Natalie Pennington (Communication Studies) was recently announced as the winner of the National Communication Association Master's Education Section Outstanding Mentor Award for 2022. Pennington will be honored for her work supporting graduate students at the national conference later this month in New Orleans, LA.

David R. Gruber (Communication Studies) published a new book titled, Splat: On throwing things and the messy politics of material protest. Published in the Intermezzo series supported by the journal Enculturation, the book examines throwing things as a form of political protest. Gruber draws on the history of rhetoric to theorize why some…

David R. Gruber (Communication Studies) published an article in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy asking, "What's it like to be a universe?" Imagining the universe as a massive brain offers new ways to think about quantum non-locality but also encourages scholars to pursue speculation and consider what it might mean to be "In, Of, and…

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies) gave an invited talk to the department of media and communications, University of Sydney, with Tēvita O. Kaʻili (Brigham Young University-Hawaii) titled, "Kū Kia'i Kahuku: Civic Streaming and Altruistic YouTube." This talk attempted to theorize the concept of civic streaming, and specifically…

Tara McManus (Communication Studies) co-authored the paper, "PRISM and Emotions: Understanding the Role of Fear and Hope toward Vaccine Information Seeking Intentions," published in Health Communication with lead author Julie Volkman of Bryant University, and fellow co-authors Ashleigh Day of Northern Arizona University and Kristen Hokeness and…

David R. Gruber (Communication Studies) recently published "Ecologies of 'Sleepy Joe' and 'Mini Mike': The affective politics of ethos and the ethics of Ad Hominem Light" in the journal, Enculturation. The article argues that constructions of credibility (Ethos) are not confined to nice, positive appeals about a character's expertise or…

Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies), Richard Johnson (Arizona State), Miles Romney (Brigham Young University), and Kia Cummings (MA graduate in Journalism and Media Studies) presented "The Rinaldi Frame: College Gameday, the NCAA, and Black Hardship" to the AEJMC annual conference from Aug. 3-6 in Detroit, MI. 

David R. Gruber (Communication Studies) recently published as a co-author with Jason Kalin of DePaul University on the philosophical question of how much embodied access we have to others in new phenomenological methodologies being used in rhetorical studies. The article, "Rhetoric, Methodology, and a Question of Onto-Epistemological Access,"…

Jayce Farmer (Public Policy and Leadership) published an article, “State Interventions and Interlocal Collaborations Across the Three Pillars of Sustainability,” in State and Local Government Review. This article makes a connection between regional partnerships for sustainability and state-level constraints on the fiscal and functional autonomy of…

Benjamin Burroughs, Benjamin J. Morse, Travis Carmona (all Journalism and Media Studies), and Travis Snow (Sociology) have published an article, "The Masks We Wear: Watchmen, Infrastructural Racism, and Anonymity" in the journal Television & New Media. As COVID-19 has led to the politicization of masks and the donning of masks, the…

Kiersten Farmer (Public Policy and Leadership) represented the city of Henderson as a featured speaker at the 2022 Data Governance and Information Quality Conference. Her presentation, “When Non-Data Professionals Inherit Data Stewardship,” centered on navigating the minefield of limited resources, loss of expertise, and maintenance of quality and…

Jesse Barnes (Public Policy and Leadership), Anjala Krishen (Marketing and International Business), and Alexander Chan (both Business) recently published their article, "Passive and Active Peer Effects in the Spatial Diffusion of Residential Solar Panels: A Case Study of the Las Vegas Valley," in the Journal of Cleaner Production. In this…