March 2012

Mikaela Belland ('12), Ashley Matthys ('12), Mandi Mikkelson ('12), and Anne Proescholdt ('12) had their panel presentation "How prominent women use media to effect social change" competitively chosen for the Women as Global Leaders conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Dr. Powell and Ashley Matthys ('12): Effects of Suicide on Siblings: Uncertainty and the Grief Process. Competitively accepted for presentation at the Central States Communication Association Convention.

November 2011

Dr. Sweet: Inaugural Voices of Barack Obama: Dialogic Rhetoric and the Presidential Self. Paper presented at the National Communication Association annual convention, New Orleans, LA, November 2011.

September 2011

Mikaela Belland, Mandie Mikkelson and Anne Proescholdt ('12) had research papers competitively selected for presentation at the 2011 Iowa Communication Association Convention. 

April 2011

Dr. Sweet: “Constituting The Clone Wars: Engaging Ethical Community in the Dialogic Moment.” Paper presented at the Popular Culture/American Culture Association annual convention, San Antonio, TX, April 2011.

Dr. Powell: Framing Islam: An Analysis of U.S. Media Coverage of Terrorism Since 9/11. Presented at the 2011 Central States Communication Association Conference. Top paper panel.           

Dr. Powell: Culture, Race, Ethnicity & Sexuality: Using Film to Teach Difference. Presented at the Iowa Communication Association Conference in September 2010. Selected as spotlight panel for the Central States Communication Association Conference, April, 2011. 

Dr. Powell: Got Privilege?  Strategies for Teaching Normative Privilege. Presented at the Iowa Communication Association Conference in September 2010. Selected as spotlight panel for the Central States Communication Association Conference, April, 2011. 

February 2011

Dr. Sweet: “Reprinting Martin Luther King Jr.: Barack Obama and the Homogenization of Injustice.” Paper presented at the Western States Communication Association annual convention, Monterey, CA, February 2011. Top Four Paper in Rhetoric and Public Address.

November 2010

Dr. Sweet: “Constituting ‘the People’ as Rhetorical Interruption: Barack Obama and the unfinished hopes of an imperfect people.”  Paper presented at the National Communication Association annual convention, San Francisco, CA, November 2011.

October 2010

Dr. Johns presented a paper, "Facebook as a tool for religious fund-raising and support by religious organizations" at the Association of Internet Researchers international conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, Oct. 21-23, 2010.

September 2010

Students Ashley Matthys, Kate Patterson and Caitlin Showalter had their Research Methods papers competitively accepted for presentation at the Iowa Communication Association conference, held in Ankeny in September 2010. Ashley's paper was chosen for recognition as one of the top papers at the conference. In addition, a panel of students, Eric Boyken, Sean Parvi, Katie Patterson, and Kacey Wyttenhove also presented papers.

April 2010

Dr. Powell presented on a panel titled: "How to turn those revise and resubmits into published manuscripts" at the Central States Communication Association Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dr. Lerstrom  presented a paper, "Positive Family Communication" at the Southern States Communication association convention, April 9, 2010, Memphis, Tenn.

March 2010

Dr. Sweet presented a paper, “Top Chef and the Taste of Public Discernment” at the Popular Culture/American Culture Association annual convention, St. Louis, Mo.

January 2010

Dr. Johns presented a revised version of the paper, "Voting ‘present’: Religious organizational groups on facebook.com" via internet teleconference link at the Church and Mission in a Multireligious Third Millennium international conference held at Aarhus University, Denmark.

November 2009

Dr. Powell was the invited keynote speaker on "Representations of Muslims and Islam in Mainstream U.S. Media: What is the Truth?" at Columbia College, Chicago.

Drs. Lee, Sweet & Lerstrom made presentations at the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Ill. Sweet's paper was “Barack Obama’s Rhetorical Magic: Hope as Transformational Political Praxis.”

October 2009

Students Amie Heller and Katie Schaefer presented papers in an undergraduate research panel at the 10th international conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Milwaukee, Wis.

Dr. Johns presented "From Dean to Obama: The Internet in Presidential Politics," and also participated in an invited round-table on symbolic interactionism as a theoretical foundation for internet research, at the 10th international conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Milwaukee, Wis.

September 2009

Four students from the Spring 2009 sections of COMS 357-Research Methods submitted papers to the Iowa Communication Association student paper competition. Mandy Wubben, Jon Schrader, Mitch Zoelzer, and Katrina Sikkink presented their papers at the 2009 IaCA convention in Waterloo, Iowa.

April 2009

Dr. Powell presented "Representations of Muslims and Islam: What is the Truth?" in a Spotlight panel at Central States Communication Association conference, St.Louis, Mo.

November 2008

Dr. Lee presented a paper, "Negotiating an Identity: Journey from 'Am I What?' to 'I Am an Alien!'” at the National Communication Association Convention, San Diego, Calif.

October 2008

Dr. Johns presented a paper, "Voting 'Present': Religious organizational groups on facebook.com," was presented at the Ninth International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

July 2008

Dr. Lee presented a paper, "Women of Stuck-Generation: A Prelude to The New Family in South Korea," at the International Association of Women Philosophers Symposium XIII: Multiculturalism and Feminism, Seoul, Korea.

May 2008

Dr. Lee had a paper accepted, "Women of Stuck-Generation and New-Generation in South Korea: Internal Dialectics in Transitional Mother-Daughter Relationships," at the 58th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Montreal, Canada.