Please mark your calendars for Jenifer R. Vernon's dissertation defense titled: "Making Community with the Deep Communication of Popular Live Poetry at the Millennium" on August 28, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. - Media and Communication Center 201
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Ariana Hernandez-Reguant and Jorge Ferrer interviewed santero Obá Ernesto Pichardo. Interview.
Morana Alac published: "Working with Brain Scans: Digital Images and Gestural Interaction in fMRI Laboratory", Social Studies of Science, 38, 2008, pp. 483-508.
Yael Warshel defended her dissertation "How do you Teach Children that Terrorists, Armies and the Police Can Live Together Peacefully?: A Peace Communication Assessment Model". is divided into two parts. In the first part, she describes the historically applied global uses of communication in an effort to intervene into political conflict. In the second part, she assesses a peace communication intervention case, based on the mediated contact effects model.
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Jericho Burg completed her Ph.D. on July 2, 2008.
Her dissertation, titled "Fixing Famine: The Politics of Information in Famine Early Warning." combines ethnographic, interview, and documentary data gathered in Ethiopia to analyze famine early warning systems – large-scale information systems combining climate, food production, market, and public health data, which have become a major focus in international famine prevention efforts since the 1970s.
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Carol Padden is traveling to Israel to continue her research studying a new sign language used by a community of hearing and deaf Bedouins in southern Israel.
