimously elected the inaugural chair of the AEJMC Sports Interest Group. Reinardy's term runs until August 2011. (8/23/10)

The J-School was touted for excellence in two recent college guides. The Princeton Review praised the Journalism School’s program. The Fiske Guide to Colleges quoted students in the magazine as saying “The J-School is ‘amazing.’”http://www.news.ku.edu/2010/august/23/rankings.shtml (8/23/10)

Geana was nominated to be a member of a statewide Media Advisory Committee for the Kansas Communities Putting Prevention to Work Program (KS CPPW) of the Kansas Department of Health and the Environment. The Committee is to inform the development and progress of a new Kansas Media Campaign to prevent and control obesity in Kansas. (9/6/10)

Chuck Marsh has been appointed to the editorial board of Public Relations Review. (10/4/10)

Tom Volek received an Achievement Medal for Civilian Service from the Department of the Army for his ongoing work on the J-School’s media and the military project. He received the award Oct. 1 during the “Bridging the Gap: A Military Experience for Journalists” workshop at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The workshop was hosted by the J-School and the United States Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, and sponsored by a grant from the McCormick Foundation. (10/11/10)

Kerry Benson and Denise Linville are both finalists for the H.O.P.E. Award. The H.O.P.E. (Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator) Award is the only KU award for teaching excellence bestowed upon faculty, exclusively by students. The senior class selects the winner. The Class of 1959 established the award to recognize outstanding teaching and concern for students. Senior class members select the winner by ballot and interviews. The winner will be announced at the Nov. 20 football game. (11/1/10)

Simran Sethi has been nominated in the field of conservation for the 2011-2012 Rome Prize, a competition sponsored by American Academy in Rome. She also has been nominated for the Henry Crown Fellowship Program at The Aspen Institute. Established in 1997, the two-year fellowship seeks to develop the next generation of community-spirited leaders. (11/1/10)

Denise Linville has been chosen by the Torch Chapter of the Mortar Board honor society as one of five Outstanding Educators for 2010. Since 1974 Mortar Board members have nominated educators for their devotion to academics, teaching style, accessibility, knowledge of their subjects and other special qualities identified by the KU chapter. Its 48 members select the five winners. Linville will be introduced Nov. 23 during halftime of the KU- Texas A&M Corpus Christi basketball game, and will be presented with a certificate at a reception Dec. 5.   (11/18/10)

Doug Ward is a nominee for the Scripps Howard Foundation Journalism & Mass Communication Teacher of the Year Award. (11/18/10)

Ward also has been nominated for the Ned Fleming and Byron Shutz teaching awards. Nominees were chosen based on student feedback on the senior survey and a call for nomination to a group of randomly selected students this fall. The awards are part of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Awards. Winners will be announced during the spring semester. (11/18/10)

John Hudnall received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Journalism Education Association at the JEA- National Scholastic Press Association convention held last week in Kansas City, Mo. Hudnall served 19 years as the executive director of the Kansas Scholastic Press Association. (11/15/10)

Malcolm Gibson received the James H. Ottaway Fellowship to participate in the American Press Institute seminar on Digital Delivery, Nov. 8-9, in Reston, Va. The seminar explored how traditional media could maximize use of emerging media, including expanding revenue potential. (11/15/10)

Denise Linville is the 2010 recipient of KU’s H.O.P.E. Award. The H.O.P.E. (Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator) Award is the only KU award for teaching excellence bestowed upon faculty, exclusively by students. The senior class selects the winner. The Class of 1959 established the award to recognize outstanding teaching and concern for students. Senior class members selected the winner by ballot and interviews. Linville was announced the winner at halftime of the Nov. 20 football game. Kerry Benson also was one of the five finalists for the award. See the 11/21 article in the Lawrence Journal World for more: http://bit.ly/i2oCK3 (11/22/10)

Tien Lee has been appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of the Asian Journal of Communication, a major academic journal based in Singapore. (11/29/10)

Chuck Marsh has received a Keeler Intra-University Professorship for Fall 2011 to enroll in Greek language courses and teach a course in KU's Classics Department. (11/29/10)

Simran Sethi has been named one of the 20 most influential women in green by EcoSalon. The list includes Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, Jane Goodall, EPA chief Lisa Jackson and NRDC founder Frances Beinecke. Read the story: http://ecosalon.com/the-20-most-influential-women-in-green (12/13/10)

Mugur Geana has been named a member of the Community Relations Action Team for the Healthy Communities Wyandotte Steering Committee. The Action team will focus on setting up an Information Clearinghouse to strengthen the public image of the Public Health Department, and also plan and implement outreach activities to address public health problems in Wyandotte County. (2/7/11)

Simran Sethi was invited to join the Montara Circle, a gathering of 50 influential leaders who are working together to create change in the Peruvian Amazon. The Circle convened Feb. 9-10 in Montara, Calif. Attendees included Dr. Larry Brilliant, former director of Google.org, Jeremy Affeldt, MLB pitcher, Kindley Walsh Lawlor, vice president of social and environmental responsibility for The Gap, and Gary Bolles, consulting producer of TED.

Sethi also was an invited guest Feb. 9 of sustainable food leader Alice Waters to the Edible Schoolyard and Chez Panisse. (2/14/11)

Chuck Marsh has been recommended for promotion to full professor. (3/7/11)

Scott Reinardy has been recommended for promotion to associate professor with tenure. (3/7/11)

Linda Lee has been elected to KU’s Executive Committee of Latin American Studies. Lee is a member of the Center for Latin American Studies. (3/14/11)

The Midwest Democracy Project won third place in journalistic innovation in the National Headliner Awards announced this week. This was the project led by Pam Fine last semester in collaboration with the Kansas City Star and the University of Missouri. She received a $100,000 grant from the Ethics and Excellence Foundation to fund internships and scholarly research for the Midwest Democracy Project. (4/4/11)

Pam Fine has been named 2011 co-chair of the membership and marketing committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. (4/25/11)

Tien Lee has been elected to the KU Executive Council of Graduate Faculty. (5/2/11)

Doug Ward has been elected to Faculty Senate for the 2011-12 school year. (5/2/11)

Mike Williams will be the J-School's new Director of Special Projects and Innovation. Scott Reinardy will assume track chair responsibilities for News and Information. Patty Noland will join the Kansan Board. (5/9/11)

Geana was nominated as a Full Member of the University of Kansas Cancer Center in recognition of his work in cancer promotion and prevention. (10/11/10)

Jimmy Gentry has been named to the campus Financial Literacy Advisory Board. The board is part of a new campus effort focused on educating students about how to manage money, how to create and follow budgets, and how to control debt. (10/11/10)

Geana is the co-recipient (P.I.: Greiner) of a $958,664 grant from the National Institutes of Health to enhance community-linked research in Wyandotte County. The award was issued under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. (9/6/10)

The Midwest Democracy Project, a collaboration of the KU J-School, the University of Missouri Reynolds Institute and The Kansas City Star to develop new and better ways for citizens to get and give trustworthy information, is kicking off this week. Pam Fine was awarded a $100,000 grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation on behalf of the partnership to hire recent graduates from KU and MU to serve as project fellows. The fellows will work on a variety of reportorial and citizen engagement projects in connection with the midterm elections. The grant also includes funding for student enterprise projects and academic studies. More information on the grant project will follow. (9/6/10)

Mugur Geana is a co-investigator in a recently awarded $3.2 million grant (P.I. Greiner): "Kansas Community Cancer Health Disparities Network." The grant will focus on reaching rural American Indians and Latinos with innovative programs to improve knowledge, access and utilization of beneficial biomedical and behavioral cancer procedures. (10/11/10)

Pam Fine is working on a study for the Kettering Foundation on citizen engagement and blogging. She has recruited 15 people to blog on economic issues for the Midwest Democracy Project website and will use two surveys to gauge their views on the experience. The Kettering Foundation is based in Dayton, Ohio. (10/25/10)

Mugur Geana traveled Nov. 1 with a team from KUMC to Garden City, Kan. The visit was part of the preliminary community outreach for a $3.2 million grant award from the National Cancer Institute, where Geana is a co- investigator. The research team had several meetings with community leaders and activists, local health alliances and healthcare providers in Garden City. Geana will travel at least once a month to Garden City as part of concentrated efforts to establish a community-driven infrastructure to promote cancer prevention and cancer screening. (11/18/10)

Geana traveled Nov. 4-6 to Chicago to meet with web designers for the HomeLinkNews project, developed in collaboration with Prof. Glen Cameron from the Missouri School of Journalism. The prototype that will be used to conduct research on the innovative health news delivery platform will be presented to researchers on Nov. 9 at the Missouri School of Journalism, and on Nov. 10 at a J-School faculty brownbag meeting. (11/18/10)

Geana met with faculty from the Department of Family Medicine and the School of Architecture and Design to explore the possibility to develop and offer a project-based, service-learning course for the summer that will have public health, design and journalism students working together to address a specific health issue for an underserved community in urban or rural Kansas. (11/18/10)

Mugur Geana received a $76,563 contract award from the Kansas Department of Health and the Environment (KDHE) to carry out an evaluation of the State's 2011 media campaign to reduce childhood obesity in Kansas. The project involves conducting audience research to measure children’s and parents' nutrition beliefs, attitudes and behaviors, and assess reach and the impact of the media campaign. A final report is to be presented to KDHE in January 2012. (1/17/11)

Mugur Geana’s study, "Engaging diverse underserved communities to bridge the mammography divide," co- authored by a group of researchers from KUMC, has been published in BMC Public Health journal. (1/24/11)

Geana’s study, "Am I in? Influence of race and gender on short-exposure higher education advertising image appeal," co-authored by J-School graduate Joseph Erba (currently a doctoral student at UNC) and Laurie Philips (UNC), has been accepted for presentation at the 2011 ICA conference. (1/24/11)

Mugur Geana met with collaborators Jan. 27 from the University of Missouri, KUMC and the World Company in Lawrence to discuss and plan for the joint submission of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposal to the National Institutes of Health. An innovative web application developed by Geana and Prof. Cameron, University of Missouri, will be used to enhance and complement the WellCommons website. (1/31/11)

Barbara Barnett coordinated research for the North American region for a report by the International Women's Media Foundation on gender equity in newsrooms around the world. The report found that women hold only 27 of the top management jobs in news organizations and 36 of the reporting jobs. (3/28/11)

Mugur Geana and PaulAtchley (KU Psychology Dept.) are the co-principal investigatorsfor the recently funded research proposal "The Texting and Driving Epidemic: Changing Norms to Change Behaviors." The grant award was approved by the KTRAN Research Program Council on April 1. The two-year award will help the J- School and Psychology students collaborate to develop and test a campaign to reduce driving and texting among KU students. If successful, the campaign will be replicated on other campuses across the country. (4/11/11)

General Research Fund competition results for 2011-2012: The J-School received three strong proposals from Scott Reinardy, Crystal Lumpkins and Bob Basow. An anonymous, two-person committee reviewed the proposals, the reviewers offered their advice and the Dean’s Advisory Group selected Scott Reinardy’s proposal for the GRF. Dean Brill has agreed to partially fund the other two proposals from School funds, based on the strength of the proposed work and to show the School’s commitment to research. Congratulations to Professors Reinardy, Lumpkins and Basow! (4/25/11)

Simran Sethi will be featured on the Oct. 11 edition of "Home and Away," discussing the environmentally-friendly changes she made to her first home. This process also has been documented in Sethi's year-long series for Oprah.com entitled "Greening the Green Girl." The series will finish at the end of the month but is syndicated to the Mother Earth News site where Sethi serves as contributing editor. (10/11/10)

Sethi served as faculty in the Presidio Graduate School certification program in sustainability, lecturing on social justice, corporate citizenship and sustainability communications June 5. (6/14/10)

Sethi nominated the Green Youth Media Arts Center for Worldchanging.com's attention philanthropy program, using a video created by students from her Green Reporting, Green Building, Green Justice class. The video, created by Josh Hafner, Bryan Dykman and Jordan Walters, was picked up by Current TV's website. (6/14/10)

John Broholm will serve a term on KU Faculty Senate starting this fall. (7/26/10)

Linda Lee led a group of 15 undergraduate and graduate students from the J-School, the School of Business and Latin American studies to Argentina June 15–30 on a study abroad program, “International Media and Marketing Communications in Argentina.” Highlights included: meetings with executives and journalists for the leading newspaper, Clarin; sitting in on a television interview with former President Dualde at Americas TV; a visit to Cafe Tortoni, where famous writers used to gather; a visit to Evita Peron's balcony at Casa Rosada, the Argentine White House; a visit to an estancia (ranch); sledding in the Andes; watching Argentines cheer their team in the World Cup; a tango show and even tango lessons at Confiteria La Ideal, a hundred year old tango salon. The program will be featured on the J-School’s website and in the next J-Links alumni newsletter. (7/26/10)
 
Ann Brill was a panelist on "Examining Gender Equity in the Academy," part of a pre-conference workshop at the annual conference for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Denver. The workshop was sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women. Barbara Barnett moderated the panel. (8/23/10)

Barbara Barnett was a panelist at two AEJMC sessions, "The Feminization of HIV/AIDS and the Media: Responses and Case Studies" and the "Identity and Impact of Communication as a Discipline." (8/23/10)

Barbara Barnett has been elected to serve as vice chair of the Commission on the Status of Women for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. (9/6/10)

Pam Fine was a panelist Aug. 31 in the first of a series of online radio panels focusing on digital journalism issues, sponsored by the Online News Association. The discussion focused on the ethics of real-time journalism, including a look at how updates, reports and photos "going live” within seconds affect journalistic ethics and mission. David Boardman, executive editor of the Seattle Times, http://seattletimes.com, and Anthony Moor, lead local editor of Yahoo!, http://yahoo.com, were the other panelists for the discussion lead by digital media consultant Amy Webb. To hear a replay of the show, go to http://journalists.org/default.asp?page=onaon(9/6/10)

Doug Ward moderated a paper session on the business of journalism last week at the American Journalism Historians Association national convention in Tucson. Ward is a member of the AJHA board and attended its annual business and planning sessions. He also oversaw the group's auction and raffle, which raised more than $1,500 this year. That money is distributed to graduate students to help defray their costs in attending the convention. (10/11/10)

Dean Ann Brill was a panelist on “Recruitment & Retention of Underrepresented Faculty & Staff: Hit & Miss” as part of the Tilford Conference on Diversity & Multiculturalism. KU hosted the conference Oct. 12. (10/18/10)

Simran Sethi and Bryan Welch, publisher and editorial director of Ogden Publishing, will honor the recipients of the Social Venture Network 2010 prizes for innovation in sustainable business at the 2010 SVN Conference in Long Branch, N.J., on Oct. 22. The awards honor and support the next generation of innovative, socially responsible business and nonprofit entrepreneurs. (10/18/10)

Fine will be at Colorado State University this week as part of a journalism accreditation site team. (10/25/10)

Jackie Thomas is a judge for the National Press Foundation’s Excellence in Online Journalism Award. The award, honoring “achievement in the rapidly changing field of internet journalism,” will be presented at the Foundation’s annual dinner in March. (10/25/10)

Benson served as a judge for the Business Marketing Association's annual Fountain Awards, which recognizes outstanding business-to-business advertising, public relations and promotion. The BMA will award the Kansas City winners on Nov. 17. (11/1/10)

2Barbara Barnett and Tom Volek attended a retirement ceremony for Col. Steve Boylan at Fort Leavenworth. The ceremony was conducted by Gen. David Patraeus, who participated through a video teleconference from Afghanistan. Boylan was Patraeus's public affairs officer in Iraq. (11/1/10)

Ward recently served as an outside reviewer for a tenure packet from the University of North Carolina. (11/18/10)

Ann Brill chaired the accrediting site team visit for the journalism department at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, Nov. 7-10. (11/15/10)

Tom Volek accompanied Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, Ambassador David Lambert and Keith Yehle on a visit to the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., last week. The group met with Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen and other officials to discuss the KU media and the military program. (12/13/10)

Jimmy Gentry spent the first week of January organizing and teaching at "Strictly Financials," a four-day program that teaches business journalists how to understand and analyze financial statements. He also spent a day teaching journalism professors how to teach students how to understand financial statements. The program, now in its fifth year, is sponsored by the Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University's campus in Phoenix. (1/24/11)

Chuck Marsh was a panelist Feb. 14 at Scholar Days, a KU Office of Admissions recruiting program for National Merit Scholarship finalists and semifinalists and their parents. (2/21/11)

Teresa Trumbly Lamsam serves on the Student Support Task Force for the reorganization of the Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program at KU. The task force focuses on current students, recruitment, retention, and relations with Haskell Indian Nations University. (3/14/11)

Fine was a judge for two different journalism contests in recent weeks including the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, created this year to honor the late New York Times reporter Robin Toner. Fine worked with Toner at the Atlanta Constitution early in their careers. Fine also was a judge for the Florida Society of Newspapers Editors contest. (4/4/11)

Simran Sethi moderated a panel at the Clinton Global Initiative University in San Diego, Calif., April 2, at the invitation of President Bill Clinton. The panel addressed growing concerns around urbanization and the need for greater infrastructure. It featured the following panelists: Van Jones, distinguished visiting fellow, Princeton University; Gavin Newsom, lieutenant governor of California and former mayor of San Francisco; Nan Shi, secretary general, Urban Planning Society of China; and Anu Sridharan, co-founder, NextDrop.

Simran Sethi moderated a panel, “The Urban Planet: Solutions for a Crowded World,” at the Clinton Global Initiative University in San Diego, Calif., April 2, at the invitation of President Bill Clinton. The panel addressed growing concerns around urbanization and the need for greater infrastructure. The video from the panel is online (Sethi’s plenary starts 13:25 into the video): http://bit.ly/fpxATB (4/11/11)

Sethi will co-teach a Poynter Institute training session May 16-20 called “Teaching the Craft of Writing (in the Age of Twitter).” More: http://about.poynter.org/training/in-person/w406-11 (4/11/11)

David Guth served as a panelist April 20 in an all-day webinar, "Speaking About Communication," sponsored by Pearson Higher Education. His one-hour presentation was entitled "Collaborative Service Learning in a Capstone Course." He fielded questions from Alaska, Texas, San Diego, Boston and Florida. Approximately 200 people pre-registered for the webinar. (4/25/11)

Teresa Trumbly Lamsam serves on the editorial board for the Osage Nation. She reports that in a unanimous vote the Osage Nation Congress signed into law an amendment to protect newspaper staff in their assigned job duties from political influence and from being fired by tribal government elected officials. The editor of the Osage News already received such protection, but the previous law excluded newspaper staff members. You can view the Osage News at: http://www.osagenews.org. The details of the legislation can be read online at: http://www.osagetribe.com/congress/uploads/ONCA11-26.ENACTED.pdf (4/25/11)

Chuck Marsh's article "The National Review 'Fires' Christopher Buckley: Image Restoration and the Rhetoric of Severance and Restraint" has been accepted for publication in Public Relations Review. (6/14/10)

Crystal Lumpkins’ abstract, "Investigating the Spirituality Well Being Scale (SWBS) and Its Role in Health Promotion of Breast Cancer Prevention Among African American Women," has been selected for a poster presentation during the National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media to be held in Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 17-19. (6/14/10)

Mugur Geana has developed a ten-episode radionovela focused on promoting colon cancer screening to Latinos in Kansas City. The radionovela, supported by a grant from the American Cancer Society, will be broadcasted starting June 16 on La Super X 1250AM, the Kansas City radio station with the largest Latino audience. The radio component is part of a larger health promotion campaign Geana is developing in collaboration with the Department of Family Medicine, KUMC and El Centro, Inc. (6/14/10)

Geana's co-authored article "Willing but Unwilling: Attitudinal Barriers to Adoption of Home-Based Health- Information Technologies Among Older Adults," resulting from a research collaboration with colleagues from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, has been accepted for presentation at the 2010 AEJMC convention in Denver, Colo. (6/14/10)

Sue Novak has written a monthly column, “Critter Care,” for the Lawrence Journal-World since 2005, and is vice president of the Lawrence Humane Society. Her recent column was featured on the blog http://www.Pet- Peeves.org. Read her guest blog post at http://www.Pet-peeves.org/?p=681. (6/14/10)

Crystal Lumpkins wrote the cover story for the current issue of Our Health Matters, a Kansas City-based magazine that focuses on health issues impacting minorities. The story, titled “At Your Finger Tips – Electronic Media Delivers Health Information,” appears in the July/August issue. (7/26/10)

Simran Sethi's commentary on the Gulf Oil spill is featured on the Asia Society website. Sethi has been an associate fellow with the organization since 2008. Her commentary on the spill (including an audio interview with Oceana marine biologist Jackie Savitz) also can be found on Oprah.com and MotherEarthNews.com. The audio interview was edited by J-School graduate Jessica Sain-Baird. (7/26/10)

Chuck Marsh's article “A Legal Semiotics Framework for Exploring the Origins of Hermagorean Stasis” has been accepted for publication in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. (8/16/10)

Sethi’s entry on environmental justice appears in the Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication, edited by Susanna Hornig Priest, and just released by Sage Publications. Sethi has also written the encyclopedia entry on environmental justice for the open-source Dictionary of Ethical Politics, a joint effort of Resurgence magazine and Open Democracy. (http://resurgence.opendemocracy.net/index.php/Environmental_Justice) (8/16/10)

Crystal Lumpkins’ manuscript, titled “Sacred Symbols as a Peripheral Cue in Health Advertisements: An Assessment of Using Religion to Appeal to African American Women about Breast Cancer Screening,” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Media and Religion. The article will be published in its upcoming issue. (9/20/10)

Tien Lee's journal article on media credibility, entitled "Why They Don't Trust the Media: An Examination of Factors Predicting Trust," will appear in the September 2010 (Volume 54, issue 1, pp. 8-21) issue of American Behavior Scientist. (9/27/10)

Sethi’s Green Reporting, Green Building, Green Justice class is featured in Metropolis magazine. The magazine is dedicated to the intersection of culture, design and architecture, and the piece was written by 1990 J-School graduate Kira Gould. (http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20101022/telling-stories) (10/25/10)

Barbara Barnett's article “Advocacy from the Liberal Feminist Playbook: The Framing of Title IX and Women’s Sports in News Releases from the Women’s Sports Foundation” has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Sport Communication. Barnett co-authored the article with Dr. Marie Hardin of Penn State. (11/15/10)

Scott Reinardy's article, "Downsizing Effects on Personnel: The Case of Layoff Survivors in U.S. Newspapers," appears in the Winter 2010 issue of the Journal of Media Business Studies. (11/29/10)

Reinardy's paper "Journalism’s layoff survivors tap resources to remain satisfied" has been accepted for publication without revisions in The Atlantic Journal of Communication. It is scheduled for publication in the December 2011 issue (Volume 19, No. 5). (12/6/10)

Geana’s manuscript "Health Information and the Digital Divide" was accepted without revisions for publication in The Journal of Management and Marketing in Healthcare. The manuscript was co-authored by Dr. Allen Greiner at the KU Medical Center. (1/17/11)

Chuck Marsh’s paper, “Social Harmony Paradigms and Natural Selection: Darwin, Kropotkin, and the Metatheory of Mutual Aid,” has been accepted for presentation at the International Communication Association conference in May. His paper, “Inter-Government Competition as a Threat to Public Relations: Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid, and Anarchism,” has been accepted for presentation at the International PR 2011conference in June. (1/24/11)

Tien Lee’s paper, "The Effects of Media Usage and Interpersonal Contacts on the Stereotyping of Lesbians and Gay Men in China," co-authored by graduate student Jiawei Tu, has been accepted for presentation at the 2011 International Communication Association (ICA) conference in Boston. (1/24/11)

Scott Reinardy's article, "Newsrooms fertile ground for burnout among layoff survivors," appeared in the American Society of News Editors December newsletter (http://asne.org/article_view/articleid/1728/default.aspx). (1/24/11)

Scott Reinardy's manuscript, "Newspaper journalism in crisis: Burnout on the rise, eroding young journalists’ career commitment," was published in the January 2011 issue of Journalism. (2/7/11)

Jerry Crawford’s book chapter was published and is being used worldwide for journalism classes. The book is entitled "Journalism Education, Training and Employment," and was edited by Bob Franklin and Donica Mensing and published by Routledge. His chapter, which was co-authored by Dr. Barbara Hines, is "Journalism Education at Historically Black Colleges: Earning Accreditation and Preparing Students for Future Challenges." The chapter was a result of an invited peer reviewed paper in Journalism Practice/Journalism Studies and presented at a conference given in Cardiff, Wales. (2/7/11)

The fifth edition of Public Relations: A Values-Driven Approach, written by Chuck Marsh and David Guth, has been published by Allyn and Bacon of Boston, a division of Pearson Education. The 564-page textbook, published in color for the first time, is used at more than 200 colleges and universities. In addition to the textbook, Marsh and Guth also developed a 300-page Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint slides for each of the 16 chapters and a test bank of 640 questions. (2/14/11)

Barbara Barnett's article, “Medea in the Media: Narrative and Myth in Newspaper Coverage of Women Who Kill Their Children,” has been published in the book, Cultural Meanings of News: A Text Reader. The article is one of 23 included in the book, which was edited by Dan Berkowitz of the University of Iowa. (2/14/11)

Mugur Geana's manuscript, "Use of online health information resources by American Indians and Alaska Natives," has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Health Communication, the top journal in the field. The paper details some of the findings of a unique study conducted among American Indians from the Great Plains and benefitted from the input of a multidisciplinary team of researchers from KU and KUMC. Dr. Geana is the leading author. (2/14/11)

Max Utsler has had two papers accepted for presentation at the Broadcast Education Association annual convention in April. “Will Advertising on the Super Bowl Take You From Zero to Hero?” was co-authored with Jon Cassat. The second, “Image Repair Through TV: The Strategies of McGwire, Rodriguez and Bonds,” which was co-authored with Susie Epps, has been chosen as one of the two First Place Open Papers (a tie) in the Sports Division of BEA. (2/14/11)

Tien Lee's paper, "Why They Don't Trust the Media: An Examination of Factors Predicting Trust," was the fourth most read article in Dec. 2010 among all articles in American Behavioral Scientist, an interdisciplinary academic journal published by Sage. Rankings are updated monthly. Source: http://abs.sagepub.com/reports/most-read (2/14/11)

Tien Lee's article "An analysis of factors predicting attitudes toward same-sex marriage: Do the media matter?" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Homosexuality. It was co-authored with Gary Hicks of Southern Illinois University. The 2008 impact factor of this journal is .59. (2/28/11)

Simran Sethi’s academic abstract, “Green for All: Environmental Racism, Economic Injustice and the Fight for Equality,” has been accepted for presentation at the European Society for Ecological Economics 2011 Conference, to be held June 14-17 in Istanbul at Bogazici University. (3/7/11)

Mugur Geana's article "Sources of Health Information in a Multiethnic, Underserved, Urban Community: Does Ethnicity Matter?" was published online on InformaWorld March 9. The manuscript will be published in the Journal of Health Communication in the spring of 2011. (3/14/11)

Geana completed the design for the Spanish prevention materials that will be used on March 25-26 by the KUMC team that will accompany the Mobile Mexican Consulate to Garden City, Kan. This activity is part of the efforts to create the Kansas Community Cancer Health Disparities Network, a federally funded project in which Geana is collaborating with researchers from KUMC and with Hispanic and Indian American communities in Kansas. (3/14/11)

Sethi is also contributing an essay on mistakes made at work to an upcoming book, “Mistakes I Made at Work: High Achieving Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong.” The book is being developed and edited by the Women’s Narratives Project, which brings women together to engage in new thinking about the meaning of success. It is the signature project of Smith’s new Center for Work & Life. (5/16/11)

Sethi’s J500's class posts continue to run on Metropolis.com through the month of June. "Plastic Pollution," a piece written by students Becca Harsh and Stephanie Stone, is currently listed as one of the site's most popular pieces. Sethi will be writing a culminating post on course design in social media for Metropolis. She has also been asked to guest post on teaching social media on Brian Solis' website. Solis is an author and former social media consultant dedicated to defining the convergence of media and influence. (5/16/11)

Sethi is editing chapters on media interface and writing the chapter on social media for community change for KU's Community Tool Box. The Tool Box is a global resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. It offers more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance in creating change and improvement: http://ctb.ku.edu/en/default.aspx. (5/16/11)

Geana has been invited to lecture on communication research methods to Erasmus students at the New Media course at Katho-­-HANTAL (Belgium). The lecture took place May 24 and was delivered online via Skype. (6/14/10)

Simran Sethi's proposal on "Curriculum as Conversation: Social Media in the Classroom (and Beyond)" has been accepted for the upcoming KU Teaching Summit. She will present as part of the track on alternative models for teaching. (6/14/10)

Jimmy Gentry conducted a weeklong online seminar entitled "Unlocking Financial Statements" for journalists and corporate communicators, sponsored by the Reynolds Center in Business Journalism at Arizona State University. The seminar met for an hour, twice daily for the week of July 19-23. More than 200 people registered for the seminar, far more than for any previous online Reynolds program. (7/26/10)

Bob Basow attended the MOST of US conference, sponsored by Montana State University, July 14-16. He reported on the social norms campaign developed by his Spring 2010 Campaigns students to promote responsible drinking and to curb dangerous drinking practices at KU. Other presenters described similar projects at universities and high schools nationwide. (7/26/10)

Sethi is a 2010 fellow in the Poynter Institute's Sense-Making project, a Ford Foundation-funded program that is studying the integration of new media and democratic values. As part of this effort, Sethi was an invited participant in Poynter's conference "Fact or Friction: Building the Bridge Between the Fourth and Fifth Estates" at the Newseum on June 29. (7/26/10)

Jeff Browne will deliver the keynote address at the Arizona Scholastic Press Association's Fall Convention, Sept. 29, 2010, at Arizona State University in Tempe. More: http://aipa.club.officelive.com/default.aspx (8/23/10)

Doug Ward was featured in the May 10 issue of the Oread, KU’s employee newsletter. (6/14/10)

Mugur Geana was featured in an article in The Oread, KU’s employee newsletter, on the campaign he is working on for the American Cancer Society. http://www.oread.ku.edu/2010/july/12/stories/novella.shtml(7/26/10)

Sethi participated in a climate change debate moderated by Saturday Night Live comedian Andy Samburg on July 7. The debate, featuring Sethi and climate skeptic Phelim McAleer, is part of a larger effort to encourage climate action through innovative means. (7/26/10)

Sethi facilitated a science cafe at Free State Brewery on behalf of the KU Museum of Natural History July 20. The event was titled "Being Green: A Discussion of Race, Ethnicity and Class" and focused on environmental justice. (7/26/10)

Faculty activities at the AEJMC Convention in Denver (a final list will appear in the next Monday Memo):        

Jimmy Gentry will present two sessions: “Sherman's Best: Teaching Tips from the Barry Sherman Teaching Award Winners” and “Teaching Business Journalism: Different Approaches,” which is part of the Teacher of the Year session.

Crystal Lumpkins will serve as a speaker on a panel co-sponsored by the Public Relations and Minority and Communications Divisions titled “Health Promotion, Minority Populations and Health Reporting: Challenges for 2010 and Beyond.”

Barbara Barnett served as a judge for this year's Mary Ann Yodelis Smith award for feminist research given the by Commission on the Status of Women in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. Barnett is a past recipient of the award.

Carol Holstead will present the awards for the Student Magazine Contest and attend the Magazine Division board meeting.

Tien Lee will serve as a discussant for a Communication Theory & Methodology Division session on information processing. He also will present a paper, co-authored with Sue Novak, to the same division. He will be on two panels; one on Sex, Media and Religion, and the other on political communication with a focus on ethnic minority populations and media. In addition, he will meet with potential applicants for the Stauffer Professor and assistant professor positions.

Pam Fine will serve on a panel, titled “Newsroom to Classroom: Adapting from JMC Pro to JMC Faculty.”

Scott Reinardy will present “Journalism Layoff Survivors Burn in Arizona, Keep Cool in L.A.” to the Media Management and Economics Division Aug. 4. He will moderate the “PF&R Panel Session: Ahead of the Curve: Multimedia and the Future of Sports Journalism” for the Sports Communication Interest Group on Aug. 5. He will present “Editor Toast: A Study of Burnout and Job Satisfaction Among College Newspaper Editors,” with Vincent Filak of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, to the Scholastic Journalism Division Aug. 7. He also will present “Journalism’s Layoff Survivors Tap Resources to Remain Satisfied” (which received Top Faculty Paper, First Place) to the Newspaper Division Aug. 7.

Pam Fine was interviewed and quoted in Joe Strupp’s blog on the national Media Matters website, which is online at: http://mediamatters.org/strupp/201008020033 (8/16/10)

Sethi was a keynote at the BlogHer 2010 national conference in New York on Aug. 7. She was part of a panel entitled "How to Use Your Voice, Your Platform and Your Power." BlogHer is the largest gathering of female bloggers in the world. (8/16/10)

Sethi will present at the Center for Teaching Excellence Teaching Summit Aug. 17. Her presentation, "Curriculum as Conversation: Social Media in the Classroom (and Beyond)," is part of the Summit's innovation track. (8/16/10)

Jeff Browne, Pam Fine and Malcolm Gibson spoke to more than 100 Pittsburg High School students and area residents about their First Amendment rights Aug. 27 in a panel discussion hosted by Pittsburg High School Student Publications. (8/30/10)

Mugur Geana was interviewed in late July by CNN on the ethics of BP using digitally altered photos as part of their public relations campaign to showcase their efforts on controlling the Gulf oil spill. The article, by Jason Hanna, was published on July 22, and is online: http://articles.cnn.com/2010-07-22/us/bp.altered.photos_1_bp- spokesman-scott-dean-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-site?_s=PM:US (9/6/10)

Simran Sethi will keynote the 2010 Kansas Housing Conference in Topeka on Sept. 9. Her lecture will focus on the concept of housing justice and the ways in which government, business and civil society can work together to ensure fair and just housing for all. (9/6/10)

Simran Sethi will speak Sept. 14 at the Douglas County Hawk Talk, or KU information night, for high school students. Sethi will offer a mini-class on filing a story on a deadline and discuss her class trip to Oakland, Calif.  (9/13/10)

Sethi will be a featured guest at the Niman Ranch farmer appreciation dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 17 and 18. Niman Ranch is the largest provider of sustainably-raised pork and beef in the United States. (9/13/10)

Carol Holstead spoke Sept. 16 at the Shawnee County Hawk Talk, or KU information night, for high school students. Holstead offered a mini-class on basic design skills. (9/20/10)

Simran Sethi will kick off the University of Texas-Pan American series on the environment Sept. 22 with the keynote, "The Expanding Continuum of Green," highlighting environmental efforts and opportunities across the U.S. (9/20/10)

Susanne Shaw was part of a project for the U.S. Embassy in Slovakia from Sept. 15 to 22. She met with the faculties of two universities in Bratislava and one in Trnava about journalism education in their country. She also met with professional journalists in Bratislava from Sept. 23 to 25 and attended the board meeting for the Kosovo Institute on Journalism and Communication.

Simran Sethi kicked off the Distinguished Speakers series at the University of Texas-Pan American on Sept. 23. Sethi lectured on environmental justice and the need for greater environmental advocacy. Past UT-PA Distinguished Speakers have included Dan Rather, Mikhail Gorbachev and Apple founder Steve Wozniak. (10/4/10)

Sethi presented the Healthy House Institute's inaugural webinar on Creating an Environmentally-Friendly Home Sept. 30. HHI provides consumers with information to make their homes healthier. (10/4/10)

Geana presented Oct. 4 to the American Cancer Society—High Plains Division the results from the evaluation of the health campaign he conducted this summer. It was aimed at increasing awareness of colorectal cancer screening among Latinos living in Wyandotte County, Kan. The research confirmed the value ofhealth promotions conducted by combining direct community involvement through community health workers with dedicated media messages released through selected media outlets. The results from this project will be used as pilot data for an intervention proposal that will be submitted next year to the American Cancer Society. (10/11/10)

Mugur Geana will present the results of this summer's American Cancer Society funded campaign at the KU Cancer Center Research Symposium on Nov. 4: "When Media and Community Activism Join Forces—Promoting Colorectal Cancer Screening to Latino Audiences in Wyandotte County, Kansas." (10/18/10)

Scott Reinardy presented "The evolution of American sports journalism in the 20th century," a research-in- progress paper, at the American Journalism Historians Association national conference in Tucson. (10/18/10)

Simran Sethi will give a presentation about Twitter in the classroom at the first “140 Characters Conference: Small Town.” It will be held in Hutchinson, Kan., on Nov. 1 (http://smalltown.140conf.com/schedule). She will speak about her Green Reporting, Green Building, Green Justice class at the conference. (10/25/10)

Sethi will lecture to the Fresno Youth Arts Project, a non-profit that supports arts education for at-risk youth in Fresno, on Nov. 4. Sethi will be joined by local muralist Dave Lowenstein to discuss sustainability, environmental justice and public art. (11/1/10)

Susanne Shaw was at Fudan University in Shanghai from Oct. 23-28 reviewing its master's degree program, and at Hong Kong Baptist University from Oct. 29-Nov. 3, also reviewing its master's degree program. Both schools are interested in seeking U.S. accreditation. While in Hong Kong, Shaw saw Jacqui Banaszynski, a former Gannett Foundation professional-in-residence at the J-School for a semester, who now holds a Knight Chair at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Banaszynski was participating in a Pulitzer Prize Winners Workshop for students at the Hong Kong Baptist School of Communication. (11/18/10)

Geana's research poster "When Media and Community Activism Join Forces: Promoting Colorectal Cancer Screening to Latino Audiences in Wyandotte County, Kansas" was presented at the KU Cancer Center Research Symposium on Nov. 4. (11/18/10)

Sue Novak held a J201 Advocacy Fair Nov. 2 to showcase her students’ posters and videos with samples of their advocacy media and audience analysis for their chosen cause.

Simran Sethi and Dr. Julianne Malveaux, president of Bennett College for Women, will speak Nov. 11 at Wake Forest University in a lecture titled “My Neighborhood is Killing Me: Environmental Racism and a Call to Justice.” (11/18/10)

Mugur Geana presented the HomeLink News prototype Nov. 9 to research partners from the Missouri School of Journalism, MU's Department of Family Medicine and the Interdisciplinary Center for Aging. The application, developed in collaboration with Professor Glen T. Cameron, provides an innovative approach to health information tailoring for older audiences and offers new business opportunities to media outlets interested in reaching this specific audience. Following the visit, Geana was selected to be a member of a multidisciplinary team working to secure federal and private funding for further project development. (11/15/10)

Barnett, Cheryl Klug, Tien Lee, Cindy Reinardy and Susanne Shaw attended the ACEJMC site team training workshop Nov. 12-14 in Arlington, Va. (11/15/10)

Simran Sethi will participate in the Shift Network Greenshifters virtual series on advancing environmental conservation and building the green economy Nov. 17. Sethi will highlight tactics required to engage those who feel disconnected from their environment and disengaged from environmental discourse. (11/15/10)

Sethi will participate in "Protecting the Water Commons—Everyone's Business," a Q&A session with Maude Barlow, environmental journalist and advocate, Nov. 19. This is part of SRI in the Rockies, the annual national conference of the sustainable and responsible investing industry. Recently, the United Nations recognized the human right to water and sanitation, and committed each country to provide its people with equitable access to its water commons. What will this mean for the socially responsible investor? What is the role for the private sector in solving the world's water crisis? Barlow will share her knowledge of the struggle to make water a public trust and human right, and, in conversation with Sethi, will challenge participants to help realize this hard earned new right. (11/15/10)

Simran Sethi will be featured on KCUR's "Central Standard," at 10 a.m., Nov. 30, discussing Tweeting 101, the use of Twitter in the classroom and the upcoming digital summit on “Telling Stories of Diversity in the Digital Age.” (11/22/10)

Simran Sethi will be featured on KCUR's "Central Standard" at 10 a.m., Nov. 30, to discuss the use of Twitter in the classroom and the upcoming Dec. 4 digital summit “Telling Stories of Diversity in the Digital Age.” KCUR airs on 89.3 FM. Her class and the digital summit also are featured on the KU website, “With cell phones and laptops, students research diversity through social media,” at: www.news.ku.edu/2010/november/29/socialmedia.shtml (11/29/10)

Barbara Barnett and Scott Reinardy attended the winter meeting of the Association for Education and Journalism and Mass Communication. The meeting was held Dec. 3-4 in Albuquerque. Reinardy, the chair for the Sports Communication Interest Group, and Barnett, the vice chair for the Commission on the Status of Women, helped plan the 2011 AEJMC conference, which will be held in August in St. Louis. (12/6/10)

Mike Williams will appear on “Up-to-Date” on KCUR-FM radio Dec. 7, at 11 a.m. (12/6/10)

Ann Brill, Malcolm Gibson and Jeff Browne attended an AP Educators breakfast this morning in Kansas City.

Browne was a panelist and presented on the state of scholastic journalism in Kansas and Missouri. (12/6/10)

Pam Fine was one of several media watchers recently interviewed for a story for the Media Matters website on whether MSNBC is a left wing version of Fox News. Read the story: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201011300010 (12/13/10)

Doug Ward is part of a panel that has been accepted for presentation at the International Communication Association conference in May. The panel, "Where in the World? Using Geographic Methods for Communication History," includes four other researchers from Tulane University, the University of Texas and Muhlenberg College. The group is creating a multimedia presentation that will be part of the virtual portion of the ICA conference. (1/17/11)

Crystal Lumpkins gave a presentation last month at the North American Primary Care Research Group Conference in Seattle. (1/17/11)

Susanne Shaw participated in an international external review for the School of Journalism and Communication at Tsinghua University in Beijing from Dec. 14-20. Shaw also will be at Loyola University in New Orleans for a pre-accreditation review Jan. 18-21. (1/17/11)
Kerry Benson presented a workshop on social networking for KU's Multicultural Scholars Program at the organization's winter conference on Jan. 28. (1/31/11)

Sethi will be offering a lunchtime presentation Feb. 2 at KU's Center for Teaching Excellence on the use of social media in the classroom. (1/31/11)

Simran Sethi is featured in the new episode of “Women in Green,” addressing the psychological barriers to environmental engagement. This interview is a preview of the book she is currently writing for Harper Collins on the same topic. More at: http://bit.ly/hdUiwx (1/31/11)

Kelly Crane and Jammie Johnson talked about the Marketing Communications Graduate Program at a KU Edwards Campus Information Session for prospective students Jan. 22. Along with learning about the program, attendees had the chance to meet other campus representatives and attend a free GRE prep session. The session drew a larger attendance than the same event last year. Evaluations were also positive. For the question "after learning more about the program, I will probably apply for admission," 84% of all respondents indicated they strongly agreed with that statement. (2/7/11)

Simran Sethi's presentation at the Center for Teaching Excellence has been rescheduled for Feb. 22 from 12-1 p.m. at the CTE office, Budig 135. She will discuss “Curriculum as Conversation: Social Media in the Classroom (and Beyond).” Social networks enable students to share their passions and concerns, and expand their education in directions that resonate with their deepest cares. Through immediate feedback loops, these dynamic, portable platforms enhance teaching by allowing educators to better understand the applicability and resonance of their teachings and immediately expand the scope of this education well beyond the classroom. This encore presentation from the KU Summit will detail ways in which educators can leverage these technologies within their own curricula. If you’ll participate, please read in advance “The Effect of Twitter on College Student Engagement and Grades” and “Social Networking Primer.” E-mail Judy Eddy, jeddy@ku.edu, for copies of these articles. (2/21/11)

Susanne Shaw was at Qatar University in Doha last week for a pre-accreditation visit. (2/21/11)

Lee was a member of an ACEJMC reaccreditation team visit Feb. 13-16, at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. (2/28/11)

Simran Sethi will keynote the Starwood Next Course conference in Shanghai, China, on March 3. During her trip to Shanghai, Sethi will meet Peggy Lui, chairperson of JUCCCE, the Joint U.S.-China Cooperation on Clean Energy and one of Time magazine's Eco-Heroes of the Planet. She also will meet with Rachel MacBeth, Saatchi and Saatchi's first strategy and planning director for Greater China, and tour SAS High School's Roots and Shoots program, the first school organic garden of its kind in the area. (2/28/11)

Sethi will lecture on sustainability and environmental justice at Longwood University in Farmville, Va., March 9. (2/28/11)

Sethi is included in the 2010-2011 Poynter Report. She is a Fellow in Poynter's Sense-Making project, an effort funded by the Ford Foundation and dedicated to encouraging democratic values and building connections between the Fourth and Fifth Estates. (2/28/11)

Military officers from the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., visited the J-School on Thursday, Feb. 24, to be interviewed by J301 students. Lucy Denyer coordinated the visit. (2/28/11)

Mort Rosenblum, veteran foreign correspondent, visited with more than 40 J-School students and faculty Feb. 28 in the Journalism Resource Center. He has covered seven continents since the 1960s, reporting from 200 countries. He has served as AP Bureau Chief in Jakarta, Kinshasa, Lagos, Buenos Aires, Singapore and Paris. He was editor of the International Herald Tribune. The most recent of his 13 books, “Little Bunch of Madmen: Elements of Global Reporting,” is a comprehensive guide for current and aspiring international reporters. His visit was co-sponsored by the Center for Global and International Studies, the J-School, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, the Kansas African Studies Center and the Kansan. (2/28/11)

Steve Boylan, a retired colonel and former public affairs officer for Gen. David Patraeus in Iraq, will speak to Teresa Trumbly Lamsam’s J415 labs this Wednesday. Boylan is now an assistant professor in the Leadership Department of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. (2/28/11)

Sethi will lecture on social and environmental sustainability and eco-feminism at Longwood University in Farmville, Va., March 9 in celebration of Earth Day and Women's History month. Details online at: www.longwood.edu/2011events_32533.htm (3/7/11)

Sethi will keynote the 2011 environmental justice conference “Breaking The Silence” on March 12. The event will be held in Kansas City, Mo., and will focus on environmental literacy. (3/7/11)

Carol Holstead was in New York City last week to judge the National Magazine Awards, the premier contest for American consumer magazines, which is sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors. She judged the Magazine Section. (3/7/11)

Ann Brill, Tom Volek and Barbara Barnett visited Fort Leavenworth last Thursday, March 3, to attend the Media and the Military class opening reception. KU students in the class recently visited Fort Leavenworth as well. (3/7/11)

Geana participated in the Hispanic Day on the Hill event in Topeka, Kan., Feb. 23. The meeting, which benefitted from the participation of Governor Sam Brownback, focused on education, health, public policy and business for Hispanics in Kansas. Geana is currently working on two NIH funded research initiatives on cancer prevention and community-based research addressing Hispanics. (3/14/11)

David Guth has been invited to speak during an online conference for communication educators April 20. "Speaking About Communication" is a daylong online conference hosted by Pearson Education. Allyn & Bacon, a division of Pearson, is the publisher of the textbooks he has co-authored with Chuck Marsh and former lecturer Bonnie Short. Guth’s topic will be "Collaborative service learning in a capstone course." His talk will focus on client selection, group management and assessment. (3/14/11)

Tom Volek and Sue Novak were invited to speak on a panel at a brown bag luncheon, “Media in Russia,” hosted by KU’s Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, March 8. Nathan Pettengill, of Lawrence Magazine, also was on the panel. (3/14/11)

Doug Ward led a workshop titled "20+ Free or Inexpensive Tools for Enhancing Stories Visually" at the national convention of the American Copy Editors Society in Phoenix on March 19. (3/28/11)

Carol Holstead taught three mini-courses on design to a total of about 250 high school students and their parents for KU Senior Day, March 11. KU Senior Days are held through the spring semester. (3/28/11)

Simran Sethi keynoted the fourth annual Breaking the Silence environmental sustainability conference in Kansas City March 12 to raise environmental literacy. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/mar/13/fourth-annual-breaking- silence-conference-held-kan/?city_local (3/28/11)

Sethi’s recent trip to keynote the Starwood Next Course conference in Shanghai, China, March 3 was reported on in The Eagle Online, which is published by the Advancement office of Shanghai American School. The article is online: http://www.eagleonline.org/?p=3607 (3/28/11)

Sethi and students from her Green Reporting, Green Building, Green Justice class spent spring break in Oakland, Calif., completing a greywater installation and learning about water conservation, environmental justice and ways to report on social change via social media. They Tweeted live at twitter.com/search?q=%23KUH20. Photos from the project will be online soon. The class created a multimedia series for Metropolis magazine that will run for the next nine weeks. It can be followed on the hashtag #metropolisH20. The first two stories are online: www.metropolismag.com/pov/20110316/water-guns and www.metropolismag.com/pov/20110323/beyond-energy (3/28/11)

Fine will be in San Diego this week at the annual American Society of News Editors Convention. She is on the organization’s board of directors and will be on a panel discussing partnerships between news organizations and journalism schools. (4/4/11)

Fine was quoted in the public editor’s column on the editorial page of Sunday’s New York Times, online at: www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/opinion/03pubed.html?_r=1&ref=thepubliceditor. The column focused on the value of posting news organization policies on ethics, social media, blogging and other practices so they are accessible to readers. (4/4/11)

Sethi introduced the film “King Corn” and led a Q&A with Curt Ellis, one of the film's directors, March 28. The film screening was sponsored by KU Environs and was held at Liberty Hall. It also was a fundraiser for Just Food, the largest food bank in Douglas County. The event packed Liberty Hall and raised more than $1,000 for Just Food. (4/4/11)

Sethi and students from her J500 class Green Reporting, Green Building, Green Justice and J840 class Communicating Environmental Initiatives toured the Ripple Glass recycling facility and Boulevard Brewery bottling facility in Kansas City, Mo., March 30 to see the integration of the organizations' recycling efforts. (4/4/11)

Barbara Barnett was interviewed last week about U.S. press freedom and responsibility by Gulan magazine in Iraq. (4/4/11)

Mike Williams will be a featured speaker April 21 at the 50th International Conference "Media in the Modern World, St. Petersburg Readings" in St. Petersburg, Russia. He will also be a visiting professor at the School of Journalism at St. Petersburg State University where he will be lecturing on interactive media development, photojournalism and social media. (4/11/11)

Mugur Geana participated March 30 in a meeting on "Enhancing Health Initiatives in the Latino Community." Geana was named a member of the "Latino Health for All" task force for Wyandotte County, Kan. (4/11/11)

Teresa Trumbly Lamsam is profiled in this month’s Diversity Outlook, a publication of the KU Office of Diversity and Equity. The issue is online: http://www.diversity.ku.edu/docs/outlook-2011-04.pdf

Susanne Shaw was a member of an external review committee for the School of Communications at Hong Kong Baptist University last week. This week, she is at Savannah State University for a pre-accreditation visit. (4/18/11)

Max Utsler attended the BEA convention last week in Las Vegas. He stepped down as BEA president but will remain on the Board of Directors for one more year. While there, he presented two papers. “Image Repair Through TV: The Strategies of McGwire, Rodriguez and Bonds,” was co-authored with Susie Epp and tied for first place in the Sports Division. His second paper “Will Advertising on the Super Bowl Take You From Zero to Hero?” was co-authored with Jon Cassat. (4/18/11)

Fine was interviewed for a piece on the Media Matters website about a Fox News story that juxtaposed the suicide of a student at George Washington University with a visit to campus by President Obama. To see her remarks, go to: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201104150023 (4/25/11)

Simran Sethi was featured on Oklahoma PBS affiliate OETA's program "Oklahoma Horizon," discussing social media in the classroom. Sethi's segment was part of a program dedicated to coverage of the Twitter 140 Conference (of which Sethi took part). The program airs nationally to 40 million homes on cable and reaches an additional 120 million homes in 13 European countries, Australia and Brazil. (4/25/11)

Simran Sethi appeared in a video about making a difference and saving environmentalism on Earth Day, April 22. The video can be viewed online at: http://blog.smarterlifebetterplanet.com/?p=333 (4/25/11)

Mugur Geana led a presentation April 8 to members of the Kansas Board of Regents, who were in Lawrence visiting KU. The Regents’ visit included a stop at the School of Journalism. Geana’s presentation is online at: http://www.journalism.ku.edu/news/Regents2011.pdf (4/25/11)

Barbara Barnett and Tom Volek traveled to Fort Leavenworth April 14 to teach a class on communication theories. The class is part of the Media and the Military course, in which KU students work with officers at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. (4/25/11)

The Marketing Communications graduate program at the KU Edwards Campus hosted a Happy Hour Networking event March 10. There were 33 people in attendance, including current students, alumni, faculty, business leaders from the community and staff, along with prospective students. Ann Brill, Tom Volek, Jimmy Gentry and Kerry Benson spoke at the event. KU Edwards Campus Vice Chancellor Bob Clark, Marketing Communications alumni Morgan Johnson and Manon Eilts and current student Darius Lane also spoke to students. Trozzolo Communications Group CEO Pasquale Trozzolo was also in attendance. Kelly Crane and Jammie Johnson organized the event. (4/25/11)

Mike Williams just returned from a trip to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he taught a 30-hour course in photojournalism and visual presentation in the Journalism School of St. Petersburg State University. This was a special course for about 20 students. Some of the student work is available online at a website they created at: http://spsustories.wordpress.com During his trip, Williams was recognized as the outstanding international presenter at the 50th annual international conference "Media in the Modern World. St. Petersburg Readings" for his presentation about effective design of interactive mobile media. (5/2/11)

Jimmy Gentry was interviewed for a Marketplace story on the significance of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's decision to hold a press conference after the Fed's April 27 policy meeting. A Fed chairman had never before held a post-policy meeting press briefing. (5/2/11)

Tom Volek and Barbara Barnett attended the Media and the Military class closing reception at Fort Leavenworth April 28. (5/2/11)

Teresa Trumbly Lamsam and Rhonda LaValdo, 2009 MSJ graduate and president of the Native American Journalists Association, were featured April 24 on KKFI 90.1 Kansas City and spoke about Native American health issues and media coverage. (5/2/11)

Mike Williams was interviewed about journalism and visual communications while in St. Petersburg. The magazine article is online (in Russian) at: http://theoryandpractice.ru/posts/1935-intervyu-s-maykom-uilyamsom-- professorom-kafedry-interaktivnykh-media-universiteta-kanzasa (5/9/11)

Jimmy Gentry discussed financial communication and how to effectively and interestingly communicate budget information at the May meeting of the Missouri School Public Relations Association in Platte City. (5/9/11)

Pam Fine, in her role as co-chair of the ethics committee for the American Society of News Editors, lead development of a set of guidelines news leaders can use to develop social media policies. She also edited the guidelines, which can be viewed at: http://asne.org/article_view/articleid/1800/asne-issues-guide-to-10-best- practices-for-social-media.aspx (5/16/11)

Barbara Barnett will participate in KU's Senior Administrative Fellows Program. The program gives faculty an opportunity to learn more about KU's governance and structure, while developing administrative and leadership skills. (5/16/11)

Ann Brill, Barbara Barnett and Linda Lee are traveling to Costa Rica May 27 to discuss a KU exchange program with the University of Costa Rica. (5/16/11)

Simran Sethi will be a visiting faculty member at Poynter's week-long course on Teaching the Craft of Writing (in the Age of Twitter). Sethi will be co-teaching with Poynter faculty Kelly McBride and Roy Clark, and Pulitzer Prize winner James Sheeler, Professor of Journalism at Case Western University. (http://about.poynter.org/training/in- person/w406-11) (5/16/11)

Sethi is keynoting the Christian's Scholars Conference at Pepperdine University on June 17. The additional keynote is being presented by Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes for Health. Sethi will be discussing Genetically Modified Organisms and their relationship to Creation Care. (http://www.pepperdine.edu/christian- scholars-conference/) (5/16/11)

Robert Basow and his J433 (Introduction to Strategic Communications) class visited the Kansas City Area Development Council on June 24th. The organization represents the top 250 employers in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. The class was hosted by two former students (Mary Nouelles, 2009 graduate and Jessica Nelson, 2011 graduate). (8/1/11)

Patty Noland attended the Scholars Day lunch on July 21 for high-achieving high school students who are considering KU. She met with three prospective students and their parents. (8/1/11)

Chuck Marsh was named the Stauffer Professor at the final faculty meeting of the Spring 2011 semester. (8/1/11)

Tien Lee was awarded the John Katich Award for Creativity. (8/1/11)

Doug Ward welcomed guest speakers during his summer multimedia reporting including: Shaun Hittle – general assignment reporter, Lawrence Journal-World; Alex Garrison – editor-in-chief, University Daily Kansan; Gina Ford – Hearst Writing Professional; Sam Ford – reporter, ABC WJLA-TV Washington DC; Kaitlin Brennan – assistant news director and Alex Tretbar – station manager, KJHK; Greg Hurd – independent video producer and screenwriter; Nick Krug – photographer, Lawrence Journal-World; Jonathan Kealing – assistant director of media
strategy, Lawrence Journal-World; Alice Hunt – freelance writer and graduate teaching assistant; Jamie Shew – Douglas County clerk; and Kay Pesness – Douglas County register of deeds. (8/1/11)

Linda Lee and her J435 students worked with the Lied Center during the 2011 Spring semester to help raise enthusiasm and enrollment for the Lied Center Student Association. The Associate Director at the Lied Center, Karen Christilles, said the Lied Center would be incorporating students’ ideas over the summer. (8/1/11)

Terry Bryant had several guest lecturers during his summer J301 class, including Sam Ford – reporter, ABC News 7 in Washington D.C. and KU J-School Alum; Andy Hyland – reporter, Lawrence Journal-World and KU JSchool Alum; Peg Sampson – outreach coordinator, KU Audio Reader; Mary Chappell – director of recreation Services, Ambler Student Recreation Center; and Ben E. Smith – social creator, IRL (A social and new media consulting service). Jeff Browne, Sue Novak, Chuck Marsh and Kerry Benson also served as guest lecturers. (8/1/11)

Simran Sethi was invited to write weekly commentaries on sustainability for the Asia Society, the leading global and pan-Asian organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of the United States and Asia. Sethi also won one of five National Education Association awards for mobile innovations in the classroom. Sethi will be featured on the Martha Stewart Living Radion (on Sirius Satellite for the Living Today Show), airing live on Wednesday, August 3rd at 1:30 p.m. She will be discussing the socio-political barriers to environmental engagement. (8/1/11)

Mugur Geana presented his research “I’ve Heard It on the Radio: Developing a CBPR-Driven Campaign to Promote Cancer Clinical Trial to Latino Communities in Rural Kansas” on July 13 at the Cancer Health Disparities Program Meetings 2001 in Washington, D.C. (8/8/11)

The qualitative study “A Computerized Intervention to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening for Underserved Populations: Theoretical Background and Algorithm Development”, co-authored by Mugur Geana and researchers from KUMC, Washington University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, has been accepted for publication in the Technology and Healthcare Journal.  (8/8/11)

Ann Brill, Barbara Barnett and Linda Lee traveled to Costa Rica on May 30 to for a week as part of a visit the University of Costa Rica.  The trip was an effort to continue to build partnerships with the school, discuss research collaboration opportunities as well as faculty and student exchange possibilities.  While in Costa Rica, Brill, Barnett and Lee were able to visit campus as well as local media and strategic communications operations.  (8/8/11)

Barbara Barnett, Wayne Larson and Gina Ford participated in Dean’s Day, giving tours of the journalism school to more than 20 admissions counselors on July 26th.  They also hosted open house and tour of the journalism school, as well as a reception for more than 40 high school counselors from Illinois on July 27th.  The journalism school was one of only two programs at the University to have the opportunity to showcase its facilities (The School of Engineering also participated). (8/8/11)

Tom Volek and Barbara Barnett attended the National Media Panel at Fort Leavenworth on August 11th, held by the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth August 11th.  This was a chance to hear national and international level journalists discuss covering the military, as well as meet and visit with members of the military.  This was also an opportunity to extend the J-School’s relationship with the Fort and explore potential class assignments and internships.  The J-School was specially invited by the CGSC. The panel included Jamie McIntyre (military blogger, former CNN Pentagon correspondent), Kimberly Dozier (Associate Press), Tom Bowman (NPR) and Nancy Yusef (McClatchy news organization).  (8/15/11)

Barbara Barnett’s article “Toward Accuracy and Authenticity: Using Feminist Theory to Construct Journalistic Narrative of Maternal Violence” has been accepted for publication in Feminist Media Studies. (8/15/11)

Simran Sethi was selected to receive the National Education Association Foundation’s Challenge to Innovate Mobile Project Award and $1,000.  Sethi incorporates tweeting into her students’ writing assignments and students are required to post tweets inspired by the course curriculum.  (8/15/11)

Chuck Marsh served as a panelist at Scholars Day on July 20th.  The recruitment event is sponsored by KU’s Office of Admissions.  He also spoke on “Media in the United States” to visiting Fulbright Scholars on July 25th.   Marsh’s book, More Noble Than Statues of Bronze: Isocratean Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations, has been accepted for publication by Routledge Publishing Company.  (8/15/11)

Sue Novak presented her paper “Countering Cultural Metanarratives: Anna Politkovskaya’s Chechen War Reporting” at the AEJMC conference in St. Louis.  Her paper won third place in the International Communication Division’s student paper competition.  Novac was also a participant in the AEJMC “Editing Breakfast of Champions”, sponsored by the Newspaper and Scholastic Journalism divisions.  She served as the discussant in the Graduate Education Interest Group’s session title “The Present and Future State of News and Entertainment News Media Around the World”.  Novac was also re-elected Teaching Chair for the GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered) Interest Group of AEJMC.  (8/15/11)

Scott Reinardy moderated the Sports Communication Interest Group’s research paper session, “Sports: Branding, Marketing and Image Building” at the AEJMC conference.  Reinardy was also a panelist on the Sports Communication Interest Group’s session, “Out of Control: Sports Media’s Obstacles in Story Sourcing and Reaching the Audience”.  As Sports Communication Interest Group chair, Reinardy presided over the business meeting. Reinardy and former graduate student, Adriene Jewett, presented their paper “Seeing What you Get: A comparison of Newspapers’ Visual Brand Personalities and Consumer Perceptions” at the AEJMC conference.  Jewett will enter the doctoral program at the University of Florida this fall.  (8/15/11)

Mugur Geana presented his research “Sources of health information for American Indians in the Midwest United States” during the “Health and prosocial communication issues among minorities” paper session at the 2011 Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.  Geana is also the 2011 recipient of the Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.  The award recognizes Geana’s excellence in applied research addressing health communication to underserved Latinos in the state of Kansas. (8/15/11)

Carol Holstead received one of 26 GIFT (Great Ideas for Teaching) awards at the 2011 AEJMC (Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication) convention in St. Louis. Her idea was an assignment she used, a visual journal, in her Visual Communication course. The assignment was designed to stretch students’ visual, creative and problem-solving skills. (8/22/11)

Hyunjin Seo presented her paper, “Meaning of Democracy Around the World: A Thematic and Structural Analysis of Videos Defining Democracy”, at the AEJMC conference in St. Louis. This paper, co-authored with Syracuse University’s Dennis Kinsey, won the Third Place Top Faculty Paper Award from the Visual Communication Division. Seo also presented her paper, “Country Reputation in the Age of Networks: An Empirical Analysis of Online Social Relations and Information Use” at a Communication Technology Division session of the conference. (8/22/11)

Max Utsler has been elected to the University Athletic Committee for a three-year term. (8/22/11)

Mugur Geana’s article “Response Theory versus Classical Test Theory: Proposing a Different Approach in Evaluating Journalism Students’ Learning Achievement when Using Multiple-Choice Items Tests” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Media Education. (8/22/11)

Wayne Larson organized the J-School’s involvement in this year’s Hawk Week event on August 21st. Approximately 15 faculty and staff members, 10 student organization representatives and nearly 75 new/prospective students participated in the event. (8/22/11)

KU Campus Art Walk: Take a stroll through campus, sample free food and explore creative works by KUstudents, alumni, and local and international artists. Participating locations include Anschutz Library, Art & Design Building, Kansas Union, Spencer Museum of Art, Watson Library, Dole Center and Stauffer-Flint Hall. Stauffer-Flint currently has student photography exhibits on its first floor and alumni exhibits on the second floor. Visit the newsroom in Dole and see how our student journalists bring you the news every day. For more information, visit www.ku.edu/artwalk Friday, August 26, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. (8/22/11)

Dr. Jerry Crawford will be presenting his research The Challenges And Success of Department Governance: A Look At HBCU Journalism And Mass Communications Unit Administrators at the International AcademicConference in Las Vegas, October 10-12. Crawford will also present his research A Link to the Future: A Pilot study Look at how Historically Black Colleges and Universities with Journalism and Mass Communications Units Use the Internet in Recruiting at the International Academic Conference in Orlando, January 2-4, 2012. (8-29-11)

Teresa Trumbly Lamsam, Ph.D presented a workshop in July at the American Indian Journalists Association conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. She was joined by J-School grad, Rhonda LeValdo (2009), a journalism instructor at Haskell Indian Nations University. The workshop focused on new ideas for news coverage of Type 2 diabetes in Indian Country. Lamsam and LeValdo also presented the results of a pilot study on mainstream newspaper coverage of diabetes in Indian Country for the past 15 years. (8-29-11)

James Gentry has been named the chair for Teaching Standards Committee for the Media Management and Economics Division for AEJMC for 2011-12. During the summer he conducted a week-long webinar, “Unlocking Financial Statements,” for the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism and designed a new course, “Finance and Budgeting Fundamentals for Communicator,” for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as the University of Iowa. (8-29-11)

Mugur Geana has been offered to redesign the quarterly newsletter for the American Academy of Advertising. His proposed design will provide a contemporary feel while concomitantly offering interactive features that can now be embedded in PDF files (a first for AAA the newsletter). Geana will also offer guidance to the editorial board on standardizing content submissions in order to streamline the DTP process. (8-29-11)

J-School Art Walk The J-School participated in the first ever KU Campus Art Walk, Friday, August 26th. Seven departments around the campus participated. Nearly 50 people took the chance to walk through Stauffer-Flint Hall to view our student and alumni photography exhibits. (8-29-11)

Faculty lunch with Jim Small The J-School alumnus will speak to Max Utsler’s 540 class and Barbara Barnett’s 101 class on September 20th before having lunch with the faculty from 11:15-12:15 in room 303. Small is the managing director and vice president in Asia for Major League Baseball. (8-29-11)

Doug Ward served on a search committee for a copy editor at University Relations. (9-5-11)

Sue Novak’s teaching tips article Saying “I Do” to Gay Marriage Media Coverage in the Classroom was published in the AEJMC’s GLBT Interest Group newsletter Dis[curse]ive 7(3): 3-6. (9-5-11)

Crystal Lumpkins participated in the 5th Annual Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Symposium this summer. The goal of the symposium is to foster and build research collaboration and support for underrepresented researchers and faculty in public health. More than 100 participants were selected for the event located at RWJF headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. Lumpkins’ manuscript “Promoting Health Behavior From the Pulpit: Clergy Share Their Perspectives on Effective Health Communication in the African American Church” was accepted for publication to the Journal of Religion and Health. Finally, Lumpkins’ teaching profile for J523 (Principles of Public Relations) is now online. Lumpkins completed the profile as part of activities with the CTE Faculty Seminar (2010-2011) and Best Practices Institute (2009-2010). For more information visit: http://www.cte.ku.edu/gallery/portfolios/lumpkins/index.shtml. (9-5-11)

The Arc of Justice: The Incarceration (and Exoneration) of Darryl Hunt – Darryl Hunt was twice convicted of a 1984 murder he didn’t commit. Although DNA testing proved his innocence, he was imprisoned for another decade before he was exonerated. Join us for a screening of the documentary “The Trials of Darryl Hunt” and an in-depth discussion on race, justice and the forces that helped shape Hunt’s release. Darryl Hunt, Imam Khalid Griggs (founding member of the Darryl Hunt Defense Fund) and Phoebe Zerwick (investigative journalist) will join us for the event. Tuesday September 13, 2011, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. at Ecumenical Campus Ministries (1204 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044) This event is sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, KU School of Law, KU School of Social Welfare and Ecumenical Campus Ministries. It is cosponsored by the KU Department of African and African-American Studies and Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty. (9-5-11)

Hyunjin Seo’s manuscript “Meaning of Democracy Around the World: A Thematic and Structural Analysis of Videos Defining Democracy” has been accepted for publication in Visual Communication Quarterly. (9-12-11)

Scott Reinardy’s manuscript “Journalism’s layoff survivors tap resources to remain satisfied” is scheduled for publication in the Atlantic Journal of Communication in the Fall 2011 edition. (9-12-11)

International Business Journalist Visits – The School will host six international business journalists on Friday, September 16th as part of the U.S. Department of State Economic and Business Reporting Project. Arranged by the International Visitors Council of Kansas City, the journalists will be escorted to several classes and a visit to the Kansan / KUJH multimedia newsroom by Professor Mike Williams. Participants include: Mr. Asjadul Kibria, deputy business editor, Daily Prothom Alo (Bangladesh); Daniela Mihajlovska-Vasilevska, economic reporter, The Forum (Macedonia); Liam Francis Dann, business editor, NZ Herald (New Zealand); Gertrude Majyambere, senior reporter/ business desk, The New York Times (Rwanda); Ammar Ibrahim Mohammad Abdulgadir, reporter, Eylaf Weekly (Sudan); and Jihad Yazigi, editor-in-chief, The Syria Report (Syria). (9-12-11)

Peter Bobkowski has been selected to the Board of Directors of the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA). His term begins October 1. (9-19-11)

Patty Noland presented a cover letter and resume workshop to the Multicultural Scholars on September 19th. (9-19-11)

Jimmy Gentry will present a half-day program entitled “Business Journalism Boot Camp for All Journalists” on Sunday, September 25th, at the SPJ/RTNDA Excellence in Journalism Conference in New Orleans, LA. (9-19-11)

Simran Sethi has been nominated for the Rome Prize. Each year, the Rome Prize is awarded to 15 artists and 15 scholars working in the following categories: architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition, visual arts, ancient studies, medieval studies, renaissance and early modern studies and modern Italian studies. (9-19-11)

Scott Reinardy’s "Self-trained and Self-motivated: Newspaper photojournalists strive for quality during technological challenges," appeared in the July issue of Visual Communication Quarterly. Reinardy co-authored the study with Keith Greenwood, assistant professor at the University of Missouri. (9-19-11)

Barbara Barnett and Mugur Geana participated on September 14, 2011 at the official launch of "Bold Aspirations," the strategic five-year plan for the University of Kansas aimed towards KU achieving recognition as a top-tier public university at national and international levels. Both Barnett and Geana are involved in committees working on the development and implementation of the strategic plan. The plans for KU and KUMC are available at http://boldaspirations.ku.edu. (9-19-11)

Mike Williams escorted six international business journalists on their visit to the School September 16th, as part of the U.S. Department of State Economic and Business Reporting Project. The visit was arranged by the International Visitors Council of Kansas City. Participants included: Mr. Asjadul Kibria, deputy business editor, Daily Prothom Alo (Bangladesh); Daniela Mihajlovska-Vasilevska, economic reporter, The Forum (Macedonia); Liam Francis Dann, business editor, NZ Herald (New Zealand); Gertrude Majyambere, senior reporter/ business desk, The New York Times (Rwanda); Ammar Ibrahim Mohammad Abdulgadir, reporter, Eylaf Weekly (Sudan); and Jihad Yazigi, editor-in-chief, The Syria Report (Syria). (9-19-11)

Simran Sethi will co-present at a CTE mini-workshop on Sept. 28th from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. on “Teachable Moments: Privacy Issues in an Era of Show and Tell”. This workshop will focus on: How KU’s policy on privacy intersects with contemporary culture, values and tools of student engagement; How can you use social media in your courses; What should you avoid doing? What are the grey areas?; How can we model effective uses of social media that students can take into their careers/lives? (9-26-11)

Sue Novak presented two sessions at the KSPA conference on Sept. 21: Grammar and AP Style, and Ethics in the Media. (9-26-11)

Max Utsler presented at KSPA, acquainting students with the large number of jobs available in sports marketing, sales and promotion. Most of the conversation centered on minor league baseball, minor league hockey and NASCAR with an emphasis on how the KU J-School can prepare you for jobs in those areas. (9-26-11)

Terry Bryant presented a workshop at KSPA on Video Storytellng. He had about 40 students along with nearly a half dozen high school teachers in his workshop. He talked to students about how to make their videos look professional and gave them tips for producing award winning entries for those submitting work to state and national contests. (9-26-11)

Jimmy Gentry will make a half-day presentation on understanding financial statements as part of a day-long program entitled “Business Journalism Boot Camp” on Tuesday, Oct. 4, in Minneapolis, MN under the sponsorship of the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University. (9-26-11)

Scott Reinardy presented “Using Social Media in Sports Journalism” at KSPA. He discussed ways of incorporating social media into the sports coverage of student newspapers, TV broadcasts and websites. (9-26-11)

Doug Ward presented a poster session “Where in the World? The uses and possibilities of GIS in media history” at the Representing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities conference in Lawrence. He also gave a session title “Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Using Alternative Story Forms” at the KSPA conference. Ward is serving as a beta tester for a new version of Camtasia Studio multimedia production software. (9-26-11)

Wayne Larson visited high schools and community colleges as far west as Garden City in September. He also visited schools in Kansas City with help from faculty members and current students. He will be visiting high schools in the Wichita area in early October and more high schools in the Kansas City area later in the month. Larson will also represent the J-School at four upcoming college fairs. (9-26-11)

Linda Lee’s J 435 class Skyped with their “client” Popchips and its chief marketing officer Brian Pope and brand manager Stefanie Grossman from San Francisco. Patty Noland discovered the chips and Lisa Loewen contacted the company, which was eager to address a mid-western audience. The students will be creating traditional print, TV and radio executions for Popchips to hone their production skills but will also be producing new social media approaches for the brand. The Skype session was recorded for Professor Harold Hutt’s class at the University of Costa Rica. Lee teaches the class along with Noland, Eileen Hawley, Crystal Lumpkins and Michelle Wood. (9-26-11)

Gina Ford and Natasha Veeser hosted a workshop for reporting students Sept. 24 to work on on-air presence, tease writing, anchoring and interview gathering skills. (9-26-11)

Patty Noland held a cover letter and resume workshop for PRSSA and Ad Club Sept. 20th for 60 people. Noland also presented to 81 students on “Careers in Journalism” at the KSPA fall conference. (10-3-11)

Carol Holstead spoke on yearbook design at the KSPA fall conference. Holstead has also been appointed to the Common Book Committee, which will launch a campus-wide program to engage the first-year students in reading a common book. The initiative is one of the outcomes of the university’s strategic planning process. (10-3-11)

Doug Ward’s article “iPads and the Embarrassment Factor” was published last week on the Chronicle of Higher Education website. http://bit.ly/qSWLux (10-3-11)

Linda Lee has been selected to serve on the executive board of the Center for Global and International Studies at KU. (10-3-11)

Peter Bobkowski participated in “Influence of Social Media on Youth Drug Use”, a conference call technical experts panel conducted by the University of Maryland’s Center for Substance Abuse Research, and sponsored by White House Officials of National Drug Control Policy. (10-3-11)

Crystal Lumpkins has received a $600,000 National Cancer Institute grant that will allow her to conduct a 5-year study to obtain crucial preliminary data to investigate the role of the African American church in communicating colorectal prevention among African Americans in Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, Kan. (10-3-11)

Max Utsler, Wayne Larson and Gina Ford hosted Blue Valley broadcast instructor Bruce McRoberts and nine of his students for a visit on Wed., Sept. 28. The students are part of the across-the-district CAPS Program. The students sat in on Utsler's Multimedia Writing and Production class before visiting the KUJH-TV control room to watch the 2:00 p.m. cut-in. The students then toured the rest of the Dole Center and met with Ford in the newsroom. The session concluded with a discussion led by Larson and Utsler, with the discussion focusing on admission KU, admission to the J-school and career paths. (10-3-11)

Tom Volek and Barbara Barnett coordinated the fourth annual “Bridging the Gap: Media and the Military Workshop for Journalists”, held Sept. 25-30. The workshop, funded by the McCormick Foundation, allowed 17 national and international journalists to embed for a week at Fort Leavenworth and Ford Leonard Wood. At this year’s workshop, KU alumnus Gen. Gary Patton spoke to journalists from the Pentagon about his role in leading the military’s efforts to dismantle the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Lt. Gen. Bill Caldwell also discussed standing up the Afghani army and police force with the journalists. Lt. Gen. Caldwell spoke by teleconference from Kabul. KU alumnus Matthew Erickson, who works at the Basehor Sentinel, attended and KU student Corinne Westeman covered the event for campus media. Her blog detailing the daily events of the workshop is linked on the front page of the J-School website. See Photo Below (Credit: Photo by Harrison Sarles, Public Affairs Officer at the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth. (10-3-11)

Barbara Barnett has received the Teaching-Related Education and Travel (TRET) grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence. The $1,000 grant will allow her to attend the International Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Milwaukee Oct. 20-24. (10-3-11)

Simran Sethi was invited to speak at the first South by Southwest Eco event. She will be joined by Andy Revkin (New York Times), Eric Assourdian (Worldwatch Institute) and Mark Tercek (president of The Nature Conservancy). On Oct. 12, Sethi will attend the Slow Money Conference in San Francisco, where she will also moderate a panel on sustainable capital investment with Wes Jackson (Founder & President of The Land Institute), Vandan Shiva (Food justice activist and author), Tom Steyer (Senior Managing Member of Farallon Capital Management), Matt Flannery (CEO and co-founder of Kiva.org) and Paul Muller (farmer, Full Belly Farm). The Slow Money conference integrates internationally recognized thought leadership, next generation social entrepreneurship and an environment that fosters shared learning across the full spectrum of backgrounds. Sethi will also moderate the kick-off panel for the 2011 White House GreenGov sustainability symposium. Topics covered at the symposium will include clean energy, energy and water efficiency, fleet management, getting
to zero waste, green buildings and greening the supply chain. (10-10-11)

Barbara Barnett has received the Teaching-Related Education and Travel (TRET) grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence. The $1,000 grant will allow her to attend the International Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Milwaukee Oct. 20-23. (10-10-11)

Peter Bobkowski’s grant proposal to the AEJMC Knight News Challenge has been selected for funding. The proposed project is for a high school news feed. (10-10-11)

Hyunjin Seo’s grant proposal to the AEJMC Knight News Challenge has been selected for funding ($8,000). Seo worked with Malcolm Gibson, Jon Schlitt and Tim Schedor (Kansan). The grant will be used to create LarryvilleKU, an application of OpenBlock to the Kansan, and to improve the Kansan’s social media presence. (10-10-11)

Scott Reinardy was quoted by Kansas City Star reporter Edward Eveld for Eveld's article, "Can we say goodbye to 'bye'? The article was posted Friday (Oct. 7) and can be found at:
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/10/07/3193446/can-we-say-goodbye-to-bye.html (10-10-11)

Jerry Crawford presented his study, The Challenges and Successes of Department Governance: A Look at HBCU Journalism and Mass Communications Unit Administrators, Oct. 10 at the Clute Institute Law Vegas Conference. The study looks at how administrators of the55 journalism and mass communication (JMC) units at Historically Black Colleges andUniversities (HBCUs) have lead with an eye on tradition while dealing with current financial issues. The administrators are faced with the challenge of tenuous term limits, served at the discretion of higher administrators, and teaching 2-3 classes. They work under larger units and have minimal authority over budgets, hiring or strategic planning for their units. Their faculty work full course loads and few have tenure. The study looks at how they keep the institution’s mission, while moving to the future of possible accreditation. (10-17-11)

Doug Ward led a paper session and coordinated a fundraiser at the national convention of the American Journalism Historians Association in Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 5-8. Ward, a board member of the organization, also participated in business meetings. The fundraiser, which consisted of a silent auction, a live auction and a raffle, raised more than $1,700. That money goes toward travel expenses for graduate students who attend AJHA. (10-17-11)

Teresa Lamsam’s pilot study conducted with Rhonda LeValdo on “Framing of Diabetes Stories in News Coverage of American Indians and How We Can Improve” is now detailed in their new blog. http://skycity1.wordpress.com/. Lamsam’s blog related to her “Trauma and Media” class is also now available. http://mediaandtrauma.journalism.ku.edu/ (10-17-11)

Simran Sethi will be discussing the psychological barriers to environmental engagement on Oct. 25 at “Wiser Tuesday”, a monthly gathering of change makers to exchange and learn about best practices, especially related to using social technologies for social change, held in Paris, France. During the same visit, Sethi will meet with Corrine Lepage, who is running for president of France and is a former Environmental Minister for France, and Dr. Gilles-Eric Seralini, President of CRIIGEN and co-director of Risk Pole, Quality and Sustainable Environment- at the University of Caen, France. (10-17-11)

Chuck Marsh’s article “Social Harmony Paradigms and Natural Selection: Darwin, Kropotkin, and the Metatheory of Mutual Aid” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Public Relations Research. (10-17-11)

Carol Holstead has been selected as the adviser to the KU chapter of Ed2010, a national organization for magazine and aspiring editors. The chapter was started by journalism student Maggie Young. The group had its first meeting Oct. 13 with a panel of three magazine editors: John Rockhold (managing editor of Mother Earth News), Jessica Kellner (editor of Natural Home and Garden) and Susan McCabe (associate editor at Leawood Lifestyle). All three are KU graduates. Mother Earth News and Natural Home and Garden are both produced by Ogden Publications in Topeka. The first meeting attracted 20 students. (10-17-11)

Scott Reinardy’s manuscript, “Editor Toast: A study of burnout and job satisfaction among college newspaper editors” appears in the Autumn issue of Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Reinardy co-authored the study with Vince Filak, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. (10-17-11)

Tom Volek and Barbara Barnett taught a class on communications for officers at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. They spoke Oct. 17 about the First Amendment and media effects. (10-24-11)

Barbara Barnett attended the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, held Oct. 20-23 in Milwaukee. The trip was funded by a competitive grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence. (10-24-11)

Mugur Geana and Barbara Barnett’s paper, “Double Jeopardy: Latina Women Face Increased Health Disparities Compared to Latino Men and May Drive the Observed Disparities for this Minority,” has been accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Arts and Humanities. The conference will be in January in Hawaii. (10-24-11)

Linda Lee participated in the 2011 Latino Leadership Symposium at the Kansas Union on Oct. 20. Lee presented “Dumb Stuff Companies Do in Hispanic Marketing OR: Career and Leadership Opportunities in Marketing Communications”. Her presentation helped highlight opportunities students have to turn poor marketing moves into career opportunities for themselves. (10-24-11)

Scott Reinardy and Jerry Crawford’s manuscript “Feeling the Love: Sportscasters score big with job satisfaction” is published in the Fall 2011 issue of the Journal of Sports Media. The study was runner-up in the Broadcast Education Association’s Sports Division paper competition. (10-24-11)

Doug Ward’s article “Using Music to Inspire Student Thinking” was published Oct. 21 on The Chronicle of Higher Education website.  (10-24-11)

Simran Sethi’s presentation proposal, “God, Guns, and Green: Forging Crosscultural Alliances in Sustainable Agriculture” for the Food Studies conference has been accepted. The conference will take place Dec. 9-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (10-24-11)

Hyunjin Seo’s manuscript, “Changing Structure of International Internet Connections with Emphasis on the Middle East and North Africa,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Communication. Seo co-authored the study with Stuart Thorson (Syracuse University). (10-24-11)

Patty Noland, advisor for the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), attended the national conference in Orland Oct. 17 and 18. Five officers from the KU chapter officers also attended from Oct. 14 to 18: Virginina Downing, Amanda Tutora, Tyler Schultz, Stephanie Caster and Angela Schwab. During the conference, Patty met with representatives from Edelman, Fleishman-Hillard, General Motors, Ketchum, Porter Novelli and YPartnership. (10-24-11)

Tien Lee is a member of the ACEJMC re-accreditation team to visit the University of Louisiana – Lafayette from Oct. 30 – Nov. 2, 2011. Lee’s article “An Analysis of Factors Predicting Attitudes towards Same-sex Marriage: Do the Media Matter” has been published in the Journal of Homosexuality (vol. 58, issue 10, 2011). (10-31-11)

Tim Bengtson’s Principles of Advertising class was visited by Kyle Craig, former KU student body president and former business manager of the University Daily Kansan on Monday, Oct. 31. Craig lectured on leadership and its importance in today’s tumultuous times. Craig has been chief concept officer of Boston Chicken, chairman of Einstein Bros. Bagels, president of KFC-USA, chairman of Steak & Ale and national advertising director for Burger King. He has a
B.A. from KU and an MBA from Harvard. (10-31-11)

Peter Bobkowski presented his research on the disclosure of risk behaviors in social media at the 5th Conference on Emerging Adulthood in Providence, R.I. (10-31-11)

Mugur Geana spent last week in San Jose, Costa Rica, meeting with representatives of the University of Costa Rica (UCR) School of Mass Communications, the School of Public Health, the Department of Graduate Programs and the university's International Office. Geana also met with representatives of the Office of Communications from the Costa Rican Social Security Ministry and visited communication agencies working on disease prevention campaigns. The purpose of his visit was to explore the possibility of initiating a multidisciplinary research collaboration between UCR and KU in the area of health communication, and builds upon the visit of UCR representatives to KU in October of 2010, and the visit of professors Ann Brill, Barbara Barnett and Linda Lee to UCR in spring of 2011. The concrete results of Geana's visit is an agreement to collaborate to submit a grant proposal on using Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to develop a health promotion campaign to address the epidemic of dengue fever in the Eastern province of Limon, Costa Rica. The joint KU-UCR project will engage partners from UCR's School of Mass Communications and School of Public Health, and KU's School of Journalism and Mass Communications and the Research Division of the Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine. As part of this proposal, KU will provide training on CBPR to UCR partners in order to increase the health promotion and health communication research capabilities of UCR; it will also allow KU researchers to expand their area of research into health disparities affecting rural communities as well as indigenous populations living in Central America. (10-31-11)

Mugur Geana has accepted an invitation to deliver one of the keynote speeches at the Strategic Initiative #2 (Promoting Health and Well Being) summit on December 2.  The speech will focus on the role of communication as a key tool in the arsenal of health communicators addressing health disparities, as well as his experience in establishing multidisciplinary research collaboration. (11-7-11)

Jimmy Gentry hosted assistant professor Raquel Alexander (KU School of Business) in his Financial Basics for Communicators class on Nov. 3.  Alexander’s expertise is tax and she discussed personal and corporate taxes and took students through the Obamas’ 2010 federal tax return as one of her examples. (11-7-11)

Simran Sethi will kick off the 5th annual Opportunity Green conference on Nov. 10 through an introductory keynote session with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin.  Opportunity Green brings together today’s leading companies and visionaries; showcasing the sought-after opportunities, profound innovations and trends accelerating the new green economy. (11-7-11)

Dean Brill has accepted an invitation to serve a four-year term on the KU Center for Research, Inc. Board of Trustees.  KUCR is a 501c3 corporation that serves to manage the research and technology transfer enterprise for the KU Lawrence campus. (11-14-11)

Doug Ward is one of five finalists for the 2011 Scripps Howard Foundation Journalism and Mass Communication Teacher of the Year Award. The award recognizes excellence in such areas as innovative teaching practices, mentoring of students and faculty, influences on curriculum, scholarship, and industry engagement inside and outside the classroom. The winner will be announced in February. (11-14-11)

Linda Lee hosted Lis Clement from Argentina last week.  Clement spoke to in IBUS 701, Lee’s message development class, Bob Basow’s International Marketing Communications Class and Barbara Barnett’s Media and Society Class.  Clement is the Marketing and Communications manager of wines of Argentina. (11-14-11)

Jimmy Gentry has completed the 11-month financial planning certificate program in the Executive Education program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Bloch School of Management. (11-14-11)

Peter Bobkowski is a co-author of the Scholastic Journalism Census, which measured the presence of journalism programs in American high schools.  The study was sponsored by the Center for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University.  A link to the study’s initial report can be seen at the following link:
http://www.csjkent.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=112&Itemid (11-14-11)

Simran Sethi provided the introductory keynote session at the 5th annual Opportunity Green conference on Nov. 10 with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin. (11-14-11)

Professor Pam Fine helped host the Montgomery Symposium at the Adams Alumni Center on Nov. 11.  Fine developed and organized the program, which was held at the Adams Alumni Center.  The Montgomery Symposium is sponsored by the J-School and the Kansas Press Association, and drew nearly 50 professional journalists and KU journalism students.  Mark Horvit, executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), was the primary presenter at the daylong event, which focused on finding and using public documents in local coverage.  Luncheon keynote Evan Smith, CEO and editor of the Texas Tribune, discussed his site’s use of data and other types over coverage. (11-14-11)

Barbara Barnett and Denise Linville welcomed KU alum Kris Kennedy on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2.  Kennedy spoke to Linville’s Strategic Communications class and Barnett’s Media and Society class.  Kennedy, who works for the Heat advertising agency in San Francisco also worked with Patty Noland to arrage one-on-one meetings with current students. (11-21-11)

Carol Holstead welcomed KU alum Suzanne Bopp, MA 1995, to her magazine writing class on Nov. 7.  Bopp is a freelance writing and editor who has written for magazines including Salon, Self and National Geographic Traveler. (11-21-11)

Pam Fine was among a small group of participants invited to discuss journalism education and journalism routines during a Research Exchange last week at the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio.  Participants are collaborating on project ideas on citizen deliberation and journalism. (11-21-11)

Ann Brill, Barbara Barnett, Linda Lee and Mugur Geana met with Ana Sittenfeld, Director for International Cooperation for the University of Costa Rica. The meetings focused on continuous partnership for study abroad opportunities for both KU and UCR students, as well as the establishment of a joint KU-UCR research program in health communication and public health. Barnett and Geana, in collaboration with colleagues from the KU's Department of Family Medicine and from the Public Health program are currently working on a grant proposal that focuses on community interventions to address the dengue epidemic affecting underserved populations on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica. The proposal, if funded, will serve as a primer for KU-UCR's multidisciplinary research partnership as well as a pilot study for further funding opportunities. (11-21-11)

Teresa Lamsam’s research with Haskell Indian Nationals journalism instructor Rhonda LeValdo-Gayton on how diabetes among Native Americans is portrayed in the media is the focus on an article on wellcommons.com.
http://wellcommons.com/groups/wellness/2011/nov/26/study-sheds-light-on-diabetes-among-nati/  (11-28-11)  

Simran Sethi served as a guest blogger for the Business for Social Responsibility, is featured on the French blog “Constructing Our Future” and had her interview with Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin featured online as well.  Links listed below:
http://www.bsr.org/en/our-insights/blog-view/in-your-words-journalist-and-author-simran-sethi
http://construirenotrefutur.tumblr.com/post/12600942734/simran-sethi
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/495963 (11-28-11)  

Max Utsler welcomed Bill Hancock (executive director, BCS), Dennis Dodd (reporter, CBSsports.com), Steve Wieberg (special projects reporter, USA Today), Roger Twibell (free-lance sports play-by-play), Mike Swanson (Vice President of Communications, Kansas City Royals) and Paul Buskirk and Jim Marchiony (KU Athletic Department) to his J540 Sports, Media and Society class.  He always welcomed Richard Ward (President, CentraMart), Mike Brown (President, Brainzooming), Jon Robinson (Senior fellow, Kauffman Foundation), Rob Hallman (Vice President, Collective Brands), John Schafer (owner, Stark Pharmacy), Jack Knight (President, Burd & Fletcher) and Peter Friedman (Director of Innovation, Hallmark) to his J826 class.  (12-5-11)

Scott Reinardy’s article “Journalism’s Layoff Survivors Tap Resources to Remain Satisfied” was published in the Nov. 29, 2011, issue of the Atlantic Journal of Communication.  http://www.news.ku.edu/2011/december/5/layoffsurvivors.shtml  (12-5-11)

Hyunjin Seo has been selected as an East Asia analyst for the Freedom House’s annual Press Freedom Index.  The Index tracks trends in press freedom throughout the world.  She will contribute to Freedom House’s annual reports and attend regional review meetings in D.C.  Seo’s research proposal on country reputation in a globally networked society has also been accepted to the 19th Annual International Seminar for Faculty.  Seo will receive a stipend to be used for her research and will present her research results to the 2012 seminar in the spring.  (12-5-11)

Jeff Browne will co-present a two-hour Kansas State Department of Education Webinar on “The Changing field of journalism and its impact on Career and Technical Education curricula approved for Kansas secondary schools” on December 8.  His co-presenter will be Gayla Randel, an educational program consultant with the KSDE.  The webinar will be posted online at the KSDE site: ( http://www.ksde.org/). (12-5-11)

Peter Bobkowski’s article “Baring Their Souls Online or Not?  Religious Self-Disclosure in Social Media” appears in the December issue of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.  It is co-authored with Professor Lisa Pearce of the Department of Sociology at UNC. (12-5-11)

Simran Sethi will present at the inaugural interdisciplinary Food Studies conference being held at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (God, Guns and Green: Forging Crosscultural Alliances in Sustainable Agriculture).  The analysis will look at the intersection of genetically modified organisms and faith: detailing how spirituality can help bridge political divides and forge a new level of engagement about food. (12-5-11)

Mugur Geana was one of the invited speakers at KU's Strategic Initiatives Summit Two, "Promoting Well-Being, Finding Cures" held on December 2nd.  Geana's speech highlighted his experience on establishing multidisciplinary research collaborations with the Medical Center, as well as the efforts of the school to internationalize its research program by building collaborations with the University of Costa Rica. Geana also addressed some of the challenges that faculty, and especially junior faculty, have in finding multidisciplinary collaborators and funding, as well as the need for interdisciplinary and applied research to be properly recognized in the promotion and tenure process. The KU Strategic Initiative Summits are open, campus-wide meetings, that will "help form research networks, identify funding opportunities and faculty leaders, strategize about needed infrastructure, and inform priorities for future faculty hiring." A total of four summits are planned for the 2011-2012 academic year. More information can be found at http://www.provost.ku.edu/planning/themes/.  Ann Brill took part in the deans’ panel discussions at the "Promoting Well-Being, Finding Cures" KU Strategic Initiatives Summit on December 2nd. Dean Brill talked about the progress that the School of Journalism and Mass Communications has made in encouraging and establishing multidisciplinary research collaborations. Replying to some of the questions from the audience, Dean Brill emphasized on the benefits of engaging mass communicators as members of scientific research teams that have an outreach or intervention outcome. The panel also included the deans of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, School of Pharmacy, School of Engineering, School of Education and School of Social Welfare. (12-5-11)

Jimmy Gentry welcomed Stacy Fleming, a communications specialist at BATS Global Markets, who discussed the changing nature of markets and BATS' impact in Gentry's Financial Fundamentals for Communicators class at the Edwards Campus. BATS, whose world headquarters is in Lenexa, is the third largest U.S. stock exchange behind the NYSE and NASDAQ with 12 percent of stocks traded. BATS, which also operates a U.S. options market and BATS Europe, plans an Initial Public Offering in 2012. (12-5-11)

Chuck Marsh, as part of his Keeler Intra-University Professorship, has overseen the Directed Studies project of Cassie Johnson, an undergraduate in the Classics Department.  Her final paper, “The Female Conservator as Protagonist in Modern Mystery Novels: A Demographic and Psychographic Profile,” has been accepted as a poster presentation at the annual conference of The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artististic Works. (12-12-11)

Doug Ward’s students, Jason Bennett and Sarah McCabe have received editing internships through the Dow Jones News Fund.  Bennett will intern for the Kansas City Star and McCabe for the St. Paul Pioneer Press.  Interns will attend a training session in May before beginning work at their respective news organizations.  Last year, 86 students were chosen nationwide from among 600 candidates for the 10-week interships. (12-12-11)
 
Max Utsler’s students in his J826 Innovation in Communication class wrote bi-weekly blogs and submitted them to professional blogging sites that deal with creativity, strategy, branding, public relations, service experiences and careers.  Ashley Schulte, Patrick Kerr, Dave Dunn, Chris Gregory and Sean Roark had more than a dozen published during the course of the semester. (12-12-11)

Faculty and graduate students from the School of Journalism are asked to contribute to the new initiative "Droplets of Research." This project, proposed by Mugur Geana, aims to stimulate collegial collaboration as well as being a repository of possible research ideas for graduate students, and to promote research at our school. Participants are requested to share research ideas that they have explored, but not immediately pursued. These preliminary findings should be shared as a short, but rigorous, one-page paper. There is no timetable for them, and everybody is welcome to publish. These "droplets" will be made available in a section of our school website, under the research tab, and their publication will be announced in the Monday Memo.  The first "droplet" is provided by Geana: "Exploring the use of Facebook demographics as regional health indicators."  (12-12-11)

Simran Sethi’s J534 Diversity in Media class held its Virtual Summit: Telling Stories of Diversity in the Digital Age on December 3.  The class partnered with the Online News Organzation for the event, which focused on emerging issues in contemporary journalism, from net neutrality to comic journalism.  The class held Skype sessions with several leading experts in those fields while streaming the session live on the J-School’s website and incorporating chats from followers on Twitter.  (see photo below).  Sethi was also featured in The Atlantic for her work in Environmental Journalism.  
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/12/a-conversation-with-simran-sethi-environmental-journalist/249185/   (12-12-11)

Patty Noland welcomed three journalism graduates to her Professional Development Class on December 8.  Alyssa Steffen, 2010, is a marketing coordinator at Burns & McDonnell in Kansas City.  Joe Preiner, 2009, who previously worked as an online journalist and reporter at the Lawrence Journal-World, has joined Digital Evolution Group as a SharePoint coodinator.  Steven Levy, 2008, is an account exectutive as Bernstein-Rein in Kansas City. (12-12-11)

Kerry Benson presented “Social Media: Communicating Like a Human – Not a Robot” at the KU Edwards campus on Dec. 7 as part of the University’s “Professional Edge” community outreach program. (12-19-11)

Terry Bryant welcomed three broadcast professionals to the school to critique J-692 and J-693 students’ final presentations.  The guests included J-School alums Nate Hill (News Director, KSNT-TV, Topeka, Kan.) and Julie Kellogg (Executive Producer at KCTV in Kansas City), as well as Gerry Roberts (Former Assistant News Director at KMBC in Kansas City). (12-19-11)

Doug Ward’s article on how technology has reshaped etiquette and attention spans was published by PBS MediaShift on Dec. 14. The article, "New Etiquette Needed for Technology In (and Out of) Classrooms," is available at www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/12/new-etiquette-needed-for-technology-in-and-out-of-classrooms348.html (12-19-11)

Simran Sethi is featured in Good Business for her work on sustainability (http://www.good.is/post/the-green-side-of-business-dodocase-plans-for-the-sustainable-road-ahead/).  She is also featured in the just-released book “Shift and Reset: Strategies for Addressing Serious Issues in a Connected Society” by Brian Reich (Wiley, 2011). Featuring interviews with more than twenty-five experts, authors, and organizational leaders whose experiences and insights provide powerful evidence to support Reich’s important calls to action, the book examines the many ways nonprofits can capitalize on social media to accomplish their mission.
http://brianreich.tumblr.com/shiftreset (12-19-11)

Jimmy Gentry’s article on the pay structure of football coaches appeared in the January 1st (Sunday) New York Times as the lead for the Sports section.  Gentry wrote the package with Raquel Alexander, an assistant professor in the KU School of Business.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/sports/ncaafootball/contracts-for-top-college-football-coaches-grow-complicated.html?_r=1&ref=sports     (1-3-12)

Hyunjin Seo is co-Principal Investigator on a grant from the Kauffman Foundation in the amount of $150,000. The project is aimed at examining the "flash mob" phenomenon and social media use of teenagers. (1-3-12)

Simran Sethi’s article on Japanese responses to the Fukushima disaster was published by the Asia Society on Dec. 20. The article, “2011: Post Nuclear Tragedy, Three Inspiring Environmental Shifts in Japan,” is available at http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/2011-post-nuclear-tragedy-three-inspiring-environmental-shifts-japan. (1-3-12)

Jerry Crawford presented his study, A Link to the Future: A pilot study look at how Historically Black Colleges and Universities with journalism and mass communications units use the Internet in recruiting, January 2nd, at the Clute Institute International Conference, held in Orlando.  The study looked at how HBCUs have had to compete for African-American students with Predominately White Universities since the implementation of integration in the United States in the 1960s and how HBCUs use the Internet in the recruiting process.  The research specifically looked at journalism and mass communications units at these institutions. (1-9-12)

Mugur Geana’s paper "You've got mail: Exploring patient-provider email communication in a primary care setting" was accepted for presentation at the CMN2012 International Conference: "Communicating in a World of Norms: Information and Communication in Contemporary Globalization." Co-organized by the GERIICO research centre [Group of studies and research on information and communication], the International Communication Association (ICA) and the SFSIC [French Society for Information and Communication Sciences], this event will constitute the 2012 ICA Regional conference in Europe. This first French edition, taking place in Roubaix on March 7, 8 and 9, 2012, aims to develop strong scientific relationships between communication scholars represented by ICA all around the world (information from the conference website). (1-9-12)

Jimmy Gentry was a featured speaker at the fifth annual business journalism week at Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University. Gentry discussed markets and understanding financial statements over two days for business journalists attending the Strictly Financials program and for one day discussed how to teach financial literacy topics for journalism educators attending the Business Journalism Professors program. (1-16-12)

Teresa Trumbly Lamsam, visiting associate professor, was the featured guest on the New Year's Day edition of the syndicated radio program "The Native American Speaks." Teresa spoke about health in Indian Country in connection with American Indian tribal media. She was also a judge over the holiday break for Best Feature Writer in the Southeast Journalism Conference "Best of the South" competition.  (1-16-12)

Michelle Keller, graduate program lecturer, was featured in an article in The Kansas City Star Magazine on Sunday. Her segment was titled "You're Never Too Old to Play." (1-16-12)

Doug Ward's article "What I've Learned from Teaching with iPads" was published last week in the ProfHacker section of the Chronicle of Higher Education website. The article is available at https://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/what-ive-learned-from-teaching-with-ipads/37877. (1-16-12)

Tien Lee will present two peer-reviewed papers at the International Communication Association annual conference in May 2012 in Phoenix, Ariz. The titles of the papers are "Political Ideologies, Psychographics and Media Habits: A Comparison of Liberals and Conservatives in the United States" and "The Effects of Religiosity, Egalitarianism and Media Usage on Support for Gay Rights." (1-23-12)

Simran Sethi will moderate a panel at Columbia University’s School of Journalism Social Media Weekend on January 28. The panel is on the evolution of television in the era of social media and includes Jack Flanagan of Bluefin Labs, Ezra Kucharz of CBS Local Digital and Brian Stelter of the New York Times. (1-23-12)

Teresa Trumbly Lamsam’s research on media coverage of diabetes among American Indians was featured on IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com. (1-23-12)

Chuck Marsh's paper "Peitho: An Isocratean Model of Persuasion for Public Relations" has been accepted for presentation at the 2012 annual conference of the International Communication Association in Phoenix. Marsh has also been appointed to the university’s General Education Transition Committee. The committee is charged with preparing a new, streamlined core curriculum for all university undergraduates, drawing upon the recently completed work of subcommittees. The Transitions Committee also will launch a university Core Curriculum Committee, which will be a standing university committee. (1-23-12)

Barbara Barnett's research on media coverage of women who kill their children was featured in the Lawrence Journal-World and Fox 4 News in Kansas City. Barnett also participated in the university summit, "Building Communities, Expanding Opportunities" and served as a member of the planning committee. (1-23-12)

Simran Sethi has been selected to be a peer reviewer for Environment, Development and Sustainability, a multidisciplinary journal covering all aspects of the environmental impacts of socio-economic development. Sethi also serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Sustainability Education. (1-30-12)

Peter Bobkowski served on the National Scholastic Press Association's Pacemaker judging panel in Minneapolis Jan. 27-28. (1-30-12)

Mugur Geana and Barbara Barnett’s research paper “Double Jeopardy: Latino Women Face Increased Health Disparities Compared to Latino Men, and May Drive the Observed Disparities for this Minority” was published in the proceedings of the 2012 Hawaii University International Conference on Arts and Humanities. The study was presented by Geana in early January at the conference in Hawaii. (1-30-12)

Mugur Geana is the Co-Principal Investigator on a study jointly funded by the University of Kansas and the University of Costa Rica (UCR). The research project “Capacity building for Community Based Participatory Research driving public health campaigns to address the dengue epidemic in the Province of Limon, Costa Rica” will bring together researchers from KU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications, and from the Department of Family Medicine, with researchers from the School of Mass Communications and the School of Public Health from the University of Costa Rica. The year-long project aims at establishing the bases for collaborative applied research on public health between the two universities. The project builds upon previous talks between KU and UCR driven by the visits of Ann Brill, Barbara Barnett, Linda Lee and  Geana to UCR in 2011 as well as visits by UCR faculty, Carolina Carazo, Harold Hutt and Ana Sittenfeld,  to KU in 2010 and 2011. Geana’s research on patient-provider email communications was also featured in the Jan. 26 edition of KU News.  (1-30-12)

Crystal Lumpkins is a contributing author in a book that was released on Friday, Jan. 27, titled "A waiting Room of One's own."  The book is based upon an art exhibition, The Waiting Room Project, that is "a national collaboration inviting discourse among all whose bodies have intersected the social, cultural or political paradigms of Health. A Waiting Room of One's Own documents that discourse through color images of a provocative traveling art exhibition and related community interactions..." It also includes 16 original essays (including Lumpkins’) that are written by scholars, health-care professionals, artists and writers. The essays include commentary, research articles and personal narrative, and they compose a literary response to the timely, crucial questions raised by The Waiting Room Project. Friday’s book release took place with a panel discussion of the book at the Art Center in Lawrence. (1-30-12)

Tien Lee's paper, co-authored with former graduate student Hong Vu, titled "State - press relations revisited: A case study on how U.S. media portray post-war Vietnam," has been accepted for publication in the Asian Journal of Communication. The journal's impact factor is .42. (2-6-12)

Barbara Barnett's Media and the Military class toured Fort Leavenworth on Jan. 26. Students visited the Command and General Staff College, the cemetery, and the Buffalo Soldiers' Monument. Historian Charles Heller led the tour. (2-6-12)

PoliticalFiber.com officially launched Feb. 1 under the direction of founder and faculty advisor Pam Fine. The experimental new media site provides in-depth political coverage to University of Kansas students and other young Kansans. (2-6-12)

Mugur Geana's paper "Just Add Water": A Public Private Partnership for Media Intervention to Reduce Child Obesity" was accepted as a poster presentation at the "Weight of the Nation" Conference in Washington, DC, May 7-12, 2012. The paper was co-authored with partners from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment that contributed to the fall 2011 campaign aimed at increasing awareness about the role of sugar sweetened beverages in contributing to childhood obesity. (2-6-12)

Jerry Crawford presented to the Preparing Future Faculty Program at Howard University, via Blackboard Collaborate, to Fellows and invited institutional and professional guests on Tuesday, January 3, 2012.  The PFF programs began in 1993 with 17 clusters and a total of 88 involved institutions. As of 2002, the programs included 76 clusters in four phases, with approximately 295 participating institutions.  Crawford's abstract and paper, "Choosing Higher Education:  How freshmen and first-year journalism and mass communication students used the Internet in their decision," has been accepted for oral presentation at the 2012 European International Education Conference to be held at the NH Leonardo Da Vinci, Rome, Italy, June 6-8. Crawford's research looked at JMC students at KU and five Historically Black Colleges and Universities during the fall of 2011. (2-13-12)

Simran Sethi is featured in the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education project on the Occupy Movement. http://www.aashe.org/blog/aashes-higher-education-occupation-project. (2-13-12)

PoliticalFiber.com was featured in the American Journalism Review. Pam Fine, founder, and Brianne Pfannenstiel, editor and 2010 graduate, were featured in the article. (2-13-12)

Carol Holstead presented a writers' workshop on Feb. 11 in Overland Park. The workshop was sponsored by 415 South Magazine, a regional magazine in Kansas City. (2-13-12) 

Doug Ward's article on what to do if your Twitter account is hacked was published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. (2-13-12)

Mugur Geana was interviewed by KMBZ News Radio in Kansas City about his research on doctor-patient email. The interview aired Feb. 8 on 98.1FM and 980 AM. (2-13-12)

Hyunjin Seo attended a review meeting at the Freedom House's New York office. Seo serves as an East Asia analyst for the Freedom House's annual Press Freedom Index, contributing to its reports and attending review meetings. (2-20-12)

Six majors from the U.S. Command and General Staff College visited Prof. Barbara Barnett's Media and the Military class Feb. 23. The officers participated in a panel discussion about their military service, and students in the class were able to ask questions. She also attended the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communications workshop, held Feb. 17-18 in Las Vegas. (2-27-12)

Teresa Trumbly Lamsam spoke to a communication class at Santa Clara University about news coverage of diabetes in Indian Country via Skype last week. Students there are exploring the social determinants of health. Also, Yale University has accepted her start-up website, Native Health News Alliance, and its companion blog for presentation at the Unite For Sight 9th Annual Global Health & Innovation Conference for its excellence as an innovative social enterprise. (2-27-12)

Peter Bobkowski has been awarded the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s Gold Key for 2012. The honor recognizes his accomplishments “as a teacher and adviser in high school, as a graduate student who ably assisted with a state scholastic media organization in North Carolina and for your evolving role as a valued researcher on student media in the nation’s schools.” (2-27-12)

Eileen Hawley was featured in the Edwards Campus’s quarterly newsletter, Higher Ed., in an article titled “Adjuncts Bring Value, Perspective to the Classroom.” Hawley is teaching her first course at the campus, Crisis Communications, and directed external relations at NASA during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
http://edwardscampus.ku.edu/about/newsletter.html (2-27-12)

Chuck Marsh’s article “Converging on Harmony: Idealism, Evolution, and the Theory of Mutual Aid” has been accepted for publication in Public Relations Inquiry. His article “A Legal Semiotics Framework for Exploring the Origins of Hermagorean Stasis” (on crisis communications) appears in the current issue of International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. (3-5-12)

Hyunjin Seo will chair a Mass Communication Division session on “Interactive Media Uses and Effects” at the 2012 International Communication Association Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in May. Seo is also a panelist on a mentoring session for Ph.D. students organized by the Korean American Communication Association at the upcoming ICA. (3-5-12)

Doug Ward gave a workshop on mapping and data visualization at KU's Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities last week. He also participated in workshops on teaching with digital tools and teaching in the digital humanities. The sessions were part of the institute's Digital Jumpstart series. (3-5-12)

The Kansas City Star featured a story on Professor Hyunjin Seo's collaborative research study on flash mobs and teens' use of social media. Here is the link:
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/11/3484582/flash-mobs-inspire-study.html (3-19-12)

Doug Ward led an editing workshop for students and faculty in the Kansas Supreme Court Research Clinic at the law school recently. The clinic is a course for second- and third-year law students who are conducting research for Justice Carol Beier, a 1981 J-School grad. Ward will lead another workshop for the group in April. Also, Ward's proposal for a teaching workshop has been accepted for presentation at the Ubiquitous Learning Conference, an international conference on technology in education. Ward's panel is titled "Finding a Balance Between Teaching and Technology." (3-19-12)

Scott Reinardy's manuscript “Job security, satisfaction influence work commitment” appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Newspaper Research Journal. (3-19-12)

Simran Sethi has been named associate editor and peer reviewer for the current volume of The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. The interdisciplinary journal addresses sustainable development and institutional sustainability. Sethi is also a reviewer for the Journal of Sustainability Education and the journal Environment, Development and Sustainability, an international journal covering all aspects of the environmental impacts of socio-economic development. (3-19-12)

Mugur Geana has been promoted to associate professor with tenure. Congratulations! (3-19-12)

Lecturer Eileen Hawley spent March 2-3 in Harveyville, Kan. She is a member of the Kansas All Hazards Incident Management Team that was assisting in response and recovery operations following the EF-2 tornado that hit Harveyville the evening of Feb. 28. Forty percent of the town was destroyed, leaving 13 injured and one dead. She serves as a Public Information Officer supporting media requests and community communication needs. The Incident Management Teams consist of members from seven Homeland Security regions throughout the state and are available to assist jurisdictions for incidents and events too large for local governments to handle alone.  (3-19-12)

David Guth will be a panelist at the “Global and Local Iterations of Demonstrations” on Wednesday, March 28, at 5:30 p.m. in the Spencer Museum of Art. His presentation will be on the “Public Relations of Protest.” (3-26-12)

Chuck Marsh’s paper “A Rhetorical Framework for Strategic Participation in Social Media: The Concepts of Presence and Intertextual Enthymemes” has been accepted for presentation in the public relations division of the International Conference on Social E-xperiences. (3-26-12)

Hyunjin Seo’s teaching application to the 2012 Best Practice Institute, organized by the KU Center for Teaching Excellence, has been funded. Seo will use the grant to explore new ways of combining theory and practice in her Social Media in Strategic Communication course. (3-16-12)

Simran Sethi will be a presenter at the virtual GreenShifters seminar on Thursday, March 29. The title of her talk is "Why Sustainability Isn't Getting More Traction - and What We Can Do To Change It." To learn more about the full week of free teleseminar dialogues on the sustainability revolution, visit http://greenshifters.info/feature/Simran-Sethi. Sethi also presented at First Congregational Church Berkeley’s “Our Daily Bread: Food, Faith & Conversation” event Monday, March 19, and spent that week teaching sustainability and environmental communications in the Berkeley, Calif., area. (3-26-12)

David Guth will be a panelist at the “Global and Local Iterations of Demonstrations” on Wednesday, March 28, at 5:30 p.m. in the Spencer Museum of Art. His presentation will be on the “Public Relations of Protest.” (3-26-12)

Chuck Marsh’s paper “A Rhetorical Framework for Strategic Participation in Social Media: The Concepts of Presence and Intertextual Enthymemes” has been accepted for presentation in the public relations division of the International Conference on Social E-xperiences. (3-26-12)

Hyunjin Seo’s teaching application to the 2012 Best Practice Institute, organized by the KU Center for Teaching Excellence, has been funded. Seo will use the grant to explore new ways of combining theory and practice in her Social Media in Strategic Communication course. (3-26-12)

Simran Sethi will be a presenter at the virtual GreenShifters seminar on Thursday, March 29. The title of her talk is "Why Sustainability Isn't Getting More Traction - and What We Can Do To Change It." To learn more about the full week of free teleseminar dialogues on the sustainability revolution, visit http://greenshifters.info/feature/Simran-Sethi. Sethi also presented at First Congregational Church Berkeley’s “Our Daily Bread: Food, Faith & Conversation” event Monday, March 19, and spent that week teaching sustainability and environmental communications in the Berkeley, Calif., area. (3-26-12)

Mugur Geana's article, "Improving Health Promotion to American Indians in the Midwest United States: Preferred Sources of Health Information and Its Use for the Medical Encounter," has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Community Health. The manuscript is the result of his research collaboration with colleagues from the Department of Family Medicine, KUMC. (4-2-12)

Jerry Crawford’s article, “A link to the future: A pilot study look at how Historically Black Colleges And Universities with journalism and mass communications units use the Internet in recruiting,” has been published in the journal Contemporary Issues in Education Research. The study examined how HBCUs and Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), like KU, should use technology along with more traditional recruiting methods to connect with prospective students. (4-2-12)

Crawford presented his research, “Choosing Higher Education: Goodbye to the digital divide,” during a workshop as part of the 2nd Annual Spring Symposium on the Scholarship of Diversity on March 29 at KU. The presentation examined how the digital divide, as first defined by the 1968 Kerner Commission, has possibly narrowed between whites and minorities, in regard to the access to technology. (4-2-12)

Tien-Tsung Lee’s study on ‘everyday differences’ of liberals and conservatives was featured on KU Today. The study examines the psychographic differences between people who self-identify as liberal or conservative. He will present the research in May at the International Communication Association Convention. http://www.news.ku.edu/2012/march/28/views.shtml (4-2-12)

Simran Sethi’s paper, “To Defend & Protect: Sustainability in the U.S. Military,” has been accepted for the upcoming Environmental Security: Academic and Military Perspectives conference, to be held in Lawrence April 23-24. Her study explains the psychological barriers to engagement on climate change, detailing how expanded discourse on national security and energy independence, revised framing of efficiency and return on investment, and activation of cultural values of patriotism and self-sufficiency can foster expanded engagement among diverse—and currently disengaged—constituents. (4-2-12)

Scott Reinardy's manuscript, "TV sportscasters 1, Burnout 0: Resources sideline the job stressors of sports broadcasters," appears in the Spring 2012 issue of the Journal of Sports Media. (4-2-12)

David Guth recently was quoted in The Argus Leader about the “pink slime” controversy. http://www.argusleader.com/article/20120401/BUSINESS/304010013/BPI-s-lesson-Act-earlier-counter-pink-slime-?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Home|p (4-2-12)

Doug Ward has been selected to participate in the Best Practices Institute of the Center for Teaching Excellence. He plans to work on creating elements for hybrid courses, which will combine online lectures, quizzes and other material with in-person classroom discussions and labs. Participants receive a $1,000 grant. (4-2-12)

Hyunjin Seo’s proposal to the KU New Faculty General Research Fund has been awarded.  (4-2-12)

Crystal Lumpkins’ manuscript titled “Hollywood and Breast Cancer Prevention among African American Women: An Analysis of Breast Cancer Risk Narratives in the California ‘Every Woman Counts Campaign’ was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Media and Communication Studies. She also is a discussant in an upcoming panel titled "Contributions by Women Academicians to Intercultural Dialogue in Multicultural Societies." The event is sponsored by the Intercultural and Interfaith Dialog Student Association and will take place noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, April 19 at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. (4-2-12)

David Guth was a panelist at the Global and Local Iterations of Demonstrations event Wednesday, March 28, at the Spencer Museum of Art. His presentation was on the “Public Relations of Protest.” (4-2-12)

Bob Basow and Laura McClenny, administrative coordinator for the Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas, presented "Community Health is Everyone's Business, a Report on Positive Community Norms" at Emporia State University on April 4. Basow discussed the research that led to The Jayhawk Buddy System campaign, which his Campaigns students developed for KU Student Success. McClenny shared her experience in working with Native American populations in Shiprock, New Mexico. Basow and McClenny began their collaboration after attending the "MOST of US" conference at Montana State University in 2011. (4-9-12)

Doug Ward has been named recipient of a $1,000 grant from the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities. The money is to be used for developing an interdisciplinary course tied to the digital humanities. That course will be part of the new J302 (Infomania), which will be taught for the first time in Spring 2013. Ward will teach a section of the course for students in the University Honors Program. The course will also be loosely connected with The Commons and its theme for next year, Big Data. (4-9-12)

Ward led an editing workshop for students and faculty in the Kansas Supreme Court Research Clinic at the School of Law last week. The clinic is a course for second- and third-year law students who are conducting research for Justice Carol Beier, a 1981 J-School grad. Ward also led a workshop for the group in March. (4-9-12)

Simran Sethi will be a keynote speaker at the KU Energy Conference, held April 12 at The Oread. More information is online at http://www.kuenergyclub.com/?page_id=5. (4-9-12)

Hyunjin Seo’s book chapter, “Comparing News on Foreign and International Affairs,” has been published in the Handbook of Comparative Communication Research by Taylor & Francis. Seo co-authored the manuscript with Pamela Shoemaker, Akiba Cohen and Philip Johnson. (4-16-12)

Kerry Benson delivered a social media presentation to the American Marketing Association at the KU Edwards Campus March 27. The presentation explored language use and word choice in social media communication. (4-16-12)

Sue Novak successfully defended her dissertation “Countering Foundational Myths and Cultural Beliefs: The Reportage of Anna Politkovskaya.” The study employed readings and theory from three different disciplines to explain why Politkovskaya’s articles contained in the books Vtoraya Chechenskaya and Za Chto engaged a Western audience but failed to resonate with the majority of her Russian readers. (4-16-12)

Max Utsler attended the Fifth Summit on Communication and Sport at Bradley University, Peoria, Ill., March 29-31. Speakers included Taylor Branch, Dave Kindred and Charley Steiner.  (4-16-12)

Scott Reinardy’s research on how newspaper ‘layoff survivors’ view themselves and work was featured in KU Today. http://www.news.ku.edu/2012/april/9/layoffs.shtml (4-16-12)

Doug Ward led a workshop last week at the American Copy Editors Society national convention in New Orleans. The workshop was called "How Do I Get There?" and looked at how editors could find jobs and use their skills outside traditional newsrooms. He was joined by editors from a financial services company, a public relations firm and the Defense Department in talking about the role editors play in business, government, education and other organizations. (4-16-12)

Peter Bobkowski hosted Mike Goff, an alumnus and accomplished communicator, in his ethics class on April 18. (4-23-12)

Simran Sethi is discussing her work on climate change and national security April 23 at the Environmental Security conference. The conference is sponsored by the University of Kansas Office of Professional Military Graduate Education, the Army Research Office, and the US Army Command and General Staff College. (4-23-12)

The full-day conference Reaping and Sowing: Christian Perspectives on Food and Agriculture that Simran Sethi created, curated and organized will be on April 28. She is speaking at that conference on genetically modified organisms and faith tenets of fruitfulness, life-affirmation and distributism. (4-23-12)

Patty Noland had two guests in her Professional Development class on Thursday, April 19: Ralph Gage, director of special projects for The World Company, and Rich Claussen, executive vice president of talent development at Bailey Lauerman in Lincoln, Neb. (4-23-12)

Crystal Lumpkins was a panelist at the April 19 Contributions by Women Academicians to Intercultural Dialogue in Multicultural Societies panel discussion. The Intercultural and Interfaith Dialog Student Association and the Institute of Interfaith Dialog organized the event. (4-23-12)

Doug Ward has been named the national journalism teacher of the year. Ward, Budig Professor of Writing, will receive the Charles E. Scripps Award and be recognized at an April 26 dinner in Detroit. (4-23-12)

Hyunjin Seo's manuscript, “Networks of networks: Changing patterns in country bandwidth and centrality in global information infrastructure, 2002-2010,” appears in the April 2012 issue of Journal of Communication. Seo co-authored the manuscript with Stuart Thorson at Syracuse University. (4-23-12)

SunflowerNews.org is a new website that aggregates high school journalists’ reporting from across Kansas. Seventeen schools are currently enrolled in the project, with new ones continuing to join. This project is funded with a grant from AEJMC and the Knight Foundation. J-school student Tim Shedor designed the website. J-school students Becky Miller and Allison Hammond facilitate the site’s daily operation. Peter Bobkowski serves as adviser. You can follow it on Twitter @sunflnews. (4-30-12)

Simran Sethi was featured in KU Today for her research into the Department of Defense’s efforts to improve sustainability and the psychological barriers of engaging multiple communities in a climate change discussion.
http://www.news.ku.edu/2012/april/24/sustain.shtml (4-30-12)

Teresa Lamsam discussed plans for the Native Health News Alliance during an April 26 CDC/NPHIC Health Promotion call. The Native Health News Alliance is a first-of-its-kind website with a mission to serve as a health information cooperative for American Indian media. Michael Williams and Rhonda LeValdo, alumna and instructor at Haskell Indian Nations University, also are co-founders of the site. (4-30-12)

Native Health News Alliance (NHNA) -- a website co-founded by Teresa Trumbly Lamsam, Rhonda LeValdo, and Michael Williams -- was featured in a social enterprise pitch at the Global Health & Innovation Conference, Yale University, April 21. NHNA was also a featured presentation in a conference call meeting of the CDC's Office of State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health. (4-30-12)

Mugur Geana had three papers accepted for presentation at the International Conference for Communication in Healthcare (ICCH 2012). The conference will take place at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, between 4 and 7 of September 2012. (4-30-12)

On May 7, Simran Sethi will present to the MBA program at Bilgi University in Istanbul, Turkey. She will discuss the role of design in sustainability. http://couragetocreateabusiness.wordpress.com/ (4-30-12)

Dr. Lissette Marroquin and Dr. Ana Leonora Rivera, both from the University of Costa Rica (UCR), met with researchers and faculty from the J-School as well as with colleagues from the Department of Family Medicine at KUMC. Over the weekend they traveled to Garden City to gain hands-on experience with research involving community participation. Their visit was funded by the grant that Mugur Geana and Lissette Marroquin received at the beginning of the year to address research capacity building at UCR and health communication interventions in the Province of Limon, Costa Rica. (4-30-12)