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