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Grad Student to Participate in Sacramento's Graduate Research Advocacy Day

Graduate student Marisa Brandt has been chosen as one of two graduates from UCSD to participate in Sacramento's Graduate Research Advocacy Day. She will present her work to the politicians in Sacramento to display the value of the work of UC graduates for the state and its citizens.

Communication Major Wins Contest with Famous Violinist, Lindsey Stirling

Samuel Lin, a Communication major and musician/violinist entered and won a contest announced by a very popular professional violinist, Lindsey Stirling. Samuel and his friend made a music video on the UCSD campus, playing his own rendition of one of Lindsey's songs and sent it in to complete against about 300 other entrants. Samuel Lin was announced the winner last Friday! CONGRATULATIONS!

Superactually: Micro-Essays on Post-Ironic Life

Communication graduate student Chuk Moran's collection of short essays, Superactually: Micro-Essays on Post-Ironic Life, published by Zero Books.

Welcome to the Department of Communication

The Communication Department at UCSD is a unique academic community of scholars and media artists from disciplines across the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, and famous for its cutting edge work in communication scholarship and practice.

Spring 2013 Talks

Angela Booker (UC Davis)
In-stage/On-stage: Youth & the politics of participation
Fri., April 5, 2013
12:30-2:00PM, MCC 201

Jean Lave (Berkeley)
Rising to the Concrete: Critical Ethnographic Practice in West Africa
Monday, April 8, 2013
2:00-4:00PM, MCC 201

Congratulations!

Stephanie (Sam) Martin has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Communication and Religious Studies at the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Lauren Berliner has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Participatory Media/Media Production in the Media and Communication Division of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at University of Washington, Bothell.

Congratulations to Tammy Powell who successfully defended her dissertation, "Making Healthy Minds Healthy Bodies: An Activity-Theoretical Analysis of the Development and Orgnaizational Adaptation of Medical Service-Learning Program" last week.

Tammy will continue teaching in the Communication Studies Department at CSU Sacramento and will also continue her research with the UC PRIME medical education network. She will go on the job market in 2014 in hopes of staying on the west coast near family and friends.


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